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Meyer Gottlieb, a Holocaust subsister who was nan longtime main of Samuel Goldwyn Films and produced specified movies arsenic Master and Commander: The Far Side of nan World and 2013’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, has died. He was 86.
Sources confirmed nan news to Deadline’s Pete Hammond but did not supply details.
Gottlieb had worked pinch Hollywood scion Samuel Goldwyn Jr. to revive The Samuel Goldwyn Company successful 1978 and became its president and COO successful 1988. After that institution went done a brace of 1990s acquisitions by Orion Pictures and past MGM, Samuel Goldwyn Films was launched successful 2000, pinch Gottlieb astatine nan helm. Specializing successful indie and overseas pics, nan Culver City-based institution went connected to nutrient and/or administer hundreds of films ranging from The Big Blue and Me Without You to past year’s The Count of Monte Cristo and this year’s Venice-premiering The Last Viking.
Along pinch Master and Commander and nan Secret Life of Walter Mitty remake, Gottlieb’s producing credits see nan 2001 characteristic Tortilla Soup and nan 1990s’s TV bid Flipper.
“Meyer was a man of nan aged school,” Sony Pictures president and CEO Tom Rothman told Deadline successful a statement. “I was fortunate to activity for him erstwhile he ran nan Samuel Goldwyn Company, successful nan heyday of independent film. I learned an tremendous magnitude from him—most importantly, that it is imaginable to make a life successful Hollywood without sacrificing integrity and honesty, some of which he embodied entirely, on pinch smarts, wisdom, and kindness.”
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