Member Iron_Leopard Posted December 27, 2017 Member Share Posted December 27, 2017 Thread title. Anyone know how much money the stars of Shaw Brothers made in the 70s and 80s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TibetanWhiteCrane Posted December 27, 2017 Member Share Posted December 27, 2017 Not much according to most sources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member teako170 Posted December 27, 2017 Member Share Posted December 27, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member teako170 Posted December 27, 2017 Member Share Posted December 27, 2017 As for Ti Lung and and John Chiang? In early '75 they were killing it. Earning $20,000/ month plus a bonus of $90,000 per film. That's HK $. I did some crunching and based on the exchange rate and adjusting for inflation, Ti Lung would have grossed around US$150K in 1975 (that's US$650K adjusted to 2017 dollars). Not Hollywood A-lister salary but not too shabby. Of course, these bigger stars were the exception. Many made little to nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TibetanWhiteCrane Posted December 27, 2017 Member Share Posted December 27, 2017 Interesting, I thought it was way less than that. Good for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Iron_Leopard Posted December 28, 2017 Author Member Share Posted December 28, 2017 7 hours ago, TibetanWhiteCrane said: Interesting, I thought it was way less than that. Good for them. Yeah I was thinking maybe a thousand US dollars a movie lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Killer Meteor Posted December 28, 2017 Member Share Posted December 28, 2017 I think the low fee is what Bruce Lee was offered as a potential new contract player, rather then what the bona fide Shaw stars were getting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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