The movie stars are paid very generously, and the blockbuster paychecks skyrocket every year. Top 10 Hollywood actors earned around half a billion (!) dollars last year. Let’s say, Will Smith, who is often called the hardest working actor of Hollywood, earned some $80 million in 2008. However, actors prefer to diversify their risks and rely too much on their appearance alone.

The top 5 of the movie stars’ business ventures include restaurants, hotels, clubs, fashion and advertising.

Restaurants
The most famous of all star restaurants is Planet Hollywood. The first NY-based Planet Hollywood opened his doors to the customers in 1991. Among its owners were mentioned Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

Hotels
Stars actively infiltrate in the HoReCa industry. World-known actor John Malkovich ownes The Big Sleep Hotel in London. The hotel is pretty good, by the way, and very affordable – one night stay starts from $100. Enjoy flat screens and Wi-Fi from the veteran Hollywood actor!

Clothing lines and Perfumes
J.Lo clothing line by famous Hollywood actress Jenifer Lopez was launched back in 2003, followed by the SweetFace line in 2005 and JustSweet in 2007.
Jenifer Lopez is also very active in the fragrance business, having released a dozen of parfumes, such as “Glow by J.Lo”, “Live Luxe” and “Deseo”.

Advertising
Remember Daniel Craig as James Bond in the “Quantum of Solace”? Then you must remember the timepiece he was wearing there – Seamaster Planet Ocean by Omega. Cool, stylish and very 007-ish.