Marketing, publicity, distribution, production - Sid Ganis has seemingly done it all. He got his start at 20th Century-Fox in New York City in the early 1960s, and after stints at Fox, Columbia and Seven Arts he became senior VP at Lucasfilm in 1979, and worked with George Lucas in marketing such blockbusters as “The [...]

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Ever thought of how some movies get made over others? That’s because the people who pitch them in a room full of executives understand the power of visuals to overwhelm and impress. Comic books may be a medium of mass consumption but it’s appeal as a pitching tool has yet to be fully realized. But [...]

Before Oprah Winfrey lent her name to Lee Daniels’ “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” there were producers Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness.
Before actor-director-mogul Tyler Perry signed on to introduce his sizable audience to a Harlem teen named Claireece “Precious” Jones, there were the Magnesses.
The couple live in Denver and have their production [...]

Alan Ball, creator of hit series True Blood and Six Feet Under, tells Gabriel Wilder he has plenty of other projects to get his teeth into.
Alan Ball’s vampire series True Blood has almost single-handedly pulled the premium US cable channel HBO out of a slump.
The network was having a fallow period after its glory days whenThe Sopranos and Sex and the [...]

Five years ago, while Peter Jackson was immersed in directing his large-scale remake of “King Kong” for Universal, executive Mary Parent mentioned a project the studio was developing based on the wildly popular video game “Halo.”
Jackson was intrigued. He loved to play “Halo” with his two teenage children; his special effects company, New Zealand-based WETA, [...]

Is it a book? Is it a movie? Is it a website?Actually it’s all three. Anthony Zuiker, creator of the “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” U.S. television series, is releasing what he calls a “digi-novel” combining all three media — and giving a jolt to traditional book publishing.
 
Zuiker has created “Level 26,” a crime novel that [...]

There are several ways one can judge the success of film producers. First, there’s the money: Did they make any? Then there’s the art: Any awards? And then there’s the Dino De Laurentiis way to calculate a producer’s achievements: Did they bring any great dreams to cinematic life?
“Many years ago,” the nonagenarian film legend says, [...]

Harvey Weinstein predicts his movie ‘The Reader’ will have the edge over ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. He says:
“I love Danny Boyle’s movie. It’s breathtaking,” Weinstein told Entertainment Weekly recently. “It’s a shame they’re going to come in second.”
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Jerry Bruckheimer was standing quietly in his office here in late January, flanked by a display of body armor from King Arthur and a liquor cart stocked with an alarming amount of scotch. After some chitchat about his plans to attend the Super Bowl and a sore shoulder (the one he injured playing hockey), he sat down for a [...]