Thor Officially Makes More Money Than Batman
At least according to Chris Hemsworth and Robert Pattinson's Hollywood salaries.
Batman, the superhero alter ego of multi-billionaire Bruce Wayne, may need to ask Marvel’s God of Thunder for a loan, at least when it comes to Hollywood. A new report from The Batman reboot at Warner Bros.
According to the outlet, Hemsworth will make $20 million from the fourth Thor movie, which also sees Taika Waititi back as director, while Pattinson will don the cape and cowl for $3 million. The numbers show just how much Hemsworth’s star has risen in the decade since he made his Marvel debut as a relative newcomer in 2011’s Thor. Meanwhile, despite some excellent performances in the past few years for the two Knives Out sequels for Netflix. Dwayne Johnson, better known to the SNL crowd as “Franchise Viagra,” will earn $50 million for Amazon Studios’ holiday adventure movie Red One.
Some of this might also come down to the movies themselves. Extraction, starring Hemsworth as a larger-than-life mercenary on a rescue mission, also happens to be the most-viewed Netflix movie of all time.
Despite the character’s popularity, and how much he’s Justice League, which also featured all of DC’s other big-name superheroes, made even less than that, a disastrous box office take of $658 million that fell well short of any Avengers movie’s earnings.
Batman is still a very hot property, let’s not kid ourselves here, but after a few bad showings in theaters, are audiences willing to jump into another re-telling of the Dark Knight’s story? Well, if the movie is a smash hit come next year, Pattinson will at least be on his way to catching up to Hemsworth.
The Batman opens on March 4, 2022. Thor: Love and Thunder bows on May 6, 2022.
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