Fueled by the strong performance of John Wick: Chapter 4, Lionsgate's John Wick franchise has crossed the $1B mark at the worldwide box office. The Keanu Reeves-led series' total take to date now stands at $1,011,319,297 global. Of the quartet, Chapter 4 is the highest-grossing, with $425.3M and counting.
John Wick ended up hitting a perfect storm of elements that elevated it to much more than just a burn-off late October action movie. Its eventual $43 million domestic haul didn't shatter box office records, but it outgrossed 47 Ronin from 10 months prior despite Wick costing $145 million less to make than Ronin.
John Wick 4 had the highest-grossing opening weekend than any other movie in the series, but one stat makes its success even more unbelievable. John Wick: Chapter 4 had the highest-grossing opening weekend of any movie in the series so far, but there's one statistic that makes the feat totally unbelievable.
How much did Keanu Reeves get paid for John Wick 4?
Summary. Keanu Reeves has made $22 million for playing John Wick, with the bulk of that being his $15 million salary for John Wick: Chapter 4. Reeves' salaries for the earlier John Wick movies ranged from $1-2 million to $2-2.5 million, showing a significant increase over time.
John Wick 4: Keanu Reeves Earned Massive $15M Salary While Villains Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård Were Paid Peanuts – Made Only $300K and $200K Each. The highly anticipated Hollywood movie of 2023, John Wick: Chapter 4, has generated massive buzz among fans of the action franchise.
Given this, it is likely that Reeves will return for John Wick 5. As well as this, Ian McShane and Laurence Fishburne will likely return as Continental owner Winston and the Bowery King respectively.
The world's highest paid actor made $156 million for one film back in 2003 (Rs 726 crore in 2003 and Rs 1300 crore today). The man was Keanu Reeves and this extremely high payday was for the back-to-back production of The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions, shot as one film but released in two parts.
Despite Tanner Foust being on speed dial for four-wheeled stunts in John Wick: Chapter 4, Keanu Reeves did all of his own. It's hard to nail realistic scenes in movies.
James Cameron seemed to be the only one capable of reviving the box office thanks to the success of Avatar: The Way of Water, which nearly topped its predecessor with an impressive global sum of over $2.3 billion. To date, per Insider, only six movies have ever grossed $2 billion.
Among the elite list of 53 billion-dollar grossing films are sequels, Disney remakes and iconic franchises such as Star Wars, Avatar, James Bond, The Lord of the Rings, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Harry Potter, The Fast & The Furious Jurassic Park, The Dark Knight, Transformers and Disney and Pixar toons.
The “John Wick” series, a contemporary favorite, had Reeves' earnings starting at a modest $1-2 million for the first installment. As of 2023, the staggering figure that represents Keanu Reeves' net worth is a whopping $380 million, as reported by the reliable Celebrity Net Worth.
Tom Cruise struck gold with the box office success of Top Gun: Maverick, which earned him over $100 million. Cruise had originally agreed to take a "modest" salary of $12.5 million upfront in order to negotiate a deal that would secure him a steady income on backend ticket sales.
It should come as no surprise that Keanu Reeves puts in quite a bit of work to prepare for playing John Wick — he goes through what he describes as a three-month "John Wick Boot Camp" to help get him ready to take on the demanding role. It focuses on the character's central concerns: guns, fighting, and driving.
Speaking with Collider, John Wick producer Basil Iwanyk revealed that Reeves was ready for Wick to be retired—permanently—via a noble death at the end of Chapter 4. “After the second, third, and fourth movie, making these films is so exhausting, and it destroys Keanu, physically and emotionally,” Iwanyk told Collider.
According to LadBible, Reeves donated approximately $31.5 million of his earnings from the blockbuster to organizations researching leukemia, a type of blood cancer. This sum was said to be around 70 percent of the $45million earnings he took home in total for the sci-fi hit.
“With a run time of 169 minutes, the fourth movie pushes three hours but features just 380 words by Wick. About 10% of them are featured in the movie's trailer, which makes the hero seem almost chatty; Wick says more in that 2.5 minute clip than he does in the first 25 minutes of the movie itself.”
