SPEAKERS
SID GANIS
Sid Ganis
established Out of the Blue...Entertainment on the Sony Pictures
lot in late '96 as a provider of motion picture, television and musical
entertainment for Columbia, TriStar and others. On the creative side, Ganis
was formerly president of Paramount Pictures' Motion Picture Group for
several years before joining Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Ganis
has held various positions at Sony, and was named President of Worldwide
Marketing for the Columbia/TriStar Motion picture companies in August 1994.
From March to August 1994, Mr. Ganis was vice chairman of Columbia Pictures.
Prior to that, he was president of Columbia's marketing and distribution
and executive vice president of Columbia Pictures, positions he had held
since August 1992.
While at Columbia,
he developed successful and innovative marketing campaigns for a string
of hits, beginning with Penny Marshall's A League Of Their Own and
including Mo'Money ; Single White Female, Robert Redford's
critically acclaimed A River Runs Through It ; Francis Ford Coppola's
worldwide blockbuster Bram Stoker's Dracula, which achieved the
biggest opening weekend in Columbia's 70 year history; Rob Reiner's A
Few Good Men, the Company's biggest hit of 1992; Groundhog Day;
In
The Line Of Fire, starring Clint Eastwood; Martin Scorsese's
The
Age Of Innocence; Merchant / lvory's Remains Of The Day, starring
Academy Award-winners Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson; and Mike Nichols'
Wolf,
starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Mr. Ganis
joined SPE as executive vice president in January 1991, developing and
implementing corporate strategies to distinguish the Company in the global
marketplace.
Before
joining SPE, Mr. Ganis served for five years as president of the Motion
Picture Group at Paramount Pictures and president of Worldwide Marketing.
While at Paramount, Mr. Ganis was responsible for green-lighting Ghost,
the number-one box office hit of 1990 which grossed $500 million worldwide,
and purchasing the underlying rights to Forrest Gump. As the head
of Worldwide Marketing he helped launch such Paramount blockbusters as
Top
Gun, Fatal Attraction, Crocodile Dundee and Indiana
Jones And The Last Crusade.
Previously,
Mr. Ganis was senior vice president of Lucasfilm Ltd., where he worked
closely with George Lucas on production and marketing of all motion picture
product.
Mr. Ganis
is First Vice President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
as well as a member of the Board of Governors representing the public relations
branch of the Academy. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the
Los Angeles Center Theatre Group and the University of California, Berkeley
Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives.