Avi Arad
Avi Arad
Avi Aradis an Israeli-American businessman. He became the CEO of the company Toy Biz in the 1990s, and soon afterward became the chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment, a Marvel director, and the chairman, CEO, and founder of Marvel Studios...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionBusiness Executive
Date of Birth1 August 1948
CityGivatayim, Israel
CountryIsrael
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He'll be the mailman, ... It's interesting, because he looks the way it was drawn. Stan is a character ... initially he was supposed to say, 'Good morning, Mr. Richards,' and then he kept adding more words.
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The scripts that are ready will go first. It's kind of a horse race. We will make the movies by the quality of the script and which is ready to go first.
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It's no secret, we took a lot of sh-- for Ang Lee's 'Hulk,' for all the wrong reasons,
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One of the things our movie is going to deal with is what happened in 60 years. Which world was better? Sixty years ago or now? Within, obviously, a kick-ass plot and all the stuff that you've come to expect from a superhero movie.
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And everything that you ever wanted to see in The Fantastic Four - which is the family dynamics, vis a vis Victor - it's all here.
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The film slate financing enables us to evolve our entertainment operations into film production, an area where we have experienced past success with our partners and which offers significant profit potential for our company. The characters involved are some of the most valuable in the Marvel Universe, and we are excited to launch them as consumer brands via feature film releases under our direction. We look forward to working with Brad Grey and the exceptional team he has put together at Paramount and are confident that this will be a successful venture for us both.
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The movies are there to support the core businesses of toys, licensing, video games and publishing. Each of these titles is meant to be a franchise.
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I love the reviews and I love the fact that this movie is so full of heart and emotion - big action, of course - but it's all about the heart.
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Okay, as you know, I'm a lifelong fan with a very high opinion of our properties, and my assessment was that the world still doesn't understand.
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Without giving too much away, obviously there'll be a little bit of the origin and then we come into our real world. What makes Captain America such a compelling character is that it allows you to judge history so you see where he came from and you see what he stood for.
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We are excited to launch them as consumer brands via feature film releases under our direction.
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With a live-action movie, you have to think about the Hollywood audience and what you can do with CGI. But there's also a market out there for animation.
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were a betting man....yes, you will see Phoenix in this movie.
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There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' - he is mentally committed to it. He's doing another movie now. What's most important to me about this guy, first, is that he's incredible with visuals. But he's also a spiritual guy, a Zen Buddhist. ... Galactus is a force of nature, not a being. That's all I'm saying.