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James McAvoy starred in Wanted with Angelina Jolie. It made $342,000,000 worldwide. He says some of his residual checks now come in at 25 cents. "It literally costs more to post this than it did for me to check it, cash it," he says. In the video below, McAvoy tells Josh Horowitz the one movie that still pays him. It's not the one you'd guess. The one that keeps paying is Split. He says it was made "for like $6 million or something." Box Office Mojo lists $9,000,000. It opened to $40,000,000 in North America and made $278,000,000 worldwide. So his first residual check came "at the end of the first weekend," he says. Wanted cost $75,000,000 and made $342,000,000. "I don't get too much money from, from Wanted," he says. Now he's directing. His first film, California Schemin', had "3 million, three-ish million," he says. That bought a five-week shoot. 25 days. He says he made Last King of Scotland for the same 3 million and shot for 10 weeks in foreign countries. When the money ran short, he told his producers he'd do whatever it took to get it. Even "kiss someone's ass." "I didn't need to give any sexual favors in the end, which is brilliant," he says. California Schemin' has made about $720,000 worldwide, per The Numbers. The case for the studios: McAvoy got paid up front for Wanted, hit or flop. Back end money only shows up when a movie turns a profit on paper. Split did that in one weekend, he says. Most movies never do. So should actors get a cut of every hit they're in, or is the up-front check the whole deal?