Mark Canton
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Mark Canton (born June 19, 1949) is an American film producer and executive.
Personal life
Canton was married to Oscar-winning producer Wendy Finerman, with whom he has three children. His brother is the film producer Neil Canton. They co-produced the 2000 film Get Carter.
Life and early career
Canton was born in Queens, New York, and the son of Shirley and Arthur Canton, who worked in film sales and public relations, including films like Lawrence of Arabia. When visiting the family's house as a young adult, he met well-known movie stars like Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, and Doris Day. After working in Warner Bros.'s mail room while attending University of California, Los Angeles, Canton, started working with film director Franklin Schaffner, with actor Jon Peters, and later as executive assistant to Mike Medavoy at United Artists, before serving as executive vice president at Warner Bros. in 1980 to 1980. At the time, he was involved in many films including 1983's National Lampoon, Purple Rain, and the Batman and Lethal Weapon film series, but also notorious box office failures like The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), which he described as "the best movie I ever saw" at its first screening.
Career
Canton left Warner Bros. in 1991, where he was executive vice president of the Worldwide Motion Picture Production unit. Warner Bros. let him out of his contract fifteen months early, and studio head Bob Daly said, "From our perspective this was going to be eliminated." He later became chairman of Sony's Columbia Pictures (later Columbia-TriStar Pictures), where he was involved in some failures, including Geronimo: An American Legend, but also with blockbusters such as Men in Black, Air Force One, and My Best Friend's Wedding.
Canton was fired by Sony in 1996 after a string of relative flops, including Last Action Hero (which Canton described as "probably the best action film of all time") and The Cable Guy, before his final series of films could become blockbusters. At the time, Canton was described as "one of the most influential executives in Hollywood" as "known for enthusiasm, rapid-fire talk, a sleek Italian wardrobe, and a youthful look" as well as "a braggart who was fortunate to have been chairman of a studio in the first place."
Canton made a name for herself in 1998, with Jack Frost starring Michael Keaton in his first major film project. Senator Benjamin Bros, a German company, was founded in August 2000 and moved to Warner Bros for the first time in 2001, and Canton was forced to sell his production company.
He was the CEO of Artists Production Group, the Artist Management Group's film division, in 2002. He founded Atmosphere Entertainment with Mark Kimsey, an investment manager, after leaving APG in November 2003. The aim was to produce films and television programs. He created blockbusters such as 300, Immortals, and The Spiderwick Chronicles through his website. Canton has been involved in more than 300 major Hollywood productions as an executive, chairman, and producer.