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Aug 28, 2010 · After arriving in Hollywood in the 1970s, Mr. Silver got his break from the producer Lawrence A. Gordon, who needed an assistant. Mr. Gordon eventually employed him as an executive at his company ...
Dec 23, 2023 · Joel Silver’s career took off when he landed a job as an assistant to Lawrence Gordon, a notable film producer. This opportunity allowed Silver to hone his skills and learn the ins and outs of film production. He eventually worked his way up the ranks and co-founded the production company Silver Pictures.
Producers Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver hired director John McTiernan because of his work with them on the successful 1987 action film Predator. [16] [17] [18] McTiernan agreed to direct on the condition that the film would have "some joy" and not simply contain "mean, nasty acts", seen in other terrorist films. [13]
Unknown: Jaume Collet-Serra, Diane Kruger and Joel Silver. As flamboyant as any character in his movies, Joel Silver can be credited along with Jerry Bruckheimer as practically reinventing the action film genre in the 1980s. Born in New Jersey, he attended the New York University Film School. After college, he worked at Lawrence Gordon Pictures ...
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On August 19, 2015, Silver's 28-year-old assistant Carmel Musgrove drowned in a lagoon while working on vacation with Silver and his family in Bora Bora.Later, in August 2017, Musgrove's family sued Silver and his assistant Martin Herold, arguing the latter had provided her with cocaine, which, along with alcohol consumption and exhaustion from work, they alleged had contributed to her death.
In 1986, producers Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver acquired film rights to Watchmen for 20th Century Fox. [45] After author Alan Moore declined to write a screenplay based on his story, Fox enlisted screenwriter Sam Hamm. Hamm rewrote Watchmen ' s complicated ending, making a "more manageable" conclusion involving an assassination and a time ...
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Jun 28, 2010 · Film: North side of the 6900 block of Hollywood Boulevard. Producer Born July 14, 1952 in South Orange, NJ. A prime example of the "power producers" who dominated the movie business in the 1980s and 1990s, Joel Silver is the bombastic force behind such hugely successful action series as "48 Hours," "Lethal Weapon" and "The Matrix."
