Jim Gianopulos
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James N. Gianopulos, aka Jim Gianopulos, is a co-chairman-CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment with Tom Rothman. They were selected in 2007 by Premiere
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as the two most powerful people in Hollywood.

Early years

He is a second-generation Greek-American
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, born in New York City
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. As a young man he worked as a sailor on a tanker for a summer because he had a great desire to travel the world. After finishing law school he moved out to Los Angeles
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, landing jobs with such companies as Paramount
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 and Lorimar. He was voted one of 2005’s Showmen of the Year by Variety
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(along with Tom Rothman, the other co-president of Fox
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) for the quality of the studio’s productions and for the economic results he brought Fox. Gianopoulos has been a member of the Army Archerd
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 Fund's Board and longtime supporter.

Career

As at 2006, the Gianopoulos and Rothman team had greenlit
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 20 movies that produced over $
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100 million domestically ($ million in current dollars
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) and 26 movies that fetched $
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100 million internationally ($ million in current dollars
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).
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