Frank Yablans

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Frank Yablans (born August 27, 1935) is an American film producer and screenwriter The son of a Brooklyn cab driver and brother to fellow film producer Irwin Yablans,^[1] Yablans' first employers in the film business included Warner Bros., The Walt Disney Company and Filmways. He became Executive Vice President of Sales for Paramount Pictures in the late 1960s; in that position, his expert marketing of the film Love Story led to his appointment as Paramount Studios' President in 1971, a position he held until 1975. Followng his presidency at Paramount, he became an independent producer, working primarily through Paramount and 20th Century Fox.^[2] He was executive producer of such films as Congo (1995), Silver Streak (1976), and The Other Side of Midnight (1977) and wrote and produced Mommie Dearest (1981). Yablans was then recruited by Kirk Kerkorian to head his troubled and debt-laden film company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).^[3] While Yablans' reorganization of MGM and United Artists (UA) into a single entity as MGM/UA served to reduce costs and overhead, the company continued to lose value, and Yablans' tenure was equated to the demise of the studio in Fade Out: The Calamitous Final Days of MGM, a book by Peter Bart, presently the editor of Variety, who was hired by Yablans as MGM's senior vice president for production in 1983.

In 2003, Yablans founded Promenade Pictures, a production company committed to the production of "family-friendly" entertainment, with their most ambitious project the "Epic Stories of the Bible" series of CGI-animated features, inaugurated with The Ten Commandments and Noah's Ark: The New Beginning.

External links

Frank Yablans at the Internet Movie Database

References

↑ Monday, Mar. 18, 1974 (1974-03-18). "Show Business: The Promoter: Frank Yablans". TIME. Retrieved 2012-05-03.
↑ "P R O M E N A D E P I C T U R E S". P R O M E N A D E P I C T U R E S. Retrieved 2012-05-03.
↑ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (1990-06-20). "Books of The Times; What Went Wrong at M-G-M, by a Participant - New York Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-05-03.

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay

Can't Stop the Music – Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr (1980)
Mommie Dearest – Frank Yablans, Frank Perry, Tracy Hotchner and Robert Getchell (1981)
Inchon – Robin Moore and Laird Koenig (1982)
The Lonely Lady – John Kershaw, Shawn Randall and Ellen Shephard (1983)
Bolero – John Derek (1984)
Rambo: First Blood Part II – Sylvester Stallone, James Cameron and Kevin Jarre (1985)
Howard the Duck – Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz (1986)
Leonard Part 6 – Jonathan Reynolds and Bill Cosby (1987)
Cocktail – Heywood Gould (1988)
Harlem Nights – Eddie Murphy (1989)
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane – Daniel Waters, James Cappe & David Arnott (1990)
Hudson Hawk – Steven E. de Souza, Daniel Waters, Bruce Willis and Robert Kraft (1991)
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot – Blake Snyder, William Osborne and William Davies – (1992)
Indecent Proposal – Amy Holden Jones (1993)
The Flintstones –Jim Jennewein, Steven E. de Souza, Tom S. Parker and various others (1994)
Showgirls – Joe Eszterhas (1995)
Striptease – Andrew Bergman (1996)
The Postman – Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland (1997)
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn – Joe Eszterhas (1998)
Wild Wild West – Jim Thomas, John Thomas, S. S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman (1999)
Battlefield Earth – Corey Mandell and J. David Shapiro (2000)
Freddy Got Fingered – Tom Green & Derek Harvie (2001)
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones – George Lucas and Jonathan Hales (2002)
Gigli – Martin Brest (2003)
Catwoman – Theresa Rebeck, John Brancato, Michael Ferris and John Rogers (2004)
Dirty Love – Jenny McCarthy (2005)
Basic Instinct 2 – Leora Barish and Henry Bean (2006)
I Know Who Killed Me – Jeffrey Hammond (2007)
The Love Guru – Mike Myers & Graham Gordy (2008)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Ehren Kruger, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (2009)
The Last Airbender – M. Night Shyamalan (2010)
Jack and Jill – Steve Koren and Adam Sandler, story by Ben Zook (2011)
That's My Boy - David Caspe (2012)

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