ENTERTAINMENT
Pop stars, athletes and celebrities are raking in more cash than ever. Others are getting rich as producers, owners of sports teams and even movie theater operators. In all, there are 104 media and entertainment billionaires around the world, worth some $367 billion.
Manoj Punjabi
$1.9 billion • Movies • Indonesia Backed by China’s Tencent Holdings, his Jakartalisted MD Pictures is enjoying a golden run as movie-mad Indonesians pack theaters to watch its blockbusters, such as horror flicks Curse of the Dancing Village and A Thousand Days.
Liu Wei
$1.8 billion • Mobile gaming • China
With Cai Haoyu and Yuhao Luo, who are also new billionaires this year, Liu cofounded online video gaming company miHoYo in Shanghai in 2012. Last September, he replaced Cai as chairman of the firm, best known for its animeinspired role-playing games Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. It now has 5,000 staffers spread across hubs in Montreal, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai.
Clark Hunt & Family
$1.4 billion • Kansas City Chiefs • U.S.
The chairman and CEO of the Chiefs, which his father, Lamar (d. 2006), founded in 1959, has been involved in running the NFL team for nearly two decades. Since he took over as CEO in 2010, the Chiefs have made 10 playoff appearances and won the Super Bowl three of the past four years. The team’s value is up 350% since then as well.
Dick Wolf
$1.2 billion • TV shows • U.S. The creator of the Law & Order, Chicago and FBI franchises became a billionaire by producing more than 2,000 episodes of television that still dominate the primetime network schedule.
Gyorgy Gattyan
$1.1 billion • Adult entertainment • Hungary Porn website LiveJasmine made him a billionaire, but Gattyan’s interests go beyond skin: He cofounded the International Teqball Federation, the governing body of the fast-growing sport that improbably mixes soccer and table tennis.
Benny Suherman
$1.1 billion • Cinemas • Indonesia The cofounder of Cinema XX1, Indonesia’s biggest theater chain both by box-office revenue and number of screens, makes his debut after the August listing of his company, Nusantara Sejahtera Raya.
Taylor Swift
$1.1 billion • Music • U.S.
It was far from a cruel summer for the pop star, whose Eras Tour earned her an estimated $190 million after taxes. And it’s not over:
The show will continue traversing the globe until concluding in Vancouver, British Columbia, in December. That plus a music catalog worth some $500 million helped Swift, 34, become the first billionaire musician based solely on songs and performances.