Peter Jackson is the Scrooge of entertainment according to a new Forbes ranking in which Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Bruce Springsteen also enter the top ten thanks to the sale of their music catalogs.
The director of "Lord of the Rings" was the 'number' one in the chart for 2021, valued at 580 million dollars mainly thanks to the sale last November of his special effects empire Weta Digital to Unity Software (the company behind the video games Pokémon Go and Call Of Duty: Mobile) for 1.6 billion that would have made him the third billionaire in the history of cinema after Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
No woman made the top 10: Reese Witherspoon, one of the three in the top twenty places, is twelfth thanks to 115 million dollars earned with her production company Hello Sunshine!
which backs female-led films that are joined by about $ 20 million for her role in the Apple TV drama "The Morning Show."
The other two women, separated by several lengths and several million, are Shonda Rhimes, the producer of the "Bridgerton" series, and Martha Kauffman, showrunner of "Friends" with Kevin Bright and David Crane.
The ranking was published after the former Police frontman Sting yesterday announced that he had sold the rights to his songs to Universal for an estimated $ 300 million in the media, which would certainly have placed him in the top ten. .
Springsteen is second, having sold his music catalog to Sony for around 500 million dollars while the 80-year-old Nobel laureate Dylan, who sold in two tranches in 2020 and 2021, finished tenth with 130 million while Paul Simon it came in seventh place (200 million).
Jay-Z (304 million), Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (270) and Kanye West (235) complete the top five, but not necessarily for their 'first job' as musicians and actors.
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The sale of the Tidal streaming service to Jack Dorsey's payment firm Square for $ 302 million represented the bulk of the earnings, while for Johnson it's tequila more than the movies that made him rich in 2021. As for Kanye, more than on music, he gained from agreements with Adidas for the popular Yeezy sneakers and with Gap: a pilot project that in 2022 will see the rapper divorced from Kim Kardashian engaged in an unprecedented stylistic team with Demna Gvasalia, the artistic director of Balenciaga .
Sixth in the rankings with 210 million were the creators of "South Park", Trey Parker and Matt Stone, having signed a contract worth 900 million in six years with Paramount + to make a series of films.
Behind them and behind Simon, Tyler Perry and Ryan Tedder follow
Jack Dorsey's Square payouts of 302 million represented the bulk of the earnings, while for Johnson it is tequila more than the movies that made him rich in 2021. As for Kanye, more than music, he earned from deals with Adidas for the popular Yeezy sneakers and with Gap: a pilot project that in 2022 will see the rapper divorced from Kim Kardashian engaged in an unprecedented stylistic team with Demna Gvasalia, the artistic director of Balenciaga.
Sixth in the rankings with 210 million were the creators of "South Park", Trey Parker and Matt Stone, having signed a contract worth 900 million in six years with Paramount + to make a series of films.
Behind them and behind Simon, Tyler Perry and Ryan Tedder follow
Jack Dorsey's Square payouts of 302 million represented the bulk of the earnings, while for Johnson it is tequila more than the movies that made him rich in 2021. As for Kanye, more than music, he earned from deals with Adidas for the popular Yeezy sneakers and with Gap: a pilot project that in 2022 will see the rapper divorced from Kim Kardashian engaged in an unprecedented stylistic team with Demna Gvasalia, the artistic director of Balenciaga.
Sixth in the rankings with 210 million were the creators of "South Park", Trey Parker and Matt Stone, having signed a contract worth 900 million in six years with Paramount + to make a series of films.
Behind them and behind Simon, Tyler Perry and Ryan Tedder follow
while for Johnson it is tequila more than the films that made him rich in 2021. As for Kanye, more than music, he gained from the agreements with Adidas for the popular Yeezy sneakers and with Gap: a pilot project that in the 2022 will see the rapper divorced from Kim Kardashian engaged in an unprecedented stylistic team with Demna Gvasalia, the artistic director of Balenciaga.
Sixth in the rankings with 210 million were the creators of "South Park", Trey Parker and Matt Stone, having signed a contract worth 900 million in six years with Paramount + to make a series of films.
Behind them and behind Simon, Tyler Perry and Ryan Tedder follow
while for Johnson it is tequila more than the films that made him rich in 2021. As for Kanye, more than music, he gained from the agreements with Adidas for the popular Yeezy sneakers and with Gap: a pilot project that in the 2022 will see the rapper divorced from Kim Kardashian engaged in an unprecedented stylistic team with Demna Gvasalia, the artistic director of Balenciaga.
Sixth in the rankings with 210 million were the creators of "South Park", Trey Parker and Matt Stone, having signed a contract worth 900 million in six years with Paramount + to make a series of films.
Behind them and behind Simon, Tyler Perry and Ryan Tedder follow
has earned from the agreements with Adidas for the popular Yeezy sneakers and with Gap: a pilot project that in 2022 will see the rapper divorced from Kim Kardashian engaged in an unprecedented stylistic team with Demna Gvasalia, the artistic director of Balenciaga.
Sixth in the rankings with 210 million were the creators of "South Park", Trey Parker and Matt Stone, having signed a contract worth 900 million in six years with Paramount + to make a series of films.
Behind them and behind Simon, Tyler Perry and Ryan Tedder follow
has earned from the agreements with Adidas for the popular Yeezy sneakers and with Gap: a pilot project that in 2022 will see the rapper divorced from Kim Kardashian engaged in an unprecedented stylistic team with Demna Gvasalia, the artistic director of Balenciaga.
Sixth in the rankings with 210 million were the creators of "South Park", Trey Parker and Matt Stone, having signed a contract worth 900 million in six years with Paramount + to make a series of films.
Behind them and behind Simon, Tyler Perry and Ryan Tedder follow
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, having signed a six-year contract worth $ 900 million with Paramount + to make a series of films.
Behind them and behind Simon, Tyler Perry and Ryan Tedder follow
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, having signed a six-year contract worth $ 900 million with Paramount + to make a series of films.
Behind them and behind Simon, Tyler Perry and Ryan Tedder follow