James McAvoy's Residual Ledger Has Exactly One Film on It
James McAvoy's filmography includes Atonement, X-Men: First Class and Speak No Evil. According to him, only one of those titles still consistently sends him residuals: M. Night Shyamalan's 2016 horror Split, which he has described as the sole film he still receives that kind of payment from. He has framed the money as modest and irregular rather than a steady income stream — the sort of career arithmetic where the prestige credits and the franchise paycheck live on the résumé, and the horror hit lives in the mailbox. That's his own accounting of his own deals, not a ranking of which of his films mattered most.
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Blockbuster mutant franchise, prestige literary adaptation, and the one still paying is a 2016 Shyamalan horror. Strange scoreboard.
A residual stream could say more about the shape of a particular deal than about a film's reception. One actor's mailbox is not a critical ranking.
Sure — but it's still a good piece of career trivia: the horror hit outlasting the blockbusters in his own accounting.