Ben Affleck is one of the most notable actors in the international entertainment scene. In fact, since the success of the classic Good Will Hunting in the late 1990s, a lot of doors have opened for the 49-year-old actor.
From being a small-time star, he is now an award-winning actor, with many iconic films to his name. He’s also a director and a filmmaker who’s behind some of the great movie projects. With that being said, how much is Ben Affleck now worth?
The Start of Ben Affleck’s Success
Ben Affleck’s success started in Good Will Hunting. He worked on the movie’s script with best friend Matt Damon and sold it to Miramax, per Yahoo! News.
They ended up starring in the movie in 1997, along with the great Robin Williams, and it became an instant hit. The film didn’t only earn them awards, but it also launched their careers.
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Jennifer Lopez’s partner managed to establish a big name from one successful film to another. He did Armageddon in 1998, Pearl Harbor in 2001, Daredevil in 2003 and more. Despite that, he still has a fair share of unsuccessful movies, but he still manages to stay afloat.
In the late 2000s, he ventured into movie making and directed the 2007 Gone Baby Gone and 2010 The Town. However, it wasn’t until he did Argo in 2012 that he made his most successful directorial run, not to mention one of his best performances to date.
Ben Affleck’s Payday Check, Investments and More
It’s no surprise that Ben Affleck earns hundreds of millions of dollars both as a director and actor. According to Celebrity Net Worth, he has been asking for “large paychecks” as a leading man since the early days of his career.
He and Matt and Damon earned $300,000 each when they sold Good Will Hunting screenplay. He then got $6 million for Reindeer Games and only $250,000 for Pearl Harbor.
Despite being flops, Changing Lanes and Gigli earned him $11.5 million and $12.5 million, respectively. As Batman in the Gotham hero movie franchise, Deadline estimated he might have received between $10 million and $20 million.
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Coincidentally, his biggest paycheck came from the 2003 movie Paycheck, which was $15 million. With these earnings, no wonder Ben Affleck now has a net worth of $150 million, Celebrity Net Worth revealed.
With this amount, fans expect him to have the best of everything, putting it on the right investments. True enough, when he and Jennifer Lopez were still together in 2009, they bought a house at Pacific Palisades in L.A. for a whopping $17.55 million.
J.Lo continued to live there until late 2018 and when she and her kids moved out, the couple sold it to Adam Levine for $32 million in 2019.
Jennifer Lopez then bought a new home at Brentwood Park in L.A. for $8 million, while Ben Affleck purchased a $19-million mansion at the Pacific Palisades in 2018.
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