Hollywood Best Actors for the Buck by Forbes

Kristen Stewar
Kristen Stewart

In fact Twilight movie is not just a cultural sensation, but also the phenomenon in terms of finance. Latest sequel to 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1' is ranked one U.S. box office for three consecutive weeks and generate revenues of U.S. $ 588 million. Wow ... big money for Vampire movie and the Twilight stars be Hollywood Best Actors for the Buck by Forbes. In total, four series 'Twilight' has been pocketing revenues of U.S. $ 2.4 billion.

The first two movies 'Twilight' production cost of U.S. $ 37 million and U.S. $ 50 million. The latest sequel to 'Twilight' higher production costs with an estimated budget of U.S. $ 110 million. One cause of rising production costs due to two main stars of the film, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson paid more expensive.

So no surprise that Kristen Stewart in first ranks and Robert Pattinson in third the list of 'Hollywood Best Actors for the Buck' which was released by Forbes.com, December 6, 2011. 'Hollywood's Best Actors for the Buck' is a ranked list of Hollywood stars that bring higher profits to the movies or home production than their wages.

Robert Pattinson
Robert Pattinson

Every Kristen Stewart paid U.S. $ 1, the film pocketed an average income of U.S. $ 55.83. While every Robert Pattinson paid U.S. $ 1, the film pocketed an average income of U.S. $ 39.43.

So why Kristen Stewart can beat Robert Pattinson if both of them playing together in a whole series of 'Twilight'? Apparently Forbes watched three films starring the Hollywood actor or Hollywood actress for five years. Pattinson recorded playing in the movie 'Remember Me' and 'Water of Elephants' in two years. Both films are less successful in the market and reduce the Pattinson number.

In making the list of 'Hollywood's Best Actors for the Buck', Forbes observed 40 actors or actresses most high income in Hollywood. From the list is filtered again be an actor or actress who played in at least three films over the last five years and the film was screened at more than 500 theaters.

The film was released after May 1 are not included in the count. Forbes also uses data from the annual Celebrity 100 list to calculate the profits of each Hollywood actor or Hollywood actress of any movie that they starred. After that, they observed a budget estimate of each film (not including marketing costs) and revenues from DVD and box office to find out the operating income of each film.

Being ranked number two list of Hollywood's Best Actors for the Buck is actress Anne Hathaway. Each Hathaway paid U.S. $ 1, the film pocketed an average income of U.S. $ 45.67. Stars 'Harry Potter' Daniel Radcliffe is ranked fourth, while the actors 'Transformers' Shia La Beouf landed in fifth position.