Jennifer Lawrence is highest paid female actor with earnings of $52-m last year

Jennifer Lawrence (25) is the world's highest-paid actress after earning $52m last year. However, the Hunger Games star is still $30m behind the highest paid actor Robert Downey Jr's who earned $80m last year.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 21 August 2015.

Jennifer Lawrence won an Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook in 2013, and augmented her income from films with other work like being the face of the fashion company Dior.
She made headlines last year when hacked Sony Pictures emails revealed that she earned a lower cut of profits from the movie American Hustle than her male counterparts like Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale.
As per information of Forbes, only four of the women on this year's highest-paid list - which takes into account earnings from movies, television, endorsements and other sources - made more than $20m, while 21 male actors reached that level.
Incidentally, Jennifer Lawrence was way ahead of Scarlett Johansson, second on the actress list whose earnings were estimated to be $35.5m, and Spy star Melissa McCarthy with $23m.
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It is now official – in the new version of Spider-Man, in which the role would be portrayed by Tom Holland, Spider-Man will wear the traditional costume. The wall crawler will make an appearance in ‘Captain America: Civil War’ and he will be seen in his classic blue-and-red costume.
This has been reported in indianexpress.com dated 11 August 2015.

In this connection it may be noted that in the ‘Civil War’ in the comics, Spider-Man was shown wearing a red-and-gold – it was the costume given by Tony Stark. However, it will be the familiar and classic blue-and-red color scheme that will be used in the film.
The film revolves around Captain America who is against Iron Man over the issue of superhuman registration. In the film will be seen Chris Evans reprising the titular hero along with Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man. The role of Black Widow would be played by Scarlett Johansson while Sebastian Stan will be seen as Winter Soldier.
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There is a fight scene between Captain America and Spiderman in ‘Civil War’

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This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 4 August 2015.

The film will see the return of Chris Evans as the titular hero along with Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Anthony Mackie as Falcon and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye.
The movie will be directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and this sequel to 2014's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" will arrive in North America on May 6, 2016.
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