4- Jerry Bruckheimer – $850 million
Jerome Leon “Jerry” Bruckheimer is an American film and television producers. Unlike the other producers in this list, Jerry produced some of the most famous movies.
Some of his famous movies include: Top Gun, Bad Boys II, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the National Treasure franchise.
Among his famous television series we recall: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Without a Trace, Cold Case, and the U.S. version of The Amazing Race.
At one point, three of his TV series ranked among the top 10 in the U.S. ratings—a unique feat in television.
Plus, in July 2003, Bruckheimer was honored by Variety magazine as the first producer in Hollywood history to produce the top two highest-grossing films of a single weekend, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Bad Boys II.
