With the huge opening of “Jurassic World: Rebirth,” Scarlett Johansson has just become the highest-grossing actor in movie history. Mike takes a look at the Top 10 actors, breaks down how much an actor would take home after getting paid $20 million dollars for 1 role and what actors on the cusp have the best shot at breaking into the Top 10? In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Superman directed by James Gunn. Mike has never been a fan of the character but did this movie change that? Mike also answers the questions: How was David Corenswet as the Man of Steel? Does it set up DC for success? Who were the rest of the standouts? The story follows Superman who gets drawn into conflicts at home and abroad, his actions are questioned, giving tech billionaire Lex Luthor the opportunity to get the Man of Steel out of the way for good. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about how Roofman with Channing Tatum could be his next favorite movie. The film follows a robber who lived in a Toys R Us store & broke into more than 60 McDonald’s then emptied the cash register after herding staff into freezers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. Today we are talking about
the top ten highest grossing actors at the box office
because Scarlett Johansson now tops the list. That story came out,
so I dug a little deeper into finding out exactly
how much money she takes home for a role like
Jurassic World Rebirth. In the movie review, we'll be talking
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about Superman directed by James Gunn. Did it live up
to the hype? Is this the reset that DC needed?
Oh boy? And in the trailer park an entirely new
look for Channing Tatum in a movie called Roofman. Thank
you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout
out to the Monday Morning movie crew. And now let's
talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie
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Mike's Movie Podcast. Jurassic World Rebirth had a huge opening,
crushed it at the box office despite me no iking it.
But still, these movies make butt loads and butt load
loads of money, and that opening weekend alone was all
Scarlet Johanson needed to pass another legendary actor and become
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the highest grossing actor in movie history. Scarlett Johansson's movies
have pulled in a grand total of fourteen point six
billion dollars at the worldwide box office. We're gonna take
a look at the top ten actors, but before we
get into that top ten list, let's look at Scarlett
Johansson specifically, since she now has the record what movies
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got her there. Her top ten highest grossing movies of
all time. At number ten is Lucy, which made four
hundred and fifty seven million dollars. At number nine is
Iron Man two, which made six hundred and twenty one
million dollars, and number eight is Seeing which made six
hundred and thirty one million dollars. That is a voice
acting role. At number seven Captain America The Winter Soldier,
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which made seven hundred and fourteen million dollars. At number
six the Jungle Book, which made nine hundred and fifty
one million dollars. Another voice acting role there, even though
it is a quote unquote live action Disney movie. Getting
into the top five at number five, Captain America Civil War,
which made one point one billion dollars. At number four,
Avengers Age of Ultron, which made one point four billion.
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At number three, The Avengers, which made one point five billion.
We're going to see a pattern here. At number two,
it's Infinity War, which made two billion dollars, and at
number one is Avengers Endgame, which made two point seven
billion dollars. But I want to break it down even
further and examine her most recent role in Jurassic Park Rebirth.
Let's do a little movie math. I put on my
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account and hat, get on my little typing machine. Let's
crunch some numbers here in movie math. So she reportedly
earned between fifteen to twenty million dollars for Rebirth for
the sake of mass just because it'll be a little
bit easier. Let's say twenty million dollars is what she earned.
She does not take home twenty million dollars because out
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of that twenty million dollars, she has to give ten
percent to a agent. So two million dollars of that
is going to an agent, which, oh man, that hurts.
Like ten percent in my world is like I'll give
you ten percent of one hundred bucks. That's ten bucks.
That's not that bad. But when you're looking at twenty
million dollars and it comes out to two million, why
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be an actor if you could be an agent? You
get ten million or two million dollars, And I don't
want to say pretty easily, because I have to imagine
it is pretty tough to be an agent because your
money that you make also depends on the actor who
you are representing and what they earn, and how you
manage deals, because that is the job of an agent.
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They negotiate the deal, and that's why they take ten
percent of that gross pay, because they could get you
a lot more money. In some cases, they could probably
cost that money. But I assume Scarlett Johanson has a
great agent and is making her a lot of money,
So there's ten percent going next up, who's getting paid next?
You gotta have an agent. You also have to have
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a manager who takes about ten to fifteen percent. A
manager would be guiding Scarlett Johansson with their career stuff,
with their branding, with their deals. So if she has
a manager on top of her agent who's also getting
let's just say ten percent here, that's another two million dollars.
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It could be three million dollars depending on how much
of a percentage that they are taking away. So right there,
you're looking at at least four million dollars from that
twenty million that is immediately gone. You don't even have
a chance of touching that. You got the agent, you
got the manager. What do you need next? You need
a lawyer. That could be five percent of a deal
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like this, because they handle the contracts, the legal negotiations.
They could charge that five percent or that flat fee.
Have them on a retainer. I don't even know what
a retainer is. I don't have a lawyer. I don't
even think I know a lawyer. Maybe I know one lawyer.
But let's just say, with a big deal like that
five percent, you're looking at another million dollars right there.
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Then you have a publicist who I would imagine somebody
like Scarlett Johanson just has somebody that they pay a
salary to, like a monthly fee, a yearly fee. A
publicist manages all of her press or interviews overall, has
control over her image, with news, store, all those things
that publicists, you know what a publicist does. So at
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least in this case, it's not percentage based, but she
probably pays somebody one hundred to three hundred K a year,
depending on how long this current publicist has been working
for her. So there you go. Another one hundred to
three hundred k out of that deal. Then you got
the taxes, Ah, the taxes. She's based in Californi. Yet
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that could be a lot of taxes. The total tax
it could be like the biggest part of this taken
out twenty thirty, forty fifty percent, depending on where you are.
So there you go. You start to see all these
things just dwindle away. Suddenly that twenty million dollars. You
got two million taken out for the agent, two million
for the manager, a million for the lawyer, two hundred
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thousand for the publicist, and there are all these other
just hidden fees in there. You got the taxable income,
you got the state taxes, and then you have also
all these other hidden fees that go into being an actor,
things like stylists, trainers, glam squads, especially during promotion of
a movie, security assistance staff, salaries, pr campaigns, award pushes
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during award season, travel if they're taking a private jet,
if they have luxury accommodations. So when I broke down
all these numbers, that twenty million could be taken down
all the way down to a mirror a eight to
ten million dollars. So half of that sometimes more than half.
I would imagine with a case like this, someone as
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big as Scarlett Johansson, it's probably more than half because
she has a pretty big step a lot of people
to pay, so she is not taking home at that
twenty million dollars. It's more like eight to ten million.
On the high end, she would take home twelve million dollars,
which is still really great. But when you look at
somebody making twenty million dollars for a movie, they're not
getting that. That's why they're not as rich as you think.
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So when all is said and done, could be taking
home seven to eight million dollars on the higher end,
ten maybe twelve million dollars depending on all the percentages here.
But for me, it is helpful to break that down
because sometimes I think, like, man, you guys get paid
so much just to do these roles, why can't you
be better at them? It's probably because you're thinking about
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on set all these freaking people you have to pay
just to get there. And that was a little bit
of movie man. All right, let's look at this top ten. Now,
I'm kind of surprised that and how high some of
these people rank. It really shows me the power of
the MCU, the power of a great superhero franchise, and
why those have been some of the most sought after
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roles in the last fifteen to twenty years at this point,
at number ten with the total of twenty nine leading
roles is Chris Evans, who has pulled in eleven point
four billion dollars at the global box office twenty nine
leading role. That's a lot for Chris Evans, but he's
also been around for a long time. His highest grossing
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movie is twenty nineteen's End Game, which made two point
eight billion dollars at the box office, which we are
going to see that movie listed in a lot of
actors in this top ten, so I also listed a
non Avenger role for all of those people. His highest
grossing non Avengers role still a superhero movie is Captain
America Civil War in twenty sixteen, which brought in one
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point one five three billion dollars at the office. Chris
Evans is a really bankable name. He has been around
for a long time, from the first iteration of the
Fantastic Four on the big screen and now he is
still around in acting as the third iteration of the
Fantastic Four is coming out this summer. He did say
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that he has no plans and no connections to any
of the Avengers movies coming out in the next few years,
but that is still left to be determined, because if
you look at him being number ten on this list,
it is a lot of movies. So I have to
imagine he is somebody who wants to get away from
that a little bit. We've seen that in the roles
he's taken. Even just this year with Materialists, he has
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very much stepped out of that pocket and not even
really wanted to chase a lot of action movies, which
he has done some movies with the Russo Brothers, post Avengers,
post Captain America. But I think he's really trying to
branch out. He is one of those actors I feel
is going to make a real step into the direction
of dramas, try to get that Oscar Win. He is
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an actor I believe can get there. I really root
for him. I really like him. He's really likable in
all the press that he does, so I feel really
good about him being at number ten. At number nine
with thirty nine leading roles is Dwayne the Rock. Johnson
The Rock has also brought in eleven point four billion
dollars at the box office. He beats out Chris Evans
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by about seventeen point five million dollars, which is still
pretty significant, especially for the rock who still has the
tendency to bomb at the box office because of how
much they have to pay him. His highest grossing movie
is Furious seven, which came out back in twenty fifteen,
making one point five one billion dollars at the box office.
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He is somebody else like Chris Sevens, who has been
around in movies for a long time. I still remember
whenever he started a branch out from WWF at the
time and started doing movie rolls like The Scorpion King,
and it was really weird to see him in rolls
in the beginning because I was a huge fan of
the Rockets a wrestler growing up. One of my favorite
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movies of his from the early two thousands era was
the remake of Walking Tall, which came out in two
thousand and four with him and Johnny Knoxville, and I
probably watched that movie more for Johnny Knoxville, but I
remember rewatching that fairly recently and still enjoying that movie.
I guess he is just somebody I thought would be
higher on this list, but again he doesn't have the
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power of the MCU because at number eight with twenty
eight leading roles is Vin Diesel, who has a career
box office gross of eleven point nine billion dollars as
a lead actor, so about zero point five more than
Dwayne the Rock Johnson. His highest grossing movie is also
Furious seven twenty fifteen, which it appears that they don't
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actually credit Vin Diesel in the Avengers movies where he
is voicing group, but I guess that scene as a
minor role. It's not a leading role. Oh man, I
wonder how much higher he would be on this list
if he had larger roles in the Avengers movies, But
then he wouldn't probably be able to do all the
other movies he has done simultaneously while making those movies,
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because he's made five hundred million dollars more at the
box office in twenty eight rolls than The Rock did
in thirty nine. But that just shows you the bankability
of the Fast franchise, which he's in those from the
very beginning. I love the speech he gave recently saying
we're gonna bring back Fast and the Furious to the streets,
bring back the culture of racing, really make it much
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more like it was early in the beginning, where it
was actually about street racing and culture and the movies
that inspired us all to want to put NOAs in
our cars and go race the streets. So that is
exciting to me because I watched the compilation recently on
TikTok of all the most ridiculous scenes in the Fast
franchise that are so unbelievable. So I think if now
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they are able to scale it back down and have
a grittier tone to a fasten the Furious movies to
possibly close out the franchise. I mean. He also said
they're bringing back Paul Walker's character Brian O'Connor. It's unclear
how he is going to return. Are they going to
use Ai, Are they going to use his brothers Caleb
and Cody kind of how they did in Furious seven.
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That is going to be highly emotional as a movie moment,
So I can't wait to see that. So at number
eight is Vin Diesel. At number seven, also with twenty
eight leading roles is Chris Hemsworth aka Thor, whose total
comes in at twelve point one billion dollars. His highest
grossing movie is also Endgame, non Avengers. It is Store
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Ragnarok for twenty seventeen, which made eight hundred and sixty
five million dollars. Kind of surprised to see him higher
than Chris Evans, just because I think if you look
at his body of work in the MCU, I think
Chris Evans has the better solo movies. Thor one is
really good, thor two is pretty forgettable, and Bad Ragnarok
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is just so solid, And I'm glad that that is
his highest grossing movie outside of all the Avengers movies.
As far as where those two actors kind of stack
up against each other outside of the MCU, I still
think Chris Evans has an edge on him when it
comes to making good movies. But I think Chris Hemsworth
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in the long run could make more money at the
box office if he just finds his one big role,
his one big franchise to really carry him. Hasn't quite
found that yet, but I still really root for him.
I'm probably rooted for Chris Evans more, but I could
see Chris Hemsworth getting on another level if he can
just find the right role again. Pay the right agent
to get him those roles and negotiate those deals. And
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number six is the only actor not in any superhero movie,
even though at one point he was rumored in consideration
for the role of Tony Stark in Iron Man before
it went to Robert Dannel Junior, which that could quite
possibly be one casting choice that changed the entire course
of cinema. But at number six, with forty five leading
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roles is Tom Cruz honestly thought he would be higher.
I thought he would be top three. He has brought
in roughly twelve point seven billion dollars at the global
box office, a majority of that going to the Mission
Impossible franchise, But his highest grossing movie of all time
is Top Gun Maverick from twenty twenty two, which made
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one point four nine to six billion dollars at the
global box office. But if you look at all the
people on this list, Tom Kruise has been acting so
much longer than all of these people as far as
being a household name. Since the eighties, you got the nineties,
the two thousands, of twenty tens, and even now in
the twenty twenties, he has been consistently making great movies,
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but maybe you just make more now with superhero movies.
It all comes down to those billion two billion dollar
movies when all is said and done. And even though
now he negotiates a lot on the back end, because
he can do that, and that is why he is
such an advocate for the theater experience and getting movies
out into cinemas is because that is what makes him
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the most money. But I honestly thought he would be
top three, but still he sits here at number six.
But could you imagine if he would have been cast
as Iron Man, it would have been an entirely different movie,
probably would have not set up the MCU for success
because Robert Downey Junior is Ironman carried the MCU for years,
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and if it would have been Tom Cruise, even saying
that that first movie would have done well, could have
even done a one to two in three. But I
couldn't see him now being a part of that franchise.
As long as Robert Downey Junior did. I feel like
he would have done three movies and been like, I'm
not doing any Avengers movies. You're gonna have to recast me.
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So that could have greatly just changed the landscape of film,
but luckily that didn't happen. Getting into the top five now,
this is where I'm surprised. At number five is Chris
Pratt with twenty six leading roles. I think on this
list so far, that is the fewest amount of roles
and it landed him in the top five. Chris Pratt
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has a career gross of fourteen point one billion dollars.
Large part of that is Jurassic A large part of
that is also guarded into the Galaxy, which low Ki
makes a lot of money kind of nonchalantly. Is such
a great trilogy, not just in the MCU, but I
believe one of the best sci fi trilogies of all time.
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And Chris Pratt is one of those actors now who
I think a lot of people have fatigue with him
just because he is in everything I saw. I recently
announced he's going to be back as the voice of
Garfield and Garfield dude, dude, is it everything live action, animated.
He's Garfield, He's Super Mario. His team keeps him working.
His highest grossing movie, obviously is also Endgame non Avengers,
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though it is Jurassic World from twenty fifteen, which made
one point sixty seven to one billion dollars. It still
surprises me how impactful those movies are at the box
office because they are I don't want to downplay, but
they're relatively simple. The plot lines are pretty simple. It
is dinosaurs and humans running from them, trying to escape
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from them, trying to not be eaten by them. And
I think the reason is because of the international appeal,
because you can dub those movies so easily into another
language and it just works because you don't need to
know all of the dialogue to understand that humans need
to run away from dinosaurs. Now that I think about it,
I wonder if that's what influences some of the dialogue
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that feels so cheesy in English because you have to
be able to translate it and you have to make
it so simple and so clean. So do they purposely
write these movies in order to translate them to fit
the global box office, to fit in other countries, Because
if you look at the numbers, yeah, they do great
in the US, But if you look at the international
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box office, that is where the cheese is, That is
where the sweetest plumb is hanging for these movies. Same
thing with the fast and the Furious movies. It's all
about not just focusing on the fan base in America,
but focusing on the international fan base and China all
across the globe. That is what these movies do, which
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I think if you look at all these movies, that
is the goal of them. So maybe that's why Tom
Cruise is lower. Here, right above Chris Pratt at number
four is Zoe's Aldana with thirty three leading roles. She
has a career gross of fourteen point two billion dollars.
Like Chris Pratt, large part of that is from the
MCU and she is Gomorra and Guardians of the Galaxy,
but she is also an Avatar star Trek. Her highest
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grossing movie is Avatar from two thousand and nine, which
made two point nine billion dollars almost three billion dollars
at the global box office, and there are still more
Avatar movies to come. Three and four are is right
there ready for her to make more money off of
those movies, so I could easily see her rising up
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on the rinks on this list. I think she could
easily become top three if the rest of the Avatar
movies work out. Because Guardians of the Galaxy is done,
but she has the potential to move up on this
list because of those Avatar movies which are still solid
and again do great at the international box office. Way
in the Water really surprised me and how much I
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enjoyed it, even though it has a really long run time,
So I am all invested in that at number four,
Zoe's out on you At number three with forty five
leading roles is Robert Downey Junior comes in at third.
I don't feel like that's too surprising, and his forty
five film as the lead actor, he has made fourteen
point three billion dollars. Again, Endgame is his highest grossing
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role non Avengers. His highest grossing role is iron Man
three from twenty thirteen, which brought in one point two
one five billion dollars. I remember being kind of disappointed
by iron Man three when I saw it in theaters.
I was so frustrated that he couldn't keep the suit on.
I was like, is this like a metaphor for a
Rechtile dysfunctioned? What is going on here with Tony Stark?
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But rewatching that movie as an adult and understanding the
character more as I've rewatched The Avengers just so many
times I realized that that movie was really talking about
PTSD and how much he struggled with the events from
New York that I finally got that. So I feel
like that is one MCU movie that I appreciate more now.
Even though I still think it is probably the weakest
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in the Iron Man's it's still a really great MCU movie.
And I think at the time I probably judged it
unfairly and was overly critical of that movie. But now
looking back on a lot of those early MCU movies,
we didn't realize how good we had it if we
were criticizing Iron Man three as much as we did,
and then we got the Eternals and the Marvels. How
we were spoiled coming in at number two with seventy
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credits as a lead actor Samuel L. Jackson, so he
did from one to two because of Scarlett Johanson overtaking him.
He has had a career gross of fourteen point six
billion dollars. So if you look at this four, three,
and two, they're all pretty close. Zoe at fourteen point two,
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Robert Downey Junior at fourteen point three, Samuel L. Jackson
at fourteen point six, they could easily all flip flop here.
Because Robert Downey Junior is going to be a doctor Doom,
he could easily eclipse all these people. Depending on if
Samuel L. Jackson is going to be in those movies
at all. Scarlett Johanson isn't going to be in those movies,
so she's gonna miss out on that payday. But his
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highest grossing role is Endgame, much like all these other
people in the top of the list. His highest grossing
non Avengers roles, he has a couple. One animated is
The Incredibles two, which made one point two billion dollars.
If you're not counting animated movies and you only want
to count live action movies, it is Captain Marble bringing
in one point one three one million dollars, which I
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know I ragged on the Marvel's earlier, but I love
Captain Marvel. I was so surprised in the decline between
Captain Marvel and the Marvels. But again, if sam Jackson
is going to be in any of the next Avengers movies,
that could add to his total. But at number one
with thirty six roles as a leading actor, at Scarlett
Johansson with a fourteen point eight billion dollars score at
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the box office, just missing out from the top ten
and eleven is Bradley Cooper. At twelve is Tom Hanks?
At thirteen is Johnny Depp? At fourteen? Is Tom Holland.
I feel like maybe with the Christopher Nolan movie with
Spider Man four, he could easily jump those people ahead
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of him. Bradley Cooper, Yeah, Bradley Cooper. He could hop
Tom Hanks is still a great actor, does I would
say a good movie every third or fourth movie at
this point, but he's not really as bankable as he
was before. I can't really see him hopping into the
MCU to be some and he could definitely take over
Johnny Debb because Johnny Depp is at about ten billion.
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Tom Holland is right there at nine point nine billion
with eighteen movies. That's the fewest out of almost the
entire Top twenty. Only one other person in the Top
twenty has less than eighteen movies, and I'll get to
that one in a second. But I think Tom Holland
could get himself up there definitely. At eleven, I think
he could get into the top ten, especially because he
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only has eighteen movies his entire career you think could
be ahead of them. At number fifteen is Mark Ruffalo.
At number sixteen is the person in the top twenty
with less than eighteen with only sixteen leading roles is
Emma Watson that nine point two billion dollars at the
worldwide box office. At number seven is Will Smith. Honestly,
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I thought he would be higher. At number eighteen with
that MCU money is Don Cheatle, At number nineteen is
Dave Batista, and at number twenty, rounding it out keeping
it in the MCU is Jeremy Renner. Some people I
am surprised are not higher on the list is Hugh
Jackman at number thirty with seven point seven billion dollars. Again,
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this is astronomical numbers. Any other actor would kill to
have a seven point seven billion dollar box office gross,
but with all the X Men movies, with dead Pool
and Wolverine, I thought he would be higher. The Greatest Showman,
maybe even more surprising, is Leonardo DiCaprio at number thirty four.
Titanic is one of the highest grossing films of all time,
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and that one alone isn't enough to get him even
in the top twenty. You have some really just a
plus actors in the thirties. At thirty six is Brad
Pitt at seven point two. At number thirty nine is
Bruce Willis at six point nine. Ryan Reynolds way down
here at number forty three with six point five. Then
you have some people who I'm kind of surprised are
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this high. Ben Stiller is at forty seven, Jim Carrey
is at fifty one, Mark Wahlberg is at fifty t two.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lawrence come in at fifty four
and fifty five, Keanu Reeves at fifty nine, Will Ferrell
all the way down here at eighty six, Jason Momoa
at ninety four, and rounding out the one hundred at
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the very bottom is Mark Hamill. And the craziest part
of this entire list is at number sixty eight is
Adam Sandler with a five point two billion dollars total.
That's wild to me because not only does he consistently
end up in the top ten highest actors of the
year year after year, he's usually at number one, and
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if not number one, he is in that top five.
But to only be at number sixty eight, we got
to get the Sandman a role in the MCU. Somebody
turned the Sandman into his superhero. That is the list.
Hopefully you'll learn some things here. A comeback speaking of
superhero movies and making that money. Give my spoiler free
movie review of Superman. Let's get into it now. A
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spoiler free movie review of Superman, who was quite possibly
my least favorite of the most popular superheroes. This movie
didn't make me love him, but it made me really
like him, and I think that's a big win here.
I'm probably a bigger fan of James Gunn than I've
ever been Superman, and now I want James Gunn just
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to do every single superhero ever made, because when James
Gunn makes a movie, he makes it truly something unique.
By the end of this movie, I didn't want it
to end, and I truly felt for those two hours
that I was in that theater, I escaped and I
was on another planet, and I have not felt that
way while watching a superhero movie in a really long time.
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That took me back to early Phase one MCU, where
whenever I was in that theater, I completely escaped from reality,
didn't think about any real life problems. I was right
there with David korn Sweat as Superman, totally just living
in this world. And there are so many things I
love about the movie, the visuals, which I thought, the
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color palette was just fantastic. If you have a great
color palette in a movie, it is just gonna win
me over. I talk about that all the time, but
when it comes to somebody who just knows how to
use color, it is James Gunn, specifically with the Guardians
of the Galaxy, where he really just had this wonderful
cosmic color palette, which I feel he also adopted into
this movie, where the blues look so blue and rich,
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the reds are very deep and just pop off the screen,
the yellows they're perfect. Has one of my favorite uses
of color in any movie, where whenever we first had
that tease a Superman and we saw him in what
seemed to be an apartment lacing up his boots and
something going on behind him, that was such a fantastic
scene because you have this nighttime scene and Metropolis and
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this incredible, just neon cosmic color thing happening behind him,
and that scene alone is a great example of how
much attention to detail James gunn has, which is what
I love about his work. Would what I loved about
this film is that was just a simple scene where
any other movie just would have had the characters talking
and be the forefront of that, but he has something
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going on in the background that is just extra showing
you that, hey, we're gonna do everything in this movie
that we can. We're gonna put everything in here, and
even things in the background are gonna be visually stimulating
for you. That is what I enjoyed so much about
this So what this story is about. You have Superman
in about his third year of being a hero, which
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I think is also a fresh approach one because you
don't get that origin story, which I think we don't
really need origin stories and any superhero at this point,
even if it's totally new characters that we don't know.
I just feel that the origin story format has been
done so much of a superhero figuring out their powers.
We've all been there before, no matter what character it is,
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So I'm glad we didn't have to go through that
with Superman. He's three years in. You don't need to
know about his parents in Kansas, just need to know
that he's pretty new with this, and I think that
is what made me finally start to enjoy this character,
because one of my biggest problems with Superman is dude
doesn't have flaws. He's always perfect. He's always just like
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good looking, doing the right thing, and there was never
anything that felt human to him because he is an alien,
because he is from another planet, where here you have
him actually struggling with things. The movie starts with him
losing a battle. That's not a spoiler. That's how it
literally opens. The moment we saw on the trailer of
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him in the snow, just panting and bloody, that's how
this movie opens up, and that's the tone that it sets,
is that Superman isn't going to be perfect in this
He's not going to be almighty and powerful. I enjoyed
that because that's what I've been waiting to see, and
I think the people who do have a problem with
this movie are kind of the opposite of me, because
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you want to see what you do love about the character,
him being just ultra powerful, always knowing what to do
easily defeating his villains or finding a way to beat
his villains pretty easily. That's not the case here. Superman
needs the help of his friends, he needs the help
of Lois Lane at times, even needs the help of
the city, and for the first time ever, I started
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to see myself a little bit in the character, and
that's something I've never been able to do with Superman.
The first hour of this movie just flew by. I
love the angles that they used with Superman flying throughout
the sky, which were very just big close ups that
felt like they just came off the pages of a
comic book. A lot of moments of action in this
movie felt like they were literally ripped out of a
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comic book, which made for really interesting framing. A lot
of great shots that not only made it look different
than any other superhero movie, but really just anything out
there right now in the last couple of years that
it made use of every single inch on the screen.
I thought David corn Sweat was a fantastic Superman, a
fantastic Clark Kent that really showed some depths to these characters,
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which which is something that we did not see in
Man of Steel. In Man of Steele, I did not
care about Clark Kent as a person. I didn't care
about Lois Lane. I cared more about the action, but
By the first just ten minutes of this movie, I
was sold on a relationship. I was rooting for them.
The character development throughout this entire movie had me caring
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for characters I never thought I could, and that is
something that James Gunn does, also, taking characters we're not
that familiar with and making them so impactful, and I
think he does this by putting together a really great
cast and having the perfect people play these parts. If
you want to talk about one of the best villains
in the last ten to fifteen, maybe even twenty years,
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Nicholas Whole as Lex Luthor is right up there. I
haven't felt that angry towards a character and wanted to
see their fall so much since Stanos. He is at
that level, and Nicholas Hold just plays that character so
well where I could watch him in Superman Hate each
Other all movie long, Give me a sequel, give me
a trilogy. I think that dynamic between those characters was
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perfect and the real driving force of this movie, because
that is what I've been missing in a superhero film,
to have a villain that is worthy of the entire runtime,
where there are moments that you're questioning yourself as the viewer,
is our hero gonna make it through because every move
that Superman made, Lex Luthor was right there to take
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him down. So it was this constant battle of them
going back and forth, back and forth. And I think
that might be the frustration of some people being haters
of this movie, of not liking that power dynamic. There
was a big struggle here. But you have to go
back and think about again, it's those three years. He
is so new into this role. He's still figuring things out.
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He's a much younger Superman. But I think that is
what we need right now in the DC world, because
this is the type of character that has the ability
to care all of DC with what they are trying
to do. Now. This world is being established in a
really big way, and I think that's what you have
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to build it on. Aside from David corn Sweat, Aside
from Nicholas Holt, Rachel Brosnahan was also fantastic at Lois Lane.
The supporting cast in this movie was just top notch,
which I was glad for the Justice gag with Nathan
Fillion as the Green Lantern. I love Metamorpho, which was
played by NoHo Hank. If you were a fan of Barry.
Mister Terrific though, was a big standout that I would
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just watch a solo Mister Terrific movie. I just think
that character is that good that could carry an entire movie,
so to have him there as a supporting character that
I think maybe another thing people may have a problem
with was all the characters, but I think in this case,
more characters the better because they're all just so unique
and different. From Crypto Metamorpho, even Superman's The Robots, there
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wasn't a character that I just thought, oh, that was
kind of a waste of time. So I feel like,
pretty easily this became my favorite Superman movie ever, even
going back to the originals, and I think it's because
it is that mix of the original Christopher Reeves movies.
The Man is Steal without being totally two thousand's metal
music video, having some of those elements of action, but
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also having that whimsical comic book feel and completely separating
itself from anything on the MCU side, where I think
now going into Fantastic four, my expectations are going to
be so much higher because they do kind of have
that both classic vibe to it. With Fantastic four being
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set back in the day, even though the Superman movie
is set in modern times. When you look at them together,
they kind of have like that old school aesthetic. So
I worry if Fantastic Four just goes back to the
well of everything the MCU has been doing for the
last five years, it is going to lack that big
wow factor in comparison after what Superman just did. Not
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saying that this movie has reinvented the genre, but it
has pumped some fresh blood into the body, which is
a big win for DC. Did massive amounts at the
box office opening weekend, is probably going to crush again
going into the next weekend leading up to Fantastic Four,
and I really think the competition is good because if
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you have DC starting to have some really big success
with some of their legacy characters, it's gonna make Marvel
start to ramp things up as well. Dare I say
an almost perfect movie? There are very few things I
did not like about it, and if I were to
tell you the things that kept me from rating this
movie a five, we would get into spoiler territory. But
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just no, it is that good and it also greatly
benefits from seeing it in theaters. This is one of
those event movies that you have to experience in theaters,
and it's almost to the point when we do have
these major, huge movies, you almost get that one to
two weeks spoiler free window, just because much like a
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live sporting event like the super Bowl, I think when
it comes to something that moves the needle, like a
DC movie at this level, or even an Avengers movie,
you get that one to two week window before you're like,
all right, spoiler free here again. I won't get into
spoiler territory unists I decide to do a spoiler episode
because then you have actors starting to post things online,
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much like we saw with the Thunderbolts, because they're excited
about it, because people want to talk about it and
discuss it more openly. I just think it starts to
get to a point where you get one to two
weeks and then if you don't see in theaters, you're
gonna have to know, you're gonna start seeing people talk
about it more openly online. That's why I went to
go see it opening night. So for Superman now has
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me really enjoying the character, which I was always a
fan of the comics. If there was one of my
favorite storylines of Superman from the comics that I want
to see them turn into a movie. It is Death
to Superman, which there is an animated version of that movie.
Highly recommend that that is one of my favorite superhero stories.
So I don't know if we could ever get to
that point seeing James Gunn make a debt of Superman movie.
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But for Superman, I give it four point five out
of five cryptos. It's time to head down to movie.
Mike Trey Lar Paul ruf Man has the potential to
be my next favorite movie because it has a lot
of things that I love. One it stars Channing Tatum,
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who I believe is a fantastic actor. I love what
he does roles that he can show his comedic side.
He can also show his range when it comes to drama,
when it comes to interacting with his love interest. I
think the guy can do it all. And with a
name like Channing Tatum, he was either gonna go on
to be a really great actor or a really great boxer.
That is such a great name and his real first name,
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Channing Tatum. It also has director Cianne France, who also
did one of my favor favorite movies of the twenty tens.
The Place Beyond the Pines starring Ryan Gosling, which I
believe is one of the most underrated movies of the
twenty tens, came out in twenty twelve. That movie has
a lot of drama, It has a lot of crime.
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It is the perfect mix of what I love about
movies that feel small and independent but just have this
grit to it. So now that he is doing a
movie that also kind of has some similar themes of
that because in this one, Channing Tatum plays a real
life criminal. It's based on a true story. He plays
a robber who lived in a toysrus store, broke into
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more than sixty McDonald's, and somehow, by watching this trailer
and knowing more details about this guy, I don't believe
that he was a bad person, And I wonder if
that's going to be the lesson of this movie. Just
because somebody is good at crime, does that make him
a bad person. Because from the very first scene in
this trailer, we see him cutting into the roof of McDonald's,
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going in, telling the he's about to rob them, but
then so graciously guides them to the freezer. He's gonna
lock them all in there. He finds out one of
the employees doesn't have a jacket, and he's like, all right,
I'll give you mine. So he's kind of nice, but
he's a really smart, charismatic, sweet guy. I love the
fact that it's based on a true story. I love
the director. I love the cast. You also have Peter Dinklitch,
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Kirsten Dunns, Lakeith Stanfield. I'm already hyperglazing up this movie
before I get into it more. Here's just a little
bit of the roof Man trailer. A man hunt tonight
for an escaped prisoner behind the safe place to hide
for a few months. He's a very smart individual, super intelligent.
So John hid the stands and work for the government.
So it's a little classified. So I never knew we
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had an intelligence unit here in Charlotte. Oh are you
law enforcement? Yes? Am, Wow, that's amazing. Police believe the
Roofman may still be in the area. What so. Channing
Tatum plays a former US Army ranger whose real name
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is Jeffrey Manchester, and he resorted to a life of
Robbie McDonald's restaurants because he was going through some financial hardship.
He got that name Roofman because that is exactly what
he did. He was known as the roofman rooftop robber.
He would cut the holes into roost of McDonald's to
gain entry inside of him, heard all the employees into
the freezers before emptying the cash registers. Jeffrey Manchester actually
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robbed over sixty McDonald's using this method. Man just to
have the guts to do the first one, I imagine
after you rob one in this type of manner, and
you gain that confidence and you start to learn the
layout of McDonald's, I feel like that second one gets
a lot easier. By about ten, it just starts to
feel like pushing into work. It has to, because I
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think that is the theme with a lot of criminals.
And I'm only speaking on what I've learned from movies,
even from the same director. The Place Beyond the Pines
where Ryan Gosling's character robs one bank and then he
wants to continue robbing more banks because it is never enough.
I have to imagine at some point it just starts
to feel normal to you, where you forget about those
risks going into McDonald's instead of working there and making
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delicious egg mcmuffins and hash browns in the morning, although
he's probably robbing these at night. You punch in and
you've robbed the place, and he was able to do
over sixty McDonald's, which just leads me to believe how
brilliant this guy is, because, as it is showcased in
this trailer, he does eventually get caught, but his gift
is that he is so observant and he pays attention
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to people and their routines. This guy has to have
a brilliant mind, and obviously he has had some things
go wrong in his life, because what the trailer goes
on to show you is after that prison escape, he
goes to hide out in a Toys r Us and
a Circuit City store in North Carolina. He actually did
this and manages to live in the store. He finds
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a way to hack into the cameras. When all the
employees are gone, he goes and hangs out in the aisles.
He showers at these places, he eats from these places,
and then just starts to embed himself in the community,
which what ends up probably getting them caught because he
develops feelings for Kirsten Duns, who lives in the community.
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He donates toys from the Toys r Us to her
just to get her retention, and then he starts to
become closer and closer with law enforcement. And then you
also see in the trailer that eventually he runs into
Peter Dinklich, who is the manager at the Toys r US,
and a lot unfold. It looks like he gets caught.
But I did not Google on purpose because I didn't
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really want to know what happened in real life, even
though this trailer pretty much tells you everything, and I've
told you guys, one major red flag you can look
for anytime you watch a trailer is if they show
you the entire movie in those two and a half
to three minutes. I usually say that as a sign
kind of a bad movie. I don't feel that way
after watching this trailer, even though I know it from
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beginning to end. I kind of see how this is
going to play out, just because I know these types
of stories. Whenever you have somebody who is keeping details
from a love interest about their dark and hidden past,
they can't come back from that as much as they
are developing feelings for you, as much as they want
to believe you as soon as you break that trust,
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as soon as you lie to them, and they have
to say to themselves like I don't even know you,
you're a criminal. Like I can't have these feelings anymore
because you lie to me, you are a criminal. I
have to imagine things aren't going to work out for
him and his love interest in this. But I think
this movie is going to have a good mix of
true crime since it is based on a true story,
some thriller elements which I get from the action of
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him going to prison, escaping from prison, hacking into the
system at toys r us to mess with the cameras
to make it seem like he's not actually there getting
chased by the police, still trying to hide out, trying
to hold onto this life that he started to build.
Which also makes me sad in this story to think
that somebody has finally found something that feels real, but
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they earned it in a way that wasn't the most
noble to have that ripped away from you. That part
is going to suck for him. Just from this trailer alone,
I've seen the dynamics of this character and how much
range that Channing Tatum has to show, this character's eccentric
personality and to show how he can do bad things,
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but he's also very gentle in ways, like he wants
to find love. He doesn't really want to hurt anybody.
This is just the only thing that he is good at.
And Kirsten Duns's character is also a single mother, so
that's going to add some crazy levels of stakes to
this movie. Lakeith Stanfield plays his friend. Like I mentioned,
Peter Dinklic is the toys IRUs general manager. Juno Temple
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was also in this movie playing one of his friends.
That's why I say this movie has the potential to
be my next favorite movie. I also love that the
movie was shot on location. It takes place in Charlotte,
North Carolina, so they filmed a lot in North Carolina,
and they did it on thirty five millimeter film, so
it kind of gives it that nineties early two thousands
nostalgia look to it. So I'm excited for it. Rufman
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is coming out in theaters on October twenty fifth, And
that was this week's edition of Movie B Framer Bar
and that is gonna do it for another episode here
of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give
my listeners shout out of the Week. This week, I'm
shouting out all the haters, because boy did people come
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at me hard for last week's review of Jurassic World Rebirth.
I was so surprised and shocked by it, and not
even just the review itself. I think the most people
I commented back to and messaged with even emailed with
about that movie. I think for the most part, we
can all agree how mid that movie was and how
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let down we all were, even though that movie brought
in a lot of money at the box office. I
was honestly expecting to get more heat from my review
on that because I saw some people loving it, so
I thought that was gonna be the main focus of
the hate last week. But it turns out so many
people had upset with my Jurassic Park slash Jurassic World
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ranking that I was told that I'm a complete idiot
and I shouldn't be doing this anymore. So. This week's
listener shout out of the Week goes to Alexander on TikTok,
which there were a lot of comments, but Alexander said, bro,
I'm sorry never rank again Jurassic Park three that low
and you put the lost World at number one. Jurassic
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Park three is easily in the top three, maybe even
number one. I did not realize there was so much
love for Jurassic Park three. I have to imagine it's
a generation thing, which I was born in ninety one,
a couple of years before the first Jurassic Park came out,
so I don't have that much attachment to that one,
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maybe because I was a little bit older whenever Jurassic
Park the Lost World came out. That is why that
is my movie of my childhood and why I love
that one the most. I have to imagine that has
to be the same reason why there is this burning
passion for Jurassic Park three, which came out in two
thousand and one, so people born in like the late
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nineties or maybe early two thousands that caused that to
be the first Jurassic Park movie that they discovered. Because
just rewatching those movies, as I did before the Last
One Dominion, which I rewatched all the Jurassic Park movies
before that, that movie was so forgettable. When I did
rewatch it, it almost felt like watching it again for
the first time. Because there are no major events in
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that there are no moments in that movie that stand out.
It is so just dull and blah, even more so
than Rebirth, but not as much as Dominion. That's why
I put it right in the middle of those two.
But man, people hate it on me so much for that.
I've never been called stupid like this. I've never been
called the criminal. I've never been called all these things.
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I have been called on TikTok, Facebook and YouTube. So
if you feel the same way, you can go comment that.
That's why I do this podcast. That's why I open
up the discussion for you to call me out when
I get something so blatantly wrong. But I still don't
think I was wrong. I would admit I was wrong
if I was. But if you want to voice your opinion,
you can always find my social media links in the
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episode notes basically just at Mike d shro at everything.
So also email me Moviemike d at gmail dot com.
And until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later.
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike. Today we are talking about
the top ten highest grossing actors at the box office
because Scarlett Johansson now tops the list. That story came out,
so I dug a little deeper into finding out exactly
how much money she takes home for a role like
Jurassic World Rebirth. In the movie review, we'll be talking
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about Superman directed by James Gunn. Did it live up
to the hype? Is this the reset that DC needed?
Oh boy? And in the trailer park an entirely new
look for Channing Tatum in a movie called Roofman. Thank
you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. Shout
out to the Monday Morning movie crew. And now let's
talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie
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Mike's Movie Podcast. Jurassic World Rebirth had a huge opening,
crushed it at the box office despite me no iking it.
But still, these movies make butt loads and butt load
loads of money, and that opening weekend alone was all
Scarlet Johanson needed to pass another legendary actor and become
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the highest grossing actor in movie history. Scarlett Johansson's movies
have pulled in a grand total of fourteen point six
billion dollars at the worldwide box office. We're gonna take
a look at the top ten actors, but before we
get into that top ten list, let's look at Scarlett
Johansson specifically, since she now has the record what movies
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got her there. Her top ten highest grossing movies of
all time. At number ten is Lucy, which made four
hundred and fifty seven million dollars. At number nine is
Iron Man two, which made six hundred and twenty one
million dollars, and number eight is Seeing which made six
hundred and thirty one million dollars. That is a voice
acting role. At number seven Captain America The Winter Soldier,
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which made seven hundred and fourteen million dollars. At number
six the Jungle Book, which made nine hundred and fifty
one million dollars. Another voice acting role there, even though
it is a quote unquote live action Disney movie. Getting
into the top five at number five, Captain America Civil War,
which made one point one billion dollars. At number four,
Avengers Age of Ultron, which made one point four billion.
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At number three, The Avengers, which made one point five billion.
We're going to see a pattern here. At number two,
it's Infinity War, which made two billion dollars, and at
number one is Avengers Endgame, which made two point seven
billion dollars. But I want to break it down even
further and examine her most recent role in Jurassic Park Rebirth.
Let's do a little movie math. I put on my
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account and hat, get on my little typing machine. Let's
crunch some numbers here in movie math. So she reportedly
earned between fifteen to twenty million dollars for Rebirth for
the sake of mass just because it'll be a little
bit easier. Let's say twenty million dollars is what she earned.
She does not take home twenty million dollars because out
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of that twenty million dollars, she has to give ten
percent to a agent. So two million dollars of that
is going to an agent, which, oh man, that hurts.
Like ten percent in my world is like I'll give
you ten percent of one hundred bucks. That's ten bucks.
That's not that bad. But when you're looking at twenty
million dollars and it comes out to two million, why
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be an actor if you could be an agent? You
get ten million or two million dollars, And I don't
want to say pretty easily, because I have to imagine
it is pretty tough to be an agent because your
money that you make also depends on the actor who
you are representing and what they earn, and how you
manage deals, because that is the job of an agent.
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They negotiate the deal, and that's why they take ten
percent of that gross pay, because they could get you
a lot more money. In some cases, they could probably
cost that money. But I assume Scarlett Johanson has a
great agent and is making her a lot of money,
So there's ten percent going next up, who's getting paid next?
You gotta have an agent. You also have to have
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a manager who takes about ten to fifteen percent. A
manager would be guiding Scarlett Johansson with their career stuff,
with their branding, with their deals. So if she has
a manager on top of her agent who's also getting
let's just say ten percent here, that's another two million dollars.
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It could be three million dollars depending on how much
of a percentage that they are taking away. So right there,
you're looking at at least four million dollars from that
twenty million that is immediately gone. You don't even have
a chance of touching that. You got the agent, you
got the manager. What do you need next? You need
a lawyer. That could be five percent of a deal
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like this, because they handle the contracts, the legal negotiations.
They could charge that five percent or that flat fee.
Have them on a retainer. I don't even know what
a retainer is. I don't have a lawyer. I don't
even think I know a lawyer. Maybe I know one lawyer.
But let's just say, with a big deal like that
five percent, you're looking at another million dollars right there.
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Then you have a publicist who I would imagine somebody
like Scarlett Johanson just has somebody that they pay a
salary to, like a monthly fee, a yearly fee. A
publicist manages all of her press or interviews overall, has
control over her image, with news, store, all those things
that publicists, you know what a publicist does. So at
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least in this case, it's not percentage based, but she
probably pays somebody one hundred to three hundred K a year,
depending on how long this current publicist has been working
for her. So there you go. Another one hundred to
three hundred k out of that deal. Then you got
the taxes, Ah, the taxes. She's based in Californi. Yet
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that could be a lot of taxes. The total tax
it could be like the biggest part of this taken
out twenty thirty, forty fifty percent, depending on where you are.
So there you go. You start to see all these
things just dwindle away. Suddenly that twenty million dollars. You
got two million taken out for the agent, two million
for the manager, a million for the lawyer, two hundred
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thousand for the publicist, and there are all these other
just hidden fees in there. You got the taxable income,
you got the state taxes, and then you have also
all these other hidden fees that go into being an actor,
things like stylists, trainers, glam squads, especially during promotion of
a movie, security assistance staff, salaries, pr campaigns, award pushes
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during award season, travel if they're taking a private jet,
if they have luxury accommodations. So when I broke down
all these numbers, that twenty million could be taken down
all the way down to a mirror a eight to
ten million dollars. So half of that sometimes more than half.
I would imagine with a case like this, someone as
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big as Scarlett Johansson, it's probably more than half because
she has a pretty big step a lot of people
to pay, so she is not taking home at that
twenty million dollars. It's more like eight to ten million.
On the high end, she would take home twelve million dollars,
which is still really great. But when you look at
somebody making twenty million dollars for a movie, they're not
getting that. That's why they're not as rich as you think.
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So when all is said and done, could be taking
home seven to eight million dollars on the higher end,
ten maybe twelve million dollars depending on all the percentages here.
But for me, it is helpful to break that down
because sometimes I think, like, man, you guys get paid
so much just to do these roles, why can't you
be better at them? It's probably because you're thinking about
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on set all these freaking people you have to pay
just to get there. And that was a little bit
of movie man. All right, let's look at this top ten. Now,
I'm kind of surprised that and how high some of
these people rank. It really shows me the power of
the MCU, the power of a great superhero franchise, and
why those have been some of the most sought after
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roles in the last fifteen to twenty years at this point,
at number ten with the total of twenty nine leading
roles is Chris Evans, who has pulled in eleven point
four billion dollars at the global box office twenty nine
leading role. That's a lot for Chris Evans, but he's
also been around for a long time. His highest grossing
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movie is twenty nineteen's End Game, which made two point
eight billion dollars at the box office, which we are
going to see that movie listed in a lot of
actors in this top ten, so I also listed a
non Avenger role for all of those people. His highest
grossing non Avengers role still a superhero movie is Captain
America Civil War in twenty sixteen, which brought in one
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point one five three billion dollars at the office. Chris
Evans is a really bankable name. He has been around
for a long time, from the first iteration of the
Fantastic Four on the big screen and now he is
still around in acting as the third iteration of the
Fantastic Four is coming out this summer. He did say
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that he has no plans and no connections to any
of the Avengers movies coming out in the next few years,
but that is still left to be determined, because if
you look at him being number ten on this list,
it is a lot of movies. So I have to
imagine he is somebody who wants to get away from
that a little bit. We've seen that in the roles
he's taken. Even just this year with Materialists, he has
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very much stepped out of that pocket and not even
really wanted to chase a lot of action movies, which
he has done some movies with the Russo Brothers, post Avengers,
post Captain America. But I think he's really trying to
branch out. He is one of those actors I feel
is going to make a real step into the direction
of dramas, try to get that Oscar Win. He is
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an actor I believe can get there. I really root
for him. I really like him. He's really likable in
all the press that he does, so I feel really
good about him being at number ten. At number nine
with thirty nine leading roles is Dwayne the Rock. Johnson
The Rock has also brought in eleven point four billion
dollars at the box office. He beats out Chris Evans
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by about seventeen point five million dollars, which is still
pretty significant, especially for the rock who still has the
tendency to bomb at the box office because of how
much they have to pay him. His highest grossing movie
is Furious seven, which came out back in twenty fifteen,
making one point five one billion dollars at the box office.
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He is somebody else like Chris Sevens, who has been
around in movies for a long time. I still remember
whenever he started a branch out from WWF at the
time and started doing movie rolls like The Scorpion King,
and it was really weird to see him in rolls
in the beginning because I was a huge fan of
the Rockets a wrestler growing up. One of my favorite
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movies of his from the early two thousands era was
the remake of Walking Tall, which came out in two
thousand and four with him and Johnny Knoxville, and I
probably watched that movie more for Johnny Knoxville, but I
remember rewatching that fairly recently and still enjoying that movie.
I guess he is just somebody I thought would be
higher on this list, but again he doesn't have the
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power of the MCU because at number eight with twenty
eight leading roles is Vin Diesel, who has a career
box office gross of eleven point nine billion dollars as
a lead actor, so about zero point five more than
Dwayne the Rock Johnson. His highest grossing movie is also
Furious seven twenty fifteen, which it appears that they don't
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actually credit Vin Diesel in the Avengers movies where he
is voicing group, but I guess that scene as a
minor role. It's not a leading role. Oh man, I
wonder how much higher he would be on this list
if he had larger roles in the Avengers movies, But
then he wouldn't probably be able to do all the
other movies he has done simultaneously while making those movies,
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because he's made five hundred million dollars more at the
box office in twenty eight rolls than The Rock did
in thirty nine. But that just shows you the bankability
of the Fast franchise, which he's in those from the
very beginning. I love the speech he gave recently saying
we're gonna bring back Fast and the Furious to the streets,
bring back the culture of racing, really make it much
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more like it was early in the beginning, where it
was actually about street racing and culture and the movies
that inspired us all to want to put NOAs in
our cars and go race the streets. So that is
exciting to me because I watched the compilation recently on
TikTok of all the most ridiculous scenes in the Fast
franchise that are so unbelievable. So I think if now
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they are able to scale it back down and have
a grittier tone to a fasten the Furious movies to
possibly close out the franchise. I mean. He also said
they're bringing back Paul Walker's character Brian O'Connor. It's unclear
how he is going to return. Are they going to
use Ai, Are they going to use his brothers Caleb
and Cody kind of how they did in Furious seven.
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That is going to be highly emotional as a movie moment,
So I can't wait to see that. So at number
eight is Vin Diesel. At number seven, also with twenty
eight leading roles is Chris Hemsworth aka Thor, whose total
comes in at twelve point one billion dollars. His highest
grossing movie is also Endgame, non Avengers. It is Store
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Ragnarok for twenty seventeen, which made eight hundred and sixty
five million dollars. Kind of surprised to see him higher
than Chris Evans, just because I think if you look
at his body of work in the MCU, I think
Chris Evans has the better solo movies. Thor one is
really good, thor two is pretty forgettable, and Bad Ragnarok
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is just so solid, And I'm glad that that is
his highest grossing movie outside of all the Avengers movies.
As far as where those two actors kind of stack
up against each other outside of the MCU, I still
think Chris Evans has an edge on him when it
comes to making good movies. But I think Chris Hemsworth
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in the long run could make more money at the
box office if he just finds his one big role,
his one big franchise to really carry him. Hasn't quite
found that yet, but I still really root for him.
I'm probably rooted for Chris Evans more, but I could
see Chris Hemsworth getting on another level if he can
just find the right role again. Pay the right agent
to get him those roles and negotiate those deals. And
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number six is the only actor not in any superhero movie,
even though at one point he was rumored in consideration
for the role of Tony Stark in Iron Man before
it went to Robert Dannel Junior, which that could quite
possibly be one casting choice that changed the entire course
of cinema. But at number six, with forty five leading
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roles is Tom Cruz honestly thought he would be higher.
I thought he would be top three. He has brought
in roughly twelve point seven billion dollars at the global
box office, a majority of that going to the Mission
Impossible franchise, But his highest grossing movie of all time
is Top Gun Maverick from twenty twenty two, which made
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one point four nine to six billion dollars at the
global box office. But if you look at all the
people on this list, Tom Kruise has been acting so
much longer than all of these people as far as
being a household name. Since the eighties, you got the nineties,
the two thousands, of twenty tens, and even now in
the twenty twenties, he has been consistently making great movies,
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but maybe you just make more now with superhero movies.
It all comes down to those billion two billion dollar
movies when all is said and done. And even though
now he negotiates a lot on the back end, because
he can do that, and that is why he is
such an advocate for the theater experience and getting movies
out into cinemas is because that is what makes him
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the most money. But I honestly thought he would be
top three, but still he sits here at number six.
But could you imagine if he would have been cast
as Iron Man, it would have been an entirely different movie,
probably would have not set up the MCU for success
because Robert Downey Junior is Ironman carried the MCU for years,
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and if it would have been Tom Cruise, even saying
that that first movie would have done well, could have
even done a one to two in three. But I
couldn't see him now being a part of that franchise.
As long as Robert Downey Junior did. I feel like
he would have done three movies and been like, I'm
not doing any Avengers movies. You're gonna have to recast me.
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So that could have greatly just changed the landscape of film,
but luckily that didn't happen. Getting into the top five now,
this is where I'm surprised. At number five is Chris
Pratt with twenty six leading roles. I think on this
list so far, that is the fewest amount of roles
and it landed him in the top five. Chris Pratt
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has a career gross of fourteen point one billion dollars.
Large part of that is Jurassic A large part of
that is also guarded into the Galaxy, which low Ki
makes a lot of money kind of nonchalantly. Is such
a great trilogy, not just in the MCU, but I
believe one of the best sci fi trilogies of all time.
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And Chris Pratt is one of those actors now who
I think a lot of people have fatigue with him
just because he is in everything I saw. I recently
announced he's going to be back as the voice of
Garfield and Garfield dude, dude, is it everything live action, animated.
He's Garfield, He's Super Mario. His team keeps him working.
His highest grossing movie, obviously is also Endgame non Avengers,
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though it is Jurassic World from twenty fifteen, which made
one point sixty seven to one billion dollars. It still
surprises me how impactful those movies are at the box
office because they are I don't want to downplay, but
they're relatively simple. The plot lines are pretty simple. It
is dinosaurs and humans running from them, trying to escape
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from them, trying to not be eaten by them. And
I think the reason is because of the international appeal,
because you can dub those movies so easily into another
language and it just works because you don't need to
know all of the dialogue to understand that humans need
to run away from dinosaurs. Now that I think about it,
I wonder if that's what influences some of the dialogue
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that feels so cheesy in English because you have to
be able to translate it and you have to make
it so simple and so clean. So do they purposely
write these movies in order to translate them to fit
the global box office, to fit in other countries, Because
if you look at the numbers, yeah, they do great
in the US, But if you look at the international
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box office, that is where the cheese is, That is
where the sweetest plumb is hanging for these movies. Same
thing with the fast and the Furious movies. It's all
about not just focusing on the fan base in America,
but focusing on the international fan base and China all
across the globe. That is what these movies do, which
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I think if you look at all these movies, that
is the goal of them. So maybe that's why Tom
Cruise is lower. Here, right above Chris Pratt at number
four is Zoe's Aldana with thirty three leading roles. She
has a career gross of fourteen point two billion dollars.
Like Chris Pratt, large part of that is from the
MCU and she is Gomorra and Guardians of the Galaxy,
but she is also an Avatar star Trek. Her highest
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grossing movie is Avatar from two thousand and nine, which
made two point nine billion dollars almost three billion dollars
at the global box office, and there are still more
Avatar movies to come. Three and four are is right
there ready for her to make more money off of
those movies, so I could easily see her rising up
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on the rinks on this list. I think she could
easily become top three if the rest of the Avatar
movies work out. Because Guardians of the Galaxy is done,
but she has the potential to move up on this
list because of those Avatar movies which are still solid
and again do great at the international box office. Way
in the Water really surprised me and how much I
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enjoyed it, even though it has a really long run time,
So I am all invested in that at number four,
Zoe's out on you At number three with forty five
leading roles is Robert Downey Junior comes in at third.
I don't feel like that's too surprising, and his forty
five film as the lead actor, he has made fourteen
point three billion dollars. Again, Endgame is his highest grossing
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role non Avengers. His highest grossing role is iron Man
three from twenty thirteen, which brought in one point two
one five billion dollars. I remember being kind of disappointed
by iron Man three when I saw it in theaters.
I was so frustrated that he couldn't keep the suit on.
I was like, is this like a metaphor for a
Rechtile dysfunctioned? What is going on here with Tony Stark?
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But rewatching that movie as an adult and understanding the
character more as I've rewatched The Avengers just so many
times I realized that that movie was really talking about
PTSD and how much he struggled with the events from
New York that I finally got that. So I feel
like that is one MCU movie that I appreciate more now.
Even though I still think it is probably the weakest
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in the Iron Man's it's still a really great MCU movie.
And I think at the time I probably judged it
unfairly and was overly critical of that movie. But now
looking back on a lot of those early MCU movies,
we didn't realize how good we had it if we
were criticizing Iron Man three as much as we did,
and then we got the Eternals and the Marvels. How
we were spoiled coming in at number two with seventy
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credits as a lead actor Samuel L. Jackson, so he
did from one to two because of Scarlett Johanson overtaking him.
He has had a career gross of fourteen point six
billion dollars. So if you look at this four, three,
and two, they're all pretty close. Zoe at fourteen point two,
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Robert Downey Junior at fourteen point three, Samuel L. Jackson
at fourteen point six, they could easily all flip flop here.
Because Robert Downey Junior is going to be a doctor Doom,
he could easily eclipse all these people. Depending on if
Samuel L. Jackson is going to be in those movies
at all. Scarlett Johanson isn't going to be in those movies,
so she's gonna miss out on that payday. But his
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highest grossing role is Endgame, much like all these other
people in the top of the list. His highest grossing
non Avengers roles, he has a couple. One animated is
The Incredibles two, which made one point two billion dollars.
If you're not counting animated movies and you only want
to count live action movies, it is Captain Marble bringing
in one point one three one million dollars, which I
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know I ragged on the Marvel's earlier, but I love
Captain Marvel. I was so surprised in the decline between
Captain Marvel and the Marvels. But again, if sam Jackson
is going to be in any of the next Avengers movies,
that could add to his total. But at number one
with thirty six roles as a leading actor, at Scarlett
Johansson with a fourteen point eight billion dollars score at
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the box office, just missing out from the top ten
and eleven is Bradley Cooper. At twelve is Tom Hanks?
At thirteen is Johnny Depp? At fourteen? Is Tom Holland.
I feel like maybe with the Christopher Nolan movie with
Spider Man four, he could easily jump those people ahead
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of him. Bradley Cooper, Yeah, Bradley Cooper. He could hop
Tom Hanks is still a great actor, does I would
say a good movie every third or fourth movie at
this point, but he's not really as bankable as he
was before. I can't really see him hopping into the
MCU to be some and he could definitely take over
Johnny Debb because Johnny Depp is at about ten billion.
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Tom Holland is right there at nine point nine billion
with eighteen movies. That's the fewest out of almost the
entire Top twenty. Only one other person in the Top
twenty has less than eighteen movies, and I'll get to
that one in a second. But I think Tom Holland
could get himself up there definitely. At eleven, I think
he could get into the top ten, especially because he
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only has eighteen movies his entire career you think could
be ahead of them. At number fifteen is Mark Ruffalo.
At number sixteen is the person in the top twenty
with less than eighteen with only sixteen leading roles is
Emma Watson that nine point two billion dollars at the
worldwide box office. At number seven is Will Smith. Honestly,
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I thought he would be higher. At number eighteen with
that MCU money is Don Cheatle, At number nineteen is
Dave Batista, and at number twenty, rounding it out keeping
it in the MCU is Jeremy Renner. Some people I
am surprised are not higher on the list is Hugh
Jackman at number thirty with seven point seven billion dollars. Again,
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this is astronomical numbers. Any other actor would kill to
have a seven point seven billion dollar box office gross,
but with all the X Men movies, with dead Pool
and Wolverine, I thought he would be higher. The Greatest Showman,
maybe even more surprising, is Leonardo DiCaprio at number thirty four.
Titanic is one of the highest grossing films of all time,
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and that one alone isn't enough to get him even
in the top twenty. You have some really just a
plus actors in the thirties. At thirty six is Brad
Pitt at seven point two. At number thirty nine is
Bruce Willis at six point nine. Ryan Reynolds way down
here at number forty three with six point five. Then
you have some people who I'm kind of surprised are
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this high. Ben Stiller is at forty seven, Jim Carrey
is at fifty one, Mark Wahlberg is at fifty t two.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lawrence come in at fifty four
and fifty five, Keanu Reeves at fifty nine, Will Ferrell
all the way down here at eighty six, Jason Momoa
at ninety four, and rounding out the one hundred at
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the very bottom is Mark Hamill. And the craziest part
of this entire list is at number sixty eight is
Adam Sandler with a five point two billion dollars total.
That's wild to me because not only does he consistently
end up in the top ten highest actors of the
year year after year, he's usually at number one, and
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if not number one, he is in that top five.
But to only be at number sixty eight, we got
to get the Sandman a role in the MCU. Somebody
turned the Sandman into his superhero. That is the list.
Hopefully you'll learn some things here. A comeback speaking of
superhero movies and making that money. Give my spoiler free
movie review of Superman. Let's get into it now. A
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spoiler free movie review of Superman, who was quite possibly
my least favorite of the most popular superheroes. This movie
didn't make me love him, but it made me really
like him, and I think that's a big win here.
I'm probably a bigger fan of James Gunn than I've
ever been Superman, and now I want James Gunn just
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to do every single superhero ever made, because when James
Gunn makes a movie, he makes it truly something unique.
By the end of this movie, I didn't want it
to end, and I truly felt for those two hours
that I was in that theater, I escaped and I
was on another planet, and I have not felt that
way while watching a superhero movie in a really long time.
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That took me back to early Phase one MCU, where
whenever I was in that theater, I completely escaped from reality,
didn't think about any real life problems. I was right
there with David korn Sweat as Superman, totally just living
in this world. And there are so many things I
love about the movie, the visuals, which I thought, the
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color palette was just fantastic. If you have a great
color palette in a movie, it is just gonna win
me over. I talk about that all the time, but
when it comes to somebody who just knows how to
use color, it is James Gunn, specifically with the Guardians
of the Galaxy, where he really just had this wonderful
cosmic color palette, which I feel he also adopted into
this movie, where the blues look so blue and rich,
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the reds are very deep and just pop off the screen,
the yellows they're perfect. Has one of my favorite uses
of color in any movie, where whenever we first had
that tease a Superman and we saw him in what
seemed to be an apartment lacing up his boots and
something going on behind him, that was such a fantastic
scene because you have this nighttime scene and Metropolis and
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this incredible, just neon cosmic color thing happening behind him,
and that scene alone is a great example of how
much attention to detail James gunn has, which is what
I love about his work. Would what I loved about
this film is that was just a simple scene where
any other movie just would have had the characters talking
and be the forefront of that, but he has something
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going on in the background that is just extra showing
you that, hey, we're gonna do everything in this movie
that we can. We're gonna put everything in here, and
even things in the background are gonna be visually stimulating
for you. That is what I enjoyed so much about
this So what this story is about. You have Superman
in about his third year of being a hero, which
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I think is also a fresh approach one because you
don't get that origin story, which I think we don't
really need origin stories and any superhero at this point,
even if it's totally new characters that we don't know.
I just feel that the origin story format has been
done so much of a superhero figuring out their powers.
We've all been there before, no matter what character it is,
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So I'm glad we didn't have to go through that
with Superman. He's three years in. You don't need to
know about his parents in Kansas, just need to know
that he's pretty new with this, and I think that
is what made me finally start to enjoy this character,
because one of my biggest problems with Superman is dude
doesn't have flaws. He's always perfect. He's always just like
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good looking, doing the right thing, and there was never
anything that felt human to him because he is an alien,
because he is from another planet, where here you have
him actually struggling with things. The movie starts with him
losing a battle. That's not a spoiler. That's how it
literally opens. The moment we saw on the trailer of
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him in the snow, just panting and bloody, that's how
this movie opens up, and that's the tone that it sets,
is that Superman isn't going to be perfect in this
He's not going to be almighty and powerful. I enjoyed
that because that's what I've been waiting to see, and
I think the people who do have a problem with
this movie are kind of the opposite of me, because
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you want to see what you do love about the character,
him being just ultra powerful, always knowing what to do
easily defeating his villains or finding a way to beat
his villains pretty easily. That's not the case here. Superman
needs the help of his friends, he needs the help
of Lois Lane at times, even needs the help of
the city, and for the first time ever, I started
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to see myself a little bit in the character, and
that's something I've never been able to do with Superman.
The first hour of this movie just flew by. I
love the angles that they used with Superman flying throughout
the sky, which were very just big close ups that
felt like they just came off the pages of a
comic book. A lot of moments of action in this
movie felt like they were literally ripped out of a
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comic book, which made for really interesting framing. A lot
of great shots that not only made it look different
than any other superhero movie, but really just anything out
there right now in the last couple of years that
it made use of every single inch on the screen.
I thought David corn Sweat was a fantastic Superman, a
fantastic Clark Kent that really showed some depths to these characters,
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which which is something that we did not see in
Man of Steel. In Man of Steele, I did not
care about Clark Kent as a person. I didn't care
about Lois Lane. I cared more about the action, but
By the first just ten minutes of this movie, I
was sold on a relationship. I was rooting for them.
The character development throughout this entire movie had me caring
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for characters I never thought I could, and that is
something that James Gunn does, also, taking characters we're not
that familiar with and making them so impactful, and I
think he does this by putting together a really great
cast and having the perfect people play these parts. If
you want to talk about one of the best villains
in the last ten to fifteen, maybe even twenty years,
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Nicholas Whole as Lex Luthor is right up there. I
haven't felt that angry towards a character and wanted to
see their fall so much since Stanos. He is at
that level, and Nicholas Hold just plays that character so
well where I could watch him in Superman Hate each
Other all movie long, Give me a sequel, give me
a trilogy. I think that dynamic between those characters was
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perfect and the real driving force of this movie, because
that is what I've been missing in a superhero film,
to have a villain that is worthy of the entire runtime,
where there are moments that you're questioning yourself as the viewer,
is our hero gonna make it through because every move
that Superman made, Lex Luthor was right there to take
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him down. So it was this constant battle of them
going back and forth, back and forth. And I think
that might be the frustration of some people being haters
of this movie, of not liking that power dynamic. There
was a big struggle here. But you have to go
back and think about again, it's those three years. He
is so new into this role. He's still figuring things out.
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He's a much younger Superman. But I think that is
what we need right now in the DC world, because
this is the type of character that has the ability
to care all of DC with what they are trying
to do. Now. This world is being established in a
really big way, and I think that's what you have
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to build it on. Aside from David corn Sweat, Aside
from Nicholas Holt, Rachel Brosnahan was also fantastic at Lois Lane.
The supporting cast in this movie was just top notch,
which I was glad for the Justice gag with Nathan
Fillion as the Green Lantern. I love Metamorpho, which was
played by NoHo Hank. If you were a fan of Barry.
Mister Terrific though, was a big standout that I would
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just watch a solo Mister Terrific movie. I just think
that character is that good that could carry an entire movie,
so to have him there as a supporting character that
I think maybe another thing people may have a problem
with was all the characters, but I think in this case,
more characters the better because they're all just so unique
and different. From Crypto Metamorpho, even Superman's The Robots, there
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wasn't a character that I just thought, oh, that was
kind of a waste of time. So I feel like,
pretty easily this became my favorite Superman movie ever, even
going back to the originals, and I think it's because
it is that mix of the original Christopher Reeves movies.
The Man is Steal without being totally two thousand's metal
music video, having some of those elements of action, but
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also having that whimsical comic book feel and completely separating
itself from anything on the MCU side, where I think
now going into Fantastic four, my expectations are going to
be so much higher because they do kind of have
that both classic vibe to it. With Fantastic four being
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set back in the day, even though the Superman movie
is set in modern times. When you look at them together,
they kind of have like that old school aesthetic. So
I worry if Fantastic Four just goes back to the
well of everything the MCU has been doing for the
last five years, it is going to lack that big
wow factor in comparison after what Superman just did. Not
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saying that this movie has reinvented the genre, but it
has pumped some fresh blood into the body, which is
a big win for DC. Did massive amounts at the
box office opening weekend, is probably going to crush again
going into the next weekend leading up to Fantastic Four,
and I really think the competition is good because if
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you have DC starting to have some really big success
with some of their legacy characters, it's gonna make Marvel
start to ramp things up as well. Dare I say
an almost perfect movie? There are very few things I
did not like about it, and if I were to
tell you the things that kept me from rating this
movie a five, we would get into spoiler territory. But
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just no, it is that good and it also greatly
benefits from seeing it in theaters. This is one of
those event movies that you have to experience in theaters,
and it's almost to the point when we do have
these major, huge movies, you almost get that one to
two weeks spoiler free window, just because much like a
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live sporting event like the super Bowl, I think when
it comes to something that moves the needle, like a
DC movie at this level, or even an Avengers movie,
you get that one to two week window before you're like,
all right, spoiler free here again. I won't get into
spoiler territory unists I decide to do a spoiler episode
because then you have actors starting to post things online,
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much like we saw with the Thunderbolts, because they're excited
about it, because people want to talk about it and
discuss it more openly. I just think it starts to
get to a point where you get one to two
weeks and then if you don't see in theaters, you're
gonna have to know, you're gonna start seeing people talk
about it more openly online. That's why I went to
go see it opening night. So for Superman now has
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me really enjoying the character, which I was always a
fan of the comics. If there was one of my
favorite storylines of Superman from the comics that I want
to see them turn into a movie. It is Death
to Superman, which there is an animated version of that movie.
Highly recommend that that is one of my favorite superhero stories.
So I don't know if we could ever get to
that point seeing James Gunn make a debt of Superman movie.
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But for Superman, I give it four point five out
of five cryptos. It's time to head down to movie.
Mike Trey Lar Paul ruf Man has the potential to
be my next favorite movie because it has a lot
of things that I love. One it stars Channing Tatum,
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who I believe is a fantastic actor. I love what
he does roles that he can show his comedic side.
He can also show his range when it comes to drama,
when it comes to interacting with his love interest. I
think the guy can do it all. And with a
name like Channing Tatum, he was either gonna go on
to be a really great actor or a really great boxer.
That is such a great name and his real first name,
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Channing Tatum. It also has director Cianne France, who also
did one of my favor favorite movies of the twenty tens.
The Place Beyond the Pines starring Ryan Gosling, which I
believe is one of the most underrated movies of the
twenty tens, came out in twenty twelve. That movie has
a lot of drama, It has a lot of crime.
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It is the perfect mix of what I love about
movies that feel small and independent but just have this
grit to it. So now that he is doing a
movie that also kind of has some similar themes of
that because in this one, Channing Tatum plays a real
life criminal. It's based on a true story. He plays
a robber who lived in a toysrus store, broke into
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more than sixty McDonald's, and somehow, by watching this trailer
and knowing more details about this guy, I don't believe
that he was a bad person, And I wonder if
that's going to be the lesson of this movie. Just
because somebody is good at crime, does that make him
a bad person. Because from the very first scene in
this trailer, we see him cutting into the roof of McDonald's,
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going in, telling the he's about to rob them, but
then so graciously guides them to the freezer. He's gonna
lock them all in there. He finds out one of
the employees doesn't have a jacket, and he's like, all right,
I'll give you mine. So he's kind of nice, but
he's a really smart, charismatic, sweet guy. I love the
fact that it's based on a true story. I love
the director. I love the cast. You also have Peter Dinklitch,
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Kirsten Dunns, Lakeith Stanfield. I'm already hyperglazing up this movie
before I get into it more. Here's just a little
bit of the roof Man trailer. A man hunt tonight
for an escaped prisoner behind the safe place to hide
for a few months. He's a very smart individual, super intelligent.
So John hid the stands and work for the government.
So it's a little classified. So I never knew we
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had an intelligence unit here in Charlotte. Oh are you
law enforcement? Yes? Am, Wow, that's amazing. Police believe the
Roofman may still be in the area. What so. Channing
Tatum plays a former US Army ranger whose real name
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is Jeffrey Manchester, and he resorted to a life of
Robbie McDonald's restaurants because he was going through some financial hardship.
He got that name Roofman because that is exactly what
he did. He was known as the roofman rooftop robber.
He would cut the holes into roost of McDonald's to
gain entry inside of him, heard all the employees into
the freezers before emptying the cash registers. Jeffrey Manchester actually
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robbed over sixty McDonald's using this method. Man just to
have the guts to do the first one, I imagine
after you rob one in this type of manner, and
you gain that confidence and you start to learn the
layout of McDonald's, I feel like that second one gets
a lot easier. By about ten, it just starts to
feel like pushing into work. It has to, because I
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think that is the theme with a lot of criminals.
And I'm only speaking on what I've learned from movies,
even from the same director. The Place Beyond the Pines
where Ryan Gosling's character robs one bank and then he
wants to continue robbing more banks because it is never enough.
I have to imagine at some point it just starts
to feel normal to you, where you forget about those
risks going into McDonald's instead of working there and making
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delicious egg mcmuffins and hash browns in the morning, although
he's probably robbing these at night. You punch in and
you've robbed the place, and he was able to do
over sixty McDonald's, which just leads me to believe how
brilliant this guy is, because, as it is showcased in
this trailer, he does eventually get caught, but his gift
is that he is so observant and he pays attention
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to people and their routines. This guy has to have
a brilliant mind, and obviously he has had some things
go wrong in his life, because what the trailer goes
on to show you is after that prison escape, he
goes to hide out in a Toys r Us and
a Circuit City store in North Carolina. He actually did
this and manages to live in the store. He finds
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a way to hack into the cameras. When all the
employees are gone, he goes and hangs out in the aisles.
He showers at these places, he eats from these places,
and then just starts to embed himself in the community,
which what ends up probably getting them caught because he
develops feelings for Kirsten Duns, who lives in the community.
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He donates toys from the Toys r Us to her
just to get her retention, and then he starts to
become closer and closer with law enforcement. And then you
also see in the trailer that eventually he runs into
Peter Dinklich, who is the manager at the Toys r US,
and a lot unfold. It looks like he gets caught.
But I did not Google on purpose because I didn't
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really want to know what happened in real life, even
though this trailer pretty much tells you everything, and I've
told you guys, one major red flag you can look
for anytime you watch a trailer is if they show
you the entire movie in those two and a half
to three minutes. I usually say that as a sign
kind of a bad movie. I don't feel that way
after watching this trailer, even though I know it from
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beginning to end. I kind of see how this is
going to play out, just because I know these types
of stories. Whenever you have somebody who is keeping details
from a love interest about their dark and hidden past,
they can't come back from that as much as they
are developing feelings for you, as much as they want
to believe you as soon as you break that trust,
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as soon as you lie to them, and they have
to say to themselves like I don't even know you,
you're a criminal. Like I can't have these feelings anymore
because you lie to me, you are a criminal. I
have to imagine things aren't going to work out for
him and his love interest in this. But I think
this movie is going to have a good mix of
true crime since it is based on a true story,
some thriller elements which I get from the action of
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him going to prison, escaping from prison, hacking into the
system at toys r us to mess with the cameras
to make it seem like he's not actually there getting
chased by the police, still trying to hide out, trying
to hold onto this life that he started to build.
Which also makes me sad in this story to think
that somebody has finally found something that feels real, but
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they earned it in a way that wasn't the most
noble to have that ripped away from you. That part
is going to suck for him. Just from this trailer alone,
I've seen the dynamics of this character and how much
range that Channing Tatum has to show, this character's eccentric
personality and to show how he can do bad things,
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but he's also very gentle in ways, like he wants
to find love. He doesn't really want to hurt anybody.
This is just the only thing that he is good at.
And Kirsten Duns's character is also a single mother, so
that's going to add some crazy levels of stakes to
this movie. Lakeith Stanfield plays his friend. Like I mentioned,
Peter Dinklic is the toys IRUs general manager. Juno Temple
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was also in this movie playing one of his friends.
That's why I say this movie has the potential to
be my next favorite movie. I also love that the
movie was shot on location. It takes place in Charlotte,
North Carolina, so they filmed a lot in North Carolina,
and they did it on thirty five millimeter film, so
it kind of gives it that nineties early two thousands
nostalgia look to it. So I'm excited for it. Rufman
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is coming out in theaters on October twenty fifth, And
that was this week's edition of Movie B Framer Bar
and that is gonna do it for another episode here
of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give
my listeners shout out of the Week. This week, I'm
shouting out all the haters, because boy did people come
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at me hard for last week's review of Jurassic World Rebirth.
I was so surprised and shocked by it, and not
even just the review itself. I think the most people
I commented back to and messaged with even emailed with
about that movie. I think for the most part, we
can all agree how mid that movie was and how
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let down we all were, even though that movie brought
in a lot of money at the box office. I
was honestly expecting to get more heat from my review
on that because I saw some people loving it, so
I thought that was gonna be the main focus of
the hate last week. But it turns out so many
people had upset with my Jurassic Park slash Jurassic World
(47:20):
ranking that I was told that I'm a complete idiot
and I shouldn't be doing this anymore. So. This week's
listener shout out of the Week goes to Alexander on TikTok,
which there were a lot of comments, but Alexander said, bro,
I'm sorry never rank again Jurassic Park three that low
and you put the lost World at number one. Jurassic
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Park three is easily in the top three, maybe even
number one. I did not realize there was so much
love for Jurassic Park three. I have to imagine it's
a generation thing, which I was born in ninety one,
a couple of years before the first Jurassic Park came out,
so I don't have that much attachment to that one,
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maybe because I was a little bit older whenever Jurassic
Park the Lost World came out. That is why that
is my movie of my childhood and why I love
that one the most. I have to imagine that has
to be the same reason why there is this burning
passion for Jurassic Park three, which came out in two
thousand and one, so people born in like the late
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nineties or maybe early two thousands that caused that to
be the first Jurassic Park movie that they discovered. Because
just rewatching those movies, as I did before the Last
One Dominion, which I rewatched all the Jurassic Park movies
before that, that movie was so forgettable. When I did
rewatch it, it almost felt like watching it again for
the first time. Because there are no major events in
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that there are no moments in that movie that stand out.
It is so just dull and blah, even more so
than Rebirth, but not as much as Dominion. That's why
I put it right in the middle of those two.
But man, people hate it on me so much for that.
I've never been called stupid like this. I've never been
called the criminal. I've never been called all these things.
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I have been called on TikTok, Facebook and YouTube. So
if you feel the same way, you can go comment that.
That's why I do this podcast. That's why I open
up the discussion for you to call me out when
I get something so blatantly wrong. But I still don't
think I was wrong. I would admit I was wrong
if I was. But if you want to voice your opinion,
you can always find my social media links in the
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episode notes basically just at Mike d shro at everything.
So also email me Moviemike d at gmail dot com.
And until next time, go out and watch good movies
and I will talk to you later.
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Mike D
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