The double-feature consisting of Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Odyssey could not help but leave its mark on Tom Holland’s already solid career, who has just turned 30: as ComicBook.com points out, the English actor has become the most lucrative box-office star in the history of cinema, albeit, as we have often reminded you, these rankings do not account for inflation. They exist for fun… and to allow stars’ agents to raise their fees! In setting the new record, Holland has toppled from the top spot Zoe Saldaña, another colleague from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Tom Holland: the most lucrative box-office star, followed by Zoe Saldaña and Scarlett Johansson
15,500,000,000 dollars in cumulative grosses for the films he has starred in: Tom Holland sets the record as the most lucrative actor in history, buoyed by a summer that other colleagues can only dream of. Spider-Man: Brand New Day, where he returned to play his Peter Parker in the fourth solo chapter of his handling of the character, stands at 2,451,171,000 dollars worldwide, while Odyssey by Christopher Nolan, in which he portrays Telemachus, son of Ulysses / Matt Damon, cruises at 1,684,432,300 (source Box Office Mojo). If you consider the other films in which he has been Spider-Man, crossing among the biggest successes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the record is quickly set, with good news to his colleague Zoe Saldaña alias Gamora, dethroned into second place with 15,470,000,000, after she herself had in January overtaken Scarlett Johansson alias Black Widow, “stuck” at 15,400,000,000. As you can see, the figures are not that far apart, so Holland would do well not to rest on his laurels. Or perhaps he can sleep easily: it is likely that his fee from now on will rise so much as to allow him an easy early retirement! As suggested a moment ago, these rankings should always be taken with a grain of salt, because inflation weighs heavily on the box office, so we are far from objective and bombproof valuations. One thing is certain, though: a figure like Tom Holland demonstrates with the numbers that the concept of the great classic Hollywood megastar, beloved by the public, has never gone out of fashion.
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