Angelina Jolie was one of the highest-paid actresses earning 10-15 million dollars per film in 2002 and for the next five years. Several of her films were unsuccessful and critics were also disappointed by them. But in 2005 Angelina Jolie returned to the box office with a major success with the action-comedy Mr. and Mrs.Smith in which Angelina Jolie starred opposite Brad Pitt. This movie had mixed reviews and earned $478.2 million worldwide. This movie became the seventh highest-grossing picture of that year and the highest-grossing live-action movie for a decade. In 2008 she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood while the other actresses were forced to take salary cuts. Her action movie Wanted was an international success earning $341.4 million worldwide in the same year.
After her mother’s death in 2007, she started to appear in a few films. After two years her first film Salt 2010 was released which was also an international success earning $293.5 million and generally receiving positive reviews.
After directing the documentary A Place in Time in 2007, Angelina Jolie made her feature directional debut with In the Land of Blood and Honey in 2010. Then after a massive leave of three and a half years, she starred in the movie Maleficient 2014. The movie grossed $757.8 million worldwide and became the fourth highest-grossing film of the year and her highest-grossing film ever.