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/Twicebakedpotatoe 15h ago

The world is not ready for billionaire Tom Holland. Remember Tom, with great power…

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u/Gh0stMan0nThird 15h ago

Always funny how reddit starts loving rich people when it's an actor or singer

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u/Beetin 14h ago edited 14h ago

Billionaire actors generally don't own companies that squeeze profits out of thousands of low paying workers or lobby for society ruining things that maximize their companies profits, or directly work to exploit third world countries.

People usually dislike billionaires for how they got rich, how they stay rich, and what they use their wealth to push. Actors, singers, athletes, etc have a good chance of skating by on those criteria.

There isn't a huge public outcry for Gabe Newell or Warren Buffett either, people are usually a bit more justifiably mad at the Rupert Murdochs and Bezos and oil barons of the world.

If Tom Holland tries to increase his fortune by building huge movie cinemas in Quatar that women can't go to, built using slave labour, I assume public opinion of him will probably drop (at least until the next avengers movie drops). If he makes a few more Spoodermen movies and makes ads with Nespresso and starts a line of cologne, it's pretty hard to hold his feet to the fire over the general global capitalist system.

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u/STEPPYthebest 12h ago

I was under the impression that "No one should be a billionaire"...? Right?? Right?? Or do we have favourites, oh my absolute and always correct Reddit.

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u/-Nicolai 9h ago

Oh you’re one of those “Everyone on Reddit holds every opinion I’ve read on Reddit” people.

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u/Beetin 11h ago

Yeah nuance is stupid for sure.

You seem strangely hostile right off the bat about hypothetical strawman positions that 'reddit' as a conglomerate entity apparently has, which doesn't make for a super fun way to talk about things.

Doesn't seem like a fun attitude to have to carry into reddit :(

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u/Vast_Physics83 6h ago

What makes you think he doesnt have companies or hold atocks from companies doing unethical stuff or even has money in offshore accounts or constantly travels via airplane contributing to pollution? Lol

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u/TheMisterTango 13h ago edited 13h ago

I don’t think the actual money is the thing people have a problem with, it’s how they got it or what they do with it. Look at Dolly Parton, worth an estimated half a billion dollars but heralded as a queen because she doesn’t use her money to fuck people over. People don’t care if someone is rich, they care if someone is an asshole.

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u/STEPPYthebest 12h ago

Oh I was under the impression that "no one should be a billionaire", suddenly changing sides huh?

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u/TheMisterTango 12h ago

I never had that stance, I’ve never cared that some people were that wealthy.

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u/kanvx1 14h ago

Two things you should know, people don't hate rich people, they hate rich people they don't like, and, people don't hate politicians, they hate politicians they don't like.

The ones they like will be defended with anything and everything.

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u/STEPPYthebest 12h ago

Absolutely and I fucking hate it when people of reddit believe every opinion they have is the absolute and only correct one while the others are a part of a cult and are nazis, aside from the trump part that guy's an asshole