10 Highest Paid Actors & Their Lowest Grossing Movies
2. Robert Downey Jr. - Hugo Pool
Salary: $20 million per movie
He may not quite be at the level of Tony Stark but, in real world actor terms, he's about the closest thing. Robert Downey Jr. earned an astonishing $75 million a couple of years ago as a result of his back-end deal with Marvel over the $1.2 billion-grossing Iron Man 3.
RDJ is now part of the lucrative $20 million club, although like the others within that it depends on the type of movie in which they star (he didn't get near that for family drama The Judge). Not bad for an actor who 10 years ago was poison to most studios. Taking on Iron Man was undoubtedly the best decision of his career.
Lowest Grossing Film: Hugo Pool (1997) - $13k
This 1997 romantic comedy (renamed Pool Girl in the UK) directed by Downey's father is a star-studded affair with the likes of Sean Penn, Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Dempsey and Alyssa Milano just some of the names joining Downey in this tale of an L.A. pool cleaner (Milano) who falls in love with a young man dying of Lou Gerhig's disease.
Downey plays Franz, a filmmaker whom Hugo meets on her various pool cleaning jobs. It was a huge critical and commercial flop, the worst of RDJ's career although some reviews of it noted that Downey makes everything he's in better.