Katherine Heigl's High Salary Demand

Whew! A high salary demand can cost you a career of a lifetime. Well, there's some exaggeration here - but if Katherine Heigl goes on with this demanding attitude, she might soon pack out of Hollywood and bid her acting career goodbye.

Katherine Heigl (of Grey's Anatomy and 27 Dresses) had been reportedly slated to star in the upcoming romantic comedy "Valentine's Day" to be released in 2011. But the producers chose to drop her because of her high salary demand - an eye-popping $3 million for a 3-14 day shoot!


“Producers at New Line originally had Katherine on their casting list. They wanted her for the project, but during the talks, she came back demanding $3 million for the role,” says a source. Her demand was deemed "ridiculous," considering that the movie has “an ensemble cast where there is really no one lead role. Actors are only filming between three and 14 days, and no other actors asked for nearly that amount.”

What's more ridiculous is that there's a lot of bigger stars for the movie but none of them ask for as much as Katherine Heigl's rate. You ask for the rest of the cast? The movie line-up includes Julia Roberts, Jennifer Garner, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Shirley MacLaine and Bradley Cooper - actors who have been in the film industry pretty longer and have had reputations for good acting and box-office hits.

Sad to say, haters of the 30-year old American actress says she's not worth $3 million... Does Katherine Heigl (and her high salary demand) ever realize how many good actors are looking for any paying work these days?