The Terminator Franchise may be the highest grossing, but a film left Schwarzenegger a check of more than 40 million dollars.
Arnold Schwarzenegger He surprised the journalist Andy Cohen during an interview in “Watch What Happens Live” by revealing that TWINS From 1988 he was, personally, the most profitable film of his career. The franchise of Terminator be the highest grossing, but TWINS He left Schwarzenegger a check of more than 40 million dollars.
“Well, number one was ‘twins’ because we did not receive money for salary, but the property and a part of the profits,” said Schwarzenegger on the agreement to star in with Danny Devito The 1988 comedy directed by Ivan Reitman. “It was fantastic. He took us to the bank with that.”
When asked if he won more than 20 million dollars with the success of Twins, Schwarzenegger said his last payment was greater. When asked if he exceeded 40 million, the actor replied: “It was more than that. It was more than any movie he made”.
Twins starring Schwarzenegger and Devito as twin brothers. While Schwarzenegger was an iconic action star in his time thanks to the movies of Terminator, predator and conan the barbarianhis talent for comedy was practically non -existent at the box office.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s agreement that led him to have a millionaire income
“Why would they choose me for a comedy?” Schwarzenegger told his son Patrick for a talk for the series “Actors on actors” of Variety. “They said: ‘Are you crazy? How much more people are this guy on screen, the more money we will earn. Why were we going to change that?’ That was the conversation until Ivan Reitman and Danny Devito arrived.”
Nobody wanted to make a comedy with Schwarzenegger, so he devised a plan: “If we did not charge any salary, we can roll the film for 16.5 million dollars. We reach an agreement with 40% of the final profits. It turned out to be the best agreement we have made. “
Twins raised 216 million dollars worldwide in cinemasand then obtained even more domestic video gains. Despite the huge income of the film, Schwarzenegger never got a sequel with Devito. They planned a sequel titled Triplets, which would add to Eddie Murphy to the cast. But reitman “died before we could start shooting.”
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