Katherine Heigl is not worth $3 million
Katherine Heigl was dropped from the upcoming romantic comedy Valentine's Day because of her crazy salary demands. While it is a slight setback for the film, producers feels confident they'll find another actress to act like a self-important bitch on set. An insider told the New York Post:
[Pacific Coast News]
Katherine Heigl was dropped from the upcoming romantic comedy Valentine's Day because of her crazy salary demands. While it is a slight setback for the film, producers feels confident they'll find another actress to act like a self-important bitch on set. An insider told the New York Post:
"Producers at New Line originally had Katherine on their casting list. They wanted her for the project, but during the talks, she came back demanding $3 million for the role."What exactly does Katherine Heigl think she's done in her career that warrants a $3 million salary as part of an ensemble cast? She has as many Oscar nominations as I do. And to be blunt, she's a fucking bitch. If I was one of the producers of this movie, I'd actually pay her the $3 million. But then I'd try to destroy her reputation by having her character do something horrible like rape kids. I don't exactly know how you'd fit that into the plot of a romantic comedy but I'm sure the writers could make it work.
Our source calls that number "ridiculous" because the movie has "an ensemble cast where there is really no one lead role. Actors are only filming between three and 14 days, and no other actors asked for nearly that amount."
The reason might be the following:
1. 27 Dresses.. Cost to make $30M
World Wide Box Office = $160M
2. Knocked Up... cost to make $30M
World Wide Box Office = $219M
Could be she is worth $3M... here last 2 movies would seem to indicate that she is. Apparently her agents think she is.
Superbad 20 million to make $170 million box office.
There's nothing to suggest that Heigl had anything to do with the success of Knocked Up and 27 Dresses. That sort of number is pretty typical for a rom-com or teen comedy.
Her movie successes were at the height of here popularity. I also believe the success of Knocked-up was, in part, due to other cast members.
Many actors/celebrities go through periods of popularity, during which they can demand high salaries. After a while, the public tires of them and their value/salary decreases. Remember when JLo was everywhere and was paid a fortune? Heigl is on a similar popularity slide. She won't be getting $3M again.
If she was worth 3 million , she would still have job.. so that should answer that question. She isn't going to have a huge movie career.. She doen't make the movies any better. Knocked up could have starred ANY decent looking actress and would have been the same movie.
Ew, her vay-jay would REAK of smoke. Gross smell, gross taste. I'll pass, thanks.
I THINK SHE'S WORTH MORE. I LOVE HER IN MOVIES. WISH I COULD SEE MORE. I WILL PAY TO SEE UNLIKE OTHERS SO YEAH, SHE'S WORTH IT AND MORE. DON'T BE SO CHEAP, DIRECTORS .... YOU'RE MAKING BIG BUCKS - DON'T TRY TO KEEP IT ALL FOR THE BIG GUYS - YA SELFISH
WTF? Yeah, she's worth 3 million. I don't like her, but she is. Knocked Up, and 27 dresses were both major hits. Her new film (With Gerald Butler) coming out this summer is going to be hit too probably. Plus she is a great actress. I may not care for Heigl personally that much, but it doesn't change the facts.
Is she really worth the $3 million? Many actresses didn't get to that salary after several box office hits. So far, KH has only two and maybe three with The Ugly Truth (that looks ugly from the previews). She isn't that huge of a deal.
I hope that they kill her off at Grey's.
Katherine Heigl was offered and paid $6 million to be in 27 Dresses. she is definitely worth the money. Knocked Up & 27 Dresses made bank at the box office, and her upcoming movie with Gerard Butler, The Ugly Truth, July 24th, will without a doubt be a huge hit too.
and she already working on a new movie called Five Killers, with Ashton Kutcher. she is starting he film career on a very high note.
and she already working on a new movie called Five Killers, with Ashton Kutcher. she is starting her film career on a very high note.
According to IMDB, here are the other cast members if the film:
Jessica Biel
Anne Hathaway
Bradley Cooper
Jessica Alba
Julia Roberts
Jennifer Garner
Ashton Kutcher
Shirley MacLaine
If the producers paid Heigl $3MM, they'd have to shell out more bucks to multiple other cast members.
Agreed. /bump
who is she? seriously i never heard of her
just a dumb cunt, lets be serious
The article misses the key point. This little mediocre nobody thinks she deserves to be paid more than JULIA F-ING ROBERTS. I think that says it all. She's delusional and needed this reality check. She's pretty not beautiful, good not great as an actress. And she's a nasty, conceited idiot. We need to end her 15 minutes. She's not worth the money or the trouble.
She desperately needs new representation. 27 Dresses was fucking garbage. As will be whatever this new rom-com she's got coming out soon, to judge from the previews. So not only is her agent not getting her good roles, her publicist is letting her look like a complete fool in the press. I'll bet she's no more of "a fucking bitch" than your average star. She's just got no one competent running interference for her. (Granted, her agent did do a good job landing her Knocked Up. Which is one of the better movies I've seen in the last couple years.)
C'mon. If prodcuers wanted you in a movie you really didn't want to make, what do you do?
Demand a salary that if the producers were dumb enough to accept, you'd do it.
That's what's going on here. Remember - opportunity costs.
Julia roberts
Duplicity
Budget $60m box office $41m
Charlie Wilson's War
budget $75m Box office $66m
When all other big movies were on hold due to a strike, Katherine got very lucky that her movies were done and able to be rolled out. There was barely anything else out there to watch. BUT, Knocked Up and 27 dresses were in no way, any comparison to anything that Julia Roberts or Angelina Jolie have done. She can't even compare to Drew Barrymore-who is usually known for these types of roles, because she always plays the same type of character in everything I have ever seen her in. She's like a fill in, and the cast around her is what really makes a movie. Is she worth a salary that compares to some of the iconic actresses of today-uh, NO!!!!
If Julia Roberts, Jennifer Garner, Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Biel, Jessica Alba and Anne Hathaway (ALL of whom are more experienced and more famous actors than Heigl is) aren't making 3 million, then there's no way in hell she should.