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Canton worked as executive vice president at Warner Bros. from 1980 onwards. Successes he was involved in at the time include 1983's National Lampoon's Vacation, Purple Rain, and the Batman and Lethal Weapon film series, [6] but also notorious box office failures like The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), [7] a picture he described as "the best ...
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Mark Canton. Producer: 300. Amongst Mark Canton's most notable films are 300, 300: Rise of an Empire, The Spiderwick Chronicles and Immortals. 300, based on the Frank Miller graphic novel and directed by Zack Snyder for Warner Bros Pictures, opened in 2007 to record-setting box office numbers, having grossed more than $460 million worldwide and is the highest-grossing March release in the ...
- June 19, 1949
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Mark Canton. Producer: 300. Amongst Mark Canton's most notable films are 300, 300: Rise of an Empire, The Spiderwick Chronicles and Immortals. 300, based on the Frank Miller graphic novel and directed by Zack Snyder for Warner Bros Pictures, opened in 2007 to record-setting box office numbers, having grossed more than $460 million worldwide and is the highest-grossing March release in the ...
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Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Mark Canton is a film producer and studio executive. Canton was a Warner Brothers executive that oversaw the development of both Tim Burton Batman movies. It was Canton's idea to involve Prince with the Batman movie, as his major hit prior had been Purple Rain at WB.
Mark Canton (born June 19, 1949) is an American film producer and executive. Life and early career Canton was born in Queens, New York, the son of Shirley and Arthur Canton, who worked in the film industry on marketing and publicity, e.g. for Lawrence of Arabia
