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Peter Guber

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Biography

Howard Peter Guber (born March 1, 1942) is an American film producer, business executive, entrepreneur, educator, and author. He is chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment. Guber's films have grossed over $3 billion worldwide and received 50 Academy Award nominations. Guber is also a co-owner of five professional sports teams: the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association, the Golden State Valkyries of the Women's National Basketball Association, the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball, Los Angeles Football Club of Major League Soccer, and the professional eSports organization aXiomatic Gaming, with a controlling interest in one of the world's premier eSports franchises, Team Liquid. Guber formerly served as chairman of Dick Clark Productions, which produces the American Music Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, and other shows. He was also chairman of the Strategic Board; was an investor in NextVR, which was sold to Apple in 2020; and is chairman of Mandalay Sports Media. He is co-executive chairman of aXiomatic, a broad-based esports and gaming company. He is a Regent of the University of California and a professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television and the UCLA Anderson School of Management. For ten years, Guber was an entertainment and media analyst for Fox Business. Guber's most recent business book, Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story, became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. Guber is also noted for other books that include Inside the Deep and Shootout: Surviving Fame and (Mis)Fortune in Hollywood, which became a television series on AMC called Shootout. Guber hosted the show from 2003 to 2008 with Peter Bart, editor of Variety. Guber wrote a cover article for the Harvard Business Review, titled "The Four Truths of the Storyteller". Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Guber, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Clue

Appears in a KinoChain journey

An American Werewolf in London

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Flashdance

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Batman

Producer

Batman Returns

Executive Producer

Highest 2 Lowest

Executive Producer

Rain Man

Executive Producer

The Last Dance

Executive Producer

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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From Transylvania to Treasure Island

Trace Tim Curry's wild ride from cult icon to family favourite, one unforgettable role at a time.

8 films

Metamorphosis: Bodies in Flux

From Kafka's insect to Cronenberg's flesh, a journey through cinema's most profound transformations, where identity itself is the shape-shifter.

7 films

It was Miss Scarlet, in the cinema...

Celebrating Lesley Ann Warren's 80th birthday with a journey through board game adaptations, from the witty whodunit of Clue to the explosive naval warfare of B...

8 films

Fur and Fangs

From the eerie moors of England to the neon streets of Tokyo, this chain of eight films reveals the werewolf as a creature of endless reinvention, embodying hor...

8 films

Dancing Against the Current: Eight Films of Rebellion in Motion

From the steel mills of Pittsburgh to the streets of Baltimore, these films trace the dancer's fight for selfhood against the weight of expectation. A curated j...

8 films

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