For a company that appears to have an endless supply of cash, Netflix are often very reluctant to release any sort of tangible data for insiders and analysts to dissect unless they’ve got a successful new project to tout. The company are more than happy to shout from the rooftops when movies like The Old Guard and Enola Holmes draw in over 70 million viewers in four weeks, but no figures were ever released for the $7 million per episode second seasons of Altered Carbon, presumably because they weren’t great.
Netflix have been handing out some massive deals in an effort to tie down some of the biggest talents in Hollywood, with Ryan Murphy’s exclusive contract said to be worth $300 million, and Shonda Rhimes making herself $100 million richer by committing to the streaming giant. However, the salaries paid to the onscreen talents are much murkier, with the executives keeping that particular card close to the chest.
Dwayne Johnson’s basic salary for the upcoming Red Notice is a hefty $23.5 million, which is less than the $27 million co-star Ryan Reynolds picked up for Michael Bay’s 6 Underground, while Adam Sandler made $41 million in the space of twelve months for starring in Murder Mystery and Hubie Halloween, along with producing The Wrong Missy.
Insider Daniel Richtman is claiming that Sandler’s getting $20 million for his latest Netflix exclusive, which sounds about right, but it obviously isn’t quite that simple. Happy Madison Productions signed a $250 million four-picture deal with the streamer earlier this year, and once budgetary, casting and production costs have been deducted, as company’s founder, The Sandman will presumably pay himself a pretty penny from whatever ends up left in the pot. But it isn’t as though he’s naming his price and getting paid for it when he’s also the driving force from a creative and business side as well.
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