How many movies have this exact same plot?
Man or woman or whatever comes to new town, or inherits property and the town has real bad thugs in it ... then they are all the same.
shareshe is desperate for a paycheck I guess. how sad, she used to be the golden girl of Hollywood.
shareActually she has a successful business going and just decided to come back and do some movies. Took time off to raise a family and still has a hot bod.
shareJessica Alba is worth about $100 million so I don't think she's desperate for a paycheck. Alba makes more money in a week than you will in a year, Goober.
shareActually if you know about business, the picture is much less rosy.
Jessica Alba's net worth mostly came from the fact she was the founder of The Honest Company, Inc. (HNST), which was valued at 1.7 billion in 2015, and Jessica Alba owns 6% of it (around 5.6 million shares, including 1.4 million stock options according to regulatory filings in 2021), but that was the peak valuation.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/denizcam/2021/05/04/inside-jessica-albas-long-and-turbulent-road-to-taking-the-honest-company-public/
The company was listed on Nasdaq in May 5, 2021 at about $19 per share, and now it is around $2.5, and I just checked its current market capitalisation now is around 247 million.
I think people like Jessica Alba have to hold onto their shares for a number of years (probably 3 ~ 5 years) after listing before they can sell, so her holding is likely worth about 10 ~ 15 millions now, depending on whether she excised her stock options, which I suspect she did not since share prices were falling and those options likely became worthless.
I think that could be less than the money she put into this business.
Still more than most people could earn in their life time, but it is probably not enough for an extravagant celebrity life style.
In April 2024, Alba stepped down from her role as Chief Creative Officer: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/04/09/jessica-alba-steps-down-from-the-honest-company/73268672007/
Which was a job she was paid a $700,000 base salary beginning in 2022, an annual cash bonus worth up to $500,000, and annual restricted stock units valued at $1.5 million, rising to $3 million in 2024.
Her stepping down could also indicate she was going to sell, because public listed corporations need to disclose when insiders (such as chief executives) sell, after her stepping down she is no longer an insider.
So she was not going into poverty anytime soon, but financially speaking she probably wanted to make movies.
I asked AI and it is estimated that Jessica Alba was likely paid 2 ~ 5 million for the role, a lot higher than her corporate job, in a lot less time.