Muscle sells. In the United States, Forbes magazine has just unveiled the list of the highest paid actors in the world and the stars in action films occupy seven of the ten places in the ranking and in particular the first five. In total, these ten actors have together accumulated more than $ 545 million in salaries this year.
Six in ten worked for Netflix
Thus, Dwayne Johnson, alias The Rock, prances in the lead with more than 87 million dollars earned in the last 12 months thanks in particular to the success of Jumanji: Next Level and the last opus of the Fast and Furious saga : Hobbs and Show . Next in the rankings are Ryan Reynolds, Mark Wahlberg, Ben Affleck and Vin Diesel. Will Smith and Jackie Chan are also included in this ranking.
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At their side, we find Akshay Kumar, one of the biggest stars of Bollywood, Lin-Manuel Miranda who sold the rights of Hamilton to Disney for 75 million this year and was at the same time propelled in the ranking or Adam Sandler, famous for his offbeat humorous films. Of the top ten highest paid actors in the world, six have appeared in a Netflix production in the past year. The platform is becoming the hottest plan for Hollywood stars.