Vince Vaughn: Hollywood’s Best Bet?

By Jessica Wall
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/vince_vaughn_hollywoods_best_bet_20080728/
Big Hollywood stars are often known as much for their multi-million dollar salaries as they are for their actual work, but what do those astronomical paychecks really mean? Is it worth it for studios to allot such a large chunk of a movie’s budget to just one star? In its annual list of the “Ultimate Star Payback,” Forbes investigated how much money these big names actually earned the studios who financed their films to reveal just who lives up to his or her big paycheck—and who is way overpaid.