1.Geoge Lucas: $ 20m (Rs 1,305cr)

Best-Known Films:Star Wars Series

2.Mel Gibson:$ 185m( Rs 832cr)

Best-Known Films:Passion of the christ,

Braveheart, Mad Max

3.Steven Spielberg:$ 80m (Rs 360cr)

Best-Known Films:E-T, Schindler's List,

Saving Private Ryan.

4.Jerry Bruckheimer: $80 m (Rs 270cr)

Best-Known Films:Pirates of the carribean,

National Treasure

5.Peter Jackson:$ 47 (Rs 211cr)

Best-Known Films:The Loard of The Rings Trilogy

Nobody was ready to produce, direct or release Mel Gibson's Passion of the Chirst because it was in Aramaic and it was too controversial. So he did it all himself and took home a bonanza.