The only thing I know about this kid is that he was in that dismal last installment of Indiana Jones. I guess I must be getting old if I don’t know why he’s on this list.
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Here is Forbes’ Methodology ...
In order to create our list we looked at the top 36 earners in Hollywood. To qualify, each actor had to have starred in at least three movies in the past five years that opened in more than 500 theaters. Movies that opened after June 1 of this year are not counted. We did not include animated films because the actors aren’t really the draw and they tend to take pay cuts for voice work.
We then used data gathered for our annual Celebrity 100 list to calculate each star’s estimated earnings on each film (including upfront pay and any earnings from the movie’s box-office receipts, DVD and TV sales). We then looked at each movie’s estimated budget (not including marketing costs, which are susceptible to accounting chicanery) and box-office, DVD and television earnings to figure out an operating income for each film.
We added up each star’s compensation on his or her last three films and the operating income on those films and divided total operating income by the star’s total compensation to come up with each return on investment number. The final number represents an average of how much a studio earns for every dollar paid to the actor.
Because women typically earn less than men in Hollywood, they make up a full half of our top 10 list. Anne Hathaway is the highest-ranking woman in the No. 2 spot. For every dollar she earns studios earn $64 off of her films.
Outside of a streaks of hits built by the likes of Tom Cruise and Will Smith (featuring a variety of genres and types of roles) there is absolutely no way to determine to my satisfaction that an actor is worth his paycheck. I’m convinced no one went to see either Transformers movie nor “Indiana Jones: Aw, Screw It, Something About Aliens and Aztecs or Something” because of Shia Lebouf.
“’Bang for the buck’ is what producers look for when casting young actresses.” -Sarkoff, Hollywood insider
He’s cute. He was in a golf movie.
Kid works to cheap.
Shame about the ongoing feud he has going with his brother, Sunni La Beouf.
Transformers was the worst movie I’ve ever seen in a movie theater. No, I wasn’t expecting Shakespeare, just a good action movie. What was wrong with this and almost all current action movies is the directors have no idea how to direct an action scene so it emerges from the story—they’re just sequences of CHAOS, things smashing and blowing up and guns blazing. It’s boring.
Putting Daniel Radcliff on the list shows just how worthless this list actually is—he isn’t the attraction in the Harry Potter movies, the PROPERTY is the attraction.
The reason women are on this list in high numbers for the first time is because, I think, men are sick of male-bashing and metrosexual ideation. Who wants to pay ten bucks to hear that they suck unless they look like some blown-dry douche like George Clooney?
Instead of telling Michael Bay "Sorry, I am severely injured and in a tremendous amount of pain, your going to have to scrap the movie because I have lost a finger and had several others crushed." Shia quickly went through several very painful operations in order to salvage the film, had a special cast made to immobilize the hand as best that it could and then he went right back to work and did some amazingly physical work and stunts in order to complete the film. = Most of the work he did on the film from the point in the story where they are transported to Egypt and he supposedly injures himself when he lands (and they wrap his left hand), throughout the rest of the film he did while severely injured! He did all of this without complaining or feeling sorry for himself.
No matter what you may think of the film, just take the time to watch Transformers 2 and all of the physically demanding work he does while injured and you can't help but have respect for the guy, I know I do.
Say what you will but I have a lot of respect for Shia LaBeouf’s work ethic. The guy has a lot of guts. After getting T boned in his truck halfway through the filming of Transformers 2, and having several of the fingers on his left hand SHREDED when the truck rolled over on its side and caught his left hand under the trucks driver side door and the street, with the weight of the truck on it and then having the truck pushed sideways turning his hand into hamburger (I shudder just thinking about it), instead of telling Michael Bay “Sorry,your going to have to scrap the movie because I have lost a finger and had several others crushed.” Shia quickly went through several very painful operations, had a special cast made to immobilize the hand as best that it could and then he went right back to work and did some amazingly physical work and stunts in order to complete the film. = Most of the work he did on the film from the point in the film where they are transported to Egypt and he supposedly injures himself when he lands throughout the rest of the film he did while severely injured. No matter what you may think of the film just take the time to watch Transformers 2 and all the physical work he does while injured and you cant help but have respect for the guy.
He did all of this without complining or feeling sorry for himself.
” Shia LaBeouf topped a Forbes.com list of Hollywood’s Best Actors for the Buck with women claiming five of the top 10 spots compared to zero last year”
Oh, so Zero is an actor now?
Funny to talk about movie stars being underpaid, but these guys are going to get more money next time, so that they can join their overpaid peers.
Our family loved him on ‘Even Stevens’. He was hilarious.