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When you hear
CHI-CHING,
an angel gets its wings
Which Angel do
you think pulled
in the biggest
paycheque for appearing
in the Charlie’s Angels
sequel, Full Throttle? If
you said Drew Barrymore,
who also produced both
films and spearheaded
the effort to bring the
campy ’70s show from
the small to the big
screen, you’re wrong.
While Drew made a respectable $14-million for the second film (and
will take home even more for her producing duties), it was modelturned-actor
Cameron Diaz who took home the top acting prize — an
impressive $20-million. As for Lucy Liu, a relatively paltry $4-million
was all she could negotiate.
Such disparity could lead to behind-the-scenes squabbles. After all,
each member of the trio has a fairly equal amount of screen time.
And there were plenty of rumours about the bickering Angels during
the making of the first movie. But maybe we just expect them to fight
because there’s a perception that it’s impossible for three gorgeous,
competitive, successful women to get along. That’s Liu’s theory anyway.
In “Heavenly Creatures,” page 32, the former Ally McBeal star
explains in greater detail, while Barrymore and Diaz talk about
female empowerment and getting in shape for the new movie.
A fight over money turned out to be a blessing for Paul Walker.
The former bit-player got his first big break as second fiddle to Vin
Diesel in the shockingly successful 2001 street-racing flick The Fast
and the Furious. But when Diesel’s exorbitant salary demands for the
sequel were deemed undoable (he wanted about $30-million), the
producers of 2 Fast 2 Furious cut him out of the film entirely, making
Walker the star. In “Fast Times,” page 28, Walker tells you why —
even though the offers have been pouring in — slow and steady is
the way he wants to build his career.
And on page 18 you’ll find our Summer Preview, packed with films
whose producers are praying the huge salaries spent on their bigname
stars pay off. Some of the biggest are Harrison Ford’s Hollywood
Homicide, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,
Reese Witherspoon’s Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, Johnny
Depp’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Angelina Jolie’s
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, and the film that spawned the
love story of the century (okay, of late 2002/early 2003) J. Lo and Ben
Affleck’s Gigli. Happy viewing. —Marni Weisz
famous 6 | june 2003
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