Brad Pitt had a compelling reason — or perhaps 13 million of them — to interrupt his honeymoon with Angelina Jolie.
According to sources, Pitt, along with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, each earned a whopping $13 million for about two days’ work, filming an ad directed by Martin Scorsese for moguls Lawrence Ho and James Packer’s Macau mega-casino, Studio City.
A Hollywood insider said the total budget for the short film — written by “Boardwalk Empire” creator Terence Winter — was $70 million. (Then again, that’s only a drop in the bucket for the casino project: The development, which will have a “cinematic theme,” according to owner Melco Crown Entertainment, has reportedly cost about $2.3 billion.)
Pitt took a break from a working honeymoon with Jolie in Gozo, after their intimate wedding in France, to star in the project for Scorsese in New York. Packer’s Hollywood banner with Brett Ratner, RatPac Entertainment, produced the pricey clip with Ridley Scott’s RSA commercial banner.
The mini-movie will debut next year as part of the casino’s launch. Reps for the actors didn’t respond to requests for comment.
A Melco Crown spokesman said: “The financial figures you have provided us with are wrong and have not been publicly disclosed.”