Film producer
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A film producer oversees the making of movies. The producer initiates, coordinates, supervises and controls matters such as raising funding, hiring key personnel, and arranging for distributors. The producer is involved throughout all phases of the filmmaking process from inception to completion of a project.
In the early 20th century, the producer also tended to wield ultimate creative control on a film project. However, with the demise of Hollywood's studio system in the 1950s, creative control began to shift into the hands of the director.
Changes in movie distribution and marketing in the 1970s and 80s gave rise to the modern-day phenomenon of the Hollywood blockbuster, which tended to bring power back into the hands of the producer. While marketing and advertising for films accentuates the role of the director, apart from a few well-known film makers it is usually the producer who has the greatest degree of control in the American industry.
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Kinds of Producers
- Executive Producer: usually a representative, if not the CEO, of a motion picture production company that is producing a film, although the title may be given as an honorarium to a major investor.
- Producer: the classic producer who typically has the greatest involvement and oversight among a film's various producers. In smaller companies or independent projects, may be the equivalent of the Executive Producer.
- Co-Producer: usually reports to the Producer and is more involved in the day-to-day production
- Associate Producer: typically a title granted as a courtesy or to one who played some role in getting the film made
- Production Director: European. A representative of the motion picture production company assigned to the set and given the authority to act in behalf of the senior production team members.
- Line Producer: oversees a film's budget and day-to-day activities
- Production supervisor
- Production manager
Some notable film producers
- Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, and Barbara Broccoli - The James Bond series
- Jerry Bruckheimer - Top Gun, Crimson Tide, Con Air
- Dino de Laurentiis - Waterloo, Death Wish, U-571, Hannibal
- Howard Kazanjian - Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return Of The Jedi, Demolition Man
- Alexander Korda - Things to Come, The Four Feathers (1939), The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
- Walter Mirisch - West Side Story, The Sound Of Music
- Harry Saltzman - The James Bond series, Battle of Britain, The Ipcress File
- David O. Selznick - King Kong, Gone With the Wind
- Sam Spiegel - The African Queen, Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia
- Irving Thalberg - Mutiny on the Bounty, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Grand Hotel, A Night at the Opera
- Hal B. Wallis - The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Elvis Presley films
- Saul Zaentz - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The English Patient
- Darryl F. Zanuck - many Shirley Temple movies, The Grapes of Wrath, All About Eve, The Longest Day
See also
- List of Hollywood movie studios
- List of movie-related topics
- Producers Guild of America
- Television producer
David Zander
External links
- Producers Guild of America Frequently Asked Questions (http://www.producersguild.org/pg/about_a/faq.asp)de:Filmproduzent