Did you read how they did the first Iron Man? No script. Literally, RDJ had to sit their, wait for the director to come up with a scene or come up with the scene on his own. RDJ did more than just sell the Iron Man character. He created the character.

I'm glad he is getting his pay.

That really depends on what you're comparing it to..

Not really. It's part of a separate trilogy than the first three. You could think of it has two really long movies broken into reasonably lengthened parts.

Lol ya right, its the internet age now. We just know who gets paid what, nothing has changed.

What the hell are u going on about? Him being paid or a movie being filmed at a certain budget has absolutely nothing to do with anyone paying their bills and putting food on the table. This just reads really ignorant.

It's not about the level of skill required to pull off the job. Rather it's about the appeal of the industry and how much profit is made through films.

Let's take POTC4. Whether Depp was paid $5,000 or $50million, the movie still made $1billion dollars. The point being, how much he was paid had no effect on the film and how much profit it made.

Well it's pretty obvious that the film industry has potential for huge profits. What happens here is that the studios start raking in money left and right. You have studio execs and producers raking in huge profits from movies without doing a lot in a sense. Along comes the actors. It's their acting that helped make the movie great. It's their name that drew people in to watch the movie at the box office. And it's them putting in all that time to shoot the film while the execs sit behind their desks. So, it stands to reason that actors eventually get like "Hey, we did just as much as you did or more, we deserve a bigger portion of that profit". So, the actors hold out to get a fair share, and the studio execs have no choice but to pay them that money cause they know that actor's name will draw people in to the theaters and put asses in seats.

So, it's really not about a compensation for work like you picture it. It's not a "My skill deserves x amount of dollars per hour". Rather it's more about getting their fair share when the profit is cut up at the end. And it's about their name being the one drawing in all that profit.