Michael Ovitz

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q653333: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person who goes by that name on Wikidata.

No film of theirs is counted, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Ghostbusters (1984): 1 line

  1. industry (super-packaging precedent) · them, directly: Michael Ovitz ⇒ Ghostbusters (the host's read). Ovitz's famous packaging example: assembling the cast, director and effects on paper and forcing studios to bid, as with Ghostbusters.
    “His famous example of this is that he puts together like Ghostbusters and goes to all of the studios and is like, like, it's on everyone's table, you know, like, start bidding.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:57:34 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

The Color of Money (1986): 1 line

  1. industry (packager) · them, directly: Michael Ovitz ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read). Ovitz engineered the Newman-plus-Scorsese pairing, nudging Newman to write a letter and nudging Scorsese toward a commercial project.
    “I know he's an artiste. He's probably not going to want to do like a commercial thing. So I'm going to try and like nudge him towards something commercial.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:55:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

industry (2)

  1. industry (packager): Michael Ovitz → The Color of Money. Ovitz engineered the Newman-plus-Scorsese pairing, nudging Newman to write a letter and nudging Scorsese toward a commercial project.
    “I know he's an artiste. He's probably not going to want to do like a commercial thing. So I'm going to try and like nudge him towards something commercial.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:55:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. industry (super-packaging precedent): Michael Ovitz → Ghostbusters. Ovitz's famous packaging example: assembling the cast, director and effects on paper and forcing studios to bid, as with Ghostbusters.
    “His famous example of this is that he puts together like Ghostbusters and goes to all of the studios and is like, like, it's on everyone's table, you know, like, start bidding.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:57:34 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (neighbor / patron): Michael Ovitz → Martin Scorsese. Ovitz lived near or under Scorsese early on, borrowing movies and being shown VHS tapes upstairs.
    “Ovitz was Scorsese's neighbor for a long time. I think he lived underneath him.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:54:17 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Michael Ovitz: Ovitz coaxes Newman into writing Scorsese a fan letter; Scorsese lights up despite it being addressed to Michael Scorsett.
    “it is addressed to Michael Scorsett. But he forgives that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:55:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)