https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/why-robert-downey-jr-doctor-203920696.html
If you are in films, your days are numbered. a double-digit percentage of films that used to be live action will be entirely made using computers a decade from now. This is the last gasp for actors like Downey to make massive paydays.
$80 million pay is big. In End game he got $20 million upfront + $55 million back-end deal (8% of $700 million movie profit).
Sources say Marvel is plunking down $80 million for Anthony and Joe Russo to direct “Avengers: Doomsday” and “Avengers: Secret Wars” and “significantly more” for Downey to tackle uber-villain Doctor Doom in the two tentpoles. The Russos’ deal doesn’t include back-end compensation, but it does contain performance escalators that kick in at the $750 million and $1 billion thresholds. A source close to the production disputes those figures and claims the Russo’s paydays are lower. The brothers also will produce the two films via their AGBO banner. That marks something of a departure for Marvel, which typically doesn’t work with outside producers, preferring to keep the team in house.
According to one knowledgeable source, Downey is by far the highest-paid member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and has pulled down between $500 million and $600 million over the course of four “Avengers” movies, three “Iron Man” outings and cameos in “The Incredible Hulk,” “Captain America: Civil War” and “Spider-Man: Homecoming.”
Well duh, the whole thing got started by him.
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