What Does a Producer Actually Do? Hear from Six Top Executives Who Explain It

IndieWire led a panel with producers including Ellen Goldsmith-Vein ("Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere"), Alison Owen ...

‘Why does it take 10 producers to screw in a lightbulb?' The Producers Guild explains what exactly a producer does.

Perhaps the biggest mystery of film production is precisely what a producer does. Director, cinematographer, costume designer ...
Reuters

So, what exactly does a film producer do?

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Six years after the Producers Guild of America first defined what a producer does, its Producers Code of Credits has become an invaluable tool. The code not only ...
Winston-Salem Journal

What does a movie producer do? ‘The Offer,’ a series about the making of ‘The Godfather,’ provides an answer

A few years ago, ahead of the 2019 Oscars, I wrote a column that started with a simple question: What does a movie producer do? Despite the ubiquity of the term, it’s a job title that fails to capture ...
Variety

How ‘Gladiator 2’s’ Lucy Fisher and the PGA Are Pushing to Nail Down What a Producer Does

It takes a village to make a movie, but when it comes to producers, at best they’re stereotyped as the money people — at worst, their efforts are nullified by honorary titles handed out like Halloween ...
Time

Saul Zaentz: What Does a Producer Do, Anyway?

Producers used to be the alpha dogs of movies — Hollywood rajahs, figures of legendary power and belligerence. And, oddly, many of these first-among-equals potentates had surnames beginning with the ...
Slate

What an Executive Producer for Film and TV Actually Does

Marian Macgowan, a long-time producer who helped launch the careers of Heath Ledger and Rose Byrne, explains her job. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Indie Film Producers Gather During Sundance to Talk Lobby Negotiations, Breadth of Janitor-Like Skills: “What Don’t We Do?”

THR teamed with the PGA for a Hyundai-sponsored panel in Park City with Shivani Rawat, Datari Turner, Stacey Reiss, Zoë Worth, Fred Hechinger, Sara Bernstein and PGA president Stephanie Allain. By ...

‘Our Value Was Never Disrespected’: Hollywood Career Producers Are Battling Actors, Greedy Managers, Penny-Pinching Execs and Stolen Credits to Survive

Inside Producers United, a collective fighting for the survival of TV and film producers in Hollywood amid rapid industry ...