Joel Silver
Joel Silver
Joel Silveris an American film producer, most well-known for action films including the Lethal Weapon series, The Matrix trilogy, the first two Die Hard movies, and Predator. He is the owner of Silver Pictures and co-founder of Dark Castle Entertainment. He has been a rival to Michael Eisner, former CEO of The Walt Disney Company, since their days at Paramount Pictures...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionProducer
Date of Birth14 July 1952
CountryUnited States of America
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We just decided to pick the date 'The Matrix' opened in most of the world. At the end of the day, it worked out really great because the world seems to have got to a place where I think the movie is even more relevant now than it was several months ago.
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I had worked with him back in '83 on 'Weird Science,' ... and we had a great rapport. But then I saw him, I don't know, five years ago at a restaurant where he was completely out of it and rude, and I thought, 'That guy is gone.'
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I'm sitting here at my office at Warner Bros. And I'm looking at big buildings and soundstages and all the things you need to make a movie, but what do I have to do? Get on a plane and fly thousands of miles so I can look at big buildings and sound stages and all the things you need to make a movie. And why? Because of costs. It all comes down to costs.
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Kiss Kiss ... The kid's clean. Help him out.
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Joel Silver has confirmed that a controversial London bombing scene from next year's
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The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.
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There are hot-button issues that are dealt with in the story and that's good, that's fresh. It seems to be as relevant as it could be right now. I think that it's going to be very current and very topical and I think people will be intrigued by the material. I think it's the right time and the right place.
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When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.
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This story is more important now than ever. But movies are made to make money. So if people go to films like this, we'll see more of them.
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I don't claim to know how to sell anything. I'm a geek.
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If the audience sees and feels things are real, then they buy it.
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I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I've done here in the UK, I've done a bunch of films in Canada.
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We needed an actor who could convey the character's blend of optimism, recklessness, misguided persistence and likeability. In addition to his obvious talents as an actor, Robert Downey Jr. exudes a boyish charm and an appeal that is perfect for Harry.
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The size of Audubon's anthologies made them difficult to carry, move around and store.