Margot Robbie stands to make her highest wage but for her function in bringing Barbie to the massive display.
The Australian actress, 32, who starred in and produced the Greta Gerwig-directed blockbuster, reportedly made an upfront payment of $19 million to painting the Mattel doll.
But based on Variety, that determine will increase to round $77 million due to profitable field workplace bonuses.
Barbie, which was made on a finances of roughly $220 million, hit the coveted $US1 billion mark on the international field workplace earlier this month, simply two weeks after it hit cinemas.
It made Gerwig the primary feminine director to achieve the milestone. Gerwig additionally co-wrote the screenplay with associate Noah Baumbach.
Robbie, who hails from the Gold Coast in Queensland, was instrumental in bringing Barbie to life, along with her manufacturing firm LuckyChap Entertainment shopping for the rights from Mattel again in 2018.
She later pitched the movie to Warner Bros. and managed to persuade Gerwig to write down and direct.
Speaking of her dedication to creating Barbie occur, Robbie just lately stated she was “overselling” the undertaking in early conferences with executives.
“I think my pitch in the green-light meeting was the studios have prospered so much when they’re brave enough to pair a big idea with a visionary director,” Robbie stated in an interview with Colliderin July.
She added: “And then I gave a series of examples like, ‘dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg’ – pretty much naming anything that’s been incredible and made a ton of money for the studios over the years.
“And I was like, ‘And now you’ve got Barbie and Greta Gerwig.’ And I think I told them that it’d make a billion dollars, which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make, OK?”
Robbie, who based her manufacturing firm in 2014 with husband Tom Acklerley, initially shot to worldwide recognition in Martin Scorsese’s 2013 blockbuster, The Wolf of Wall Street.
She’s since been nominated for 2 Academy Awards and has starred in a flurry of fashionable movies together with Suicide Squad, Bombshell, I, Tonya, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood and Focus.
Barbie marks her highest-grossing launch to this point.
According to a current report in The Hollywood Reporter, there will not be but any offers in place for a sequel.
Source: www.news.com.au
