Entertainment & Arts
Bill Mechanic, well-regarded as a hard-working, nuts-and-bolts studio executive and strategist who knows how to grow businesses, has for years wanted to prove he has creative chops.
Nov. 5, 1996
With last week’s hiring of Disney’s Bill Mechanic as the new president of 20th Century Fox, studio chairman Peter Chernin has bought himself a much-needed sounding board and strategic ally--someone who can, hopefully, help jump-start a studio whose fortunes have been on the wane.
Oct. 4, 1993
‘Titanic’ Steaming Into Uncharted Financial Waters
Jan. 27, 1998
Movies
Its subject may seem an unlikely choice for epic movie treatment, but “Padman,” inspired by the true story of activist Arunachalam Muruganantham’s mission to bring affordable sanitary pads to the female masses of India, proves quite the entertaining, daresay absorbing, movie.
Feb. 12, 2018
* Just three weeks after the studio booted its beloved movie chairman, it had its second-biggest hit after last year’s ‘Star Wars.’
July 18, 2000
Company Town Blog
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Jan. 27, 2011
Just like the 1972 Charles Bronson vehicle “The Mechanic” and the 2011 Jason Statham-starring remake, the best scenes in “Mechanic: Resurrection” contain almost no dialogue.
Aug. 26, 2016
Bill Mechanic is something of an anomaly in Hollywood.
Feb. 18, 2000
Ministry of Gossip
Jan. 26, 2011
Entertainment: The move--some say it was an ouster--comes after most recent film flop, ‘Titan A.E.’
June 23, 2000