Lynda Obst
PGA Awards to Honor Lynda Obst and Paula Weinstein With Posthumous Trailblazer Tribute
The producers, who both died in 2024, will be recognized during the Feb. 8 awards show.
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Lynda Obst, Veteran Film Producer, Writer and Champion of Women in Hollywood, Dies at 74
She used her “crazy intuitive intelligence and taste” to get behind such films as 'Flashdance,' 'Sleepless in Seattle,' 'Contact,' ‘The Fisher King,’ 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,' 'Interstellar' and more.
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“I’m Bloody Tired of Hiding”: Lynda Obst on Her Trailblazing Career and Devastating Diagnosis
Six years after a life-altering health crisis, the megaproducer (and onetime "devoted pothead") talks 'Barbie' snubgate and why she's suddenly lost her filter: "I kind of don’t give a shit what people think of me."
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‘The Hot Zone’: TV Review | Tribeca 2019
National Geographic finally brings Richard Preston's best-seller 'The Hot Zone' to the screen with an adaptation that doesn't dig deep, but offers plenty of disturbing moments and visceral thrills.
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Lynda Obst Testifies in Robert Durst Murder Case
The 'Sleepless in Seattle' producer said that Berman, a mutual friend whom Durst is charged with shooting, confided that she had pretended to be Durst's first wife in a telephone call that prosecutors say took place after the wife was dead.
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Birth Control Pill Drama in the Works at Nat Geo (Exclusive)
The cabler is also developing scripted projects about the Ebola virus and the origins of National Geographic, with Marti Noxon attached to the latter.
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Producer Lynda Obst’s No-B.S. Advice for Fighting Hollywood Gender Inequality (Guest Column)
Film is the “best business for women,” writes the 'Interstellar' producer, because women have "a better chance of being mentored, discovered and hired" even though the industry is "utterly rigged for young white dudes."
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‘Good Girls Revolt’ Cast and Crew Talk Real-Life Inspirations for Amazon Series
Joy Bryant, Grace Gummer, Anna Camp, Jim Belushi and Chris Diamantopoulos are among the cast of the show inspired by a landmark 1970 lawsuit and subsequent efforts to end gender discrimination at 'Newsweek' and other publications, chronicled in Lynn Povich's book of the same name.
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Ebola TV Series in the Works From Lynda Obst, Ridley Scott (Exclusive)
Based on Richard Preston's 1994 best-seller 'The Hot Zone,' the limited series is being produced by Fox TV Studios
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Robin Williams Remembered: ‘Fisher King’s’ Director and Producer Recall How He “Salvaged” the Shoot
Terry Gilliam and Lynda Obst tell THR about the late actor's ability to save the day — on more than one occasion
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Rough Seas on ‘Noah’: Darren Aronofsky Opens Up on the Biblical Battle to Woo Christians (and Everyone Else)
"I was upset — of course," the director says of Paramount testing alternate versions of the $125 million epic as he and the studio break their silence on efforts to appease a small but vocal segment of the faith-based audience: "Those people can be noisy."
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R.I.P. Romantic Comedies: Why Harry Wouldn’t Meet Sally in 2013
One producer tells THR "the meet-cute is dead" as films with overseas and sequel potential take priority and the traditional format tanks.
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