Top 10 Richest Actors of 2008

Okay, it’s time for another fun top 10 list. Tonight I’m going to post about the top 10 best paid actors of 2008. My guesses (before looking at the list) are: Will Smith (he’s just a superstar and I’m sure he made a lot of money with ‘Hancock’ and maybe ‘I am Legend’… was that in 2008?). Next I’m going to say Will Farrell– I think he had a couple of hits last year. Now I’m really drawing a blank. Who else? George Clooney maybe. Brad Pitt? Oh yeah, Harrison Ford with the latest Indiana Jones movie. I’m sure that made him a lot of money. Okay, I’m tired of guessing. Here are the results…

1. Will Smith, $80 million
2. Johnny Depp, $72 million
3. Eddie Murphy, $55 million
4. Mike Myers, $55 million
5. Leonardo DiCaprio, $45 million
6. Bruce Willis, $41 million
7. Ben Stiller, $40 million
8. Nicolas Cage, $38 million
9. Will Ferrell, $31 million
10. Adam Sandler, $30 million

Well now, I guess I did a terrible job of guessing tonight. Aside from the obvious #1 earner, I totally missed numbers two through eight. I forgot all about Johnny Depp and the latest Pirates movie. And Eddie Murphy? As much as I love him, I can’t for the life of me think of a movie he put out in 2008. Likewise for Willis, Stiller and Cage. I would have guessed Sandler to be in the top 10 if I had remembered him. And where the Hell is Gary Coleman? I would have thought that the royalty checks from Diff’rent Strokes alone would have kept him in the top three. That’s all for tonight.

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