Top-earning actor
Sylvester Stallone
$37,000,000
Forbes, $74M over 1986–87 (half shown)Reported
About $105 million in 2025 dollars
Over the Top reportedly paid a record $12 million.
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1987
Top-earning actress
Jane Fonda
$6,500,000
Forbes, $13M over 1986–87 (half shown)Reported
About $18.4 million in 2025 dollars
Jane Fonda's Workout became the best-selling home video of its time.
Also on screen
Box office champions of 1987
By U.S. and Canadian box-office gross
- 1
3 Men and a Baby
$168 million
- 2
Fatal Attraction
$157 million
- 3
Beverly Hills Cop II
$154 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.