{"id":85599,"date":"2017-08-24T06:09:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T06:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/mark-wahlberg-becomes-highest-paid-actor\/"},"modified":"2017-08-24T06:09:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T06:09:44","slug":"mark-wahlberg-becomes-highest-paid-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/mark-wahlberg-becomes-highest-paid-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Wahlberg becomes highest paid actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"394\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/August\/24\/film (2).jpg\" width=\"700\" \/>\u200b<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Mark Wahlberg, the former rapper-turned-actor is Hollywood&#39;s highest-paid leading man, earning $68 million pretax, reported Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston native recorded his highest-ever payday thanks to soaring fees for movies such as&nbsp;<em>Transformers: The Last Knight<\/em>&nbsp;and the forthcoming&nbsp;<em>Daddy&#39;s Home 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Forbes magazine, Wahlberg elbows out last year&#39;s top-ranked star, Dwayne &quot;The Rock&quot; Johnson (No. 2; $65 million). Johnson continues to rake in top dollar for parts in&nbsp;<em>Baywatch<\/em>&nbsp;and the upcoming&nbsp;<em>Jumanji,&nbsp;<\/em>earning $50 million more than his 2016 total.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood&#39;s highest-paid actors&nbsp;continue to out-earn their female counterparts: The top 10 actors banked a cumulative $488.5 million&#8211;nearly three times the $172.5 million combined total of&nbsp;the 10 top-earning women. While only three actresses made more than $20 million in 12 months, 16 actors broached the mark, noted Forbes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(245, 246, 245)\">A quarter of this year&#39;s highest paid actors&nbsp;<\/span>list <span style=\"background-color:rgb(245, 246, 245)\">is outside the United States, including three Bollywood stars, Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Mark Wahlberg, the former rapper-turned-actor is Hollywood s highest-paid leading man, earning $68 million pretax, reported Forbes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-85599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}