{"id":291330,"date":"2010-02-08T00:42:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T05:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=92160"},"modified":"2010-02-08T00:42:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T05:42:24","slug":"sam-worthington-demands-raise-for-%e2%80%9cavatar%e2%80%9d-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/291330","title":{"rendered":"Sam Worthington Demands Raise For \u201cAvatar\u201d Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that <em>Avatar<\/em> &#8212; the latest cinema epic from lensman James Cameron &#8212; has become the highest-grossing film of all-time, star Sam Worthington is campaigning for a pay raise to reprise his role in the eagerly-anticipated follow-up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Avatar-100-Million-Weekend-500x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Avatar-100-Million-Weekend\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-90425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sam stars with actresses Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver in the sci-fi fantasy film, but according to <em>In Touch Weekly<\/em> insiders, the 33-year-old actor wants big bucks to appear in the sequel currently being crafted by Cameron. With a bevy of Oscar nominations to its credit, <em>Avatar<\/em> has earned more than $2 billion since its release in November. Sam is hoping for a salary that will mirror his role in making the film a blockbuster.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-92160\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Hollywood snitch tells <em>In Touch: &#8220;The stars were relative unknowns when they made Avatar so their salaries reflected that. Now that the movie made Sam a star, his people will be negotiating a pay increase that&#8217;s more than fair.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No details on how much Sam was paid to appear in the original <em>Avatar<\/em>, or how much he is requesting to star in the second film.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1ZvH94b__TLjHrfth-vbmFmu5Mk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1ZvH94b__TLjHrfth-vbmFmu5Mk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1ZvH94b__TLjHrfth-vbmFmu5Mk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1ZvH94b__TLjHrfth-vbmFmu5Mk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Avatar &#8212; the latest cinema epic from lensman James Cameron &#8212; has become the highest-grossing film of all-time, star Sam Worthington is campaigning for a pay raise to reprise his role in the eagerly-anticipated follow-up. Sam stars with actresses Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver in the sci-fi fantasy film, but according to In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}