Lawrence tops the Hollywood rich list
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“HUNGER Games” star Jennifer Lawrence yesterday topped a Forbes magazine list of the world’s highest-paid actresses for the second straight year, earning some US$46 million, followed by Melissa McCarthy.
Lawrence, 26, took the top spot largely through a slice of the profits from the final movie in the “Hunger Games” franchise, as well as a big upfront fee for her forthcoming space adventure movie “Passengers,” Forbes said.
Yet Lawrence’s estimated payday was likely well below that for Hollywood’s leading men, Forbes said, despite the actress sparking a debate about the gender pay gap last year. She declared she was “finished being adorable” when it came to negotiating better deals for herself.
Lawrence’s 2016 earnings dropped 11.5 percent from her 2015 total of US$52 million. Forbes will release its list of the world’s highest-paid actors tomorrow. Last year Robert Downey Jr topped the list with an estimated US$80 million.
But neither came close to pop star Taylor Swift, who was named the top-earning celebrity of 2016 earlier this year, pulling in an estimated US$170 million from record sales and her world tour.
McCarthy took home US$33 million in earnings, up US$10 million from 2015 in part from her payday for the controversial female reboot of “Ghostbusters.”
It was the biggest annual paycheck to date for the star of television comedy “Mike and Molly.” McCarthy, 45, also launched a clothing line for sizes 4 to 28 after becoming frustrated at the outfits available for larger women.
Scarlett Johansson of “Captain America: Civil Wars” was third at US$25 million, down nearly 30 percent from 2015.
Together, the world’s 10 highest-paid actresses tallied a combined US$205 million between June 1, 2015 and June 1, 2016, before management fees and taxes, Forbes said.
The estimates include earnings from movies, TV and commercial endorsements.
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