wondered just how much the biggest check ever earned by an actor is? Tom Hanks- $40 million from Saving Private Ryan Source When “Saving Private Ryan” was released in 1998, it grossed $481 million. Tom Hanks, star and lead actor of the film, was paid out a whopping $40 million. Robert Downey Jr. - 50 million from “The Avengers” Source Among the highest paid actors working today, Robert Downey Jr. earned $50 million as his percentage of the gross. “The Avengers” topped out at a mind-boggling $1.5
professional athletes get paid millions of dollars to entertain us? It is known that the sporting industry Sporting events is a place for people to go, relax, have fun, and do something they enjoy doing, watching sports. However, the average family finds it difficult to buy tickets to them and still there are 66,960 fans that attend an NFL game. (Wikipedia) The public contributes to the athletes’ salary and then complains about how
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every weekend and admire him, but is the amount of entertainment he provides really worth 128 million dollars a year? Tiger is only one of many professional athletes who are extremely overpaid. “People forget that sports is entertainment,” says Leonard Armato, a sports agent. Although professional athletes provide entertainment for millions of viewers around the world, they are overpaid because the millions of dollars that they make could be distributed more evenly throughout society and go to things
Kathleen Brady 14th November 2013 Sports Now a Business Sports is now a money making business in the human culture. In the United States, Every day millions of office and break time conversations center on the local team’s most recent performance, an upcoming game, the impending draft, the current coach, the future coach, and so on. according to the existing records, in United States of America, there
because of her accomplishments, admirable qualities, and heroic acts. One of Alex Scott’s accomplishments that made her influential is her raising over 1 million dollars for cancer research. In the article 8 amazing kids who have changed the world, it says “Alex continued her lemonade stands throughout her life, ultimately raising over $1 million toward cancer research.” This shows her compassion, determination, and work ethic that helped her to earned 1million dollars for
becomes more problematic when factoring in the three-year, $30 million extension the Cavaliers gave center Anderson Varejao at the start of the season. Though only the first two years and
Playing A children's Game Pays Millions!!! Why are athletes so overpaid? They do not need all this money yet every year, they can get paid millions of dollars. A sports athlete is one of the highest paying jobs in the world, according to Business Insider, an average basketball player gets paid 4.6 million dollars annually. Should athletes really get paid this much for playing a children's game? No one should, people might say that athletes can entertain the world, but a soldier can save the
that were assigned to watch Mr. Trump’s fourteen million dollars, all in shock were confronted by Donald Trump himself. Gentlemen, I have a job for you. You’ve obviously failed me. No matter. If you’re going to think, you might as well think big. I’m placing you people to find the thief. If you do, you will get a small amount of seven million dollars. They all looked surprised. Then, Arthur Shi Xu, spoke out, “You mean that we can share seven million dollars if we just find the culprit?” Which Alexander