Producers

Dino De Laurentiis Net Worth

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2 months ago

March 5, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Dino De Laurentiis's Net Worth as of 2024
$120 Million

Agostino De Laurentiis was born on the 8th August 1919, in Torre Annunziata, Naples, Campania, Italy, and was a film producer, widely recognized for his work on “La Strada” (1954) for which he was honored with a prestigious Academy Award, as well as “Serpico” (1973), “Dune” (1984), “Army of Darkness” (1992), “Hannibal” (2001) and “Red Dragon” (2002). Dino passed away in 2010.

Have you ever wondered how much wealth this talented Italian accumulated for life? How rich would Dino De Laurentiis be today? According to sources, it is estimated that the total of Dino De Laurentiis’ net worth, as of early 2017, would exceed the sum of $120 million, acquired through his prominent career in the moviemaking industry which was active for almost 70 years, from 1938 to 2007.

Dino De Laurentiis Net Worth $120 million

Dino grew up on the streets of Naples, selling fresh pasta made by his father. In 1937, he enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome but was forced to abandon his studies due to the beginning of the World War II. However, he didn’t abandoned his dream and worked as a propman, extra or any other odd job connected to moviemaking that he could find, and by the 1940, the 19-year-old Dino has already produced his first movie – “L’amore canta”. Upon returning from service in the Italian army during WWII, Dino continued in movie production, and released “The Bandit” (Il bandito) in 1946. These engagements provided the basis for Dino De Laurentiis’ net worth.

This was followed by successful collaborations with Federico Fellini, and work on his cult classics “La Strada” (1954) and “The Nights of Cabiria” (1957). In 1960, De Laurentiis opened his own production company, Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica, which in its 10-year-long operating life released numerous Italian as well as international movies of the 1960s era, such as “A Difficult Life” (1961), “Mafioso” (1962), “The Violent Four” (1968) as well as “Danger: Diabolik” (1968), “Barbagia (La società del malessere)” (1968) and “A Brief Season” (1969). All these ventures helped Dino De Laurentiis to add a significant sum to his net worth.

In 1976, he relocated to the US where he founded his own studio named De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, based in Wilmington, North Carolina. Through the rest of the 1970s and the 1980s, Dino collaborated with big names of the movie-making industry and produced some of the cult classic movies such as, apart from those above, “King Kong” (1976), “The Serpent’s Egg” (1977), “The Bounty” (1984) as well as “Conan the Destroyer” (1984) and “Blue Velvet” (1986). It is certain that all these accomplishments made a positive impact on Dino De Laurentiis’ wealth.

He also produced several movies about the infamous fictional serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. including “Hannibal” (2001), “Red Dragon” (2002) and “Hannibal Rising” (2007). Two of the last movies De Laurentiis worked on were “The Last Legion” and “Virgin Territory”, both released in 2007. In his professional career, which spawned for nearly 70 years, Dino produced 174 motion pictures. Apart from those already mentioned above, Dino founded several other movie studios, in all corners of the world such as the Dinocitta in Rome, Italy, CLA De Laurentiis in Morocco and Roadshow Studios in Australia, which together produced over 600 movies. Doubtlessly, all these achievements dramatically increased his net worth.

Apart from moviemaking, Dino also put some efforts into the food business – during the 1980s he was the owner of DDL Showfood, a chain of markets with Italian specialty foods and goods located in Los Angeles and New York City.

When it comes to his personal life, Dino was married twice. From his first marriage with Italian actress Silvana Mangano, which lasted between 1949 and 1988, he has four children. From 1990 ’til his death in 2010, he was married to Martha who was also a producer, and with whom he has two children. Dino passed away at the age of 91, on the 10th November 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Celebrities

Paul Heyman Net Worth

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1 day ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Paul Heyman was born on 11 September 1965, in Westchester County, New York City USA, and is an entertainment producer, performer, marketing guru, and a businessman. In particular, he is a vital member of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (a.k.a. the WWE). Heyman’s versatility has made a great impact on his net worth.

So just how rich is Paul Heyman? The latest information from authoritative sources as of mid-2016, estimates that Paul’s net worth is over $10 million, accumulated during his working life now spanning 30 years.

Paul Heyman’s Net Worth $10 Million

Paul was born into the Jewish family of personal injury attorney Richard, and Sulamita Heyman, actually a holocaust survivor. At 11 he started his first business attempt, selling celebrity and sports memorabilia. His educational background comes from Suny Purchase, New York, and Westchester Community College, where he was also employed as a radio station host and later a producer, and was famous/notorious even then for his bold, controversial and opinionated statements.While still a teenager, Heyman hustled his way as a photo journalist into a World Wide Wrestling Federation event at Madison Square Garden, and was paid by the company for several photos he had taken. This is considered as a first step into his later career, and which talent he expanded into the creation of a wrestling magazine “The Wrestling Times Magazine^“, and wrote for wrestling publications such as “Pro Wrestling Illustrated”.

Paul then successively worked for Capitol Wrestling Corporation, Championship Wrestling from Florida, Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling, and Extreme Championship Wrestling, in various guises including promoter, producer, trainer, and manager, and then with World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as a commentator and broadcaster from the turn of the century. Additionally, he is also the manager of such famous wrestlers as Brock Lesnar and a group of wrestlers called Paul Heyman Guys. The training career income is considered to be one of the main flows into Heyman’s account as well.

Paul Heyman pursues a separate career as a businessman as well, as he has also co-founded and co-owns a branding and advertising marketing firm The Looking4Larry Agency, based in New York City. The company is mostly known for its activities in viral video production as well as social media marketing. Heyman employed award winning NYC ad executive Mitchell K. Stuart of HQ-Creative Services and their very first client was EA Sports. After successful viral campaigns with EA, The Looking4Larry Agency became the agency of record for THQ video games, where Heyman and Stuart wrote, directed, and produced viral videos for THQ games such as All Stars, WWE ’12, and WWE ’13.

Heyman also launched a multimedia project called The Heyman Hustle, featuring a video of him interacting with celebrities from several areas of entertainment on the streets of New York City, and articles about professional wrestling.

Additionally, Heyman was cast by producer Michael Tadross as “Gino” in the film adaptation of the off-Broadway show “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding”, and Heyman also made a cameo appearance in the WWE Studios film, “Countdown”.

In his personal life, Paul Heyman married Maria, but is reputed to be raising their two children as a single father. There is little other private information available to the media.

Actors

Tony Dow Net Worth

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1 day ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Tony Lee Dow was born on 13 April 1945 in Hollywood, California USA. He is a well-known person in the Hollywood movie industry because of his long-lasting involvement as a film producer, director and an actor.

So how rich is Tony Dow? Sources estimate his current net worth to be $4 million. Most of it he has accumulated by working as a professional Hollywood actor for more than 50 years.

Tony Dow Net Worth $4 Million

Tony Dow’s interest in the film industry might have been related to the fact that his mother, Muriel Virginia Dow, was a stunt woman and a film double at the time Tony was a child and teenager. However, Tony undoubtedly had some acting talent which was proven when he managed to win the audition for a role in the sitcom “Leave It to Beaver” in 1957, despite having no experience in acting at that time. This was the role that had perhaps the most influence in building a solid foundation to Tony Dow’s acting career, even though he received only one award – Young Artist Award in nomination of “Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award” in 1988, after working in the show for six years. It was also a solid start to his net worth.

In the next few years after “Leave It to Beaver”, Tony appeared in several episodes of other TV shows, such as the sitcom “My Three Sons” (in 1964), drama series “Mr. Novak” (between 1963 and 1965) and teen soap opera “Never Too Young” (in 1965). Tony continued working in television up until the late 90s and his net worth continued to grow, for example in 1975 he starred in the popular medical TV drama “General Hospital”.

While Tony Dow is mostly known as a television actor, he has appeared in a few films during his career, including the television horror film “Death Scream” in 1975, comedy film “The Kentucky Fried Movie” in 1977, television comedy film “High School USA” in 1983, comedy “Back to the Beach” and comedy film “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star” in 2003.

Acting aside, Tony Dow is also known as a producer, director and visual effects specialist, especially in the science fiction genre, and these involvements have undoubtedly contributed to building up his net worth. Tony contributed to the visual effects of the 1996 season of the phenomenal British science fiction TV series “Doctor Who”, and a few episodes of the space opera TV series “Babylon 5”. He also directed an episode of the American science fiction TV series “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” in 1998.

Interestingly though, some people might also recognize Tony Dow as a sculptor who is well known for his brilliant abstract pieces depicting surreal figures.

In his personal life, Tony Dow has never been married and has no children. He is known to have suffered from depression during some periods of his life, which on a positive note has encouraged him to participate in self-help videos, including the production “Beating the Blues” (1998). However, the negative effect is that Tony hasn’t participated as an actor in any film since 2003.