Producer Joel Silver also stated in an interview on The Animatrix DVD that he was shown the Ghost in the Shell film during a pitch from the Wachowski brothers to indicate the style and look they wanted for The Matrix.

In 2008, Straczynski wrote a draft of Ninja Assassin for Joel Silver ( which he completed in just 53 hours ).

* Joel Silver

Bertram Fields ( March 31, 1929 ) is an American lawyer famous for his work in the field of entertainment law ; he has represented many of the leading studios, as well as individual celebrities including Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Warren Beatty, James Cameron, Mike Nichols, Joel Silver, Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Mario Puzo, and John Travolta.

He returned to the big screen with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III where he again did the voice of Donatello, and starred in the Richard Donner / Robert Zemeckis / Joel Silver film Tales From The Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood, opposite Dennis Miller.

The script was finished in 1985, but production did not start until 1991, when Joel Silver acquired the script for Silver Pictures.

Producer Joel Silver, a fan of the Coens ' previous films, acquired the script for his production company, Silver Pictures, and pitched the project at Warner Bros. Pictures.

Gibson's gamble paved the way for Downey's comeback and Downey returned to mainstream films in the mid-2000s with Gothika, for which producer Joel Silver withheld 40 percent of his salary until after production wrapped as insurance against his addictive behavior.

In 2003, on the set of Gothika, Downey met producer Susan Levin, an Executive Vice President of Production at Joel Silver's film company, Silver Pictures.

directed by Jack Sholder, Joel Silver

It was picked up by 20th Century Fox in 1985, and turned over to producer Joel Silver who, based on his experience with Commando, seemed the right choice to turn the vintage science fiction pulp storyline into a big-budget film.

His agent sent it to producer Joel Silver, who loved the story and worked with Black to further develop the script.

The Wachowskis are known to have been impressed with Ghost in the Shell and went as far as to screen it to producer Joel Silver to show him what kind of film they wanted to make for The Matrix.

Similarly, his friendship with producer Joel Silver led to The Power Station writing a song called " We Fight for Love " for the Arnold Schwarzenegger action film Commando ( 1985 ).

He pioneered the " bullet time " technique later adapted in The Matrix, ( he met Joel Silver, the producer of the movie and he had no choice but accept the deal for a small amount ) in a 1998 commercial for Smirnoff vodka, as well as directing a trio of inventive holiday-themed advertisements for clothing retailer Gap, Incorporated.

She met actor Joel McCrea on the set of the 1933 film The Silver Cord.

" They felt that in order to make this thing work, we had to do it essentially like the series, which began with three half hour episodes, so we decided to do three movies ," Joel Silver told Fangoria magazine in 1995.

* In July 2012, Dwayne Johnson announced via Twitter that he is currently in talks with Joel Silver and Brad Peyton to portray Lobo.

Joel Silver later confirmed Gibson ’ s lack of interest in the project.

* Article about marbled paper by Joel Silver from Fine Books magazine, Nov ./ Dec.

Joel Silver, the film's producer, has said that " we always intended to have a different kind of girl for each movie " in the vein of Bond girls.

Although she was originally cast as Lt. Lenina Huxley in Demolition Man, disagreements over the character's direction led producer Joel Silver to recast the role with Sandra Bullock .< ref >

Sid James ( born Solomon Joel Cohen ; 8 May 1913 – 26 April 1976 ) was an English-based South African actor and comedian.

James was born Solomon Joel Cohen on 8 May 1913 to Jewish parents in South Africa, later changing his name to Sidney Joel Cohen, and then Sidney James.

* Joel Breton ( born 1971 ), game producer, entrepreneur and disc jockey

Douglas has a younger brother, Joel Douglas ( born 1947 ), and two paternal half-brothers, Peter Douglas ( born 1955 ) and Eric Douglas ( 1958 – 2004 ), from stepmother Anne Buydens.

Dewey was born in Adams Center, New York, the fifth and last child of Joel and Eliza Greene Dewey.

Joel Garner ( born 16 December 1952 ), also known as " Big Joel " or " Big Bird ", is a former West Indian cricketer, and a member of the highly regarded late 1970s and early ' 80s West Indies cricket teams.

Authors and writers who have lived in Redding include Mark Twain, who lived on present-day Mark Twain Lane and owned property in town until his death in 1910 ; Joel Barlow, a poet and diplomat, born in town ; Howard Fast ( in the 1980s ); Flannery O ' Connor ( who wrote her novel Wise Blood while a boarder at the home of fellow writer Robert Fitzgerald and family on Seventy Acre Road from 1949 to 1951 ).

* Joel Godard, an announcer for the Late Night with Conan O ' Brien TV show, was born and raised here.

The first child born in the town was to Dr. Joel Knight, a purveyor of a patent medicine product known as " Dr. Joel Knight's Celebrated Screw Auger Pills.

* Joel Abbot, ( 1793 – 1855 ), born in Westford, noted naval officer

* Joel Stein ( born 1971 ), Los Angeles Times columnist.

* Joel Douglas ( born January 23, 1947 ), American movie producer, son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill

* Joel Graham ( born 1977 ), bassist for thrash metal band Evile.

Joel Freeland ( 1987 – ), international basketball player, was born in Farnham.

Joel Garreau ( born 1948 ) is an American journalist, scholar and author of Radical Evolution, Edge City and The Nine Nations of North America.

Joe Hill, born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund in Gävle, Sweden, and also known as Joseph Hillström ( October 7, 1879 – November 19, 1915 ) was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW, also known as the " Wobblies ").

Joel Emmanuel Hägglund was born 1879 in Gävle ( then called Gefle ), a city in the province of Gästrikland, Sweden.

Joel Fuhrman was born in New York, New York on December 2, 1953.

Joel ( Yoel ) Teitelbaum, () ( born January 18, 1887-died August 19, 1979 ) known as Reb Yoelish or the Satmar Rav ( or Rebbe ), was a Hungarian Hasidic rebbe and Talmudic scholar and founder of the Satmar Hasidic dynasty.

* Joel Mall ( born 1991 ), Swiss football goalkeeper

Joel Shepherd ( born 1974 in Adelaide, South Australia ) is an Australian science fiction author.