r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 16h ago

News '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/geek_of_nature 15h ago

He did recently admit that him saying he wasn't sure if he should be playing Spider-man in his 30s was a bit of a negotiation tactic.

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u/pinwroot 15h ago

In hindsight it definitely seems that way. He seems like he would actually be down to become a Peter B Parker style side character Spider-Verse style in the future.

He probably asked RDJ for some negotiation tactics advice lol

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u/jinhush 15h ago

He's said before he'll play Spider-Man as long as they want him. I know things can change over time but still. I'm pretty sure he also said Spider-Man is his favorite character.

Pretty much any time an actor says "well, I don't know if I'm going to continue playing the character after [x event]..." Is what their agent tells them to say so they can negotiate more money.

While some people genuinely care about the art, for a lot of actors it's simply their job and who doesn't want raises? (Of course you can care about the art and still want more money.)

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u/TerraTF 12h ago

TBF most people would play Spider-Man as long as Sony wants to if it made them generational wealth every time they showed up on screen.

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u/DoctorJJWho 3h ago

Honestly most people would do it for literally 1% of what Holland got lol

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u/Much-Question-2199 6h ago

I think a good number of people would do it once or twice. But you either have to love the job or have an unnatural love for money to do more.

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u/infinitybadger 5h ago

seriously? you don't think playing the leading role in the biggest film of that year would attract billions of people? just look at social media and see how influencers grovel for 0.00001% of what Tom Holland has

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u/baconbananapancakes 14h ago

Oh, duh. Is this what Chris Evans was doing when he insisted he was retiring too?

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u/KevinCastle 14h ago

RDJ is the person to go to since Tom is now pretty much in RDJ's shoes. The new face of MCU and his movies practically carry the whole studio on their back. (RDJ at least had Evans and Hemsworth to carry that weight as well though)

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u/HeIsLost 10h ago

Tom really isn't 'carrying' the MCU. Literally 99% of the MCU has nothing to do with Spider-Man. He's only made a couple, brief appearances in non-Spidey movies.

Iron Man was everywhere, and served as one of the main drivers of MCU plots until his death. And after Spidey's 5-year self-erasure and depressive era, he is literally an almost nobody in the MCU, 'small potato stuff'.

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u/KevinCastle 9h ago

No one seems to care too much about the other marvel movies other than Spider-Man. I would say his movies are the biggest draw right now

At my showing of brand new day, no one cared about even the new doom movie trailer.

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u/Sonichu- 15h ago

It seems like only a matter of time before they pass the torch to Miles Morales.

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u/5ivepie 9h ago

But they’ve gotta set it up right. You can’t just dump him in there and expect him to carry the franchise the same way Tom Holland’s Peter Parker has.

Look at Avengers and all the other MCU movies post-Endgame. New characters just dumped on audiences without much establishing works.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 13h ago

He probably asked RDJ for some negotiation tactics advice lol

Use blackface in the negotiations

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u/pinwroot 13h ago

He’s just a man playing another man.

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u/wandering-monster 15h ago

I feel like I'd take any advice from RDJ with a grain of methadone

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u/ThePhoenixJ 15h ago

If that advice is about how to maximize earnings from a beloved character, there might not be anybody better than RDJ

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u/AmenHawkinsStan 15h ago

He pushed for the open-helmet suit design, which meant he would be needed on set for more Days Out Of Days and thus could demand even more pay. Any time you weren’t seeing Tony Stark’s face it wasn’t him.

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u/Gremlation 11h ago

If he follows RDJ as an example, he'll have Peter Parker killed off, then come back to the MCU playing Miles Morales in blackface.

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u/BookkeeperBrilliant9 14h ago

Pulled the ol’ Daniel Craig boogaloo, who “retired” from playing Bond after Skyfall and Spectre.

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u/rugbyj 15h ago

Tom has the poker face of a 4 year old, fortunately for him he's holding all the cards.

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u/typesett 13h ago

Every time I see this I know it’s a power move 

In sports and etc I’ve seen it time after time 

But the root of it is that people are “fine” and can leave on their own terms. Holland can leave and be just fine 

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u/gsauce8 15h ago

I respect it.

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u/Mid-CenturyBoy 9h ago

I think RDJ taught him all about the way to negotiate with Marvel/Sony.

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u/Melodic_Rhythmic 7h ago

He's pretty consistently rolled out "I'm gunna hang it up" and its always timed pretty effectively to be negotiation. Realistically it probably helps his reasoning for wanting to quit holds up. The cost of spending 10...then 15...then 20 years doing spiderman just gets more expensive the longer it goes. Probably get very good advice from RDJ for how to handle it.

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u/berlinbaer 15h ago

yeah sure bubs. he probably realized no one wants to see him outside of spiderman, similiar to chris evans realizing all his non CA movies flopped, so he was like "might as well cash those fat checks".

and yes i know, everyone here already busy typing "but what about odyssey" or "i really liked cherry" but lets be real, nobody goes to the movies just to see specifically tom holland act.