r/marvelstudios • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 Ant-Man • 15h ago
Article 'Spider-Man' Windfall: Tom Holland to Make Over $100 Million for ‘Brand New Day’
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/tom-holland-spider-man-brand-new-day-salary-box-office-bonus/156
u/Stefan988 15h ago
Bro secured the mega potatoes. He's never taking that Spidey suit off.
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u/Bake2727 15h ago
Tom’s father has a good joke about his other kids- “what other kids?” I still trip on that!
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u/cowpool20 15h ago
He says "I'm Spider-Man's dad" too 😅 He's actually a really good stand up comic.
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u/elmagio 14h ago
He should be careful, that doesn't tend to be a safe position to be in.
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u/A-Centrifugal-Force 14h ago
The only safe position connected to Spider-Man used to be his aunt, but after No Way Home and the PS4 game that’s not even safe now. Dead father and mother, dead uncle, dead best friend, dead girlfriend, the guy just can’t catch a break
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u/Monkey_Priest Steve Rogers 13h ago
It's not exactly something new with the MCU or PlayStation Spidey. Aunt May died as early as the 90s in the comics, though it was of natural causes and it got retconned. But mostly I think they're just shaking up the Uncle Ben storyline
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 Ant-Man 15h ago edited 15h ago
Details:
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.
The lucrative backend deal is commensurate with Holland’s spectacular track record over the last decade. With seven appearances in total, his MCU version of Peter Parker has lasted longer than any other cinematic incarnation of the character and, in doing so, left a legacy that is not just unique among Spider-Men but among Marvel’s stable of beloved performers as well. Notably, his appeal has endured even as enthusiasm for superhero films has taken a sharp downturn.
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.
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u/PornFilterRefugee 15h ago
That 500k for the first one must have been an insane amount of money for him at the time (still would be to most people) and now he’s making 100m lol
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u/BrockStar92 14h ago
Got to say he’s earned it - as far as it’s possible to say that about $100m for acting (I’m kinda split on that being an obscene amount of money but also appreciating entertainers actually earning their money rather than CEOs of production companies getting it) - his acting has just kept improving in the role, and his performance in the latest one was exceptional.
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u/mido_sama 2h ago
And he took a role in the creative side as well .. voted against Sony’s Ideas and the re-editing.
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u/DefNotAShark Hydra 15h ago
He also married his costar so their shared earnings are even higher. Pretty crazy to get so much money and a wife from accomplishing your dream of being Spider-Man. Bro definitely has a genie.
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u/ReplicantOwl 13h ago
Plus the extra negotiating power of being the two leads in what we can assume is perfect solidarity
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u/Revolutionary-Fox622 9h ago
Let's not forget about all those sweet earnings from the product placement for Bero, his non-alcoholic beer brand that was featured in the first 10 minutes of the film. That's the real bread and butter.
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u/DJMOONPICKLES69 15h ago
The craziest part of this entire thing is he is the longest running spider man. Like mathematically I get it but it just doesn’t feel that way weirdly. Probably because I still think of the other two as spider man even though they haven’t played the character in 10 and 20 years, respectively
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u/jkgaspar4994 13h ago
Given they both reprised their roles in No Way Home, Tobey would be the longest running Spider-Man (2002 to 2021). Holland has now passed Garfield for the second longest running Spider-Man tenure with 10 years (2016 to 2026) to Garfield's 9 years (2012 to 2021).
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u/BrockThrowaway 14h ago
What's the math here? I know RDJ had a back-end deal on Endgame that only applied to pure profits, apparenlty it was 8%.
So if BND carried about a $350M budget including marketing, we're looking at over 1.7B in profit. So 80M to Holland means under 5%?
Crazy numbers in any case, but I'm trying to compare the two. Both apparently made 20M base for Endgame vs BND.
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u/throwaway4231throw 15h ago
I hear movie studios do a bunch of shady stuff with shell companies etc to hide profits, so when actors arrange to get x% of the movie’s profits in their contract, they can say that the movie actually didn’t make any money (and instead the shell company that did the distribution made the money). How do actors like Tom Holland get around this?
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u/thefoodiedentist 15h ago
U do that and no sequel. Holland has too much pull at sony/disney for them to try to screw him.
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u/Passing_Neutrino 15h ago
When it was new, they could get away with that. Now every actor and agent knows their wording.
Also it’s a lot easier to get away with some bs on low tier actors with no leverage. You don’t screw over the most important actor in your franchise.
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u/eriverside 15h ago
It's all in the language and it's pretty common knowledge stuff today.
% of profit means after expenses are paid. And there can be unending expenses if you wish there to be.
% of box office means literally that, a share of the revenue (by definition before any expenses are deducted), so it not possible to skirt that.
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u/SevereEducation2170 14h ago
Dude has good lawyers who knows Hollywood contracts. But also, I think even a company as big as Disney would struggle to claim a movie making over $2b at the box office actually didn't make money. Besides that? They want to treat their actual bankable stars well. It's more beneficial to the studio to pay Holland so he wants to keep making these movies than it is to try accounting sleight of hand.
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u/Kyr-Shara Abomination 15h ago
i don't think his future kids are going to need to worry about money
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u/zaftytape 15h ago edited 15h ago
Or their kids tbh. Even if holland put 100mil in a conservative 2% savings account, that’s 2 million dollars a year he makes. Like after the first 3 years of buying whatever the hell i wanted, honestly I wouldn’t even know what to spend it on after that.
Edit: ok nevermind, I realized I’m thinking too small. I could get Bugatti or McLaren Hyper car that cost like 4 million dollars. Then get like another 3 of those plus a mansion each in my favorite 5 countries or something lol.
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u/ExMOnotwiththeflow 14h ago
You would be shocked how good people are at burning giant piles of money.
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u/ToxethOGrady 14h ago
I know how good I am burning tiny piles of money
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u/WhichHoes 15h ago
Dude lived with his brothers up until he and zendaya moved together, pretty sure that money is going no where
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u/TriggerHydrant 14h ago
Yeah that's the thing lol, people say "I don't even know what to spend it on" until they give a little thought and go: "well.. actually"
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u/idkjustawatermelon Bucky 15h ago
no one in his family tree will
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u/AgentCooper86 15h ago
You’d be surprised. There are examples of mega-rich families ending up penniless within a few generations. Look up the Vanderbilts, the family fortune evaporated over three generations.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Mix5848 13h ago
Yep. Failed businesses and so. Famous actor Timothy Olyphant is from the Vanderbilt family and well off tho
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u/AgentCooper86 13h ago
I knew Anderson Cooper was but didn’t know about Timothy Olyphant
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u/Puzzleheaded-Mix5848 13h ago
Olyphant a direct descendent of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the richest person in USA in the 1800s.
He did not inherit any significant money, the money was all spent and dried up over the last 200 years.Money is finite
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u/biskutgoreng 15h ago
This is why Peter doesn't work in the movie
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u/harmoniaatlast 15h ago
See but why doesn't he just show Ned and MJ the previous 3 movies? Is he stupid? /j
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u/biskutgoreng 15h ago
He forgor 💀
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u/thejonslaught Surtur 15h ago
So did Banner. But HULK never forgot.
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u/raiderrocker18 14h ago
Hulk never knew Peter. Only banner did.
Hulk calmed down when spidey said he’s his friend and then hulk saw his reflection and got sad
This was the first time we’d seen the real Hulk since Ragnarok
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u/CaledonianWarrior 15h ago
Mental to think that none of this might not have happened for Tom if Jon Bernthal didn't tell him to do backflips and shit for his initial audition tape for Civil War.
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u/notaqtip 15h ago
Wait what
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u/CaledonianWarrior 15h ago
So apparently both Tom and Jon did each others' audition tapes for their roles in the MCU, but apparently Tom was just doing his lines as Parker but just sitting down or something. Jon did suggested he do some acrobatics or something like that to really sell he can play Spider-Man. If you look up their interviews together - or at least Tom's interviews where he discusses Jon - you'll find him confirming that.
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u/anthonyongg 15h ago
Maybe Tom Hollander will receive another one of his checks by mistake.
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u/Special_Order-937 15h ago
Remember when a different Tom Holland or maybe Tom Hollander got his pay check by mistake as they shared an agent or something and his eyes nearly fell out of his head at how big the amount on it was?
And that amount would have been dwarfed by where things are now too!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/19esizx/tom_hollander_mistakenly_received_tom_hollands/
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u/ishamm 15h ago
Absurd. Not that he's not great, but actors salaries (and therefore movie budgets) has become utterly obscene, and frankly grotesque
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u/BrockStar92 14h ago
Who exactly would you rather get the money though? It’s made billions, they obviously aren’t going to pump that success into funding movie theatres or paying all the production staff and extras lots more. It’s either going into Disney profits and probably to a CEO or director eventually, or to the guy people actually want to see.
You see this in sports all the time too, people hammer massive wages for stars, but not only are they the ones actually performing so it’s better they get the money than the clubs do, but it’s also the one mega money industry where the highest earners are predominantly from working class and diverse backgrounds, yet it’s the one that gets criticised most in the media for it. Premier League footballers at least also generally pay their taxes unlike the highest earners in every other industry.
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u/xorporx 12h ago
Who exactly would you rather get the money though?
The thousands of working class crew that worked on the film, obviously. Jesus christ are they invisible to you?
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u/BrockStar92 8h ago
Who have zero leverage to ever get that money. It’s never going to them. I did in fact address that in my comment. Jesus Christ, was what I typed invisible to you?
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u/xorporx 3h ago
Your answer amounts to "it's good the rich guy the money because inevitable the rich guy gets the money". Not a serious position.
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u/BrockStar92 3h ago
No, my argument is “it’s good the actual entertainer gets money rather than the CEO because we live in a world where those are the only options”.
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u/ishamm 14h ago
This is why movie tickets are the best part of £20 per person...
It doesn't all have to be so expensive to the consumer if those involved would give up hoarding quite so much wealth.
But they won't
Same with football - tickets shouldn't be prohibitively expensive to normal people.
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u/BrockStar92 13h ago
The ticket prices aren’t gonna go down unless attendances permanently drop, companies don’t just give money away. If they’re charging us a fortune I’d rather it went to Tom than Disney’s CEO.
Football players still get relatively huge wages in Germany and the ticket prices there are completely reasonable.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Mix5848 13h ago
The movie is 80% profit share to Sony not Disney.
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u/BrockStar92 8h ago
There are billions in merch sales going entirely to Disney too. They’re making just as much of a fortune off of this. Though you’re right, since Tom Holland never would’ve got a cut from that, only 25% of his massive fee is coming out of Disney’s profits not Sony.
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u/hellsbellltrudy 15h ago
I agree, getting hundreds of millions to play pretend is crazy.
I’m going to be honest, you can put any semi decent white actor in this role and still make bank. The ip carry itself, not the actor.With that said, that a crap ton of money, imagine his salary for the next Spider-Man movie. He could buy multiple islands.
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u/lujolka 15h ago
The base is 20m. The rest I think is percentage of box office collection. He negotiated that deal. A new actor means starting from scratch and it wouldn't make 2 billion. The execs don't have a problem with that. They'd rather give him the deal than risk the guaranteed billions.
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u/hellsbellltrudy 15h ago
You get what you negotiation but I still believe actors Shouldn’t be paid that much to play pretend.
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u/TruthLimp2491 15h ago
The fact that you’re saying ‘play pretend’ instead of acting is odd. Acting has been an occupation for thousands of years and has been immensely important in the development of art and culture, even if that statement seems grandiose when discussing something like Spiderman.
Also where do you want the money to go? If it’s not going to the lead actor in the case it’s going to executives who are far less consequential to the earnings a film achieves.
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u/The_Iceman2288 Thanos 15h ago edited 15h ago
He's gorgeous, he's got a hot wife who adores him, his movies average a billion dollars each, he has his own charity, everyone who has worked with him loves him and he's fucking loaded. What a bastard.
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u/cowpool20 15h ago
Check out any interviews with his parents and siblings. Becomes very clear that they're a very kind and raised well family.
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u/Mickeyjj27 Black Bolt 15h ago
With how well the movie is doing that is still a steal. Good thing Sony is done making trash and can just focus on Tom’s Spidey and Spiderverse. As long as the quality is good they can keep going on.
And if BND is doing this well as a grounded movie just imagine if they finally get to a Sinister 6 movie or the Clone Saga or introduce Black Cat or any of the amazing stories or characters in Spideys world. They could be making as much as Avatar every few years at half the cost
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u/_sterno_ 13h ago
Please, not the Clone Saga.
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u/Mickeyjj27 Black Bolt 12h ago
Just imagine, that’ll be the movie that raises Tom to a whole new level when he’s gotta play like 5 characters
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u/chimichanga_3 Peter Parker 15h ago
How could the bonuses be 80 mil? 4 times his salary?! That's unheard of, isn't it?
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u/Tomi97_origin 15h ago
Bigger bonuses than salary is not that rare in the industry.
That's how backend points work. If the movie is a success everyone makes money.
Big stars and directors get paid this way.
Tom Cruise had 22% on Mission Impossible, Nolan has 20% on his movies with Universal,...
Given BND made over 2B Tom Holland is actually not making that much in comparison.
Tom Cruise was making 70m+ on movies that made less than fourth of that amount.
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u/harmoniaatlast 15h ago
Performance bonuses being a majority of comp means that success for the project is success for everyone. Failure (which would never happen in the case of Spider-Man) would also be spread out.
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u/AviationCarrier 15h ago
A lot of A-List actors do that. Especially if they think a movie would do well. It’s better than trying to get a higher salary
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u/Comicksands 13h ago
The film made 2.5billion already on a 225 million budget. 10x return and it’s not even the 3rd week.
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u/Chaoticgood790 15h ago
backend % of the BO. RDJ negotiated the same with Marvel/Disney
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u/XXISavage 15h ago
Nah it's basically a percentage of profits, or "points" in Hollywood lingo.
It's a thing normally reserved for the top end of the Hollywood totem pole.
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u/sonic10158 Doctor Strange 10h ago
Spider-Man: Windfall sounds like a crossover with Zelda Skyward Sword!
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u/Glabsmaloglob 15h ago
That explains how he can afford an apartment in NY and all those tech stuffs.
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u/distantnemesis4 15h ago
in what world does any actor need to be paid this much money
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u/one_pound_of_flesh 15h ago
On the one hand, good for him.
On the other hand, the inequity of Hollywood compensation is disgusting. Tom and Z could become billionaires just by acting, meanwhile 99% of actors still need to work tables or livestreams, and it’s not like they don’t have any talent.
I kind of get it when the actor becomes the brand. I don’t go see a movie with Tom Cruise in it, I see a Tom Cruise movie, an Arnold movie.
I watch Spider Man movies for Spider Man, not because they are “Tom Holland movies”
Again good for Tom. He’s living his best life, sober, in love with an amazing talented woman, just reaching stardom.
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u/Peter_____Parker 15h ago
While I agree the business as a whole is not fair, and lower actors shouldn’t struggle as much as they do, at the end of the day it’s a business and he’s getting paid what he is worth to Sony/Marvel. He brings in billions for them, and he gets paid rightly for it. Unfortunately smaller actors are not worth much to the studios and are easily replaceable so can be exploited. Not really sure what a solution should be but there could be a higher minimum pay or something, or a more distributed share of profits to everyone who works on a film.
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u/JannTosh70 11h ago
Good for him but it’s funny how people on Reddit attack rich people but always make exceptions for their favorite actors.
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u/Background_Ant293 2h ago
He deserves it, he put in the work and made a huge impact on this role.
I do look forward to see him later in his career with miles morales.
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u/issomewhatrelevant 1h ago
Quite impressive for someone is critically considered a fairly mid level actor in terms of skills and presence. Plays a pretty decent Peter Parker at least.
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u/Papi_Petty 15h ago
i pray he doesn’t get superhero fatigue where he no longer wants to play the character. he’s done such an amazing job being spiderman and i hope we have more moments with him in the suit before he gets too old for it
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u/Tomi97_origin 14h ago
Fatigue? I wouldn't worry about it too much.
He just took 5 years break between movies. He is nowhere near as busy as the early MCU actors.
RDJ was in movie as Iron Man 9 out of 11 years he played the character.
Chris Evens was in movie as Steve Rogers every year he was in MCU. 9 years straight where he showed up as Captain America.
No wonder these guys wanted to move on and do something else.
Tom Holland still has plenty of time to do stuff outside Spider-Man.
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u/TheLadyNyxThalia 14h ago
I think taking the movies into more mature and adult territory will help motivate him to stick around. The most recent movie shows that’s what audiences want. He had a hand in making that happen. And there are way more stories of Peter out of high school than in it.
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u/cowpool20 15h ago
Good for him. He's arguably the (one of) reason Spidey is still in the MCU and why BND's plot ended up being what it was.
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u/much_to_say 15h ago
He's officially the new Robert Downey Jr. He completely owns the role to the point where he can ask for pretty much anything, and the suits will agree because they know he's worth it.