Mike Medavoy
Mike Medavoy was born in Shanghai, China on January 21st, 1941 and is the Film Producer. At the age of 83, Mike Medavoy biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 83 years old, Mike Medavoy physical status not available right now. We will update Mike Medavoy's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.
Morris Mike Medavoy (born January 21, 1941) is an American film producer and executive, co-founder of Orion Pictures (1978), former chairman of TriStar Pictures, former head of production for United Artists (1974–1978) and current chairman and CEO of Phoenix Pictures.
Early life and education
Morris Mike Medavoy was born in Shanghai, China. His father, Michael, was a garage mechanic and his mother, Dora, owned a dress shop and Chinese actresses as clients. His parents were both from Jewish families. His mother was born in Harbin, Manchuria (to parents originally from Odessa), and his father was born in Ukraine. Medavoy lived in Chile from 1947 to 1957, and he studied at the Liceo Valentín Letelier de Santiago learning to speak Spanish fluently in addition to Russian which is his native language. The family moved to Los Angeles and they lived with Medavoy's aunt. He became an American citizen in 1963 and graduated from UCLA that same year. Joining the U.S. Army Reserve in 1963 he served at Fort Ord in California until 1969.
Personal life
He was married to Marcia Rogers, the daughter of publicist Henry C. Rogers and Roz Jaffe Rogers and former wife of Mark Goddard. In 1986, he married political activist Patricia Duff. In 1993, they separated and divorced; she remarried Ron Perelman in 1994.
He is presently married to Irena Gerasimenko, a philanthropist, activist, former model, actress, and co-founder of Team Safe-T (which endeavors to prepare schools for emergency situations). Gerasimenko is a charity executive and fundraiser for Industry Task Force. The couple has a son, Nick. (Mike Medavoy has a producer son Brian Medavoy from a previous marriage). Irena Medavoy writes for The Huffington Post about the topic of unrealistic female media images. When their son, Nick (who is 6' 8") was born, Mike Medavoy sang 'Singing In the Rain' to him.
Career
Medavoy began his career at Universal Studios in 1964. He began as an agent for the GE Artists Corporation in 1965 and later moved to Creative Management Associates. In 1967, he became Creative Management's vice president of the motion picture division, alongside Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola among others. In 1970, he moved to the International Famous Agency. United Artists brought Medavoy in as senior vice president of production in 1974. He was a member of the team behind the production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rocky, and Annie Hall, which received Best Picture Oscars in 1975, 1976, and 1977 respectively. The artists made more well-known films at the time, including Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, Network, The Black Stallion, and Coming Home.
Medavoy co-founded Orion Pictures, which was a joint venture with Warner Brothers and fellow United Artists executives Arthur Krim; Robert Benjamin; Eric Pleskow; and William Bernstein. Although Medavory was in Orion, the corporation produced many award-winning films, including Platoon, Amadeus, RoboCop, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Terminator, Dances with Wolves, and The Silence of the Lambs.
Medavoy became the chairman of TriStar Pictures in 1990 and oversaw the introduction of films such as Philadelphia, Terminator 2: Sleepless in Seattle, Cliffhanger, Legends of the Fall and Hook. After having problems with Sony Pictures chairman Peter Guber in 1994, he resigned in 1994.
Medavoy co-founded Phoenix Pictures with Arnold W. Messer in 1995, which they later acquired at Sony Pictures Entertainment. Among other things, he co-produced The People vs. Larry Flynt, The Mirror Has Two Faces, U Turn, Apt Pupil, The Thin Red Line, The 6th Day, Basic, All the King's Men, Zodiac, Pathfinder, and Miss Potter. The People and Larry Flynt films were nominated for an Oscar. Shutter Island and Black Swan are two of Phoenix Pictures' popular images. Shutter Island was announced on February 19, 2010, grossing over $42 million in the first weekend. Black Swan was directed by Darren Aronofsky and has received numerous accolades, including the Oscar® and Golden Globe for Best Actress (Natalie Portman).
Medavoy unveiled a poster in 2011 depicting the 2010 Chilean mining disaster that left 33 men trapped underground for 69 days. He collaborated with Chilean officials and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter José Rivera to create a realistic retelling of the tale. "at its center, [it is] about the triumph of the human spirit, as well as a salute to the Chilean people's courage and tenacity." Medavoy also announced his relationship with The Shanghai Film Group in 2011 to produce both a feature film and a six-hour miniseries. The film was an adaptation of The Cursed Piano, a love tale set in Japanese-occupied China about persecuted Jews fleeing from occupied Europe. The mini-series Tears of a Sparrow explores the Jewish experience in Shanghai. Medavoy also worked on Dandelion Wine, which was based on a Ray Bradbury novel with the same name. It was reported that he and Eric Esrailian would produce The Promise, which stars Oscar Isaac and Christian Bale in 2015.
