Biography & Early Wealth Journey

Pine only made $600 thousand for 2009's Star Trek, which grossed over $385 million. For 2013's Star Trek: Into Darkness, Captain Kirk made $1.5 million of the $467 million gross. Before a new deal was struck, he was scheduled to make $3 million for the upcoming Star Trek Beyond. Thanks to a lucrative new deal, Pine will now make $6 million for the third Star Trek film, which is double what he was supposed to make, and will be 10 times what he made for the first film in the series!

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The new deal features big raises and much better performance bonuses for the cast. Paramount only wanted to give the ship mates nominal raises, but ended up giving in for the better of the franchise. Thanks to last minute negotiations, the production house ended up adding somewhere between $10 and $15 million to the movie's budget to pay the stars of the show. As part of the new deal, Pine and Quinto have been granted an option and will now be a part of the 4th film in the J.J. Abrams directed series.

Primary Income Streams & Multi-Million Contracts

Some of the Star Trek film series' stars have recently been on the rise. Chris Pine starred in another Paramount movie, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, while Zoe Saldana is now a part of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. The cast of the upcoming Star Trek Beyond also includes Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, and John Cho.

Star Trek Beyond recently started production in Vancouver after some delays. Writer and producer Roberto Orci spent much of 2014 working on the script, only to get the ax and be replaced by co-creator of Dark Blue Doug Jung and director of Fast & Furious Justin Lin. Hopefully these raises in pay will help Star Trek to boldly go where no film has gone before!