‘The Lord of The Rings’ made almost $3 billion at the box office — so you might be surprised by how much its actors got paid
- “The Lord of the Rings” is one of the biggest movie franchises of all time.
- But Cate Blanchett said “no one got paid anything.”
- Here’s what we know about the cast’s salaries.
“The Lord of The Rings” is one of the most lucrative movie franchises of all time, so you might think its actors were paid big bucks — particularly considering the careers they’ve enjoyed since.
But a recent interview with Cate Blanchett, who played the elf Galadriel, laid bare how relatively little the cast got paid for starring in movies that made almost $3 billion at the box office, and provided the momentum for “The Hobbit” trilogy, which made a further $2.9 billion.
The legacy of the beloved films, which cemented actors like Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood, and Viggo Mortensen as Hollywood royalty, has also been somewhat tarnished by financial legal disputes over the years.
Rob Mitchell, the director of theatrical insights at Gower Street Analytics, told Business Insider the actors’ salaries were likely relatively low because the film was a risk for the studio and it had a large cast. New Line Cinema spent $281 million on making the trilogy, according to Box Office Mojo. That’s the equivalent of $514 million today.
“For them to greenlight three ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies was a huge gamble, and basically the money was all going into the films. I can also understand they wouldn’t necessarily have had huge paydays for the actors because it is an ensemble film,” he said.
Here’s what we know about who was paid what for “The Lord of the Rings.”
This article was originally published by Eammon Jacobs at All Content from Business Insider (https://www.businessinsider.com/lord-of-the-rings-cast-salaries-pay-2024-9).
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