Without a doubt, The Sixth Sense is one of the most profitable films in the history of cinema. Today it is no longer just another title within the horror genre: it made M. Night Shyamalan known and belongs to the popular imagination thanks to clips and memes shared on the internet.
Some truly astronomical figures
Bruce Willis, now retired due to a degenerative disease and the third most common cause of dementia, was paid a salary of $14 million to star in The Sixth Sense. It may not seem like much, especially if we compare it with the absolute record held by Robert Downey Jr. and Will Smith, who each took a warm $40 million for Captain America: Civil War and The Williams Method, respectively.
Now, one thing is the salary and another is the benefits that a certain film generates for the actor. In the case of Downey Jr. and Smith they were 40 million dollars, the same figure that they received as a salary. What Reeves earned for the first two Matrix sequels amounts to $156 million. If we do the average, we could say that the actor who plays John Wick, and who may well be the best person on the face of the Earth, earned 78 million dollars for each of them.
Now come the dizzying figures of Bruce Willis: just for his participation in The Sixth Sense, he came to enter his accounts no less than 100 million dollars. All this for a single movie. To this we must add, of course, the 14 million salary, a trifle in comparison.
The last roles of Bruce Willis
It’s sad but true. The one who was one of the most popular movie stars of the eighties and nineties is currently retired due to dementia. However, this year he has still had time to release his last two films, both titles that are not up to the task of a career that has produced such outstanding films as the aforementioned The Sixth Sense, Die Hard, La muerte os It feels so good or Pulp Fiction.
The first of these is Detective Knight: Last Mission (hopefully the Spanish title is just a macabre coincidence), an action film that has not even been released in theaters in our country, and Assassin, another thriller unpublished in Spain in the one where a man dies during a military experiment and an ex-soldier must covertly take his place to find out who murdered him.
Fortunately, we have a filmography full of very notable titles with which to continue enjoying a man who, thanks to cinema, is already immortal.
2023-07-16 08:56:39
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