The first actor to break the $1 million threshold was Marlon Brando (USA), who was paid $1.25 million (£400,500) – equivalent today to $8.8 million; £6.1 million – for his starring role as Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (USA, 1962).
24 June 1916: Mary Pickford becomes Hollywood's first million-dollar actress.
The first film that is confirmed to have had a $1 million budget is the 1922 feature Foolish Wives.
With a worldwide gross of over USD 1.3 billion, Top Gun: Maverick is the highest-grossing film of 2022. With this one film, Tom Cruise sits at the very top of the list of highest-paid actors in the world with a stratospheric earning of over USD 100 million reportedly.
Titanic. Titanic became the first movie, on March 1, 1998, the first movie to gross over $1 billion worldwide, in just 74 days of release.
As of June 2022, the four biggest movie flops of all time were Disney productions. "Turning Red" (2022), "Jungle Cruise" (2021), "Mars Needs Moms" (2011), and "Mulan" (2020) recorded losses of more than 140 million U.S. dollars at the global box office.
As of July 2022, Samuel L. Jackson was the highest-grossing leading actor in the United States and Canada, which combined are known as the North American movie market. Movies featuring Jackson as a protagonist collectively amassed 5.7 billion U.S. dollars domestically.
Tom Cruise is the highest paid Hollywood actor, earning more than $100 million for Top Gun: Maverick, followed by Will Smith. Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel and Joaquin Phoenix all earned between earned $20-30 million.
Film director and actor Tyler Perry has a net worth of $1 billion. Famous for: Perry is best known for playing the "large and in charge matriarch" Madea. Perry has created multiple television and film franchises based on the character, which have collectively grossed over $660 million, according to Forbes.
Jaws – the tale of a seaside town (Amity) terrorised by a great white shark – swiftly proved to be a cinematic sensation.
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The longest recorded pop song is “Apparente Libertà,” by Giancarlo Ferrari, which is 76 minutes, 44 seconds long.
Fastest viral videos based on days needed to reach 1 billion views 2022. Despite having long been surpassed by Luis Fonsi's global smash hit "Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee" in terms of total views, Adele's record for fastest video release to generate one billion views still stands as of September2022.
Five films in total have grossed in excess of $2 billion worldwide, with Avatar ranked in the top position.
'Avatar: The Way of Water' Hits $1 Billion Globally, Fastest 2022 Release to Reach Box Office Milestone.
In the past 90 years, only three films, It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991) have won all five Oscars from the forty-three films that secured nominations in all five prestige Academy Award categories.
As of 2022, Katharine Hepburn maintained her lead as the actor with the most Oscar wins of all time.