Top-earning actor
Tom Cruise
$67,000,000
Forbes Celebrity 100Reported
About $107 million in 2025 dollars
War of the Worlds paid him about $100 million over time.
The Back-End Years · 2000s
2006
Top-earning actress
Jodie Foster
$27,000,000
Forbes Celebrity 100Reported
About $43.1 million in 2025 dollars
Flightplan and Inside Man.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 2006
By worldwide box-office gross
- 1
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
$1,066 million
- 2
The Da Vinci Code
$760 million
- 3
Ice Age: The Meltdown
$661 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.