Forbes' Top-Grossing Actors of 2012: Robert Downey Jr., Kristen Stewart and Christian Bale

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• ken | December 29, 2012 1:57 AMReply

  Jennifer is not a great actress. Please, stop the hype.

• Joey the Accountant | December 28, 2012 10:10 AMReply

  Did an intern write this article? Why are they listing the amount that the movie grossed next to the actors name and titling the article as if these figures are what the actor brought in as a paycheck?
  
  I guess they'll publish anything and anybody these days.....

• Apollo109 | December 25, 2012 9:10 AMReply

  None of this makes sense. Only one actor should claim one movie. in The case of Twilight, shouldn't you split the gross between it's two stars. And why is Launter even in the equation? So if I was an extra in Iron Man 2, Avengers and the horrible Snow White I would have been in a movie that outgrossed everything above. Forbes you need to rethink this list. and YUP is right. According to the way you calculate this, Hemsworth should be somewhere on the list.

• Yup | December 24, 2012 6:09 PMReply

  Hemsworth starred in Avengers and Snow White should he not be #1?

• Oreadno1 | December 24, 2012 6:00 PMReply

  While not denying Robert Downey Jr.'s 'charm and humor', I think the success of The Avengers owes a great debt to Joss Whedon's script and direction, too.

• m. | December 24, 2012 4:21 PMReply

  1 billion $ + 300 000 $ = 1 billion $ ?

• bigpete | December 24, 2012 6:04 PM

  Why would they put 1.0003 billion $?

• Tia | December 24, 2012 4:03 PMReply

  Miss Stewart is still on the list because of her Snow film...let's see what will happen next year. She doesn't have promising project after her indiscretion apart from Snowy sequel (if there's any) or that comedy thing.

• Shawn | December 24, 2012 3:55 PMReply

  Stupid article very confusing article...this is how much the film brought in not necessarily the actor themselves, why not entitle it highest grossing films?

• Interitus | December 24, 2012 9:17 PM

  RDJ - The Avengers (2012): $50,000,000 (once box-office bonuses and backend compensation are factored in)
  
  Kristen Stewart - Snow White and the Huntsman (2012): $34,500,000
  The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012): $12,500,000 + 7.5% of the gross
  
  Christian Bale - ??
  
  Daniel Craig - Skyfall (2012): $17,000,000 plus bonuses for certain box-office milestones
  
  Robert Pattison - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012): $12,500,000 + 7.5% of the gross
  
  Taylor Lautner - ??
  
  Andrew Garfield - ??
  
  Jennifer Lawrence - The Hunger Games (2012): $500,000 plus escalators that equal to $1 million
  
  Will Smith - Men in Black 3 (2012): $20,000,000
  
  Mark Wahlberg - ??

• Kaya | December 24, 2012 6:26 PM

  Exactly! The writer(s) of this article foolishly make the readers think that the numbers indicate how much the actors make. FAIL. Until we are actually given the amounts the ACTORS make this article is totally irrelevant.