7. Angelina Jolie – Gravity – $70 million
The newly single Angelina Jolie has had a lot go right in her life, but passing on Gravity was not one of her finer moments. Studio sources explained that the woman who stepped into the role, Sandra Bullock, made a minimum of $70 million from the space frontier project alongside George Clooney while receiving universal plaudits from critics for good measure.
Jolie dedicated her time to the fantasy/action flickMaleficent which came out a year later in 2014, a production that returned very little in the way of awards but the Joe Roth-produced picture did return a hefty profit at the box office. Clooney and Pitt could almost be considered BFFs in Hollywood circles from their time together during the Ocean’s franchise, and because of this the former E.R. star and Jolie have been spotted a lot together. The chemistry would have worked, the money surely was not an issue, so why she passed on it for Bullock is anyone’s guess.
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