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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When you see the results, you forget the pain.
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It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.
real book reading
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
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I love Daredevil. I thought it was enjoyable. Okay? There were critical issues with it, and that's why I wear black, some people wear red - we are entitled to our opinions.
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When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.
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But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.
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Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.
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The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.
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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.
horse movies quality ready scripts
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.