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The Most Profitable Actor Born in Each State and CountryA set of graphics from CashNet gives movie fans in every state and every nation someone to be proud of. They determined the birthplace of the world's most bankable actors and determined their box office draw from IMdB. The figures attached to the names are not the actor's money, but the gross receipts of the movies they've appeared in, adjusted for inflation. Therefore, actors who appear in a lot of movies will amass more money overall, but those movies still had to be hits to compete. The number one slot worldwide goes to Samuel L. Jackson, who has appeared in an awful lot of films, many that were huge hits, with a total box office of $28.75 billion. The chart for the actors of all the nations in the world is rather large, so click to enlarge it here. The map shown above is for actors born in each of the United States. Note an egregious error in that Samuel L. Jackson was born in Washington, DC, and not in Washington state. Since women receive fewer movie roles overall, they also did a separate chart for female actors.

11 Actors Who Trash-Talked Their Own MoviesWe all have regrets in life, and often that includes that one job that we really hated. But for most people, a bad job in their past never gets discussed; you just move on with your life. Movie stars, on the other hand, have to deal with the eternal evidence of a bad movie still available on home video, along with archived critiques. Some actors don't hold back on their hatred for certain past projects. Most of them tell us knew the movie would be awful before its release and stayed with it anyway. That's understandable when you're new in the business, or need the money, or have an iron-clad contract. Or maybe they had already sunk so much time and effort into it that it was hard to walk away. Still, you might suspect that a few of the actors only realized how bad the film was when the critics told them or the box office tanked. Of course, they reacted as if they knew all along, and that's understandable, too, because they are actors with a reputation to uphold. Good luck figuring out which is which, in this list from TimeOut. Each entry has a link to a review of that movie. -via Digg#Hollywood #actor #badmovie

The Best An Actor Has Ever Looked OnscreenFilm writer Kevin L. Lee posed a question for Twitter: "What is the best an actor has ever looked on screen?" The replies range far and wide, and include both men and women from the past 100 years.