Money: Gal Gadot Paycheck For Wonder Woman Was Disgracefully Low but actually it WASN'T!!!

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Gal Gadot’s Paycheck For ‘Wonder Woman’ Was Disgracefully Low

Disappointed, but not surprised.

JUN 19, 2017 6:41PM
BY MAHALIA CHANG
Patty Jenkins’ historic female-led superhero movie, Wonder Woman, has been breaking almost every single record across the books since the day of its release. From dominating all other releases at the box office, to garnering almost entirely positive reviews and raking in a huge take in sales, the film was a complete, global success.

Which is why it’s coming as a rude shock to hear that Gal Gadot, the film’s protagonist and arguably one of the reasons behind its success, got paid shockingly little for her titular role.

According to Variety, Gadot earned just $300,000 ($394,980 AUD) for the film.


The report reveals that the mother-of-two signed a deal in 2014 for $300,000 for each of the DC/Warner Bros. films featuring Wonder Woman, Batman v Superman, Wonder Woman, and 2017’s upcoming release Justice League.

And although Gadot is a major character, if not the main character, in all the three of the films, her paycheck is painfully lower than her male co-stars’. For comparison, Ben Affleck, who plays Batman, will earn $26.3 million for his solo movie, The Batman.

So, if we’re comparing Ben Affleck’s debut film to Gadot’s, she made just 1.1% of his salary.

Of course, there are bonuses and royalty additions to factor in, but Gadot’s base fee is—on its own—disappointingly low.

Let’s hope Gal and her team are able to negotiate a higher salary for her upcoming films, considering the monumental success of Wonder Woman.

Update:

In the original version of this story we reported that Henry Cavill had been paid $18.4 million for his debut role in Superman: Man Of Steel. Further reporting has shown that this figure cannot be verified and so we have removed it from the article.

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[playahaitian]

No, Gal Gadot Isn’t Making 46 Times Less Than Henry Cavill
A viral, misleading stat about Henry Cavill’s Man of Steelsalary doesn’t say as much about the Hollywood gender wage gap as it seems.
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• KATEY RICH

JUNE 20, 2017 12:06 PM
Both by Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection.


It was a jaw-dropping stat that swiftly went viral Tuesday morning: Gal Gadot, the magnetic star of the summer hit Wonder Woman, was paid just $300,000 for a movie that had already made $573 million worldwide. Meanwhile, Henry’s Cavill had been paid $14 million—46 times as much!—for his own first outing as Superman in Man of Steel.

It would be perfectly indicative of the gender pay gap that lingers in Hollywood . . . if it were at all true. As the Elle article that sent the stat viral said itself, Cavill’s $14 million earnings include bonuses for box-office performance, while Gadot’s $300,000, per a 2014 Variety report, is just the base salary for each movie she’s made thus far in the DC Universe. Though the details of Cavill’s reported $14 million could not be verified, a source with knowledge of studio negotiations on franchise films told Vanity Fair, “It certainly isn’t for one picture. That’s insane.”

The same source said of Gadot’s salary, “Entry-level actors in franchise films are paid an initial rate. As a franchise takes off, they stand to make more money.” So if she signed a deal similar to Cavill’s, the Wonder Woman bonus checks will soon be rolling in—and the sequels could be even more lucrative. Says a source familiar with both Cavill and Gadot’s contract negotiations, “If you do an apples to apples comparison, she was paid at least as much as he was.”


Hollywood contracts are notoriously complicated things—salaries are often sweetened by box-office bonuses, bumps in pay for sequels, or even “points” on the total gross for megastars. For superhero franchises just getting started, though, the process is usually simple: find a star on the rise, pay him or her relatively little, and then offer more if the franchise takes off. Marvel pioneered the effort with Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Chris Hemsworth, all of whom were reportedlypaid less than $500,000 for their first solo superhero outings but eventually landed much bigger paydays for subsequent entries. (Downey Jr. famously made $50 million for The Avengers, and helped his co-stars negotiate higher salaries themselves.) Cavill, like Hemsworth and Evans and Gadot when their franchises started, was more of an unknown and likely to have signed the same lowball salary contract with a promise of future returns.

So while Gadot’s $300,000 is pretty small compared with the millions her movie has made, she hasn’t sold herself short; the actress hasn’t yet signed a deal for the now-inevitable Wonder Woman 2, and her agents are surely already working to net their 10 percent of her much-larger payday. (Director Patty Jenkins is also expected to negotiate for a higher payday, even though her contract doesn’t include an option for a sequel, which Gadot’s does.) Given Wonder Woman's popularity compared with the tepid returns for Batman's and Superman’s latest outings, it’s not hard to imagine Gadot following in Robert Downey Jr.’s footsteps as the de facto leader of the franchise. First woman to be paid $50 million for a superhero movie? We wouldn’t be surprised.

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/06/gal-gadot-wonder-woman-salary

 

[c_commander]

Considering that nobody knew who the fuck she was before this film of course they're going to pay her peanuts compared to most other people.

 

[playahaitian]

http://dishnation.com/truth-gal-gadots-wonder-woman-paycheck/

 

[playahaitian]

Considering that nobody knew who the fuck she was before this film of course they're going to pay her peanuts compared to most other people.

but the fact is the DID bay here well and when all the backend and bonus come in?

She will be paid MORE than Superman.

And lets not forget the SEQUEL!

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

LOL
jumped the gun huh
Forgot that Robert Downey Jr was paid 500k for the 1st Iron Man in the quest to toot and shout jesus

 

[playahaitian]

LOL
jumped the gun huh
Forgot that Robert Downey Jr was paid 500k for the 1st Iron Man in the quest to toot and shout jesus

^^^

had to pay for his OWN insurance cause Marvel did NOT trust him to be sober at all.

Hell Thor got about $150,000

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

^^^

had to pay for his OWN insurance cause Marvel did NOT trust him to be sober at all.

Hell Thor got about $150,000

don't let facts get in the way of a good argument - you know who lives by that shit

 

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don't let facts get in the way of a good argument - you know who lives by that shit

OK they aint the NY TIMES

but Elle isn't some fly by night bullshit site

they are a long standing reputable magazine.

You REALLY think they would do such a basic pathetic click bait article in their ACTUAL magazine?

And shouldn't they be getting KILLED for this?

This is just lazy irresponsible reporting.

I really hate all this "new media" as a whole.

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

OK they aint the NY TIMES

but Elle isn't some fly by night bullshit site

they are a long standing reputable magazine.

You REALLY think they would do such a basic pathetic click bait article in their ACTUAL magazine?

And shouldn't they be getting KILLED for this?

This is just lazy irresponsible reporting.

I really hate all this "new media" as a whole.

Nobody is immune in this climate. Clicks>>>>>>
Also im indifferent to them it just makes people tune them out like people never heard of the boy who cried wolf.

 

[c_commander]

but the fact is the DID bay here well and when all the backend and bonus come in?

She will be paid MORE than Superman.

And lets not forget the SEQUEL!

If they weren't smart enough to sign her up for multiple films in their original deal then yes they set themselves up to have to break bread. And considering the success she may deserve to be paid more than Superman.
It's just crazy that this film is what made her and yet the people behind the film are already the ones without the leverage.

 

[playahaitian]

If they weren't smart enough to sign her up for multiple films in their original deal then yes they set themselves up to have to break bread. And considering the success she may deserve to be paid more than Superman.
It's just crazy that this film is what made her and yet the people behind the film are already the ones without the leverage.

They got Gadot locked in for sequel but TRUST that contract gonna get renegotiated.

she gonna make her money.

the DUMB shit that WB/DC did was NOT have the DIRECTOR under contract.

the potential shitstorm if they DO NOT rehire her for the sequel? a FEMALE director?

now she is gonna BREAK the BANK.

 

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Wonder Woman 2 to see Diana take on The Cold War?!?
Published at: July 10, 2017, 7:31 p.m. CST by quint

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Some interesting Wonder Woman rumors have been swirling around the net this evening. It started at Screenrant and was backed up by Umberto Gonzalez at The Wrap that Wonder Woman 2 will take place in the 1980s, against the backdrop of The Cold War.

There was also talk of Chris Pine possibly returning, which doesn't make much sense unless we're talking flashbacks. I mean, ignoring the giant time jump and the explosive finale of the first movie it's heavily implied by Diana's response to Bruce Wayne sending her the original plate for the famous photograph that Steve Trevor has been out of her life since WW1.

I suppose there's always the possibility of a flashback or two, which I'd be okay with, but I think it'd be cheap to bring him back and undercut the emotional payoff of that first movie in a big way.

Regardless of the timeframe, I'm just down to see more Wonder Woman on screen as the central figure. I'm hoping Justice League embraces her as being the important figure she is in the DCEU, but no matter what I know I'll look forward to any standalone Wonder Woman tale.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/78148