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Professionals demand more money than ever for their services whether it’s Arod and his quarter of a billion dollar deal, Becks to be leased out to the Galaxy or actors and their movies.  Movie stars today get paid ridiculous amounts of money to star in movies that are usually bust if best.  You may call them hacks, you may call them pushing the demand, but are they worth it?

That’s a big old goose egg stinkaroo.  NO!

Well not definitely true depending on what you think, but based off of a formula looking at what a star paid and the return on investment in box office sales and DVD’s, most of the biggest names out there are really way over paid.

Highlighting at the top of the list not shockingly at all was once funnyman Will Ferrell.  He is the highest paid movie star who does not deserve it at all and just not bring in the box office box based off of what he gets paid.  His movie Land of the Lost over the summer made only $65 million and his one before that Semi-Pro did only $43 million.  He routinely puts out crap movies now and tries to create characters that are just not funny.  He’s best when he just is himself, a plain old funny guy.  When he tries to get too wacky and creative he just stinks up the big screen and has lost a lot of fans because of it, and now gets the title of the most overpaid actor who brings nothing back.

Forbes.com said that for every dollar Ferrell was paid, his films earned an average of $3.29.  Pretty terrible if you ask me.

I don’t blame him for soaking up his stardom and using it to make as much money as he can.  If that’s what he can get on the market, I’m all for it and good for him.  He clearly does not deserve it, but obviously his agent is doing a hell of a job in negotiations with Hollywood studios.  Why execs think that Ferrell is a big time star who demands big dollars I’ll never know, but maybe this will make them wake up and realize that it’t not worth it, and to start looking around for cheaper (and more funny) talent.

I like Ferrell and like a handful of his movies and hope that he can get back to the way he once was.  I doubt that will happen, but good for him making as much as he can now until all studios realize his act is over.

Here is the complete top 10 list.

How do you feel about the list?