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The Highest Paid Men In Hollywood 2008

Posted on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta

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A couple weeks ago Forbes revealed their yealy list of the top earning women in Hollywood, which revealed the unsurprising statistic that Harrison Ford earned almost two and a half times more than the top earning actress (Angelina Jolie). Forbes Magazine has now published their listing of Hollywood’s highest-paid men and guess who made the most amount of money in 2008….

The answer is George Lucas.

The Forbes list includes musicians like Bruce Springsteen ($70m) and Kenny Chesney ($65m) and tv and radio personalities like Howard Stern ($70m), Simon Cowell ($75m) and Dr. Phil ($80m), none of which I really consider “Hollywood,” so I’ve excluded them from the listing below.

1. George Lucas - $170 million
2. Steven Spielberg - $150 million
3. Jerry Bruckheimer - $100 million
4. Jerry Seinfeld - $85 million
5. Tyler Perry - $75 million
6. Dick Wolf - $75 million
7. Harrison Ford - $65 million
8. Adam Sandler - $65 million
9. Larry David - $55 million

Check out the full listing on Forbes.com.

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  • felicaday
    Beardface has sucked the tit of the clone wars long enough, hasn't he?
  • thorofthunder
    Alas, there yet be another tit for him to suck!
  • He'll continue to suckle as long as fanboys keep feeding him!!
  • Bob
    Hey, they're his tits, he can suck them all he likes.
  • Clarence Somerset
    Jerry Sienfeld and Larry David??
  • jimmytheghost
    That's what years of syndication will do for you.
  • Wow, that's amazing.
  • THE CRAZY MOOSE MAN
    Lucas has a face like an ewok.
  • vva
    But people continue to pay. So who's the fool?
  • sammyjankis
    That man could take a crap, put it on screen and make money.... Oh wait he did that already, multiple times.
  • tyler freaking perry? are you kidding me?
  • Colonel_Kurtz
    He writes, produces, directs, acts in, promotes, and distributes his own films at his own studio. That's a lot of work and a lot of risk. Tyler Perry earned his money more than anyone else on that list. The next hardest worker on there is Adam Sandler. Yeah, I know. I just got a blinding headache too.
  • Ah
    What has George Lucas been doing to make that amount?
  • Pie
    From what I understand, he gets a cut from all Star Wars related merchandise, and that stuff doesn't seem to ever stop. So basically he is constantly making money and doesn't have to lift a finger.
  • entertainmenttod
    and people are sleeping on cardboard boxes on street corners of NYC. What a country. Aint capatalism GREAT!
  • Ben
    Yeah, because socialist countries don't have homeless people..........
  • Superhog
    I'll give him my money as long as he keeps thinking up stuff. I refuse to let a few negative things about the prequels and INDY4 affect my appreciation for what he's done for cinema as a whole.
  • Charlie
    Tyler Perry makes more than Harrison Ford?

    What. The. Fuck.
  • Superhog
    Doesn't he come out with like 2 or 3 movies a year? Ford comes out with one high profile movie every few years recently. But yeah, whats up with that?
  • quintushalls
    I kept saying "Please not be Michael Bay, Please not be Michael Bay" when opening this article and I'm very happy that he didn't make the top list. I'm sad that George and Steven, who raped Indiana Jones 4, made the most. Also, what did Seinfeld and Larry David do that made them that much money???
  • Though when he gets his cut after Transformers this year he'll be on this list for sure.
  • Between Seinfeld sindication, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Whatever Works, and Seinfeld still doing stand up, those two clean up
  • arocke
    he gets paid scale for whatever works, so i doubt that 50,000 means to much.
  • Nowhere does it say how Forbes reaches the conclusions it does; I think most of those numbers, especially for the producers, are WAY off. For example, I don't think it's George Lucas who made $170mil, it's LUCASFILM that made $170mil. After all, it's Lucasfilm that owns the Star Wars franchise, not George Lucas himself. And yes, we all know Lucas owns Lucasfilm, but he doesn't get 100% of what Lucasfilm makes.

    Same for Spielberg, Bruckheimer, Wolf and Sandler, they all have production companies making money without their owner's interference.
  • bobbiee
    I always knew Larry David was a big name. But I didn't know he was making that kind of dough!
  • dsahawker
    No Michael Bay???? I'm shocked
  • jerry got paid a shit load for those microsoft ads... g's louise... and sandler continues to make money for shit movies...
  • "Dr." Phil made $80,000,000!? Are you effing kidding me!? That man is a sham.
  • lorettajohnson
    i wonder what movie spielberg is watching on that monitor (sure as hell cant be indy 4)
  • 77BeverlyDrive
    six out of ten are jewish. For a people that make up .002 of the overall population that's pretty interesting. They must be doing something right.
  • YazzyDream
    Adam Sandler? When was the last time he did anything decent?
  • stephen
    WTF he said highest paid not highest earning.....stupid guy
  • shitload
    hahaha u guys comment are soo funnny
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