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Joel Silver (born July 14, 1952) is an American film producer, most well-known for action films including the ''Lethal Weapon'' series, ''The Matrix'' trilogy, the first two ''Die Hard'' movies, and ''Predator''. He is the owner of Silver Pictures and co-founder of Dark Castle Entertainment. He has been a rival to Michael Eisner, former C.E.O of The Walt Disney Company, since their days at Paramount Pictures. ==Life and career== Silver was born and raised in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of a writer and a public relations executive.〔http://www.filmreference.com/film/52/Joel-Silver.html〕 He attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. He finished his undergraduate studies at the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Silver began his career at Lawrence Gordon Productions, where he eventually became president of motion pictures for the company. He earned his first screen credit as the associate producer on ''The Warriors'' and, with Gordon, produced ''48 Hrs.'', ''Streets of Fire'', and ''Brewster's Millions''. In 1985, he formed Silver Pictures and produced successful action films such as ''Commando'' (1985), the ''Lethal Weapon'' franchise, the first two films of the ''Die Hard'' series, and the ''The Matrix'' franchise of action films. Silver appears on-screen at the beginning of ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' as Raoul J. Raoul, the director of the animated short ''Something's Cookin''. Silver directed "Split Personality", (1992), an episode of the HBO horror anthology ''Tales from the Crypt''. He currently runs two production companies, Silver Pictures, and Dark Castle Entertainment, co-owned by Robert Zemeckis. On July 10, 1999, Silver married his production assistant, Karyn Fields. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joel Silver」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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