Over 20 years after the comedy came out, the Oscar winner wants his accountants to take a look at the studio’s books to see what he could be owed – and he's taking the House of Mouse to court over their refusal. What About Bob? c0-star Richard Dreyfuss today sued Walt Disney Pictures for breach of contract and other claims over the defendants not letting the firm of Robinson & Company do an audit for him and the widow of Turner & Hooch producer Raymond Wagner, who also…...
- 4/10/2015
- Deadline
Los Angeles, April 11: Hollywood producer and studio executive Raymond Wagner has died aged 88. Though he passed away March 12, his family announced his death only now.
The producer passed away from natural causes, and his family announced the news Thursday, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Wagner began his career as a producer in the early 1960s, working on small screen pilots and "The Hanged Man".
He produced films like "Petulia" (1968), "Turner and Hooch" (1989) and "Run" (1991). His other credits include Chuck Norris's "Code of Silence" (1985), Liza Minnelli and Burt Reynolds's "Rent-a-Cop" (1987) and "Snow Day with Chevy Chase" in 2000.
Wagner was also famous for hiring former actress Sherry Lansing, who he.
The producer passed away from natural causes, and his family announced the news Thursday, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Wagner began his career as a producer in the early 1960s, working on small screen pilots and "The Hanged Man".
He produced films like "Petulia" (1968), "Turner and Hooch" (1989) and "Run" (1991). His other credits include Chuck Norris's "Code of Silence" (1985), Liza Minnelli and Burt Reynolds's "Rent-a-Cop" (1987) and "Snow Day with Chevy Chase" in 2000.
Wagner was also famous for hiring former actress Sherry Lansing, who he.
- 4/11/2014
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
Raymond Wagner, an executive at MGM and Universal who produced several notable films and hired future studio head Sherry Lansing to read scripts for $5 an hour in the 1970s, has died. He was 88. Wagner, who produced such films as director Richard Lester's Petulia (1968) and the Tom Hanks cop comedy Turner & Hooch (1989), died March 12 of natural causes in Westwood, a family spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday. In the early 1960s, Wagner headed television pilots for Universal Studios, where he produced the Don Siegel-directed The Hanged Man (1964), starring Robert Culp. It is
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- 4/10/2014
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Back in 1976, Mattel CEO Ray Wagner passed on the rights to make action figures for George Lucas’ Star Wars. In hindsight, it was one of the biggest missed opportunities in history, as Star Wars toys are still huge business. That license eventually went to Kenner, and Mattel spent the next half a decade trying to create their own line of toys to compete. The company struck gold in 1981, with the launch of the Masters of the Universe line – a series of toys featuring a wild mixture of classic Robert E. Howard fantasy (minus the sex and violence to try and appease parents – a move that wasn’t entirely successful) and sci-fi trappings. The star of this fictional universe, the muscle-bound Conan wannabe, He-Man (stupidest name ever…) does battle with...
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- 8/2/2011
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com - Celebrity Gossip
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