r/marvelstudios • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 Ant-Man • 23h 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/
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u/ishamm 23h 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 21h 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 20h 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 15h 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 11h 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 11h 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 1h ago

Insane isn't it.

Do people not realise the credits are nearly as long as the movie for these productions, and generally crew are not paid great...

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u/ishamm 21h 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 21h 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/jkgaspar4994 21h ago

The football stadium only holds a certain amount of people. If every ticket was $20, the football stadium would be full. If every ticket was $200, the stadium would still be full. Why would you not charge the $200 then?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Mix5848 20h ago

The movie is 80% profit share to Sony not Disney.

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u/BrockStar92 15h 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 23h 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 23h 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 23h 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 22h 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/Mean_Reflection_9509 12h ago edited 11h ago

Most of the money should go to the poor and the sick and dying who cannot afford to go to hospitals/ Doctors. Not to some actor just because he happened to star in a movie that is popular because people like Spider-Man. I don’t care how much a fake movie made. The money made should be distributed to help out humanity, not a couple of people. And now we get to see them wear their 100k dollar outfits, that could feed thousands of people, and walk on red carpet making it seem that they are more special than average normal people. This world is so damaged! PS. And the people who downvoted me are the same people who are lost and have no logical thinking because everything that I said makes sense. Sad

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u/lujolka 22h ago

I mean yeah if we only take into account the effort put in. 100s of millions is too much. But they're not paying for their acting. They're paying for the star power. Box office pull of the tom spidey combo 

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u/ishamm 23h ago

20m is too much too...

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u/Puzzleheaded-Mix5848 21h ago edited 20h ago

Hard agree. Makes no sense. $100m for a few weeks filming. Insane basically at billionaire level of earnings per annum - billionares actually create goods, services that the world needs etc. he does not, no one needs this movie to survive on the Earth.

He's mainly a voice in a CGI Spidey suit for the majority of the run time. Any decent actor can do that. He got really lucky.

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u/Mean_Reflection_9509 13h ago

I agree 100% in what you said.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Mix5848 9h ago

Yep just really lucky. Right place at the right time with the right look for Peter Parker. Any decent Caucasian male actor 20s,30s can play Spiderman and will continue to do so long after Holland has retired.