Margot Robbie is getting paid a lot because she was a key part of bringing Barbie to the big screen. Three people who know about her deal say that the actor and producer who made the biggest hit of the summer will earn almost $50 million between her salary and box office bonuses.
Greta Gerwig, who helped write and direct Barbie, is also likely to get a bonus. Since it came out a month ago, Barbie has made an incredible $526.3 million in the United States and $657.6 million abroad. This adds up to $1.18 billion around the world, and since Barbie is still the most popular movie, this number should go up.
The movie is currently Warner Bros.’s second highest-grossing film, behind only Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Also, it makes more money than Frozen II, which Jennifer Lee helped direct, making it the highest-grossing movie ever made by a woman.
In 2014, Robbie and her now-husband Tom Ackerley, along with their friends Josey McNamara and Sophia Kerr, started the production company LuckyChap Entertainment. They also brought the well-known children’s toy to sparkling life. The company’s goal was to help women behind-the-scenes writers and put women’s stories on TV.
Robbie was nominated for two Oscars for her parts in the movies I, Tonya and Bombshell. She first became well-known in Martin Scorsese’s Wolf of Wall Street. Her movies Suicide Squad and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood did well at the box office. None of the other movies have been as big a hit at the box office as Barbie, which is expected to be one of the biggest hits in movie history.