Joel Silver
Joel Silver
Joel Silveris an American film producer, most well-known for action films including the Lethal Weapon series, The Matrix trilogy, the first two Die Hard movies, and Predator. He is the owner of Silver Pictures and co-founder of Dark Castle Entertainment. He has been a rival to Michael Eisner, former CEO of The Walt Disney Company, since their days at Paramount Pictures...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionProducer
Date of Birth14 July 1952
CountryUnited States of America
love movies rated stuck switch
The only problem is I can't get into PG-13 Land. I just get stuck in R rated movies, which they would love us to make PG-13 movies but I never get there. But I think that you've got to make them different. You've got to switch them up.
arnold deliver movies shoot
Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can't shoot there. It's just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't deliver on this level.
films movies people
This story is more important now than ever. But movies are made to make money. So if people go to films like this, we'll see more of them.
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I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I've done here in the UK, I've done a bunch of films in Canada.
movies produce
I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.
animated animated-movies
The most effective 3D movies I have ever seen are the animated movies because they are designed.
finished shooting
We'd finished shooting the film by then. The film is the film.
audiences market sure urban
We really haven't marketed to that group. I'm not sure why. We market to urban audiences.
The reality is that each movie has got to be seen in its own light.
buildings fly looking miles office plane sitting sound stages thousands
I'm sitting here at my office at Warner Bros. And I'm looking at big buildings and soundstages and all the things you need to make a movie, but what do I have to do? Get on a plane and fly thousands of miles so I can look at big buildings and sound stages and all the things you need to make a movie. And why? Because of costs. It all comes down to costs.
designed female four genre hit male older
The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.
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Mel said, 'He's in great shape. He's clear and focused. If he ever needed help, now's the time.' And he was clean, he came in and did it, and that was it,
decided great months opened pick seems several worked
We just decided to pick the date 'The Matrix' opened in most of the world. At the end of the day, it worked out really great because the world seems to have got to a place where I think the movie is even more relevant now than it was several months ago.
changed graphic time
When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.