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Tom Cruise, $100 Million

Tom Cruise earned the highest salary of his career with War of the Worlds. He opted out of receiving an upfront salary for the 2005 film and chose to take a percentage of the proceeds instead. Not only was that film high-action and intense, but it was one of the 2000's most iconic alien invasion films.

The More You Know

Lady Gaga spent $50,000 to find out if a ghost named Ryan was haunting her.
The bridge blown up by Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was prematurely detonated by a Spanish Army Captain. Upon learning of his mistake the Captain ordered his troops to rebuild the bridge, only for it to suffer another explosion once complete.
Leonardo DiCaprio is fluent in German.
In Iron Man/Avengers, J.A.R.V.I.S is an acronym for “Just A Rather Very Intelligent System.”

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.