Bill Block

William Hunt Block born April 2 1954 is an American film producer who was CEO of Miramax from April 2017 to October 2023 His producing credits include W 2008 District 9 2009 Fury 2014 Bad Moms 2016 Dirty Grandpa 2016 Halloween 2018 and Halloween Kills 2021 Block was born in New York City where he attended Columbia University and later became a supporter of the schools film program Block began his career as a literary agent before founding the Intertalent Agency in 1988 where he represented artists such as Kim Basinger Samuel L Jackson Steven Seagal Charlie Sheen John Travolta Forest Whitaker Sam Raimi Roland Emmerich and William Friedkin In 1992 he joined International Creative Management as head of West Coast Operations Block founded Artisan Entertainment an independent film studio that produced films including The Blair Witch Project The Buena Vista Social Club Darren Aronofskys Pi and Requiem for a Dream The Limey directed by Steven Soderbergh The Ninth Gate starring Johnny Depp and directed by Roman Polanski and David Koepps Stir of Echoes and Made starring Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn In 2002 Block founded film finance production and sales company QED International He was CEO of QED for 12 years producing films including Neill Blomkamps District 9 and Elysium Oliver Stones W and David Ayers WWII thriller Fury starring Brad Pitt In 2014 after Media Content Capital took a controlling interest in QED Block left the company to launch Merced Media with producer Kevin Frakes From 201517 he was managing director of Bill Block Media producing the commercially successful Bad Moms starring Mila Kunis and Kristen Bell and Dirty Grandpa starring Robert De Niro and Zac Efron In November 2015 he settled a legal dispute with QED after his former company filed a federal lawsuit alleging trademark infringement and unfair competition concerning the rights to Dirty Grandpa He was named CEO of Miramax in April 2017 He left the studio in October 2023 following the lapse of his contract with them forming another production company BlockFilm later that month Producer Jonathan Glickman subsequently replaced Block as Miramaxs CEO on April 2 2024 Block lives in the Hollywood Hills with his wife Eugenia Kuzmina a model actress and comedian his two sons and a daughter He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Block licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia