
More end-of-the-decade stuff. The Guinness Book of World Records has been looking at box office returns for the Oughties, and the highest-grossing actress of the decade is… Yep, it’s Emma Watson. At 19, her films have pulled in a staggering $5.4 billion–and, thanks to her voice work in The Tale of Despereaux, she edges out the rest of her fellow Hogswartians as the biggest money-maker in the series. Second place on the list goes to Keira Knightley, thanks to the money machine known as Pirates of the Caribbean. That franchise and the twelve other movies she’s starred in over the past ten years earned a total of $3.42 billion.
On the men’s side, the rankings are more ambiguous. Entertainment Weekly names Orlando Bloom as the top money earner, due, once again, to those aforementioned pirate movies and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. That combination raked in a total of $6.5 billion. Guinness disagrees, and names Samuel L. Jackson as the top money earner of all time. This has less to do with starring in huge franchises than with Jackson’s hellbent determination to replace Kevin Bacon as the most ubiquitous man in show business. Although the Harry Potter saga isn’t quite finished. Jackson will probably show up in the last pic as a homicidal house-elf or something.



















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