Indian superstars Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar are among the top 10 highest paid actors in the world in a list compiled by Forbes that has been topped by Transformers actor Mark Wahlberg.
Shahrukh is at the eighth spot on the list with earnings of $38 million, followed by Salman in the ninth position with $37 million. Akshay completes the top 10 with $35.5 million earnings.
Wahlberg is Hollywood’s highest-paid leading man, earning $68 million in the scoring period. Forbes said the Boston native recorded his highest-ever payday thanks to soaring fees for movies such as Transformers: The Last Knight and the forthcoming Daddy’s Home 2 .
Wahlberg replaced last year’s top-ranked star, Dwayne Johnson, who comes in at the second spot with $65 million earnings.
On the third spot is The Fate of the Furious star Vin Diesel with $54.5 million earnings.
Rounding out the top five is Adam Sandler at the number four position with $50.5 million and Jackie Chan on number five with $49 million.
Sandler returns to the list courtesy the lucrative deal with Netflix that allows him to produce his own movies for the platform.
The world’s 20 highest-paid actors tallied a combined $720 million between June 2016 and June 2017, before fees and taxes.
A quarter of this year’s list hail from outside the US, including the three stars from Bollywood.
Forbes said this year, newcomers comprise one-fifth of the list, including Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling, Jeremy Renner and Mark Ruffalo.
Hollywood’s highest-paid actors continue to out-earn their female counterparts, Forbes said adding that the top 10 actors banked a cumulative $488.5 million — nearly three times the $172.5 million combined total of the 10 top-earning women. While only three actresses made more than $20 million in 12 months, 16 actors broached the mark, it said.
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