Rom-com queen Heigl is in second place on the list for the second year in a row, thanks to the failure of films such as Killers and One For the Money. Her last three movies returned just $3.50 for each dollar she was paid. Witherspoon, likewise, comes in third for the second time in a row with $3.90 per $1 following the relative box office failure of films such as period romance Water for Elephants in 2011 ($117m on a $38m budget) and romantic comedy spy film This Means War last year (a rather better $156m on a $65m budget). Nicolas Cage made fourth place on the list, with a $6 average return, and comedian Kevin James was fifth, returning an average of $6.10.
This year's top 10 was rounded out with some surprisingly titanic Hollywood figures, including Denzel Washington, Steve Carell, Jennifer Aniston, Matt Damon and Ryan Reynolds, returning between $8.30 and $10.70 per $1 paid. No-one on the list came close to the famously meagre of just 40 cents for every $1 paid returned by Drew Barrymore in 2011. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Barrymore does not qualify for the list this year because she has not made enough movies.
