ATTN: Hollywood DUers.

[Pryderi]

If anyone are involved in Hollywood, I was wondering about Executive Producers....what do you need to become one? Alot of money and an interest in theatre and literature?

[Scooter24]

1. I think of the Exec. Producer as the CEO of the film...

who is responsible for making sure the film is on time and on budget as well as hiring and supervising all the other producers, directors, and cinematographers who all have various responsibilities. They might also be or represent the person or studio who is paying for the production.

[Pryderi]

2. Ahh...that makes sense. What about a "Producer"?

Is a producer the actual financial backer, or a rep of the studio? Or both? Does the Exec. prod. report to the producer?

[GReedDiamond]

3. In the 70s, I knew the guy who executive produced John Carpenter's...

...first commercially released film, "Assault on Precinct 13" (the original, not the remake, although he co-exec-produced the 2005 remake too).

He paid for it using credit cards and any other means he could come up with for raising money, and he also scouted locations, rented/picked up movie cars and equipment, gophered, made coffee, anything to get it done and to keep the pricetag down. When it came out, I went to a theater on Hollywood Boulevard and watched the movie with him in an otherwise almost empty house. Great movie, my favorite Carpenter film, cuz you could feel the "love" they put into it in order to make the movie a reality.