Jolie, SJP Named Hollywood's Top-Paid Actresses

Jolie, SJP Named Hollywood's Top-Paid Actresses

Sarah Jessica Parker and Angelina Jolie are Hollywood's hottest commodities! According to Forbes' annual list, these ladies are the top-earning female actresses, and both reportedly took home a stellar $30 million between May 2010 and May 2011.

That's a lot of cash!

Jolie is working hard to earn her dollars. She recently wrote and directed the upcoming film In the Land of Blood and Honey, a romance set in the Bosnian War, and starred in two high-profile action movies, Salt and The Tourist. Thought The Tourist, which co-starred Johnny Depp, wasn't too much of a smash in the U.S., the film did well overseas and went on to earn $280 million.

Parker is still reaping the benefits of Carrie Bradshaw's romantic trials in Sex and the City. She makes loads of cash from the TV reruns and the second movie, which hit screens in 2010, brought in a respectable $290 million. Parker also has a successful line of perfumes and has just recently started helping design clothes for the fashion line Halston.

Coming in just behind the ladies on top of the list are Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, who both earned about $28 million this past year. And, tying at a cool $20 million, are veteran girl-next-door Julia Roberts and The Twilight Saga's Kristen Stewart.

Rounding out the very fortunate top ten are Katherine Heigl, Cameron Diaz, Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep.

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Linkin Park Announce L.A. Concert For Japan Relief Fundraisers

Band will give tickets for 'intimate venue' show to the first 500 fans to raise $500 for earthquake relief.
By Gil Kaufman


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Five months after a devastating 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit Japan, rockers Linkin Park have come up with a novel way to raise funds for relief efforts.

Their latest project, on fundraising site Give2gether.com, is a fan challenge in which the first 500 people to raise $500 or more will get a pair of tickets to a secret Los Angeles show that's scheduled to take place on August 31.

The band isn't revealing much else about the show, other than a promise that it will be in a "small, intimate venue in the Los Angeles area" and feature an opening set from Japanese pop group B'z.

Depending on how much money fans raise, they could also get even bigger perks. The top 50 fundraisers will earn a meet-and-greet session with the bandmembers and a group photo. The top 10 will get signed instruments from the band's recent European tour, plus the meet-and-greet. And the top fundraiser will watch the secret show from the stage, in addition to all the other goodies.

All proceeds from the campaign will go to Save the Children's Japan earthquake and tsunami relief effort via Linkin Park's nonprofit Music for Relief. Though those who do not reach the $500 level will not get tickets to the show, they will get a thank-you note from Music for Relief, acknowledging their participation.

In a video promoting the campaign, bandmembers Mike Shinoda and Dave "Phoenix" Farrell encouraged fans to get onboard the charity project. Talking up the intimacy of the show, Shinoda joked that the venue is "so small it would fit inside my hands."

"And all you have to do to come to this very small venue is support Music for Relief for Japan. ... Does that sound mysterious to you? Does that sound interesting?" Shinoda asked.

At press time, the Give2gether site had 1,155 supporters who had raised $47,635, with the most generous U.S. fan donating $7,000 to the cause. All funds have to be raised by August 24, and winners (who must be 18 years old or 16 with parental consent) are responsible for their own transportation to the concert.

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Daniel Radcliffe Not 'Comfortable' Being A Role Model

'I don't think you should deify any human being,' 'Harry Potter' star told MTV News last year.
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Josh Horowitz


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The transition from child star to adult star often comes with some hiccups. In a recent interview with GQ, "Harry Potter" actor Daniel Radcliffe admits that there was a time when he found himself drinking a little too much.

"I became so reliant on [alcohol] to enjoy stuff," he said of the time during shooting on 2009's "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." Since then, the 21-year-old has slowed down, telling the magazine that he prefers to have a "quiet life." But Radcliffe has certainly been open about why he doesn't see himself as a role model.

Last year, he told MTV News, "I don't look at myself as a role model. I would never place myself on that pedestal, obviously. If other people want to place me there, that's up to them," he explained. "I would advise them not to because I don't think you should deify any human being. I think it's something that I've grown more comfortable with the idea."

And despite his impressive career and all of the charitable work he has done with organizations like the Trevor Project, Radcliffe suggested someone else his fans should look to for guidance instead.

"The thing I always say and I've often said in interviews, I think if people want a role model, Harry Potter's a very, very good role model. And he's something that won't change," Radcliffe added. "He'll be fixed in that permanent lovely way, and so those are the role models you want.

"I'm gonna grow old and get fat and stuff," he added with a good-natured laugh. "And so you don't want to make me a role model."

While Radcliffe tells GQ the paparazzi never caught him inebriated, when MTV News sat down with him, he did recall a certain pap shot of him smoking a cigarette that did get taken. But the star was willing to shrug it all off. "It's a terrible thing to admit to, but yes I'm gonna go to help [for smoking]. That stuff, you know, is part and parcel of the job and it comes with the territory and you have to let it wash over you," he said of the photographers.

Check out everything we've got on "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2."

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Harry Potter World Cup: Ron Vs. Hagrid

Welcome to MTV's Harry Potter World Cup! We've selected 64 of the best "Harry Potter" characters and matched them up in a series of duels for a chance at magical glory, but it's up to YOU to decide who the greatest "Potter" character of all time is in this pool of wizards and witches. Will [...]

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Angelina Jolie Has the Twins in Her Arms and Shiloh by Her Side For Another Bowling Day

Angelina Jolie carried both Knox and Vivienne in her arms and Shiloh walked closely behind as they left a bowling alley in Malta today. Angelina also brought all six kids to the lanes last week as they explore the local attractions, like the water park where the whole Jolie-Pitt family was pictured together. Pax and Maddox got another special treat when the two older Jolie-Pitt boys visited Brad Pitt on the set of World War Z over the weekend. Their overseas stay may be all about Brad's work schedule, but Angelina is currently grabbing the spotlight for her own career. Angelina Jolie was one of the highest-paid actresses last year with both she and Sarah Jessica Parker earning $30 million each.

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