Top 10 World’s Wealthiest Directors

5 Peter Jackson

Are you a Lord of the Rings enthusiast? You can thank Peter Jackson, director, writer, and multi-award-winning producer for this.

Jackson earned $180 million from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which paved the way to even greater success with films like “King Kong”, and “The Lovely Bones”.

King Kong was a key contributor to his net worth as he was paid $20,000,000 dollars plus 20% of box office sales.

He was able to bank the money and went on to direct and write the Hobbit trilogy. He is now one of the most successful directors in the world.

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