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Brian Grazer: How Curiosity Led to $15 Billion at the Box Office

The Great Creators with Guy Raz

12-12-2023 • 57 mins

Brian Grazer is the award-winning producer of many iconic and successful films and TV shows, like Apollo 13, The Da Vinci Code, A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon, Friday Night Lights, 24, and Arrested Development. More than 40 years ago he co-founded Imagine Entertainment with director Ron Howard. Together their films have made more than 15 billion dollars. In his conversation with Guy, Brain talks about his accidental start in Hollywood, what it was like working there in the early 70s, and the steps he took that helped him advance in the movie industry. He talks about meeting and working with Ron Howard, and what makes their collaboration so successful and enduring four decades later. And he talks about the power of curiosity, a quality he ultimately credits for his creative success, and explores in his best-selling book A Curious Mind.

Links from the show:

Night Shift (1982) Movie Trailer

Splash (1984) Movie Trailer

Bowfinger (1999) Movie Trailer

Frost/Nixon (2008) Movie Trailer

Brian's book A Curious Mind

Brian's and Ron Howard's production company Imagine Entertainment

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