EDDIE MURPHY: Most Overpaid Actor

December 4, 2012 - 6:54 pm | Category: Money

Eddie Murphy tops Forbes magazine’s Most Overpaid Actors in Hollywood list.

Forbes estimates that for every $1 the actor was paid for his past three flops — A Thousand Words, Tower Heist and Imagine That — they returned an average of $2.30 at the box office.

Katherine Heigl came in second. Her most recent film, One for the Money, made $37 million on an estimated $40 million budget. For every dollar she was paid on her past three movies, they earned an average of $3.40. She was followed by Reese Witherspoon, Sandra Bullock and Jack Black.