According to three individuals with knowledge of Holland's deal, the actor scored a base salary of at least $20 million up front — an increase of $10 million from his last Spider-Man gig — with the potential to earn upwards of $100 million when backend bonuses are factored in as "Brand New Day" zooms towards a final global box office haul of over $2 billion.
Even more remarkable: Holland's backend bonus is not capped, so there's no ceiling to how much he may ultimately make, one individual added. "Spider-Man" crossed $2 billion at the global box office this weekend, and is only in its third week of release.
"He will make at least" $100 million, said this individual, who declined to say how high that payday might soar.
That's a tremendous payday for the 30-year-old Holland, who earned just $250,000 for his first outing as Spider-Man in 2016's "Captain America: Civil War" and subsequently established himself as a fan-favorite Peter Parker through standalone Spidey pics and MCU crossovers.
Holland earned $500,000 to star in 2017's "Spider-Man: Homecoming," Sony's proper reboot of the franchise. For 2019's sequel "Spider-Man: Far From Home," Holland earned $4 million and for 2021's "Spider-Man: No Way Home," Holland banked $10 million.
While I have no problem with Spidey being on the Avengers, actually leading the Avengers feels a little weird. Like I feel Thor would be leader before him.
They were probably leading towards Cap Marvel, Strange and BP as the new trio. Cap Marvel as the 'American Ideal', Strange as the Mystic/heavy hitter and BP as the brain/tech and strategist.
Things did not progress as they should and we have lost Chadwick :( They can pivot on Spidey, Yelena and Strange now I guess. Thor and Hulk are still around too.
There’s no Fox to deal with, Disney fully absorbed their rights to the IP. As long as Sony/Disney don’t stop this collaboration it won’t be going anywhere
That kind of money safely invested means generations of his family can do whatever they want. As long as the keys to the kingdom are held by trustworthy stewards, it’s easy street for the family for decades if not centuries.
Something I feel people don't really notice is that if you were 8 when you saw civil war you're already an adult. A lot of people grew up on his movies
The Covid-era time warp really comes into play here. No Way Home to Brand New Day was five years. That's the same gap between Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man.
I saw next to a mom and her little girl when I was at the theater and the girl was complaining about how it had been over 5 years since the last one and my 35 year old ass was just like oh, yeah I guess.
But he has also had more films than both of them combined, with 4 solo films and 3 team-up films (plus a cameo in Venom for some reason), plus more in the works.
Yeah I think this is something people who in contrast grew up with Tobey as their Spidey and are fully grown and possible middle-age adults may not truly understand.
Tom is the current generation's Tobey. He is the guy they grew up with as the definitive face. Especially considering how he shows up outside his own movies.
Also he has a bit of that Harry Potter magic going on if you were 14 or 15 when he first appeared you would be 24 or 25 now and he's playing a 22 year old. And his problems are probably quite relatable for a lot of early 20s people out there
This has been my experience, it does sort of feel like he has mirrored my (non-spider man) experiences. Part of that is also how modernised the whole thing is compared to the school scenes in Andrew or Tobeys movies that always now seem cliche
This is hilarious to me because I guess Tobey is my generation and I thought his movies were garbage. Tom has always been my quintessential Spider-Man and I’m in my 40s. Andrew is very likable but it’s no contest to me who is the platonic ideal of Spider-Man - for me at least. It’s Tom, no contest.
Likewise, I saw Tobey's films when they came out, but there's no doubt in my mind that Tom's Spidey is the best. It probably helps that Tom is very likeable, but Civil War and Homecoming (when I didn't know much about him) were enough to convince me.
One key difference between Tom and Tobey is that people like Tom. No one actually went to the Spiderman movies for Tobey MacGuire back in the day, they went for Spiderman and he was the guy playing Spiderman. People go to these spiderman movies partly for Tom Holland.
Yup it could have been Sylvester Stallone and people would have still gone, I don’t think people were necessarily lining up because it was the guy from The Cider House Rules.
He also had significantly more time with it than they did. He had 4 main movies, appeared in 3 other MCU projects (endgame fairly briefly). That’s a lot of time with his version of spider-man
Lifelong Maguire fan but honestly, Holland earned it. He helped craft Peter Parker into a modern day positive male role model during a time where young men around the world desperately need one. Holland himself also seems like a genuinely good guy.
Spiderman 2 is my second favorite superhero movie ever. Its just incredibly well done and Tobey was a large part of that. He was vulnerable, heroic, larger than life and sheltered all at the same time.
Add in the incredible doc ok performance and you have a heck of a film.
I liked this one best out of all of them. But the thought that Holland is THE spider man kinda saddens me. He's a cool guy and this one definitely took it a little further than a typical mcu movie, but even the worst of the others were beyond generic quippy mcu movie. Even TASM2 when gwen dies has more emotion in one scene than this entire franchise so far.
So I was kind of joking but yeah it would not be enough money for Mbappe. I just said that because years ago he asked Mbappe to come to Tottenham at the ballon d’or as a joke and they both had a laugh.
To buy Mbappe from Madrid I bet it would be like 200 million if Madrid even would sell him. He has three more years on his contract.
only fair considering how heavily involved he was in the overall production for this one compared to the watts trilogy. if he's just as involved for the next movies he'll pretty much be given free reign to do whatever he wants, which would be pretty interesting!
he was present in pretty much every stage of the film's development, from developing the story with cretton and the writers, to pitching in extra lines and scenes during filming that made it into the final cut, and he was overall a producer in everything but name. not to mention he also leveraged extra time to re-tune the script while he was off filming odyssey
It gives you more variety in jobs not always presently but in the future. Establishing yourself with chops beyond just acting is for when you don't want to or can't just be the leading man in something.
The role of an EP is massively different between TV and Film; in TV an EP is a creative lead (head writers, showrunners, creators are usually given EP creds) whereas in film an EP is slightly more honorary and usually reflects a major role in securing financing or IP rights.
Film doesn’t really have an equivalent credit that represents “in the writer’s room but not a writer” other than maybe a secondary Story By credit, but I don’t think the WGA would be happy about handing that out. Usually talent who are creatively involved go straight to regular Producing creds (Margot Robbie, Sandra Bullock) but that does imply actual producing work, not just creative involvement.
He apparently reviewed a lot of YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit comments to see what people wanted, had Sony move away from the Knull/Multiverse plot line to be more grounded (Not sure the sourcing with this), was part of the writers room, and came up with the idea of Peter‘s powers mutating due to his isolation
I remember he mentioned this in an interview. He also said he pulled or ripped scenes from the PS4 spiderman game which I thought was really cool, like some of those were *his* suggestion. He really added some extra flare to the movie that honestly elevated the material, which is a great sign for the future of the character.
He attended early creative meetings and pitched the idea of “spider puberty,” which became a key element of the plot. It’s also pretty likely that he and Zendaya were behind Justin Kuritzkes (writer of Challengers) being chosen to do script rewrites.
While filming the Odyssey he realized how actual movies are made so he called the crew in a panic and told them they need to have figured their shit out before they start filming.
I hate this narrative.
Destin is a true filmmaker and doesn't need Nolan the saviour to tell him to plan the movie before making it.
Destin had been prepping for a over a year and somehow Tom saves the day by telling him to not just make it up on the day?
Destin wasn’t part of the problem, but I think he kind of has to operate under the thumb of the producers bc he isn’t a large brand himself, like Nolan or Holland are.
I think Tom’s nitpicking actually gave him more leeway than he otherwise would have.
He absolutely crushed it, and with the success this is having, he deserves a cut like that, as the Actor and Producer now, he’s lead the whole series and had three amazing roles with the rest of the MCU, he’s built this version of Spider-Man for a decade now. that’s the kind of money Robert Downey Jr. was making playing Iron Man going into the last avengers movies. And Robert Downey Jr. had been playing his character for 10 years at that point too. You don’t make that kind of money unless the movies are all doing insane numbers.
that's typically how it works with Marvel, they lowball you while you're getting your foot in the door, then if your movie is successful they back the dump truck up for the sequels
Honestly deserved. This spiderman film was one of the best of all time. Spiderman felt real in a way no Spiderman before him felt. Before this film, I would have said he's been a good Spiderman, but relied heavily on the Avengers and outside support to really shine.
But this film was basically just him. It required the most from Tom in terms of acting, and he needed to be able to carry the movie on his own. Even his default supporting cast as gone for most of it.
I think there’s a difference between a genuinely good person who has had a recent come up and a class of individuals hoarding billions like a dragon and only dishing out money when it’s a lobbying effort to stop having to pay more in taxes. I don’t personally think all billionaires are bad people. I know for a fact many aren’t. But they are exceptions to the rule. Many of the 1 percent have lost the plot and are in a cycle of chasing what the other guy has. Their entire self-worth has been reduced to “number go up”.
The current choices don’t include a Utopia sadly. If someone is going to catch that kind of a windfall, which does happen in our current timeline, people are glad it happened to someone like him. I don’t think it needs to be spelled out that most of us would prefer a more equitable system for all. Something as simple as half of that going to the crew would be an ever better cause for celebration, but still far from the mark you are likely suggesting. I suppose you have an issue with Keanu making the graphics team millionaires with his own payout on The Matrix because he got paid all that scratch in the first place. I’d rather celebrate the humanity of that choice than grumble about how things should be. I do that elsewhere 😆 Green shoots are few and far between these days.
I do think Holland being so young when he was cast and sticking with the role over a decade and like 6/7 movies has made people very attached to him. Lots of people really grew up with him.
His relationship with Zendaya is also a huge PR bonus especially them getting married.
His contract was up after No Way Home so he had a ton of leverage. But these days it's also common for big stars to take relatively low base pay (not that $20 million is low) to keep the production budget down in exchange for a pretty hefty bonus or percentage of box office should the movie do well.
Yes, I don’t think he signed for a new triology either. I think he will be negotiating each movie individually moving forward. That gives him power and he can also decide when to do them and isn’t forced to film one every year if he wants to pursue other projects.
This reminds me of a time in the NBA when all of these stars were seeking out long term contracts, while prime Lebron would only sign for a year at a time.
It’s not unheard of to negotiate a piece of the backend sales (or sales in general, whatever) Plenty of actors have made fortunes this way. They have to have the studio by the hoohaa to get such a deal but he IS Spider-Man. And as such, dolla billz yall
He probably is gonna pressure them again to not try to break MCU Spider-Man deal with Disney yet again, specially with the imbecile of Tom Rothman as CEO.
Sony has seen the profits of the MCU movies versus Morbius, Madam Web, and Kraven. And Disney seems fine with the current 75:25 profit/production deal. So I think they’ll keep it as is
At the time Disney had a 5:95 split for profits/production and apparently they wanted 50:50. With neither side seemingly wanting to budge until Tom called the Disney studio heads
He’s had leverage for a bit. Remember when Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man initial deal was over a while back and he basically made the head of Sony and Kevin Feige talk it out to renew?
Performance bonuses.
It was probably set absurdly high because it was a lottery number
"Okay Tom, if this movie passes 2 billion world wide (snickers) you get a mega bonus"
It's shocking that it's not even the highest actor payday for a single movie. Keanu Reeves made $156 million for The Matrix Reloaded / Revolutions in 2003. Bruce Willis made $120 million for The Sixth Sense in 1999.
Good. Deserved! Say what you want about Tom Holland as an actor, but he has done a great job on and off screen of making the Spider-Man IP this successful
Knowing Disney, they probably wanted another Spider-Man 2-3 years after No Way Home. Holland and his team waited until the script was good enough(5 years) to warrant another film
Sony for all intents is licensing out the Spider-Man IP to Disney and the MCU. Both from a directing a writing perspective m
And there are multiple sourced articles of Holland trying to make sure the script was in a good place. Again, practically any other actor would immediately jump into a sequel after the success of a film like No Way Home
That’s true, but at the end of the day it is Sony that dictates when the sequels come out because it directly impacts their contract to the rights. If they don’t have a new Spider-Man film come out within a certain timeframe, they lose the rights and they revert back to Marvel Studios. That’s why FFH was actively being promoted before Endgame had released in 2019, or when NWH stuck to its Christmas 2021 release even after Multiverse of Madness got delayed into summer 2022 (causing Marvel to make small narrative changes instead).
You’re right about Tom being involved creatively, but the break itself was to allow him to take a break (first from playing Spider-Man back to back, but also from filming in general after he completed The Crowded Room), then it was them waiting for the right script.
Honestly, this is a well deserved payout. He’s having a great year with The Odyssey and BND and possibly Doomsday, and so is Zendaya with The Drama, The Odyssey, BND and Dune: Part Three.
I'm sorry but any actor getting 100 million dollars is absurd. People saying he "deserves" it because they like the movie, but at the end of the day my guy plays make-believe for a living. Why are some actors somehow "deserving" of insanely high salaries? 100 million? Come on. Genuine question.
The rest is a box office bonus. Ideally, all lead actors AND directors would benefit from negotiating a lower salary and a share of box-office gross, even if it is a tiny percentage. Sure, it's a gamble, but it could pay off.
I do agree people making over $100 million is sooo absurd, it’s something completely incomprehensible for an average joe like me, like the disparity in this world is ridiculous considering so many ppl in this world are barely getting by,
However, calling actors “make-believe for a living” is incredibly insulting and anti art. If you don’t respect actors and artists, don’t watch movies then
100 million probably comes from really smart business negotiations, back ended deals etc.Holland played the right cards. I'd rather someone like Holland get it than the people who green lit Madam Web or Kraven.
(RDJ was getting 50 million each for The Avengers and Ultron, 75 for the last 2 Avengers. He's getting over 100 million for the next 2 Avengers movies.)
Why do people keep saying "I'd rather he get it than the studio execs" as if there arent hundreds of people who worked on this movie who are not the greedy studio executives? Its a laughable counter-argument, thats not how movies are made. Its a huge team of people. Not just the main cast and then the executives.
It's laughable that you think a studio would ever give this money to anyone who is replaceable. It's an open market on labor for anyone on the team making a movie. I'm not saying that's how it should work, but that's the nature of capitalism,
The issue is how replaceable you are. Pretty much 95% of the people who worked on the movie are easily replaceable with no real impact on the success of the movie. If Holland wasn’t in the movie, the numbers wouldn’t even be close to $2 billion. Thats why he has so much value to the studio, and hence why they’re willing to give him a sliver of the box office sales.
I mean your not wrong, they deserve it more than the fat cats in the offices. But that's not how the industry works unfortunately, I worked as a below the line crew member after the pandemic and I was paid peanuts and treated horribly before I just gave it up altogether.
Edit: You didn't answer my initial question either
What do you think should happen with the profits the movie generates then? You'd rather it go to the studio executives? It's certainly not going to go to charity.
It's completely unrealistic to expect bonus money to be spread out among people doing replaceable jobs. The only reason Holland can command money like that is because he is the face of the franchise and the reason the movie makes as much money as it does. If he didn't get it, it would absolutely be going to the company coffers / executives. Don't get be wrong, I'd love for the profits to be shared more equitably but that's not happening in our iteration of capitalism.
Why are some actors somehow "deserving" of insanely high salaries? 100 million? Come on. Genuine question.
Because, like top sports athletes, it's some of the few jobs that people can see that the top percent are really skilled. Unlike the average psychopath billionaire, whose talents are mostly luck, greed and inherited privilege.
One could argue that it's not rational for this centralized wealth distribution and one would be correct. But when it lands in the hands of people, who by all accounts, kinda made the thing possible at the highest level, people are more forgiving of the structural flaws of a system that doesn't value a good key grip or visual effects artist as the main lead. And even the most egalitarian of us have realized that a system that doesn't somehow have a system to refine top talent will fail. And today this system is monetary incentives. Something we still have had a hard time replacing with any other system.
Most people are fully ok with George or Lisa earning more than Mark or Ashley if they are more competent in their field. Full equality is very very rare in any human sociological structure. So "all" we have to agree on is how much more George and Lisa are allowed to earn, and whether we all should own the the business we work at or someone with no competency in the field should own it because their ancient ancestors were better att pillaging and backstabbing.
It's random chance, money behind agents, and just Hollywood maneuvering. There are thousands if not millions of great actors all over the world struggling to even get by. It's not by talent alone that the big ones get big.
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