- George Lucas
Net Worth:$6.39 billion
George Lucas is an American filmmaker and business tycoon. Lucas is known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founding Lucas film, Lucas Arts. After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Lucas wrote and directed THX 1138 in 1971.
- Arnon Milchan
Net Worth: $3.4 billion
Arnon Milchan is an Israeli film producer and billionaire businessman. After death of his father, he inherited his father’s fertilizer company at the age of 21. He is considered as one of the most prolific Hollywood film producers after producing more than 120 full-length motion pictures such as ‘Once Upon A Time In America’ and ‘Under Siege’. Currently, Arnon Milchan owns the WTA broadcasting rights.
- Austin Hearst
Net Worth: $1.9 billion
Austin Hearst is an American business and media executive, film producer and philanthropist. He plays a leadership role in the family-owned Hearst Corporation. Hearst is also vice president of special projects for Hearst Entertainment & Syndication, the operating group responsible for the Hearst Entertainment interests in cable television networks, including ESPN, Lifetime, A&E and HISTORY. His most recent project was The Vow, a romance starring Rachel McAdams.
- Jeffrey Lurie
Net Worth: $1.85 billion
Jeffrey Robert Lurie is an American motion picture producer and businessman, and the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). Lurie made most of his fortune in the movie production business. On February 27, 2011, the Lurie-produced documentary film, Inside Job, won an Academy Award for best documentary film.
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Cameron Mackintosh
Net Worth: $1.2 billion
Cameron Mackintosh is a British filmmaker, theatrical producer and theatre owner notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. At the height of his success in 1990, he was described as being “the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world” by the New York Times.
- Ryan Kavanaugh
Net Worth: $1 billion
Ryan Kavanaugh is an American film producer and artist. Through his studio, he has helped financed more than 200 films which earned him around $17 billion in revenues. He is also famous in making money by hitting singles and doubles such as the recent Safe Haven. It costs $25 million in the making and has grossed more than $50 million in the box office.
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
Net Worth: $900 million
Jeffrey Katzenberg is an American film executive, film producer and media personality. He became well known for his tenure as chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994. Katzenberg has also been involved in politics. With his active support of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, he was called “one of Hollywood’s premier political kingmakers and one of the Democratic Party’s top national fundraisers”.
- Jerry Bruckheimer
Net Worth: $900 million
Jerry Bruckheimer is an American film and television producer. He has been active in the genres of action, drama, fantasy and science fiction. His best known television series are Crime Scene Investigation, Without a Trace and Cold Case. At one time, three of his TV series ranked among the top 10 in the U.S. ratings.
- Peter Guber
Net Worth: $800 million
Peter Guberis an American filmmaker, business executive and author. He is Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment. Guber’s most recent films from Mandalay Entertainment include The Kids Are All Right, Soul Surfer and Bernie. Guber’s films have grossed over $3 billion worldwide and received over 50 Academy Award nominations. Guber is also co-owner of four professional sports teams, the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association and the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball.
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Jerry Moss
Net Worth: $800 million
Jerry Moss is an American recording executive, best known for being the co-founder of A&M Records, along with trumpeter and bandleader Herb Alpert. After graduating with a degree in English from Brooklyn College and a stint in the Army, Moss began his music career by promoting “16 Candles”, a hit for the Crests on Coed Records.
- Joe Roth
Net Worth: $700 million
Joe Roth is an American filmmaker, producer and director. He co-founded Morgan Creek Productions in 1988, Caravan Pictures (1993–94), and Walt Disney Studios (1994–2000) before founding Revolution Studios in 2000.Joe co-founded Morgan Creek Productions in 1987 and was chairman of 20th Century Fox (1989–1993).
- Steve Bing
Net Worth: $600 million
Steve Bing is an American businessman and film producer. He is also the founder of Shangri-La business group, which holds interests in music, entertainment, construction, and property.He attended Stanford University but later dropped out. As a producer, he debuted with the 2000 film Get Carter. He also wrote Kangaroo Jack.
- Chuck Lorre
Net Worth: $600 million
Chuck Lorre is an American television writer, producer and composer called the “King of Sitcoms” during the 2010s. He also served as an executive producer of Roseanne. In 2019, he received his first Golden Globe Award for his series The Kominsky Method. Chuck Lorre has produced and written such hit shows as “Grace Under Fire” and “The Big Bang Theory”.
- Stephen Bing
Net Worth: $590 million
Stephen Leo Bing is an American businessman and film producer. He is the founder of the Shangri-La business group, an organization with interests in property, construction, entertainment, and music.At the age of 18, Bing inherited an estimated $600 million from his grandfather, Leo S. Bing, a real estate developer who had made his fortune in New York in the 1920s.
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Simon Fuller
Net Worth: $580 million
Simon Fuller is an English entrepreneur, artist manager, film and television producer. He is best known for being the creator of the Idol franchise, which was first seen in the UK under the name Pop Idol, and includes American Idol in the U.S. In 2007, Time magazine named Fuller one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
- Simon Cowell
Net Worth: $550 million
Simon Phillip Cowell is an English television show judge, A&R executive, talent manager, television producer and entrepreneur. He has judged on the British TV talent competition series Pop Idol, The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent, and the American TV talent competition shows American Idol. In 2004 and 2010, Time named Cowell one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
- Emilio Estefan
Net Worth: $500 million
Emilio Estefan Gómez is a Cuban-American musician and producer of Lebanese heritage. Emilio has won 19 Grammy Awards. Estefan first came to prominence as a member of the Miami Sound Machine. He earned his wealth from his professional career as a musician and actor. Part of his wealth also comes from his business associations with his wife.
- Abigail Disney
Net Worth: $500 million
Abigail E. Disney is an American documentary filmmaker, philanthropist, and activist known for her documentary films focused on social themes. She is the Executive Producer and Director of the Emmy-winning film The Armor of Light, which premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. In 2012, she was reported to have renounced her massive shares in the family’s fortune (Ahavacosmetics company).
- Mark Burnett
Net Worth: $438 million
Mark Burnett is a British television producer who is the current Chairman of MGM Worldwide Television Group. He has personally won twelve Emmy Awards, five Producers Guild of America Awards, seven Critics’ Choice Television Awards. Burnett is also the executive producer of the cable series Lucha Underground (The El Rey Network) and The Contender (EPIX).
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Michael Bay