Peter Guber
Born	Howard Peter Guber March 2, 1942 (1942-03-02) (age 67) Newton, Massachusetts U.S.
Occupation	producer, executive
Years active	1977–present

Howard Peter Guber (born. March 2, 1942 in Newton, Massachusetts) is an American film producer and executive. Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, Guber has been a force in the entertainment industry for over thirty years. He has leveraged his creativity and business acumen into record‐breaking profits and critical acclaim, establishing him as one of the most successful executives in the entertainment and communications industries. Films he personally produced or executive produced, including Rain Man, Batman, The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Gorillas In The Mist, The Witches of Eastwick, Missing and Flashdance, have resonated with audiences all over the world, earning over three billion dollars worldwide and garnering more than 50 Academy Award nominations.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Columbia Pictures 1.2 Casablanca Record and Filmworks 1.3 Polygram Filmed Entertainment and the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company 1.4 Sony Pictures 1.5 Mandalay Entertainment 1.6 Recent activities 2 Films produced 3 Trivia 4 Further reading 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Columbia Pictures

Guber joined Columbia Pictures in 1968 and within three years became Studio Chief. During his tenure at the creative helm, Columbia surged to record breaking profits on the strength of such box office hits as Shampoo, Taxi Driver, Tommy, The Way We Were and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

[edit] Casablanca Record and Filmworks

In 1976, following his entrepreneur instincts, Guber founded Casablanca Record and Filmworks. Its record operation included such superstars as Kiss, Donna Summer and The Village People. It also included some of the most successful soundtracks of all time including Flashdance, which sold more than 14 million albums.

[edit] Polygram Filmed Entertainment and the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company

In 1979 Guber formed PolyGram Entertainment where he was Chairman of the Board and CEO. He sold his interest in Polygram in 1983 and formed and served as Co‐Owner of the Guber‐Peters Entertainment Company (GPEC) which established a major presence in motion pictures, television and music including producing the music and official soundtrack for the 1984 Summer Olympics. Within five years, GPEC became a public company and in 1989, was acquired by Sony Pictures Entertainment.

[edit] Sony Pictures

In 1989, Guber reached a personal milestone when he was named Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). Under his visionary leadership, the company re‐framed its entire Loews exhibition circuit, introducing Sony’s SDDS sound system, introduced the concept of IMAX theater and films integrated into multi‐plex theaters and transformed the Sony lot into a state of the art digital production facility. SPE’s motion picture business earned an industry best domestic box office market share averaging 17% over four years, propelled by an enormous string of successes including A Few Good Men, Philadelphia, Basic Instinct, A League of Their Own and Sleepless in Seattle among many others. During this same period, Sony Pictures led all competitors with a remarkable total of 120 Academy Award Nominations, the highest four year total ever for a single company.

[edit] Mandalay Entertainment

After leaving Sony in 1995, Guber formed Mandalay Entertainment Group as a multimedia entertainment vehicle in motion pictures, television, sports entertainment and new media. Mandalay Pictures is a pre‐eminent motion picture company that finances, produces and distributes motion pictures for the global marketplace. It’s box office hits include I Know What You Did Last Summer, Seven Years in Tibet, Sleepy Hollow, Enemy At The Gates, The Score, Into the Blue, Darfur Now and Never Back Down among many others. Mandalay Series Television has enjoyed great success with Cupid, Mercy Point, Rude Awakening, Oh, Baby, and the critically acclaimed television series, Brotherhood (TV series), winner of The George Foster Peabody Award. Mandalay Television has produced eight original Movies of the Week for Lifetime Television, based on the books of the world renowned and best‐selling author, Nora Roberts. The Nora Roberts franchise has been a worldwide ratings success for the cable network. Following his location based entertainment leadership experience with Loews, Guber expanded Mandalay into a national entertainment sports provider with Mandalay Sports Entertainment. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Mandalay Baseball Properties (MBP), a subsidiary of Mandalay Sports Entertainment which includes professional baseball franchises, sports marketing, stadium development, ownership, management and consulting. The seven sports franchises that MBP owns, operates and/or consults with are Single‐A, Double‐A and Triple‐A affiliates of the New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox. Guber is Co‐Chairman of the Board of Directors for Mandalay Media, a publicly traded company on the OTC. Mandalay Media is at the forefront of new media with online ventures and innovative mobile and interactive offerings. In February 2008, Mandalay Media acquired Twistbox Entertainment, Inc., a global producer and publisher of mobile content. In October 2008, Mandalay Media acquired AMV Holding Limited, a leading European mobile entertainment and marketing company delivering games and lifestyle content and services directly to consumers.

[edit] Recent activities

Now also a full professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Guber also appears each week at 11 a.m. ET/PT on AMC in the interview show Shootout (formerly "Sunday Morning Shootout") with Variety editor-in-chief Peter Bart. Bart and Guber also co-authored the book Shoot Out: Surviving Fame and (Mis)Fortune in Hollywood.

In November 2006, Guber was elected to the board of directors of the GoFish corporation, an online video site. Guber stated: "Professional content creators will need to adapt to a fundamentally new form of storytelling, one where users become a critical part of the creative process. GoFish is one of the few companies in this space that wants to differentiate itself by collaborating with the scarcest resource - the talent. As a creative entrepreneur in filmed entertainment in all media for over 30 years, I find this medium incredibly exciting."

[edit] Films produced

• Beard (2005) .... executive producer .... producer
• Into the Blue (2005) .... executive producer
• The Jacket (2005) .... producer
• A Thousand Roads (2005) .... executive producer
• Alex and Emma (2003) .... executive producer
• With Honors (1994) .... executive producer
• This Boy's Life (1993) .... executive producer
• Batman Returns (1992) .... executive producer
• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) .... executive producer
• Tango & Cash (1989) .... producer
• Batman (1989) .... producer
• Rain Man (1988) .... executive producer
• Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988) .... executive producer
• Caddyshack II (1988) .... producer
• Who's That Girl (1987) .... executive producer
• The Witches of Eastwick (1987) .... producer
• Youngblood (1986) .... executive producer
• The Color Purple (1985) .... executive producer
• Clue (1985) .... executive producer
• Flashdance (1983) .... executive producer
• An American Werewolf in London (1981) .... executive producer
• Midnight Express (1978) .... executive producer
• The Deep (1977) .... producer

[edit] Trivia

Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (March 2009)

Guber served on the jury which heard the Winona Ryder shoplifting case.^[1]

Guber is notorious for borrowing the Oscar statue won by Keith Forsey (for Best Music, Original Song: "Flashdance - What a Feeling") and getting paparazzi to snap photos of him holding the award statue...even though Guber himself had not been nominated in any category.

[edit] Further reading

• Guber, Peter (1977). Inside the Deep. Bantam. ISBN 978-0553111361. 
• Guber, Peter; Bart, Peter (2003). Shoot Out. Perigee Trade. ISBN 978-0399528880. 

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Peter Guber at the Internet Movie Database
• Hollywood.com Bio
• Sunday Morning Shootout at AMC
• Sunday Morning Shootout Best of Season 1 on DVD
• PBS Frontline Interview with Peter Guber
• Peter Guber Bio at Mandalay Entertainment
• Hit Men
• Shoot Out
• Peter Guber Interview Transcript
• In The House