The top three earned as much as the other seven combined. Dwayne Johnson ($88M), Ryan Reynolds ($85M) and Kevin Hart ($81M) totaled $254 million — matching ranks 4 through 10. The gap comes not from salaries but from roles: all three produce their own projects and run their own marketing machines.

Streaming buyouts are the invisible story: Johnson’s ~$50 million fee-plus-buyout for Red One is believed to be the largest in streaming movie history. Only one woman — Nicole Kidman ($31M, #8) — made the top ten, and the average age of the top 20 is over 54: Hollywood’s top pay is consolidating around veterans who package their own deals.