Ryan Stewart: Mike Medavoy

RYAN STEWART: Mike Medavoy

It takes a lot for a producer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but that's how influential Mike Medavoy has been in the movie business. From his time as a hotshot agent in the mid-70s, when he spent his days nurturing the careers of new artists like Steven Spielberg, Jane Fonda and Francis Ford Coppola, to his stint at United Artists when he produced such films asRocky,Apocalypse Now andAnnie Hall, to his co-founding of Orion Pictures and eventful tenure as the head of TriStar Pictures,...