Scarlett Johansson Is Now Highest Grossing Actress Of All Time
>> Thursday, June 30, 2016
Scarlett Johansson cracked the top ten of highest-grossing domestic actors of all time this year, passing up actors like Gary Oldman, Robin Williams, Bruce Willis, Anthony Daniels, and Ian McKellen in star power. The actress, whose films have grossed over 3.3 billion dollars in domestic theaters, is a relative stone's-throw away from actors Michael Caine and Johnny Depp, and could even catch up to Tom Cruise in the next couple of years.
Her star power is rated nine slots above the next actress in domestic gross totals, Cameron Diaz, who sits three hundred million dollars underneath Johansson. Helena Bonham Carter, Cate Blanchett, and Julia Roberts are the only other women in the top 30, though Elizabeth Banks and Emma Watson are fast approaching, and with franchises like Power Rangers and Beauty and the Beast on the horizon for those two, they should shoot up the list fairly quickly.
Johansson's taking of the top spot for actresses and the top ten for actors in general comes off a stunning 2016 so far, with Captain America: Civil War, where she reprises her role of Black Widow, clocking in at $404.27 million domestic, and The Jungle Book, where she voices Kaa the snake clocking in at $358.4 million domestic. Both of those films are distributed by Buena Vista and produced by Disney-owned studios. She also appeared in Hail, Caesar! though the comedy only added a pittance - $30 million - to her total.
Her last film of the year is Sing, a Christmastime animated film also starring the voices of Matthew McConaughey, Taron Egerton, Reese Witherspoon, Seth McFarlane, and more. That movie will be going for the family-viewing contingent over the holidays, as it also unfortunately falls just days after the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. After that, Johansson stars in 2017's Ghost in the Shell, which has courted controversy as the actress plays a character who was originally conceived as Japanese. Her next sure-fire blockbusters, a pair of additional Avengers films, are also in the works.
For the record? Harrison Ford has the top position at $4.872 billion. Samuel L. Jackson, Morgan Freeman, and Tom Hanks are all also over the $4 billion total, with Robert Downey, Jr. less than sixty million shy of that milestone. The top average per movie, though? That belongs to Anthony Daniels at a staggering $451.8 million. As the only actor in all seven Star Wars films, his only seven films to hit domestic box office, he sits at #15 overall in the rankings, above people with as many as 78 films (Robert DeNiro) to their names.
From: http://comicbook.com/
