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Highest-paid actors in Hollywood

By: John Stevens | 2010-09-14 | Celebrities
Most people have not pegged the Pirates of the Caribbean Johnny Depp to become the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. The first Pirates brought in $654 million at the global box office and 3-D update of Alice in Wonderland has grossed $1 billion at the box office. This means that studios are willing to give big paycheck to get a bit of the Depp magic. Ben Stiller with $53 million grabbed the second position, earning big bucks for “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian”. Tom Hanks took the third place while Adam Sander ranks fourth with $40 million. George Clooney is grieved with 10th place. The ranks of highest-paid actors in Hollywood are based on estimate of each star’s earning from films and endorsements from June 2009 to June 2010. read more

Highest Paid Female Hollywood Stars in 2010

By: John Stevens | 2011-01-13 | Celebrities
According to the list of top 10 highest earning women in Hollywood recently released by the Forbes magazine, The TV host Oprah Winfrey has made more money than the other stars such as Beyonce Knowles, Lady Gaga and Madonna and become the highest earning woman in Hollywood in 2010 with $324 million earned from her media empire during the year. Beyonce came in the second place with $85 million. Britney Spears took the third place with just $65 million and Lady Gaga was fourth with $62 million. read more

Highest-Paid Celebrities in Hollywood 2010

By: John Stevens | 2010-12-10 | Celebrities
Hollywood may be considered the tough town for young actors, actresses and the rest of the world. However, the list of top high-paid actors and actresses below can be the mirrors for young celebrity generations. The most high-earning actor and actress this year are Johnny Depp with $75 million and Sandra Bullock with $56 million. Among them, Kristen Stewart and Daniel Radcliffe are the youngest stars. read more

Leonardo DiCaprio: Hollywood's Highest Earning Actor

By: John Stevens | 2011-08-06 | News and society
Forbes magazine has compiled the latest list of “Hollywood’s Highest-Earning Actors” in 2011 with the date analyzed from May 2010 to May 31, 2011 based on the basis of the actors’ rankings on box office read more

Smartest Stars of Hollywood

By: John Stevens | 2010-05-06 | Celebrities
It was commonly thought that Hollywood’s stars were often famous at the early life and their timetables were often filled with a mountain of works. That’s why they were not able to arrange their time read more

American Highest-Paid CEO in 2011

By: Jolie Crussel | 2011-06-17 | Entrepreneurs
The current President and CEO of UnitedHealth Group Inc, Stephen J. Hemsley, is regarded as the highest-paid bosses in the country. The second and third places are for Edward A Mueller from Qwest Communications and Robert A Iger from Walt Disney Company. This is the full list of American highest-paid bosses in 2011. read more

World’s Highest Paid Retail Jobs

By: Jolie Crussel | 2011-04-04 | Business
Any employee in the world wants to earn a high salary in order to support their families as well as to have better living conditions. High salary can motivate employees to work harder and bring more profits to the company as well. Forbes magazine has recently unveiled its list of the highest paying retail jobs. Sales associates of these retailers below can get an average hourly pay of over ten US dollars. read more

Highest-Paid English Premier League Players

By: John Stevens | 2011-01-22 | Football
Due to perfect performance, football players such as Nicolas Anelka, Cristiano Ronaldo, Robbie Keane, Robbie Keane, and Darren Bent and so on have made expensive transfer fees when they decided to move from these teams to other teams. Their total transfer fees could reach millions pounds. Therefore, they are considered as the most expensive players in English Premier League. read more

Highest-paid National Hockey League Players

By: John Stevens | 2010-12-05 | Hockey
Unlike others sports such as baseball, basketball and football, National Hockey League (NHL) sees very long contracts of best players from ten to twelve years with guaranteed salaries instead of five or six years as normal because they help NHL owners put fans in seats so these players often earn a huge mount of money. There are 10 NHL players who will receive at least $8 million this season including Roberto Luongo, Vincent Lecavalier, Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Alexander Ovechkin, Chris Drury, Scott Gome, Dany Heatley, Duncan Keith and Jason Spezza. read more

Hollywood's 10 Top-Earning Actors

By: John Stevens | 2010-06-18 | Celebrities
Acting has been considered as one of the high-paid professions. Many actors earn millions of dollar for their roles in high-grossing movies, being placed among the highest ranks in society. The highest paid actors can command as much as $20 million for one movie. Earnings can be much higher than the initial fee with advent of home video and DVD. Many actors receive huge fees for their work. Men in Hollywood have been always fighting at the top of highest paid actors. read more

Jay-Z, Diddy and Kanye West Named Highest-Paid Hip Hop Artists 2011

By: Mary Rose | 2011-08-14 | News and society
Jay-Z, Diddy and Kanye West top the list of highest-paid Hip Hop artists 2011 with $37 million, 35 million and 16 million respectively. They took home cash from live shows, recorded music, endorsements and a string of other entrepreneurial ventures. read more

Eva Longoria: Highest-Paid TV Actress 2011 by Forbes

By: John Stevens | 2011-10-04 | News and society
Eva Longoria and Tina Fey have jointly come out on the top of Forbes Magazine' "Highest-Paid TV Actresses" 2011. Both of the beautiful actresses earned a cool $13 million each. The statistics is considered in the period between May 2010 and May 2011. The list also includes Marcia Cross, Mariska Hargitay, Marg Helgenberger, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Courteney Cox and so on. read more

Michael Jordan: World’s Second Highest-Paid Athlete

By: John Stevens | 2011-10-01 | News and society
Michael Jordan, a former American professional basketball player, earns more money in endorsement deals now than he did while being six NBA champions. He is just second to Tiger Woods as the world’s highest-paid athlete. read more

Top 10 Highest-Paid Authors in the World 2011

By: Jolie Crussel | 2011-08-20 | Entrepreneurs
According to Forbes magazine, the famous American author James Patterson, the father of thriller novels is world’s top-earning author, with total income of $84 million from May 2010 to April 2011. read more

Highest paid fee for valuable players aged under 20

By: John Stevens | 2010-07-20 | Football
Soccer players rose to prominence for their good performance and appearances in games. Their talent helps them become valuable players with high-fee transfer. £25.6 million was the highest fee paid for Wayne Rooney who left Everton at the age of 18. read more