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United States. Website. phoenixpictures.com. Phoenix Pictures is an American independent film production company that has produced films since the mid to late 1990s with features including The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), The Thin Red Line (1998), Zodiac (2007), Black Swan (2010), and Shutter Island (2010). [1]
About Phoenix Pictures. Founded by Producers Mike Medavoy and Arnold Messer in 1995, Phoenix Pictures is a premier film and television production company with a track record of working with first-rate talent across multiple mediums. With over 25 feature films and television series to its credit, the company has collaborated with sought after ...
Phoenix Pictures is a production company that was founded in 1995 by Mike Medavoy, who was formerly the CEO of TriStar Pictures; before that, he worked at United Artists, and was one of the UA defectors that helped launch Orion Pictures.
Morris Mike Medavoy (born January 21, 1941) is an American film producer and business executive. He is the co-founder of Orion Pictures, the former chairman of TriStar Pictures, the former head of production for United Artists, and the current chairman and CEO of Phoenix Pictures .
- Film producer, business executive
- Morris Mike Medavoy, January 21, 1941 (age 82), Shanghai, China
- 1964–present
- 2; Nick Medavoy and Brian Medavoy
Other notable pictures filmed at least partially in Phoenix include Raising Arizona, A Home at the End of the World, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Days of Thunder, The Gauntlet, The Grifters, Waiting to Exhale and Bus Stop. The radio airwaves in Phoenix cater to a wide variety of musical and talk radio interests.
The phoenix is sometimes pictured in ancient and medieval literature and medieval art as endowed with a halo, which emphasizes the bird's connection with the Sun. [15] In the oldest images of phoenixes on record these nimbuses often have seven rays, like Helios (the Greek personification of the Sun). [16]
