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Scarlett Johansson Earned $4,131 a Week for Her Latest Movie


The Marvel actor, who’s worth an estimated $165 million, agreed to a steep pay cut for Wes Anderson’s new movie, ‘Asteroid City.’
Scarlett Johansson might be one of the highest-paid actors in the world, but she didn’t take home a huge payday for her role in Asteroid City. The Oscar-nominated star earned just a few thousand dollars per week for playing Midge Campbell in Wes Anderson’s latest movie.

Scarlett Johansson agreed to a smaller payday for the new movie ‘Asteroid City’Johansson is used to taking home multi-million-dollar paychecks for her work in blockbusters such as Black Widow and Avengers: Endgame. But for Asteroid City, she settled for a much smaller salary. She earned $4,131 a week for her part in the movie, which took eight weeks to film, according to a recent report in Variety. That means she banked a little over $33,000 for playing Midge, a famous Hollywood star.
Johansson’s relatively meager salary (by Hollywood standards, at least) isn’t an anomaly when it comes to Anderson’s films. Edward Norton said he made SAG weekly minimums for his work on 2012’s Moonrise Kingdom.

“I lost money for sure,” Norton said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly (via YouTube), where he also revealed that he shared a house with the director and several of his co-stars to save money. “On every Wes Anderson movie I’ve ever done is a money-losing proposition, there’s no question. But it’s worth it. It’s like being in the best theater company ever.”
The Marvel star sued Disney over her ‘Black Widow’ paydayJohansson was apparently happy with a smaller paycheck in exchange for the chance to work with Anderson and the rest of Asteroid City’s large ensemble cast. (The movie also stars Norton, Tom Hanks, Tilda Swinton, Jeffrey Wright, and Maya Hawke, among others.) But she didn’t hesitate to go toe-to-toe with one of the biggest media companies in the world when it tried to shortchange her for her work on a different movie.

In 2021, Disney decided to simultaneously release Black Widow in theaters and on its streaming service Disney+. Johansson – who was paid $20 million for playing Natasha Romanoff in the movie – filed a lawsuit claiming that Disney’s move was a breach of her contract, which guaranteed that the movie would receive an exclusively theatrical release. Because the movie was also available on streaming, Johansson argued that she lost out on substantial backend compensation she would have otherwise received.
The actor and the studio eventually settled out of court, with Johansson reportedly receiving a $40 million payout. But it wasn’t all about the money, she said. She also felt she had to use her voice to stand up for other creatives in the entertainment industry who were losing out because of the shift to streaming.

“I couldn’t even walk through a restaurant without somebody saying, ‘Good for you. Stand up for yourself,’” she told Variety. “I could see that it had a bigger impact. I got support from strangers that have no skin in the game at all.”
Scarlett Johansson’s net worthPlaying hardball with Disney only added to Johansson’s already substantial net worth. The actor is worth an estimated $165 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. That’s not just due to Black Widow but also her earnings from other Marvel movies. She earned $56 million in 2019 alone, according to Forbes. But she says she’s had to fight to get paid fairly.
“Just because I’m the top-grossing actress of all time does not mean I’m the highest paid,” she told Marie Claire in 2017. “I’ve had to fight for everything that I have.”

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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