TopBillingHollywood's highest-paid actor and actress, every year since 1916About the data

The Back-End Years · 2000s

2008

Will Smith

Top-earning actor

Will Smith

$80,000,000

Forbes, June 2007–June 2008Reported

About $120 million in 2025 dollars

I Am Legend and Hancock. Johnny Depp was second, at $72 million.

The pictures that paid

Box office champions of 2008

By worldwide box-office gross

  1. 1

    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

    $787 million

  2. 2

    Kung Fu Panda

    $632 million

  3. 3

    Hancock

    $629 million

    ★ Starring Will Smith

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