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Rather than wring every dime he could out of the popular "Matrix" movie series, Reeves signed away his back-end deal for the two sequels to the films' special-effects and costume-design teams -- an act of benevolence that cost him many millions.

And it's far from the only time he's taken a financial hit in the name of his art -- Reeves lowered his salary by a few million dollars for 1997's "The Devil's Advocate" so that producers could afford to bring Al Pacino on board as well.

"Money is the last thing I think about," Reeves has said. "I could live on what I have already made for the next few centuries."

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