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Feb 20, 2023 · Charles B. Wessler’s impact on the film industry can be seen in the way that comedies are produced and marketed today. His collaborations with the Farrelly brothers helped to popularize a new style of comedy that focused on character-driven stories and showed that audiences were hungry for something different.
He was also a production assistant for George Lucas on The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). Wessler spent time working at The Ladd Company for Alan Ladd Jr. and at Zoetrope Studios with Francis Ford Coppola. He soon moved on to produce specials for HBO where he hired Peter Farrelly and Bennett Yellen to write a script ...
Nov 21, 2018 · When Frank Anthony Vallelonga (Mortensen), aka “Tony Lip”, a New York City bouncer from an Italian American neighborhood in The Bronx, is hired to drive and protect Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class African American pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on The Green Book—a travel guide to safe ...
Jul 6, 2019 · Charles B. Wessler arrives at the 91st Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon on Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Sep 11, 2018 · September 11, 2018 5:32pm. Green Book is almost a contradiction in terms, a feel-good buddy comedy-drama featuring an elegant black musician and his white driver on tour in the pre-integration ...
Confronted with racism, danger—as well as unexpected humanity and humor—they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime. Jim Burke (The Descendants), Charles B. Wessler (The Heartbreak Kid) produce alongside Farrelly’s fellow writers, Brian Currie and Nick Vallelonga, and Farrelly.
Jul 5, 2019 · Wessler got involved in the museum during a private visit to Warsaw last month, when he met the museum’s director, Albert Stankowski, and offered to help with collecting materials for the ...
