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By the early 1990s, he was known as the highest-paid writer in Hollywood, and noted for his work in the erotic thriller genre. He was paid a then-record $3 million for his script Love Hurts , which was produced as Basic Instinct (1992), and following its success, news outlets reported he earned seven-figure payouts solely on the basis of two-to ...
Forbes' list of world's highest-paid athletes; Highest-paid NBA players by season; List of highest paid Major League Baseball players; List of largest sports contracts; List of player salaries in the NHL
Three of the four highest-grossing films, including Avatar at the top, were written and directed by James Cameron.. With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film ...
Robert Oxton Bolt CBE (15 August 1924 – 20 February 1995) was an English playwright and a screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Man for All Seasons, the latter two of which won him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Sturges won the first-ever Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for The Great McGinty, at which time he was one of the highest paid men in Hollywood. [17] He also received two screenwriting Academy Award nominations in the same year, for 1944's Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, a feat since matched by Frank Butler, Francis Ford Coppola, and Oliver Stone.
With Smith as writer and Gloria Monty as producer, the show remained at the top of the daytime ratings roster. Smith was reported to be the highest paid writer in broadcasting history when she left General Hospital in 1981, at $1 million per year. [2] Smith then went to Guiding Light in 1982
Billy Wilder (/ ˈ w aɪ l d ər /; German:; born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an American filmmaker and screenwriter.He was born in Sucha Beskidzka, Poland, a town in Austria-Hungary at the time of his birth. [1]
June Mathis (born June Beulah Hughes, [1] January 30, 1887 – July 26, 1927) was an American screenwriter. Mathis was the first female executive for Metro/MGM and at only 35, she was the highest paid executive in Hollywood. [2] In 1926 she was voted the third most influential woman in Hollywood, behind Mary Pickford and Norma Talmadge. [3]