Monday, January 11, 2010

Understanding Executive Producers

Certainly, most of us enjoy going to the movies or watching movies at home. We often don’t realize, however, just how much goes into the production of the movie. When you look at the credits from the movie, you realize just how many people and how much energy goes into making each movie.

In 2008 alone, for instance, Eric Gozlan was the executive producer of “Burning Mussolini” for Gold Rush Entertainment. Executive producers are in charge of obtaining the money for the filming of the movie. They manage all of the relationships as well. These include business relationships with the financiers, distributors, marketers and more. It also includes hiring the producer, the director and the writer.

In addition, the executive producer, such as Eric Gozlan, is responsible for making sure that the project finishes on time and that it stays within budget. It is quite a task that they are assigned!