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Andrew Lazar (* 1966 in New York City) ist ein US-amerikanischer Filmproduzent . Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben. 2 Filmografie (Auswahl) 3 Weblinks. 4 Einzelnachweise. Leben. Andrew Lazar wuchs in Los Angeles auf und studierte später Politik und Filmproduktion an der New York University.
Andrew Lazar (born 1966) is an American film producer and graduate of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. He is associated with Mad Chance Productions, a production company he formed in 1997 and affiliated with Warner Bros., but also has projects involved with other studios. [1] Lazar is of Jewish descent.
Andrew Lazar. Producer: American Sniper. After graduating from NYU with majors in film production and political science, Andrew Lazar became the executive vice president of Dino DeLaurentiis Communications, where he developed such films as "Bound" and "Unforgettable, " which premiered at Sundance.
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Tired of being rejected by the beautiful women he lusts after, Chuck Barris moves to Manhattan to become an NBC page with dreams of becoming famous in television but is eventually fired. He moves back to Philadelphia and becomes Dick Clark's personal assistant on American Bandstand in 1961. He writes the successful song "Palisades Park" and becomes...
Sam Rockwell as Chuck BarrisDevelopment
Chuck Barris first sold the film rights of his "unauthorized autobiography" to Columbia Pictures in the late 1980s. Columbia president Dawn Steel greenlighted Confessions of a Dangerous Mind with Jim McBride directing. McBride offered the lead role to Richard Dreyfuss, who refused to read the script because he believed Barris's morbid humor was distasteful. The project was abandoned at Columbia when Steel was fired in 1989. Producer Andrew Lazar optioned the film rights from Columbia in 1997...
Director
With Singer busy preparing X2, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was rejuvenated with Clooney taking over as director. Miramax Films agreed to cover distribution duties and co-finance the film. In the end, funding for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind came from Miramax, Clooney's own Section Eight Productions, Village Roadshow Pictures, producer Andrew Lazar's Mad Chance, Allied Filmmakers, and The Kushner-Locke Company. Clooney explained, "I thought if I came on board as a director, for scale, a...
Casting
Casting the lead role of Barris was a long, difficult process. "After two months of screen tests and everything I still wasn't able to get Sam Rockwell," Clooney reflected. Rockwell had always been Clooney's first choice ever since they worked together on Welcome to Collinwood (2002). Both Clooney and Barris also believed Rockwell shared an uncanny resemblance to Barris."I didn't want someone too famous to play the role," the director reasoned. "In my opinion, you cannot have famous people pl...
Release
To tie in with the release of the film, Miramax Books republished Barris's 1984 book. The film premiered out-of-competition at the May 2002 Cannes Film Festival before Miramax Films gave it a limited release in the United States on December 31, 2002; the wide release came on January 24, 2003. The film only barely recouped its production costs, grossing only $33.01 million, of which $16 million was domestic revenue and $17.01 million came from foreign markets. It also suffered poor sales in it...
Critical response
The film received positive responses from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 79% based on 165 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Rockwell is spot-on as Barris, and Clooney directs with entertaining style and flair." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 67/100, based on 33 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was shown at the Berlin International Film Fe...
In April 2021, a drama series adaptation was reported to be in development at Apple TV+, who won the auction for the script. David Hollander and Jon Worley are signed on as showrunners and executive producers, while Justin Timberlake is attached to play Chuck Barris. Miramax and Paramount Television Studioswill produce the series.
Chuck Barris (November 2002). Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Miramax Books. ISBN 978-0-7868-8808-5.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind at IMDbConfessions of a Dangerous Mind at the TCM Movie DatabaseConfessions of a Dangerous Mind at AllMovieOne of Hollywood’s top producers, with great instincts for finding and developing compelling material, he was Oscar nominated for co-producing 2014’s smash “American Sniper” – and won ...
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Produced by Film4 Productions and Andrew Lazar 's Mad Chance Productions, Death to Smoochy was released in the United States on March 29, 2002, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was met with mixed-to-negative reviews from critics and was a huge box-office bomb, grossing $8.3 million against a budget of $50 million. Plot.
Andrew Lazar wuchs in Los Angeles auf und studierte später Politik und Filmproduktion an der New York University. Dort schloss dort mit dem Bachelor ab. Nach dem Studium arbeitete er mit Richard Zanuck zusammen. Anschließend wurde er Vizepräsident bei der Produktionsgesellschaft Dino De Laurentiis Communications.
