Follow the money

Slate’s Hollywood Economist not delivering your Tinseltown financial fix? Box Office Mojo lose its mojo? Have I got a story for you. Via Chutry, The Smoking Gun, in yet another documents coup, has scored the budget papers chronicling just exactly how Shamalamadingdong and Co. spent their $71 million budget for The Village, as well as financial records for three of the twist-ending king’s other films. Here’s a fun tidbit from budget for The Sixth Sense:

Records show that while Bruce Willis made $14 million for "The Sixth Sense," the film's other star, 10-year-old Haley Joel Osment, was a major bargain. Osment played "Cole Sear," a boy who saw dead people and was the psychological drama's emotional core. And one that only cost $150,000. By comparison, Willis's private jet tab alone was $450,000 and an unspecified "other allowance" for him was budgeted at $339,492. Actress Toni Collette, who played Osment's mother, earned $1 million. For a small role, actress Mischa Barton (later of the Fox TV hit "The O.C.") was paid $26,050, records show.