Hollywood's virgins making it big

This story from The Australian is about the proliferation of no-names that are taking the big roles in the big films. I.e., Brandon Routh in Superman Returns.

We went to see the movie in Gold Class at Garden City yesterday. I liked it, not loved it. Awesome CGI effects, Routh is cute as the Blue Wonder, Kevin Spacey is evil personified as Luthor, and there is even Marlon Brando's dead disembodied voiceover, as Jor-El, Superman's real alien Krypton Dad. It actually cracked me up, when he kept referring to his son (in the dead disembodied voiceover) as Kal-El, and I remembered Nicolas Cage being a hardcore-Superman-addicted freakshow and having that baby with that 12-year-old Korean girl who was like a quarter his age and naming the baby Kal-El. Sucked in, baby. You are going to be paid out super-mega-bigtime.

Anyway, I think it's great to see people in films who aren't Reese Witherspoon, Cate Blanchett or Adam Sandler. Especially Adam Sandler.
Routh will no doubt start to get bigger and better roles from now on (although debatable: can you GET bigger or better than SR?) and I was shocked to read that he only got paid a million for Superman.
Considering that it cost them $180 million to make, and that it will gross a lot LOT more than that, and also that your "established" leading-man type is pulling in around the 10-12 mill mark per film.
A mere pittance, really. I certainly hope he demands what he is worth for his next effort.