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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
a global box office of $469 million that had everyone involved humming along to the movie’s hit song, “Everything Is Awesome.” Following on that success, February saw the release of The LEGO Batman Movie, with The LEGO Ninjago Movie due...
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Julia Hanna
- 14 Oct 2021
- News
Disney’s Alan Horn to Retire
Longtime Disney studio head Alan Horn (MBA 1971) announced this week that he is set to retire at the end of this year. Holding the official title chief creative officer of Disney Studios Content, his deep impact on the company was highlighted by the New York Times....
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Hollywood and Humility
flurry of movie projects, including a three-picture deal with director M. Night Shyamalan, the pair is becoming, through MRC, one of the largest suppliers of programming for television, according to Daily Variety (September 25, 2008)....
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Life of Ted
TURNER AND BURKE: Capturing the boss in print. Courtesy Bill Burke Immediately after graduating from HBS, Bill Burke (MBA ’92) went south, where he helped start Turner Classic Movies and later became president of TBS, the Atlanta...
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- 31 Jan 2016
- News
Studios Back App, Hoping to Fill Cinema Seats
Backed by $50 million in capital from three movie studios, startup Atom Tickets is planning a nationwide launch this summer, reports the Wall Street Journal. Cofounded by Matthew Bakal (MBA 2004), Atom is entering a market as “first...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Play's the Thing
Baron, the first non-European to win the prestigious award. "I think it's a well-made story, and it's funny," said Baron, a former executive with American Express and Coca-Cola who later became a television and movie writer. "It's really...
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- 21 Feb 2017
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How Michael Sheresky Helped Hidden Figures See the Light
helped “package” the film, “helping the remarkable, little-known story about a group of black women mathematicians at NASA find the largest possible audience.” The piece offers a chronology of the path the two took to bring the movie to...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
mentions a tireless vigilante: the Punisher. What is the motive behind Marvel’s decision to begin producing its own films? Creative control and a greater portion of the potential profits. When we came out of bankruptcy seven years ago we determined that View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
A bit of Hollywood came to HBS recently when Steven Samuels spoke at the invitation of the School’s Entertainment and Media Club. A former real estate developer, Samuels is an independent movie producer with a solid body of work under his...
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- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Educating the next generation of filmmakers
Film producer Dan Lin (MBA 1999) likes to create hero stories that inspire and entertain children and their families. The producer of The Lego Movie is now teaching Chinese filmmakers how to tell their own stories. (Published November...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Roll the Credits
the ratings system, to challenge government boards that censored Hollywood content” (USA Today, March 24, 2004). In those days, the movies were the country’s undisputed entertainment choice; today, by contrast, there is an “onslaught of...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
What’s On?
KILAR After working at Amazon.com for nine years, in 2007 Jason Kilar (MBA ’97) became CEO of Hulu, the service that brings popular television programming and movies to computers via high-quality streaming video. Hulu, free and...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
Illustration by Alex Nabaum, theispot.com Every Sunday night when I was a kid, I'd sneak out of bed to watch the late movie on TV, film classics like Patton or A Man for All Seasons. I may very well have been the only fourth grader to...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Snapping Up Voters
in the contrasts he draws with the medium that still commands the bulk of campaign budgets—which, in the case of the upcoming presidential election, are estimated to swell to a combined $5 billion. Unlike on YouTube, where ads run before the main attraction like a...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
Josh Singer won’t tell me where he keeps his Oscar. In 2016, he won Hollywood’s most coveted award for cowriting Spotlight, the movie about Boston Globe journalists uncovering the Catholic priest sexual abuse scandal that also took home...
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- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
Eric d'Arbeloff by Jill Radsken All of Eric d'Arbeloff's (MBA 1993) movies have heart. But the film producer and copresident of Roadside Attractions, a distribution company that counts Super Size Me, Winter's Bone, and Biutiful among its...
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- 14 Jul 2010
- News
The Concerts in the Chapel
movie sound tracks from the 1940s and ’50s), gospel music, a duo concert by the She-E-Os and Heard on the Street (HBS’s own student a capella groups), and jazz. Rishi recalls no concert catastrophes more serious than a tenor being delayed...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Humor Us
As a Harvard undergraduate and an editor of the Harvard Lampoon, Robert Hoffman (MBA ’72) “helped spin the popular campus humor magazine into an irreverent national institution that skewered American culture and later spawned movies like...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
new feelings. I have tons of Hello Kitty—T-shirts, shoes, stationery, a PC, a mobile phone. I use a Hello Kitty credit card and checkbook. My favorite Sanrio characters are Mr. Men and Little Miss—I grew up with them in Sydney, Australia. I’m going to produce the Mr....
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Inside the Bestseller List with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
who served alongside male-only US Special Operations teams in Afghanistan became a bestseller and is being turned into a movie by Reese Witherspoon. But Lemmon, now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is proudest of the...
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April White