8 Actors Who Were Paid Huge Salaries For Very Little Work

It's hard to remember given the recent critical and commercial mauling of Movie 43, but star-studded anthology movies were big business only a few years ago. Garry Marshall's Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve combined for over $400 million at the box office, but the single biggest beneficiary was his Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride muse Julia Roberts.

These movies weren't for everyone, but they had their audience; if watching a host of famous faces celebrate unimportant holidays on the big screen around that time of year is your thing, then these anthologies deliver in that regard. Valentine's Day was first out of the gate in February 2010 and featured the bigger names of the two, including Ms Roberts.

Her salary for a mere six minutes of screentime? No less than $3m. $500,000 per minute is an absurd amount of money, but it sounds even worse when you break it down to over $8,000 for every second that Roberts appears on-screen. Claiming that she did the movie as a favor to her friend Garry Marshall, I'm sure the seven-figure glorified cameo surely helped in that regard as well.

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