Matt Craig, Forbes Staff

The 25th annual of the posthumous success of deceased musicians, athletes and authors, from The Notorious B.I.G. to Jimmy Buffett. Plus: How Michael Jackson earned $3.5 billion in the afterlife.

Tom Brady continues his winning ways, ringing up the highest salary of any television personality, while TV’s top three chefs earned nearly $100 million combined. And the kings of late night are still laughing all the way to the bank—but not for long. Nowhere is the structural decline of linear television more on full display […]

UFC’s CEO reveals why he wanted David Ellison’s muscle behind his MMA giant, why pay-per-view events no longer work, and what a potential UFC fight at the White House would look like on CBS.

After signing a new $1.5 billion deal with Paramount, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are part of Hollywood’s most elite club.

Mercedes, IWC, Expensify and other brands paid millions to sponsor a fictional Formula 1 team in Apple’s new F1 movie, which blurs the line between cinema and commerce—and could shape the future of both.

After years of booming entrepreneurship, the market is softening for celebrity-backed companies. But eye-watering earnings continue to roll in for the biggest female movie, TV and pop stars in the country.

The Harry Potter books transformed her from a single mother on welfare to an author with a ten-figure fortune—but her massive charity initiatives dropped her from the ranks of billionaires. Now, thanks to new Potterverse books, movies, a play, and several theme parks—and despite a divisive social-media presence—she is magically back in the three-comma club.

The streaming giant has been unable to disrupt the video game market, but armed with massive resources and time, its new push to level up could leave its competitors in the dust.

For top-earning stars like Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds, appearing in movies is one of many ways they reel in their out-sized paydays. Dwayne Johnson first announced his involvement in Red One on Instagram in June 2021, the first of dozens of posts promoting the movie to his 394 million followers over the course of […]

Feuding with Drake turned the ‘Not Like Us’ performer into hip-hop’s hottest artist. Now he will take music’s biggest stage in New Orleans—for free.