Robert Pattinson The king of the sparkle vampires is a bonafide sex symbol for screaming teens and tweens. But consider that the first Twilight film made more than $190 million in the US alone, and Pattinson’s $2 million salary seems like a steal. For the final two Twilight films, Pattinson’s salary was $12,500,000 for the two films plus 7% of the gross of each. Pattinson also has a passion for indie films that work with smaller budgets and many big stars work for scale on these types of projects.
That’s what makes their offseason moves so confusing. Despite ample cap space at the end of the regular season, the Spurs instead invested $120 million in two guys who are a combined 69 years old. In July, the Spurs signed Pau Gasol to a three-year, $48 million contract. Then earlier this week, they inked LaMarcus Aldridge to a three-year, $72 million deal. All that cap room no longer exists. The moves really don’t make a lot of sense for a team that won 61 games last year.
As a result, the Irish brothers are worth at least $1.1 billion each. At 26, John Collison is now officially the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. John is two months younger than Snapchat CEO and co-founder Evan Spiegel. Patrick Collison is 28, as is Snapchat co-founder Bobby Murphy. The four young men are the only self-made billionaires in the world under 30. The Collison brothers learned programming at an early age.
It is not because the two are selling their stake in Zuffa, LLC (the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship). Talk of the UFC being up for sale has been known to pop up from time to time over the years. Rumors have been floating around for months that Zuffa was going to be sold to an investment firm based in China – if they could get the company to value the UFC at $6 billion.
Raaz was a member of the dramatic society The Players and starred in plays at the National School of Drama. He has starred in several films including Bhopai Express, Jungle, Monsoon Wedding, Company, Road, Mumbai Matinee, Love in Nepal, Run, Fool and Final, Welcome, Hari Puttar, No Problem, West Is West, Delhi Belly, Department, Pocket Gangsters, Second Hand Husband, and Monsoon Mangoes. In 2004 Raaz won a Dhaka International Film Festival Jury Prized Award for Best Actor for Raghu Romeo.
But if Davis wants to earn $23 million of the five-year, $145 million contract he signed last off-season, he had better have a few more 50-point games up his sleeve. Thanks to an odd rule of the collective bargaining agreement, the Rose Rule, if a player signs an extension after his rookie contract, he’s eligible for a 30 percent max-level raise structure, provided he meets one of three criteria before the extension kicks in.
In the past, the lists were primarily dominated by European football (aka soccer) clubs. This year, that’s not the case. Only three soccer clubs made the list, and no American football teams are found, anywhere. NFL players only earn around $2.4 million per year on average, which is almost $4 million less than NBA players per roster. As you will soon find out, NBA players make a lot of money.
Soon-Shiong is the billionaire chief executive of the biotech company NantKwest Inc., for which he reportedly received a pay package potentially valued at nearly $150 million according to Bloomberg. The package, made up of stocks and stock options, is generous even by the standards of highly-compensated chief executives in Soon-Shiong’s field, like Regeneron’s Len Schleifer. Schleifer was the best-paid biotech CEO in 2014, when he took home a relatively slim $42 million.
The auction for lunch with Warren Buffett is an annual tradition, and this year’s winner actually got the privilege at something of a bargain, since the winning bid fell well short of last year’s $3.46 million record. Proceeds from the auction go to a San Francisco homeless charity called Glide, the co-founder released a statement praising Buffett’s generosity: Those bidders are 41 in number, and the winner is entitled to lunch with Buffett as well as seven friends at the Smith & Wollensky steakhouse in New York.
This all went down in Brentwood, California which you might recognized because it’s where OJ killed his wife (allegedly). In fact this story takes place just a two minute drive from the condo where Nicole was killed. Earlier today I walked to a place called the Brentwood Country Mart for lunch. The Brentwood Country Mart is a quaint open-air shopping area with lots of little expensive boutiques and a great food area.
Big Chief built a top secret project which he eventually named “The Crow”. The Crow is a 1971 Pontiac LeMans with 88mm Precision Twin Turbos. Each turbocharger can support nearly 1500 horsepower. The car also features a machine balanced Pontiac big block motor, 10.5″ tires, and advanced racepak wiring. Big Chief’s real name is Justin Shearer. Big Chief has two sons and said his proudest moment was when they were born.
After he graduated high school he joined the band Rock Bottom and then the band Elijah Hooker. That band released their self-titled debut studio album in 2013. Johnson son American Idol in 2014 and released his debut solo studio album Testify which reached #9 on the US Rock chart and #24 on the Billboard 200 chart. His single “As Long As You Love Me” reached #41 on the US Rock chart.
Chinese billionaire Jon Jiang plunged $208 million of his own fortune into creating, a special effects fantasy film titled “Empires of the Deep.” Empires of the Deep was conceived as a mix between Avatar, Gladiator and Pirates of the Caribbean, set in an underwater dream world. An “unlikely love story between a young human and a mermaid… set in a mythical world”, filmed in 3D. At $208 million, “Empires” is the most expensive Chinese movie ever produced and represents an investment of more than 20% of Jon Jiang’s personal net worth.
Ciara is suing Future to the tune of $15 million for a series of “venomous tweets” and press statements, which she claims have caused irreparable damage to her career. The pop singer filed a defamation lawsuit in Fulton County, Georgia late last month, which claims that Future acted with “actual malice” in his statements about her, specifically when he described the “Love Sex Magic” singer as someone that would use their child for “publicity stunts.
It’s gotten Kaepernick a lot of attention, though now he’s got the chance to make people take notice during games, too. After a 1-4 start with Blaine Gabbert leading the way, the San Francisco 49ers named Kaepernick their starter for Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills. In order to become the starter once again, Kaepernick needed to restructure his seven-year, $126 million contract with the Niners. The two sides agreed to a one-year, $11.
After retiring from basketball, Bing founded his own steel company called Bing Steel. He lost 100% of his $80,000 investment within the first six months before eventually turning a profit and earning $4 million in revenues two years later. By 1985, the company had grown to over 60 employees and had annual revenues estimated at $40 million. Bing was elected Mayor of Detroit in 2009 and was eventually re-elected to a second term.
He has also been a regular on the Bravo reality show, The Real Housewives of Atlanta where he first appeared while styling wigs for former cast member, Kim Zolciak. He is now a regular fixture on the show and appears at many of the events held by the ladies throughout the season. He has also been a featured judge on the reality television series, Hair Battle Spectacular since the show began airing on the Oxygen Network.
Earlier this week, 72 year old Dionne Warwick was forced to file for Chapter Seven bankruptcy protection over a dispute with the IRS that has gone on for more than 15 years. The dispute dates back to the 1990s when the IRS first filed a lien against the hall of fame songwriter for roughly $1 million in unpaid California state income taxes. Dionne claims that her business manager at the time was incompetent and did not take the proper steps to resolve the tax issues quickly and resolutely.
Following the Oilers, he played for the New Orleans Saints between 1984 and 1985 when he made his last NFL appearance. His career statistics include a total of 9,407 rushing yards, a total of 74 touchdowns, and a rushing average of 4.3. He was a two-time All-American in college and was a five-time Pro Bowl selection in the NFL. He was Offensive Player of the Year in the NFL in 1980 and is a three-time NFL Rushing champion.
Parsons starred as Calla Mackie in the 1968 movie Rachel, Rachel and won a Laurel Award for Top Female Supporting Performance and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Parsons starred as Althea Geber in the 1970 film Watermelon Man and was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. From 1989 to 1997 she starred as Beverly Harris in the television series Roseanne.