Top-earning actor
Sylvester Stallone
$31,500,000
Forbes, $63M over 1989–90 (half shown)Reported
About $77.6 million in 2025 dollars
Tango & Cash and Rocky V.
The $20 Million Club · 1990s
1990
Top-earning actress
Meryl Streep
≈ $4,000,000
About $4 million a filmEstimate
About $9.9 million in 2025 dollars
Pretty Woman made Julia Roberts a star for just $300,000. The figure repeats Streep's reported rate.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1990
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
Ghost
$506 million
- 2
Home Alone
$477 million
- 3
Pretty Woman
$463 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.