Los Angeles | After years of losses and underwhelming performance, the movie studio Paramount Pictures has delivered its best box-office results in a decade. The first five movies it released in theatres this year all opened in the top spot, culminating with Top Gun: Maverick, the highest-grossing film of the year so far.

But not everyone is celebrating. Many of the stars and producers of these movies, including Tom Cruise, Sandra Bullock and the creators of Jackass, believe they are going to miss out on millions of dollars because of a deal involving Paramount, its Paramount+ streaming service and the cable channel Epix, which is owned by Amazon.com.

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