Bollywood stars Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan has made it to the Forbes annual list of 100 highest paid actors in the world. The list was released by forbes on Tuesday. Shah Rukh Khan who was ranked 65th in the Forbes list in 2017 failed to make it to this year’s list.
Among celebrities like George Clooney, Conor McGregor and Rihanna, these Bollywood stars have joined the list for a second successive year. Akshay Kumar has secured the 76th spot – tied with Scarlett Johansson — in the 2018 top 100 list with earnings of Rs 270 crore ($40.5 million) this year. Salman Khan’s earnings in 2017-18 so far have been Rs 251 crore ($37.7 million) which gave him the 82nd spot.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson ($124 million) is among the top 5 in ‘The World’s Highest-Paid Entertainers’ 2018 list, followed by Musicians, U2 ($118 million) at No.6 and Coldplay ($115.5 million) at No. 7. Following Mayweather at No. 1 is George Clooney (earnings $239 million) and Kylie Jenner (No. 3 with $166.5 million).
“The world’s 100 top-earning entertainers pulled in a combined $6.3 billion pretax over the past 12 months, up 22 percent from last year; 11 superstars crossed the $100 million threshold, more than double the number from the last two years combined.,” it noted.
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