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PETER
GUBER
EMPIRE KING
C urrently Chairman releasing the still popular soundtracks
and CEO of Mandalay of Midnight Express, Endless Love, and
Entertainment, his Flashdance.
prescient ability in Guber espouses a philosophy based on
the cultivation of the movie industry aiming for the heart and learning life’s
began in 1968 and has culminated in lessons, then moving on. With great
the production of an extensive resume success he applies this philosophy to
of classic films including: Shampoo, his own life, as executive, entrepreneur,
author, professor, and sports team
Taxi Driver, Tommy, The Way We Were, owner. Guber is co-owner and co-
executive chairman of the Golden State
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Warriors, an owner of the Los Angeles
Dodgers and an owner and executive
Midnight Express, Rain Man, Batman, chairman of the Los Angeles Football
Club (LAFC), which kicks off its first
Gorillas in the Mist, The Color Purple MLS season in 2018.
and Flashdance, among many others. Guber also owns Dick Clark
His movies have earned over $3 billion Productions, a producer of television
U.S. worldwide and 50 Academy Award programming, including hits such as
nominations. the American Music Awards, Golden
Globe Awards, and So You Think You
Guber’s acuity also gave us music that Can Dance. “Peter Guber has quickly assembled
changed the world. Guber’s Filmworks one of the world’s most diverse sports
with Casablanca Records produced empires.”
such stunning musical entities as Kiss,
Donna Summer, Captain and Tennille, – Forbes
The Village People, and George Clinton’s
Parliament-Funkadelic, as well as
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