Alex Gartner has worked in the entertainment industry for over a decade as a producer as well as senior executive at two major studios and has most recently concentrated on producing.
In 2004 Garter joined Atlas Entertainment as a producing partner with Mosaic partner and Atlas Entertainment founder Charles Roven. Gartner produced New Line's critically acclaimed The Upside of Anger, directed by Mike Binder and starring Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Erika Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood, Alicia Witt and Keri Russell. Previously he produced MGM's Barbershop 2: Back in Business, which starred Ice Cube and Cedric The Entertainer, and was Executive Producer on Out of Time, starring Denzel Washington.
Prior to that Gartner was President of Production at MGM Studios where he supervised the entire production slate, including such movies as Die Another Day, Barbershop, Legally Blond and Heartbreakers.
After producing Indecent Proposal for Paramount in 1993, Gartner became Executive Vice President at Fox 2000, having started the division with President Laura Ziskin. At Fox 2000 he worked on such films as Soul Food, Fight Club, Courage Under Fire and Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line.
Gartner has also worked in production in television commercials and with directors such as Martin Brest on production for Scent of a Woman.
These clips are from a panel presented by the Cornell Entrepreneur Network entitled, "Changes in the Content, Marketing, and Distribution of Entertainment".
Alex Gartner is a graduate of Cornell University.
I would say that the ... in the studio system, certainly there was a period of time where the studios were ruled by fear and the fear was if I don't make this deal with this star on this project then the next guy down the block is going to make that deal and that's the fear paradigm. I think we're ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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