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 Wahlberg, 46, earned an estimated $68 million
in 2017 thanks to his pay days for movies "Daddy's Home 2" and
"Transformers: The Last Knight", according to the Forbes ranking
released on Tuesday.
The rapper-turned-actor knocked 2016 leader Dwayne "The Rock"
Johnson into second place, with estimated 2017 earnings of $65
million.
Forbes estimates earnings, before taxes and management fees,
from movies, TV and commercial endorsements.
The Forbes list again highlighted Hollywood's gender pay gap.
Last week, the magazine named "La La Land" Oscar winner Emma
Stone as the world's highest paid actress with an estimated 2017
take of $26 million.
Forbes said the 10 highest-paid leading men earned a combined
$488.5 million before tax in its June 2016-June 2017 scoring
period, nearly three times more than the $172.5 million earned
by the top 10 scoring women.
Forbes attributed the disparity to the prevalence of superhero
and action blockbusters that earn big at the box office for
Hollywood studios but tend to have fewer leading roles for
women.
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 "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp,
who for years has been among the top five paid actors, did not
make the top 20 this year, Forbes said. Depp is currently
embroiled in a bitter lawsuit with his former business managers
who have detailed what they describe as his lavish spending
habits.
Last December, before the May 2017 release of "Pirates of the
Caribbean; Dead Men Tell No Tales," Forbes named Depp the most
overpaid actor for a second straight year as films such as
"Alice Through the Looking Glass" and "Mortdecai" did not fare
well.
Three of Bollywood's biggest stars - Shah Rukh Khan ($38
million), Salman Khan ($37 million) and Akshay Kumar ($35.5
million) - took the 8th, 9th and 10th places on the Forbes list,
respectively.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Paul Simao)
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