Perhaps the biggest mystery of film production is precisely what a producer does. Director, cinematographer, costume designer ...

And why do they get the trophy for best picture at the Oscars? By Brooks Barnes Do you have a question for our culture writers and editors? Ask us here. Q: Why do the Oscars honor producers when a ...

Producers used to be the alpha dogs of movies — Hollywood rajahs, figures of legendary power and belligerence. And, oddly, many of these first-among-equals potentates had surnames beginning with the ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Six years after the Producers Guild of America first defined what a producer does, its Producers Code of Credits has become an invaluable tool. The code not only ...

It takes a village to make a movie, but when it comes to producers, at best they’re stereotyped as the money people — at worst, their efforts are nullified by honorary titles handed out like Halloween ...

Urban legend has it that when he was working with the American punk rock band the Ramones, Phil Spector, the iconic music producer with a fondness for guns, kept making them play the same thing until ...

Producer Howard Benson used to be an aerospace engineer. He was also in a band. “We were probably like the worst band in L.A.,” he tells me from his studio in Los Angeles. “But I learned a lot about ...

With the film finally reaching theaters after decades of dreaming and hard work, producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones said it was worth the wait. Petaluma-raised movie producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones has ...