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The Zanuck Company (formerly The Zanuck/Brown Company) is an American motion picture production company. It is responsible for such blockbusters as Jaws, The Sting, Cocoon, Driving Miss Daisy, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland.
Jul 13, 2012 · Zanuck’s producing of the shark-tinged classic helped create the summer tent pole while birthing the career of one Steven Spielberg.
Zanuck was an early advocate of widescreen projection. One of the first things Zanuck did when he returned to Fox in 1944 was to restart the research on a 50 mm film, shelved in the early 1930s as a cost-cutting measure (a larger-sized film print in the projector meant higher resolution).
Jul 11, 2010 · Zanuck did produce several “great man” films in the first two years of 20 th Century, including The Mighty Barnum in 1934, and Clive of India in 1935.
- Tom Stempel
Mar 28, 2017 · Richard Zanuck oversaw a number of hit movies as Fox’s Head of Production – The Sound of Music (1965), Planet of the Apes ((1968) and Patton (1970), to name but three; but a string of costume musicals failed and cost the studio a bundle. Even so, he was traveling better than his father by then.
Jul 15, 2012 · In 1956, he was appointed vice-president, in charge of the US operations, of Darryl F Zanuck Productions, his father's newly formed independent production company. The following year, he...
Sep 1, 2002 · As an omnipotent and amazingly prolific producer, he was responsible for a great diversity of films -- his career stretched from silent movies and ''42nd Street'' to ''The Longest Day,'' and...
