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Peter Guber
Born
Howard Peter Guber

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma materSyracuse University (B.A.),
New York University (J.D. & LLM)
Occupation(s)entrepreneur, executive, author
Years active1977–present
SpouseTara Lynda Guber
Children4

Howard Peter Guber (born in Boston, Massachusetts) is an executive, entrepreneur and #1 New York Times bestselling author. Guber is currently Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group. Films he personally produced or executive produced include Rain Man, Batman, The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Gorillas In The Mist, The Witches of Eastwick, Missing and Flashdance. Guber's films have earned over three billion dollars worldwide and 50 Academy Award nominations. Guber is also the co-owner of the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Career

Columbia Pictures

Guber joined Columbia Pictures in 1968. During his tenure at the creative helm, Columbia produced such box office hits as Shampoo, Taxi Driver, Tommy, The Way We Were and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.


Casablanca Record and Filmworks

In 1975,Guber founded Casablanca Record and Filmworks with Neil Bogart. Their record operation included such superstars as KISS, Donna Summer, Captain and Tennille, The Village People and Parliament with George Clinton. It also included some of the most successful soundtracks of all time, including the Academy Award winning Midnight Express, Lionel Ritchie and Diana Ross’ Endless Love, and Flashdance, which sold more than 14 million albums. During this period, Guber produced numerous television shows including Teddy White’s Emmy nominated Selling of the Presidency, the series Ocean Quest for NBC, and Mysteries of the Sea, a two hour special for ABC.


Independent Producer

Guber launched his career as an independent film producer with The Deep, which became the second highest-grossing film of the year. Guber also bought the rights and served as executive producer for Midnight Express. Produced by Alan Marshall and David Puttnam, the film earned seven Academy Award nominations including “Best Picture." The National Association of Theater Owners named Guber “Producer of the Year.”


Polygram Filmed Entertainment and GPEC

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 GPEC.

The films directly produced and executive produced by Guber have earned more than $3 billion in worldwide revenue and more than 50 Academy Award nominations, including four nominations for “Best Picture.” Rain Man was the highest-grossing Best Picture Academy Award winner ever, and Batman became one of the highest-grossing films in movie history.

Guber’s other films include Michael Apted’s Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey, Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple and Innerspace, George Miller’s The Witches of Eastwick, Flashdance, Costa Garvas’ Missing, Tango & Cash and John Landis’ American Werewolf in London.


Sony Pictures Entertainment

In 1988, GPEC became a public company with the acquisition of Barris Industries, and in 1989, it was acquired by Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) where Guber became Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. During Guber’s tenure at SPE, the company produced and distributed popular prime time, half-hour comedy television shows including Married with Children, Designing Women, Seinfeld, Mad About You, and The Nanny and revitalized the two largest game shows in the world, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy.

Under Guber’s leadership, the company re-framed its entire Loews exhibition circuit, incorporating Sony’s state-of-the-art SDDS sound system, and introduced the concept of IMAX theater and films integrated into multi-plex theaters in the building, design and execution of Sony’s 67th Street Theater and IMAX complexes in New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco.

During Guber’s tenure as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, SPE’s Motion Picture Group achieved, over four years, an industry-best (at the time) domestic box office market share, which averaged seventeen percent. During the 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.

SPE’s motion picture business was propelled by successes, which included Awakenings, Misery, Flatliners, Terminator 2, Boyz n the Hood, City Slickers, Basic Instinct, A League of Their Own, Single White Female, A River Runs Through It, A Few Good Men, Sleepless in Seattle, In the Line of Fire, Groundhog Day and Philadelphia.


Mandalay Entertainment Group

After leaving Sony in September 1994, Guber formed Mandalay Entertainment Group as a multimedia entertainment vehicle in motion pictures, television, sports entertainment and new media.


Mandalay Pictures

Mandalay Pictures’ has produced hits including, I Know What You Did Last Summer; Donnie Brasco, starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp and directed by Mike Newell; Seven Years in Tibet starring Brad Pitt and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud; Wild Things, starring Matt Dillon, Kevin Bacon, Neve Campbell and Bill Murray; and Les Misérables, starring Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, and Claire Danes. Other films include Galapagos, the documentary for the Smithsonian Institution in IMAX 3D, I Still Know, the sequel to I Know What You Did Last Summer; The Deep End of the Ocean, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Whoopi Goldberg; Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, starring Johnny Depp, directed by Burton; Enemy At The Gates, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz and Ed Harris; The Score, starring Robert DeNiro, Edward Norton and Marlon Brando; Into the Blue, starring Jessica Alba and Paul Walker; The Jacket, starring Keira Knightley and Adrien Brody; Darfur Now, produced by Don Cheadle; and Never Back Down, starring Djimon Hounsou.


Mandalay Vision

Mandalay Vision launched as the company’s independent development, production and financing label. Mandalay Vision’s first release, the Golden Globe winning and four time Oscar nominated The Kids Are All Right, a Sundance Film Festival darling directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Julianne Moore, Annette Bening and Mark Ruffalo, was one of 2010’s most successful independently produced and financed films.

In 2011, Mandalay Vision premiered two films at the Sundance Film Festival: Salvation Boulevard, directed by George Ratliff and starring an ensemble cast featuring Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Connelly, Greg Kinnear, Ed Harris and Marisa Tomei sold to IFC and Sony and was released on July 15, 2011; and Another Happy Day, the debut film from writer/director Sam Levinson, starring Ellen Barkin, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Bosworth, Ezra Miller and Demi Moore. The film won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the festival’s closing ceremony, and was distributed by Phase 4 in November of 2011. Mandalay Vision’s Soul Surfer was released by Tri-Star in April 2011. The picture stars Dennis Quaid, Helen Hunt, Carrie Underwood and AnnaSophia Robb, and is the true story of competitive teen surfer Bethany Hamilton. Additional films include The Whistleblower, a drama directed by Larysa Kondracki and starring Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave and David Strathairn, which debuted at Toronto Film Festival, sold to Samuel Goldwyn and was released in August 2011; and, Vanishing on 7th Street, an apocalyptic thriller directed by Brad Anderson, starring Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton and John Leguizamo and financed by Herrick Entertainment, which also premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was released in February 2011 by Magnet.


Mandalay Series Television

Mandalay Series Television has produced Cupid (ABC), Mercy Point (UPN), Rude Awakening (Showtime), Oh, Baby (Lifetime), and the critically acclaimed television series, Brotherhood (Showtime). Brotherhood, with Jason Clarke, Jason Isaacs, Annabeth Gish and Ethan Embry won The George Foster Peabody Award in 2006.


Mandalay Television Pictures

Mandalay Television Pictures produces high profile television movies-of-the-week and mini-series which include Dean Koontz’s number one best seller Intensity, a four hour mini series for FOX; Get to the Heart (The Barbara Mandrell Story) for ABC; the four hour mini series Final Descent for CBS; and for ABC Medusa’s Child, Bad As I Wanna Be and Ali, King of the World. Other productions include Sole Survivor, based on Dean Koontz’s number one best selling book; First Daughter for Turner; and The Linda McCartney Story for CBS. Mandalay Television’s Blood Crime, starring James Caan & Jonathan Schaech, was USA network’s highest rated (Crime Friday) movie for 2002.

Based on the books of the best-selling author, Nora Roberts, Mandalay Television has produced a franchise of original made-for-television movies for Lifetime Television. More than 34 million viewers tuned in to the first collection of four movies: Angels Fall, Blue Smoke, Carolina Moon and Montana Sky. Following the initial Nora Roberts’ adaptations, Mandalay Television produced the Nora Roberts II Collection, with four more all-new original movies: Northern Lights, Midnight Bayou, High Noon and Tribute. The second collection was seen by over 49 million viewers, and Northern Lights was one of the top rated cable movies in 2009. Mandalay Television recently completed the ninth installment in the franchise, Carnal Innocence, starring Gabrielle Anwar, which premiered on Lifetime in June of 2011.


Mandalay Sports Entertainment

Guber serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Mandalay Baseball Properties, a subsidiary of Mandalay Sports Entertainment which includes professional baseball franchises, sports marketing and venue management. Among the professional sports franchises that are owned and/or operated by Mandalay Baseball Properties are the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees, a Triple-A affiliate of the New York Yankees, the Oklahoma City RedHawks, a Triple-A affiliate of the Houston Astros, the Frisco RoughRiders, a Double-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers, the Dayton Dragons, a Single-A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds and the Erie SeaWolves, a Double-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. Mandalay Baseball Properties recently entered the concessions business by forming a joint venture partnership with Professional Sports Catering, a full service food and beverage company that now provides concessions services for fifteen Minor League Baseball teams.


Mandalay Digital Group

Peter Guber is Co-Chairman of Mandalay Digital Group, a global media and communications company with distribution partnerships that span over 70 carriers in 28 countries. Mandalay Digital Group provides a suite of mobile technology and services to operators and 3rd-party publishers, allowing its clients to increase transactions, enhance billing capability and establish truly unique customer experiences.


Mandalay Sports Media

In 2012, Guber and Mandalay Entertainment partnered with CAA Sports and Mike Tollin to create Mandalay Sports Media. The diversified sports media business creates, finances, and acquires operating businesses, intellectual property, and varied enterprises within the sports and media sectors, as well as develops high-quality sports-themed entertainment programming for distribution across multiple platforms including film, television, mobile and digital. Mandalay Sports Media has several entertainment projects in development with ESPN, Turner Sports, New Line Cinema, and Incognito Pictures, among other distribution media venues.


Golden State Warriors

Guber is the co-owner and serves as the Co-Executive Chairman of the Golden State Warriors.


Los Angeles Dodgers

On March 27, 2012, Guber became a co-owner of the Dodgers through his affiliation with Guggenheim Baseball Management LLC.[1]


Demand Media

Guber is an investor in Demand Media who appointed him to its board of directors in early 2010. Demand Media, a leading content and social media company, is at the forefront of the new media landscape with a unique model and rare expertise that makes it an attractive online partner for traditional entertainment and publishing companies.


GeekChicDaily & Nerdist Industries

In 2009, Guber co-founded GeekChicDaily, an opt-in, popular culture, national newsletter and cross-platform publisher focusing on comics, video games, film, television, apps, toys, collectibles and gear. In 2011, GeekChicDaily expanded with two regional editions in Los Angeles and New York City and partnered with TOKYOPOP for an Asian-themed newsletter that covers the hottest Asian pop culture news and trends. Continuing its growth in 2011, GeekChicDaily merged with Nerdist Industries to become a multi-platform creator of genre and popular-culture content. Nerdist Industries is a next generation media company consisting of a popular blog at Nerdist.com; a top five comedy/popular culture podcast on iTunes, the Nerdist Channel, a YouTube-financed premium-content channel that features celebrities and hallowed brands, and an upcoming television show on BBC America.


Author

Peter Guber is a noted author with works including “Inside The Deep” and the L.A. Times best-seller “Shootout: Surviving Fame and (Mis)Fortune in Hollywood.” In December 2007, Guber wrote the cover article for the Harvard Business Review titled,” The Four Truths of the Storyteller.” He has also authored op-ed pieces for the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. Guber's third book, "Tell To Win - Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story,"became a #1best seller in the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and on Amazon.com. Fortune magazine chose Tell To Win as one of their "5 Business Books You Can Really Use" and Hudson Booksellers, retail book stores in airports throughout North America, chose Tell To Win as one of the "5 Best Business Books of the Year."


Professor

Peter Guber is a professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, Television and Digital Media and has been a member of the faculty for over 30 years. He also teaches at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. He is a member of the UCLA Foundation Board of Trustees, as well as the winner of UCLA’s prestigious Service Award for his accomplishments and association with the university. Guber is the Chair of the Founding Board of Advisors for The Center for Managing Enterprises in Media, Entertainment & Sports (MEMES) at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.


TV Co-Host

Guber was seen every Sunday morning for six years on American Movie Classics (AMC) cable network, as co-host of the critically acclaimed national TV show, Shootout, which was followed by a series of prime time specials on AMC called Storymakers. Guber was most recently seen as co-host of In the House, a weekly, national half-hour news and interview show on Starz/Encore and KNBC.


Media and Communications Analyst

Guber is a weekly entertainment and media analyst for Fox Business News and has also appeared on ABC's Good Morning America, NBC’s Today, Fox News’s Your World with Neil Cavuto, CNBC’s WSJ with Maria Bartiromo, CNBC’s Power Lunch, and Lou Dobbs Tonight.


Speaker

Guber has spoken to such companies as Cisco, JWT, Under Armour, Alcoa, HSBC, Twitter, Sodexo, Ingenix, Milken Institute, International Trademark Association, JP Morgan, Intel, ToyCon, Motorola, ESPN, HP, Yahoo!, Medtronic, Ogilvy & Mather, Comcast SportsNet,11th Annual World Congress of Sports, MassMutual, Hudson Group, CFO Publishing, Association for Corporate Growth, Sports Business Journal World Conference, NBC/Universal, Korn Ferry, Women's Wear Daily CEO Summit, IGate Patni, Web 2.0 Summit, Wharton Leadership Conference, North American Conference on Customer Management, Institute for International Research, CA, Inc.


Films produced

TV movies produced

From 2006-2009, Mandalay Television produced eight original movies-of-the-week for Lifetime Television. Based on the books of the world renowned and best-selling author, Nora Roberts, more than 34 million viewers tuned in to the first collection of four movies: Angels Fall, Blue Smoke, Carolina Moon and Montana Sky. Following the network’s enormous ratings success with the previous Nora Roberts’ adaptations, Mandalay Television produced the Nora Roberts II Collection, with four all-new original movies, Northern Lights, Midnight Bayou, High Noon and Tribute. The Nora Roberts franchise has been a worldwide ratings success for the cable network.

References

  1. ^ MLB (March 27, 2012). "Dodgers sold to Magic Johnson's group". mlb.com. Retrieved March 27, 2012.

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