All major movies involve some behind-the-scenes salary negotiations, but Sony’s sci-fi drama Passengers has endured more than its fair share of paycheck-related turbulence on its way to a green light. Two weeks ago,TheHollywood Reporter‘s Kim Masters reported that though Sony had landed the red-hot Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt to star in the spaceship-set romance, studio head Tom Rothman was balking at Lawrence’s $20 million salary demand. Yesterday afternoon, Masterswrote that Lawrence had indeed secured her paycheck, measured against 30 percent of the profits after the movie breaks even.

I’ve noticed that many of the writers who’ve picked up Masters’s story over the last two weeks have done so with a can you believe that tone of incredulity, as though Lawrence might not be worth her rare payday. They’re not alone: Masters reported that even Rothman “was heard wondering aloud” about Lawrence’s actual star power during budget meetings.

Allow me to allay their fears: If anyone in Hollywood is worth a $20 million paycheck, it’s freaking Jennifer Lawrence.

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