Peter Guber

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Howard Peter Guber (born March 2, 1942 in Newton , Massachusetts ) is an American film producer .

An influential person in the entertainment industry for over thirty years, Guber is currently Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment . Rain Man , Batman , The Color Purple , Midnight Express , Gorillas in the Fog , The Witches of Eastwick , Missing and Flashdance are some of the films that Guber has personally produced or directed as executive producer Grossed US $ billion and received more than 50 Oscar nominations. Guber is also a co-owner of the NBA basketball team, Golden State Warriors .

Career

Columbia Pictures

Guber began his career in 1968 at Columbia Pictures while at the Graduate School of Business of New York University at its MBA worked. Within three years he worked his way up to the studio boss. During his time at the helm, Columbia had box office hits with films including Shampoo , Taxi Driver , Tommy, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind .

Casablanca FilmWorks

Guber founded his own production company in 1975, which he simply called FilmWorks ; In 1976 he merged it with the Casablanca Records label, founded by his long-time friend Neil Bogart , to form Casablanca Record & FilmWorks . The connection between the two companies came about through the fact that Guber promised the company the profits from a contract for five films that he had signed with Columbia. In return, he received 20% of the company's shares. He became the company's chairman and head of the Casablanca FilmWorks division . At about the same time as the merger of the companies, PolyGram joined Casablanca and took over 50% of the company shares from Neil Bogart.

His career as an independent film producer began in 1977 with Die Depth , one of Columbia's biggest box office hits of all time. His next film, Midnight Express (1978), received seven Oscar nominations in 1979, including in the “Best Picture” category, and was awarded two Oscars, namely for best adapted screenplay ( Oliver Stone ) and for best film music ( Giorgio Moroder ). The film also won a Golden Globe for Best Picture, and Guber was named Producer of the Year by the National Association of Theater Owners .

During this time, Guber also produced several television shows, including Mysteries of the Sea , a two-hour special for the station ABC .

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and the Guber-Peters Company (GBC)

Guber founded PolyGram Filmed Entertainment in 1979 when PolyGram Casablanca took over Record & FilmWorks and dissolved the FilmWorks division. He became Chairman of the Board and CEO and brought his new partner Jon Peters into the company. From May 1980, he and Peters were initially also partners in the Boardwalk Entertainment Corporation , which Neil Bogart had founded after he left Casablanca , but left the company in the summer of 1980.

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment has produced some commercially unsuccessful films such as Heroes of the Street (grossing US $ 2 million), Endless Love (1981, grossing $ 15 million), Escape on the Highway , and Missing (1982).

About Escape on the Highway (original title: Pursuit of DB Cooper ), the plot of which revolved around a plane hijacked in 1971 and the perpetrator's spectacular escape with a parachute and $ 200,000 loot, wrote the magazine Variety : The film is undoubtedly an attempt at Security agencies to drive the Skyjacker out of hiding: after seeing this crap, he will most certainly come back to sue someone.

Guber sold his stake in PolyGram in 1983 and founded the Guber-Peters-Company (GBC) together with Jon Peters.

Sony Pictures

In 1988, GPC merged with the production company Barris Industries, and on September 6, 1989, Barris Industries was renamed the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company. On September 29, 1989, GPEC was bought by Sony Corporation and Guber became Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Columbia Pictures Entertainment (now Sony Pictures Entertainment ). During Guber's time at SPE, the company expanded its leadership in the half-hour comedy series. The shows included Seinfeld , Eine schrecklich sein Familie , Designing Women (German title: Mann muss not be ? ) And Die Nanny , as well as Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune reactivated.

literature

  • Hit and Run - How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood. Nancy Griffin & Kim Masters, Simon & Schuster, 1996. ISBN 0-684-83266-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Guber, Co-Executive Chairman ; http://www.nba.com/warriors/staff/peterguber
  2. ^ And Party Every Day - The Inside Story of Casablanca Records
  3. ^ A b Post-Kiss, the Village People and Donna Summer, Neil & Joyce Bogart Redo Their Own Lives , People Magazine, May 26, 1980
  4. ^ A b Hit and Run - How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood ; Nancy Griffin & Kim Masters, Simon & Schuster, 1996
personal data
SURNAME Guber, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guber, Howard Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Newton , Massachusetts