Arnold Schwarzenegger Making $10 Million Plus 25% First Dollar Gross On Next Film

NIKKI FINKE, Deadline.com
Fri, 04/29/2011 - 1:12pm

EXCLUSIVE: I've just learned that CAA is negotiating a deal for Arnold Schwarzenegger's next movie that will pay him "top-dollar" money -- even though no one knows if the 63-year-old is still a star who can open a movie. Filmmaker Al Ruddy -- yes, the 81-year-old Godfather and Million Dollar Baby producer -- bought a 1975 novel by the late N.

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