Movie Prodoucer Joel Silver has produced some of the biggest action hits of the last 20 years, including the ‘Lethal Weapon’ and ‘Matrix’ movies. Accustomed to big budgets and huge egos, Silver now faces the music along with the rest of Hollywood as movie budgets get cut and producing deals are scarce.
JOEL SILVER stands on the Warner [...]

The life of a producer means he is involved every step of the way, which can cover a time period of seven years.
What do film producers actually do? It’s one of those things we’re never really sure of. We know they’re the men – it’s usually men – with the money. We know they smoke [...]

Lawrence “Larry” Gordon got his first producing credit 37 years ago. His productions have included such blockbusters as “48 Hrs.,” “Die Hard” and “Watchmen,” so he was a natural to fill in when a panelist dropped out of “Producing Blockbusters,” one of more than two dozen panels at the Producers Guild of America’s Produced By [...]

Famous film and TV producer Jerry Bruckheimer - the man behind the CSI series, Top Gun, Black Hawk Down, Pirates of the Caribbean, and many others - has stated his belief that “in the next 10 years you won’t be able to tell the difference between movies and games.” In an interview with HeyUGuys, Bruckheimer [...]

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, [...]