Black Enterprise Magazine “Top 25 Moneymakers in Hollywood” March 2008

March 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Tagged as Black Enterprise Magazine

Oprah Winfrey has topped Black Enterprise Magazine’s 2008 list of Top Moneymakers in Hollywood.

Coming in at No. 1 is media powerhouse Oprah Winfrey, who is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s most influential moguls. The Oprah Winfrey Show continues to reign as the highest-rated talk show in daytime television history. Winfrey, whose show has won more than 40 Emmys, recently struck a deal with Discovery Communications to launch OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, in 2009. The network will be the most recent addition to a media empire that includes a satellite radio network channel and a magazine. One of a handful of black billionaires and CEO of a leading BE 100s company, Winfrey is also a powerful television and film producer.

Here’s how the Top Ten rounded out:

2.) Shonda Rhimes (Grey’s Anatomy Writer)
3.)Will Smith
4.)Denzel Washington
5.)Halle Berry
6.)Jamie Foxx
7.)The Wayans Family
8.)Martin Lawrence
9.)Queen Latifah
10.)Laurence Fishburne



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