Top-earning actor
Sylvester Stallone
$5,000,000
Rhinestone: $5M + share of grossDeal
About $15.5 million in 2025 dollars
He turned down Romancing the Stone to make it.
Forbes Starts Counting · 1980s
1984
Top-earning actress
Meryl Streep
≈ $4,000,000
About $4 million a filmEstimate
About $12.4 million in 2025 dollars
By the mid-1980s Streep was reported to command about $4 million a picture.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1984
By U.S. and Canadian box-office gross
- 1
Beverly Hills Cop
$235 million
- 2
Ghostbusters
$229 million
- 3
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
$180 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.