Jack Nicholson received top billing in Batman above the lead actor Michael Keaton and used his long-standing preference for backend profit participation over upfront fees to gain financial leverage ...

Jack Nicholson became the biggest money-maker from ‘Batman‘ by taking a $4 million pay cut from his original offered price of $10 million by Warner Bros. Even though it surprised everyone back in the ...

While the casting of Michael Keaton in Tim Burton's first Batman movie gained much fan ridicule and anger at the time, the announcement that Jack Nicholson would play his opposite, The Joker, won ...