Douglas Wick won a Best Picture Oscar nomination for his first solo producing effort with 1988’s Working Girl, and then in 2000 he won the Best Picture Oscar for Gladiator. Lucy Fisher worked in various studio capacities at MGM, Fox, Zoetrope, Warner Bros where she was EVP Worldwide Production from 1981, to then going to Columbia/Tri Star as Vice Chairman in 1995.
Wick went on to also produce movies like Mike Nichols’ Wolf, Girl Interrupted, Hollow Man, and Stuart Little, and was joined by his wife (since 1986), Lucy Fisher who left the studio game and joined him in running Red Wagon Entertainment where they produced Peter Pan, Stuart Little 2, Jarhead, Bewitched, the Divergent series , and won Best Picture Oscar nominations for Memoirs Of A Geisha and Gatsby.
In 2006 together they received the prestigious David O’ Selznick Achievement In Motion Pictures Award from the Producers Guild Of America . Later, Fisher would go on to become President of the PGA with Gail Berman in 2018.
Oh, and Doug graduated Cum Laude from Yale and Lucy graduated Cum Laude from Harvard. Nice.
Now they are enjoying a new hit movie with Ridley Scott’s Gladiator ll which opened to a strong $55 million over the weekend in North America and now has a global total of $221 million after just 10 days in release. The pair joined me in conversation for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series, Behind The Lens where they talk about the Herculean task of producing and bringing the long awaited Gladiator sequel to the screen, the challenges and ideas along the way to make it work, stories from the trenches of their other productions, plus how their personal and working relationship makes for the ideal marriage in Hollywood.
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