'Cry Macho': Arnold Schwarzenegger Gets Huge Payday For New Film

Before he gets back to Terminating, Arnold Schwarzenegger is going soft. And he'll be crying all the way to the bank.

Schwarzenegger is set to star in the film "Cry Macho," and will make a pretty penny for his big screen comeback. Deadline's Nikke Finke reports that the movie star turned Governor turned movie star again will play a Kentucky Derby-winning horse breeder who sinks to depression and alcoholism after losing his wife and kids.

A deal is being worked out, Finke reports, that will pay Schwarzenegger $10 million upfront and 25% first dollar gross on the back end. For his first major film since 2003, it's an impressive package.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Schwarzenegger gave more detail about the project.

"He's a little bit over-the-hill. The last two years didn't go so well. But then the owner of the horses gives him a challenge," the former Governor said. "He sends him to Mexico to get his son. The owner's wife cheated him out of a business and took their son, and the owner wants to pay her back, so he sends the trainer to get his kid."

Schwarzenegger is also signing on for a new "Terminator" film; the rights to that movie are in the process of being sold.

For more, click over to Deadline.

Comments

[waldopepper]

03:35 AM on 05/03/2011

Politicians are like septic tanks. The really big chunks float to the top.

[LeeCalif]

07:57 PM on 05/02/2011

Boycott !!!!!!!

[LeeCalif]

07:55 PM on 05/02/2011

He let a m urder accomplice get a sweetheart deal because he is friends with the m urder-accomplice's father. Schwartz reduced the sentence by over half.

The m urder-accomplice had a weapon and kept the victim from escaping the scene.

Schwartz should never make another penny.

Schwartz also made a Sweetheart deal with Enron just after taking office. He reduced the penalty Gray Davis had been seeking by over $100 million.
Schwartz made Enron pay a mere $1 million.

[LeeCalif]

06:16 PM on 05/02/2011

He's too ugly.Plus why support someone who, as Governor, did favors for his friends and reduced the sentence for an accomplice in a murder of a college student who was prevented from escaping by this accomplice.

I think this makes Schwartz culpable.

[treemonkey]

05:30 PM on 05/02/2011

Is it just me, or has he started to look like a caricature of himself? Close, but without substance.

[runfastandwin]

05:06 PM on 05/02/2011

I for one won't go.

[williamwilliam2]

04:31 PM on 05/02/2011

He was advertising California in TV commercials in Japan last year. They were great TV ads.

[MikeDu]

03:21 PM on 05/02/2011

Is Schwarzenneger's movie wife going to be 65 and his son going t be forty four?

[RobietheCat]

01:04 PM on 05/02/2011

The headline is very misleading.

There is no 'payday.'

The deal is 'being worked out.'

[retourner]

12:47 PM on 05/02/2011

the same guy who vetoed two, not one, but TWO!!!, CA single payer bills THAT ACTUALLY PASSED THE CA LEGISLATURE.
how many people went bankrupt due to medical bills since HIS vetoes?
how many people were denied care and meds because of HIS vetoes?
how many children with cancer were denied treatment by Arnold's "friends", the insurance companies?
he's the terminator alright. in real life he actually terminated single payer in CA TWICE and guaranteed the pain and suffering of millions.

[JoliAvocat]

02:26 AM on 05/02/2011

He should turn over paychecks he receives from now until he dies to the State of California.

He owes us big time.

[JoliAvocat]

02:25 AM on 05/02/2011

This man owes the State of California and all of us plenty. He sat in the governor's seat for two terms and did nothing. He worsened the state's difficulties and then simply walked off to do films.

What a arrogant man. Most Californians don't care if they ever see this man again.

[Soulfest]

03:24 PM on 05/02/2011

Not to mention the heinous sentence reduction of Esteban Nunez.

[jaslyn]

12:12 AM on 05/02/2011

after being such a lackluster governor, no one wants to be reminded of him now that he's gone. Pass on that movie.

[rotorhead1871]

09:37 PM on 05/01/2011

movies pay better than government...for sure!!!

[aceshigh11]

06:17 PM on 05/01/2011

Doesn't sound very promising.

And I LOVE Arnold's '80s and '90s action movies, even the cheesy ones. They're great to watch with my friends and just laugh at all the one-liners, stiff acting (from Arnold and others) and mangled dialogue.

But this? Nah...not a good idea.