Culture news Keanu Reeves hits the jackpot on John Wick 4: his salary soars film after film!
With the role of John Wick, Keanu Reeves completely reinvented his career around the action film figure. A new glory, accompanied by a certain financial success for the actor who saw his salary multiplied by seven between the first and the fourth film.
A pop culture icon
Keanu Reeves was an essential actor of the 90s, making a series of cult films, such as Dracula, Speed, and of course the Matrix saga. The actor became, over the course of his roles, a true icon of pop culture, who ended up briefly disappearing from the radar, before returning to the forefront with John Wick, the saga dedicated to the eponymous hitman who shoots all over the place and strings together over-the-top action sequences. A successful saga now, consisting of four films so far, each carried at arm’s length by Keanu Reeves. With this role, the actor managed to offer a real breath of fresh air to his career. But it’s also a more than lucrative role for Keanu Reeves, who was paid handsomely during each of these projects.
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A salary multiplied by seven
Keanu Reeves has for a long time been a bankable actor, who alone was able to encourage the public to go to theaters to discover the films in which he participated. However, in the mid-2000s, the actor began to go through a bit of a slump in which his career choices no longer paid off as well as they had in the past. It was finally in 2014 when he was chosen by Chad Stahelski and David Leitch to play John Wick that the actor found success again.
For this first project and the two following parts, the actor was paid between 1 and 2.5 million dollars, as reported at the time The Hollywood Reporter in 2016. a very meager salary compared to the sums that the actor received with his previous roles, compensated nevertheless by a percentage on the rights of the saga. That being said, over the course of the development of the various films, the actor’s salary has largely been reevaluated in the meantime. So, for John Wick 4, Keanu Reeves reportedly earned nearly $15 millionapproximately seven times more than for previous installments. A significant increase which is obviously explained by the success encountered by the saga. On a budget of $100 million, John Wick 4 would have grossed around $430 million worldwide. In total, the saga grossed more than a billion dollars at the box office.
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