James Bond Producers Barbara Broccoli And Michael G. Wilson Receive Will Rogers Pioneer Award In Rollicking Evening
deadline.comThree years since Elizabeth Banks was honored as Pioneer Of The Year in 2019, the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation returned Wednesday night with their Pioneer Of The Year dinner, this time honoring James Bond franchise producers Michael G.
Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. It was a welcome return for the industry charity which earned what co-chair Erik Lomis (with Heather Morgan) announced was a healthy haul of $1.5M dollars for the cause.MGM, United Artists Releasing and their new owner Amazon Studios sponsored the evening for the organization whose membership spans the distribution and exhibition side of the business.
Everyone was in high spirits at the Beverly Hilton ballroom. Of course the honorees themselves were responsible for much of that upbeat response for a crowd eager to get back to normal after three years where the pandemic had KO’d this event.
It didn’t hurt that the most recent James Bond himself, Daniel Craig was able to fly in for the event after all, after first not being able to make it due to production schedules.
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