Tom Cruise has become the highest paid actor of Hollywood

Tom Cruise rose to the first stage of the rating among Hollywood actors in terms of income. This happened after the signing of the contract, which can bring Cruz $ 519 million for a role in the epic of Stephen Spielberg "War of the Worlds".

Instead of agreeing to a fixed fee for participating in the film, Cruz signed an agreement that he would belong to 10 percent of the box office from the rental of the picture, in addition, he will still receive a share of profit from the sale of DVD, video games and toys with the logo of the film, IMDB.com reports.

Experts predict that the film based on the classic novel by Herbert Wells about the Martian attack will bring $ 2.6 billion for rental in cinemas (then the share of Cruise will be about $ 260 million). And if he plays the main role in two more planned sequels of the film, then the income of the star "The last samurai" at least doubles.

According to some reports, Spielberg will not regret the costs of the production of the picture, as he wants to make her a film for decades that everyone dreams of watching.

Previously, the title of the highest paid actor Hollywood belonged to Keanu Reeves . This happened thanks to the grand success of the Matrix. Last year, Keanu received 15% of the total budget of the film, and according to the results of sales of a video game based on Matrix, DVD, TV and film demonstrations, Reeves earned 206 million US dollars.