Avi Arad
Avi Arad (/ˈɑːvi ˈɑːrɑːd/; Hebrew: אבי ארד; born August 1, 1948) is an Israeli-American studio executive and producer of film, television, and animation. He became the CEO of Toy Biz in the 1990s, was the chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment, and is the founder, former chairman, and former CEO of the latter's successor, Marvel Studios. Since then, he has produced and sometimes written a wide array of live-action, animated, and television comic book adaptations, including Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Arad was born in 1948 in Ramat Gan, Israel, to a Jewish family. The son of Holocaust survivors from Poland, he grew up reading Superman and Spider-Man comics translated into Hebrew. In 1965, he was conscripted as a soldier into the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). He fought and was wounded in the 1967 Six-Day War and spent 15 days recuperating. Arad finished his military service in 1968. In 1970, Arad moved to the United States and enrolled at Hofstra University to study industrial management. He worked as a truck driver and as a Hebrew teacher to put himself through college and graduated with a BBA in 1972. Along with Israeli-American Toy Biz co-owner Isaac Perlmutter, Avi Arad came into conflict with Carl Icahn and Ron Perelman over control of Marvel Comics in the wake of its 1996 bankruptcy. In the end, Arad and Perlmutter came out on top, with Toy Biz taking over Marvel Comics in a complicated deal that included obtaining the rights to Spider-Man and other superheroes that Marvel had sold earlier. He was involved in Marvel's emergence from bankruptcy and the expansion of the company's profile through licensing and movies. On May 31, 2006, Arad resigned from his various Marvel positions, including his leadership of Marvel Studios, to form his own production company, Arad Productions (also known as Arad Animation), a company that primarily produces Marvel-licensed films separate from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. His first non-Marvel film was 2007's Bratz. Further ventures include the manga adaptation Ghost in the Shell; an adaptation of Brandon Mull's teenage fantasy Fablehaven (which died in production); an adaptation of James Patterson's teenage novel Maximum Ride; and adaptations of video game properties Uncharted, Infamous, Metal Gear Solid, and The Legend of Zelda. In August 2010, it was announced that Arad was given a chair with the American branch of animation studio Production I.G in Los Angeles, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Avi Arad, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
(Self)
Metal Gear Solid: Legacy
(Self)
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
(Self - Executive Producer)
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
(Self - Producer, Spider-Man)
Beyond Hell's Kitchen: Making 'Daredevil'
8 Arms to Hold You
(Self)
Marvel Renaissance
(Himself)
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
(Self)
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked
The Path to Vengeance: Making Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
(Self)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of X-Men '97
(Self - Consulting Producer)
The Wages of Heroism: Making The Amazing Spider-Man 2
(Self)
Ghost in the Shell: Hard-Wired Humanity - Making Ghost in the Shell
(self)
The Secret Origin of X-Men
(Himself)
Generation X: The Comic Book Origin of X-Men
(Himself)
I Am Iron Man
(Self)
The Grand
(Abdul Shavit)
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
(Self)
Spider-Mania
(Self)
The Spider-Man Story
(Self)
Nightstalkers, Daywalkers, and Familiars: Inside the World of 'Blade: Trinity'
(Self)
Ghost Rider
(Producer)
Spider-Man 3
(Producer)
Spider-Man
(Executive Producer)
Spider-Man 2
(Producer)
Iron Man
(Producer)
Hulk
(Producer)
The Amazing Spider-Man
(Producer)
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
(Producer)
The Avengers
(Executive Producer)
The Punisher
(Producer)
Fantastic Four
(Producer)
Daredevil
(Producer)
The Killing Floor
(Executive Producer)
Elektra
(Producer)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
(Producer)
Blade II
(Executive Producer)
Blade
(Executive Producer)
Blade: Trinity
(Executive Producer)
Man-Thing
(Producer)
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
(Producer)
Air Bound
(Executive Producer)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
(Producer)
Spider-Man 4
(Executive Producer)
Spider-Man: No Way Home
(Executive Producer)
X-Men: The Last Stand
(Producer)
The Legend of Zelda
(Producer)
The Invincible Iron Man
(Executive Producer)
The Invincible Iron Man
(Story)
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
(Producer)
Borderlands
(Producer)
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
(Producer)
Venom: The Last Dance
(Producer)
Untitled Live-Action Naruto Film
(Producer)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
(Producer)
Ghost in the Shell
(Producer)
Santa Pac's Merry Berry Day
(Executive Producer)
Venom
(Producer)
The Magic Trolls and the Troll Warriors
(Producer)
The Magic Trolls and the Troll Warriors
(Creator)
X-Men
(Executive Producer)
Generation X
(Executive Producer)
Doctor Strange
(Executive Producer)
Spider-Man: Homecoming
(Executive Producer)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
(Executive Producer)
The Incredible Hulk
(Producer)
Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
(Executive Producer)
Hell Divers
(Producer)
Morbius
(Producer)
Kraven the Hunter
(Producer)
X2
(Executive Producer)
Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
(Story)
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
(Producer)
Spider-Man: Far From Home
(Executive Producer)
Super Monsters Back to School
(Creator)
Uncharted
(Producer)
One Punch Man
(Producer)
Ultimate Avengers 2
(Executive Producer)
Ultimate Avengers: The Movie
(Executive Producer)
Bratz
(Producer)
Robosapien: Rebooted
(Producer)
Robosapien: Rebooted
(Screenplay)
Robosapien: Rebooted
(Story)
Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes
(Producer)
X-Men: Evolution
(Producer)
X-Men: Evolution
(Writer)
Spider-Man
(Producer)
Spider-Man
(Writer)
King Arthur & the Knights of Justice
(Producer)
X-Men
(Producer)
Blade: The Series
(Executive Producer)
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
(Executive Producer)
Silver Surfer
(Producer)
The Bots Master
(Creator)
The Avengers: United They Stand
(Executive Producer)
Fantastic Four
(Executive Producer)
Super Monsters
(Story Developer)
Super Monsters
(Executive Producer)
Kong: King of the Apes
(Executive Producer)
Kong: King of the Apes
(Story)
Spider-Man
(Executive Producer)
X-Men
(Executive Producer)
Mutant X
(Executive Producer)
Mutant X
(Original Concept)
The Incredible Hulk
(Executive Producer)
Spider-Man Unlimited
(Executive Producer)
X-Men '97
(Consulting Producer)
Super Monsters
(Creator)
Super Monsters Monster Party
(Creator)
Spider-Man Unlimited
(Creator)
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
(Creator)
Kong: King of the Apes
(Creator)