This list seems intentionally misleading, I would have thought that highest grossing was the money earned by the actual actor. I.e. pay + backend.

I’d really like to see this done without having the ensemble cast of the Avengers films all claim the same income.

This should be based on who’s the main character in the movie poster. Lol. Otherwise, it just seems misleading.

Franchises and ensemble casts really skew those results. So in the end it basically just comes down to “who was part of one or more large franchises” (primarily marvel), which to me is not that interesting.

For me it would be much more interesting which actors brought the most “value” to a variety of unconnected movies, which would probably boost someone like Leonardo DiCaprio much higher, and in return throw out a bunch of actors from the MCU. For example Don Cheadle, who is on the list because he replaced Terrence Howard as War Machine. Which might have been the right call and an improvement, but imo don’t do the recast and you could swap those names on the list, because i don’t think he majorly shifted the franchise (unlike somone such as RDJ). Recast Leo and who knows how his movies would have performed with someone else in the lead.

Not sure how an alternative ranking should work, but maybe take either the first/average/highest grossing movie of a movie series instead of adding all up.

There are a couple interesting names on the list but otherwise it’s not very useful.