Film producer
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A film producer creates the conditions for making 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 development 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 film industry.
Types of Producers
- Executive Producer: In major productions, 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. Often oversees the financial, administrative, and creative aspects of production, though not technical aspects. In smaller companies or independent projects, may be synonymous with Creator/Writer.
- Producer: the "classic" definition of 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: A producer who generally reports to the (Executive) Producer and is more involved in the day-to-day production. In independent projects, the title connotes an involvement in the inception of the production.
- Associate Producer: Usually acts as a representative of the Producer, who may share financial, creative, or administrative responsibilities, delegated from that producer. Often, a title granted as a courtesy or to one who made a major financial or creative contribution to the production.
- Production Director: 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 : Usually performs managerial duties on one aspect of the production.
- 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
- Robert Evans- Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown, The Saint
- Howard Kazanjian - Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return Of The Jedi, Demolition Man
- Steven Spielberg - E.T., Indiana Jones
- 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
- Ralph Winter - X-Men, Fantastic Four, [[X2: X-Men United]]
- 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
- Rick McCallum, - the Star Wars prequel trilogy
- Gary Kurtz, - the Star Wars trilogy
- Frank Marshall, - The Bourne Trilogy (Ultimatum in pre-production), Back to the Future Trilogy, Jurassic Park I to IV, Sixth Sense
- Andrew G. Vajna, - Rambo series, [[Die Hard: With a Vengeance]], and [[Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines]].
- George Lucas,- Star Wars, Indiana Jones
- Tyler Perry,- Diary of a Mad Black Women, Madea's Family Reunion
See also
- List of Hollywood movie studios
- List of movie-related topics
- Producers Guild of America
- Television producer
- Contrast with Film director
- Filmmaking
- Film production
External links
References
- The Producer's Business Handbook by John J. Lee, Jr., Focal Press (2000)
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