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Neil Canton (born 30 May 1948) [1] is an American film producer from New York City best known for his work on the Back to the Future trilogy. [2] Canton currently serves as an instructor and mentor at the American Film Institute Conservatory as a member of the Producing faculty.
[e] Producer Neil Canton suggested Lithgow, having worked with him and Christopher Lloyd on Buckaroo Banzai (1984). Lithgow was unavailable, and the role was offered to Lloyd. He was reluctant to join the production until a friend encouraged him to take the part. [43]
After screenwriter W. D. Richter hired novelist Earl Mac Rauch to develop a screenplay of Mac Rauch's new character, Buckaroo Banzai, Richter teamed with producer Neil Canton to pitch the script to MGM/UA studio chief David Begelman, who took it to 20th Century Fox to make the film. Box office figures were low and less than half of the film's ...
Back to the Future is an American science fiction franchise created by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale.The franchise follows the adventures of a high school student, Marty McFly, and an eccentric scientist, Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown, as they use a DeLorean time machine to time travel to different periods in the history of the fictional town of Hill Valley, California.
Canton worked as executive vice president at Warner Bros. from 1980 onwards. Successes he was involved in at the time include 1983's National Lampoon's Vacation, Purple Rain, and the Batman and Lethal Weapon film series, [6] but also notorious box office failures like The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), [7] a picture he described as "the best movie I ever saw" at its first screening.
The Movies That Made Us is an American documentary television series created by Brian Volk-Weiss, and a spin-off to The Toys That Made Us.The four episode debut season of the new series is dedicated to popular movies from the 1980s and 1990s, and tells the stories behind them.
Neil Canton, production assistant (Arizona). He went on to produce Back to the Future Part I, II, & III, The Witches of Eastwick, Caddyshack II, Trespass, Get Carter, Geronimo: An American Legend and others. Frank Marshall, unit production manager, production accountant (Arizona). Subsequently, a noted Hollywood producer.
Canton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ... Neil Canton, American film producer; William Canton, British writer This page was last edited on 12 ...