His whopping 41-year-long career has made him one of the richest actors in the world.
Tom Cruise has been a household name in the world of action films for as long as we can remember! His whopping 41-year-long career has made him one of the richest actors in the world with a net worth of around $600 million. This man has been in some of the highest-grossing films of all time which is the primary source of his income. According to Celebrity Net Worth, here are the figures Tom made from some of his highest-grossing movies.
$75,000 (his breakthrough role, hence the low salary)
$500,000
$2 million
$3 million
$12 million
The figures are insane. Cruise reportedly made $70 million for the first Mission Impossible movie and $75 million for Mission Impossible 3, mostly because of his producer credits. But his most profitable film or rather films are Mission Impossible 2 and 2005's War of the Worlds for which he earned $100 million each.
According to Variety, Tom made $13 million upfront for the film but noted that he expected to earn millions on the backend. So far, Tom's earnings are a full $100 million from a combination of his salary and ticket sales, and that's expected to increase once rentals and streaming revenues start adding to it.
Cutting straight to the chase, he reportedly earned around $745 million in these years, and also according to CinemaBlend he makes around $7,091 per word of dialogue. No wonder he is listed as one of the richest actors in the world, according to Forbes.
Tom Cruise is also known for buying and selling a lot of houses, he's flipped a ton of properties over the years and his most recent one was a Telluride home that Forbes reports he sold for $39.5 million. His Oprah interview in this very house had amassed a lot of views online. He also once possessed a real estate mansion in Beverly Hills, California, that covered an area of 10,286 square feet and was sold to Leon and Debra Black for a whopping $40 million.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, it is $600 million, and considering his average salary is $50 million a year and it continues to rise and rise...
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