The Producers Guild of America has elected industry veterans Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher as presidents for two-year terms.The duo ran unopposed and were introduced during the PGA's annual membership meeting on the Paramount Pictures Studios lot in Los Angeles on Saturday evening at the conclusion of the first day of the guild's two-day Produced By conference.Berman and Fisher’s election marks the first time two women will serve as PGA presidents."Gail and Lucy have long since established themselves as leaders...
Red Wagon Entertainment, Producers Guild of America
Lucy
Fisher
Co-Founder, Red Wagon Entertainment / President, PGA
After a successful career as a top studio executive, she partnered with Academy Award-winning producer – and husband – Douglas Wick (“Gladiator”) on Oscar winners “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “The Great Gatsby,” and the $765M+ -grossing “Divergent” series. Started as a freelance script reader at UA, cut her teeth at MGM, and was Vice President of Production at Fox before being tapped as Head of Worldwide Production for Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios. Joined Warner Bros. in 1981 and served for 14 years as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Production, where she developed and supervised a diverse range of films including “The Fugitive,” “The Color Purple,” “Gremlins,” “The Goonies,” “Malcolm X,” “Space Jam,” “Empire of the Sun,””The Outsiders” and “The Witches of Eastwick.” In 1995 she was made Vice Chairman at Sony, and during Fisher’s tenure the studio broke all-time industry records for biggest domestic and worldwide grosses with films she supervised, including “Men in Black,” “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” “Air Force One,” “Jerry Maguire,” “As Good as it Gets” and “Stuart Little.” In 2001 Wick made her co-head of Red Wagon. Their first picture in their new partnership was “Stuart Little 2,” and they’ve since produced such movies together as “Jarhead,” “Peter Pan,” and “Lawless.”
