Producers Articles

Producer Laurence Mark has been chosen to produce and writer/director Bill Condon to executive produce the telecast of the 81st Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Sid Ganis has announced. It will be Mark and Condon’s first involvement in the production of an Oscar show. Mark and Condon have worked together before. In 2006, Mark produced and Condon wrote and directed [...]

David Parkinson’s "The Horror Icon Who Spooked Himself: William Castle and Rosemary’s Baby" at Films in Focus: "After 15 years toiling in such B-movie series as The Whistler and The Crime Doctor, William Castle sold his soul to horror. In 1958 he hit upon the notion of insuring the lives of those brave enough to see his new chiller, Macabre, and recouped around $5 million [...]

At 6:30 pm on Thursday, June 19, producer Walter Mirisch, 86, will sign copies of his new book of memoirs, I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History, at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. The book signing will be followed by a screening of two Oscar-winning Mirisch productions: Billy Wilder’s mordant 1960 comedy The Apartment, starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and (gasp!) [...]

Producer William Castle, Mia Farrow, Robert Evans on the set of Rosemary’s Baby.   "An Academy Salute to Robert Evans" will feature a 40th anniversary screening of (a brand new print of) Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby, and an onstage "conversation" with all-powerful Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone (he of the Tom Cruise spat), film director Brett Ratner, Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash (formerly of Guns N’ Roses), [...]