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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1948-08-01
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Production
- star Popularity: 10.9
- info Birth Place Givatayim, Israel
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6.8
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022-05-03
6.5
Metal Gear Solid: Legacy
2015-09-01
7
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
2000-07-02
6.8
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
2008-06-10
0
Beyond Hell's Kitchen: Making 'Daredevil'
2003-07-29
0
8 Arms to Hold You
2004-11-30
5.6
Marvel Renaissance
2014-02-28
6.8
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010-07-24
7.3
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked
2003-07-01
0
The Path to Vengeance: Making Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
2012-06-12
5.9
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of X-Men '97
2024-05-21
7.4
The Wages of Heroism: Making The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014-08-19
0
Ghost in the Shell: Hard-Wired Humanity - Making Ghost in the Shell
2017-07-25
10
Generation X: The Comic Book Origin of X-Men
2006-10-25
5.2
The Secret Origin of X-Men
2003-11-25
7.2
I Am Iron Man
2008-09-30
6
The Grand
2007-06-07
5
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
2002-04-20
5.4
Spider-Mania
2002-04-30
0
The Spider-Man Story
2002-06-08
5.7
Nightstalkers, Daywalkers, and Familiars: Inside the World of 'Blade: Trinity'
2005-07-13
0
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie
2023-05-09
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Ghost Rider
2007-01-15
0
Spider-Man 3
2007-05-01
0
Spider-Man
2002-05-01
0
Spider-Man 2
2004-06-25
0
Iron Man
2008-04-30
0
Hulk
2003-06-19
0
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012-06-23
0
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007-06-13
0
The Avengers
2012-04-25
0
The Punisher
2004-04-15
0
Fantastic Four
2005-06-29
0
Daredevil
2003-02-14
0
The Killing Floor
2007-05-10
0
Elektra
2005-01-13
0
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023-05-31
0
Blade II
2002-03-22
0
Blade: Trinity
2004-12-08
0
Blade
1998-08-21
0
Man-Thing
2005-04-21
0
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
2011-12-10
0
Air Bound
2015-10-10
0
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014-04-16
0
Spider-Man 4
2026-07-22
0
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021-12-15
0
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006-05-24
0
The Legend of Zelda
0
The Invincible Iron Man
2007-01-23
0
The Invincible Iron Man
2007-01-23
0
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
0
Borderlands
2024-08-07
0
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
2004-11-30
0
Venom: The Last Dance
2024-10-22
0
Untitled Live-Action Naruto Film
0
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018-12-06
0
Ghost in the Shell
2017-03-29
0
Santa Pac's Merry Berry Day
2016-12-05
0
Venom
2018-09-28
0
The Magic Trolls and the Troll Warriors
1991-04-28
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The Magic Trolls and the Troll Warriors
1991-04-28
0
X-Men
2000-07-13
0
Generation X
1996-02-20
0
Doctor Strange
2007-08-14
0
Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017-07-05
0
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
2009-04-28
0
Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
1998-05-26
0
The Incredible Hulk
2008-06-12
0
Hell Divers
0
Morbius
2022-03-30
0
Kraven the Hunter
2024-12-11
0
X2
2003-04-27
0
Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
2005-06-07
0
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021-09-30
0
Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019-06-28
0
Super Monsters Back to School
2019-08-16
0
Uncharted
2022-02-10
0
One Punch Man
0
Ultimate Avengers 2
2006-08-08
0
Ultimate Avengers: The Movie
2006-02-21
0
Bratz
2007-08-03
0
Robosapien: Rebooted
2013-04-01
0
Robosapien: Rebooted
2013-04-01
0
Robosapien: Rebooted
2013-04-01
0
Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes
2006-09-02
0
X-Men: Evolution
2000-11-04
0
X-Men: Evolution
2000-11-04
0
Spider-Man
1994-11-19
0
Spider-Man
1994-11-19
0
King Arthur & the Knights of Justice
1992-09-13
0
X-Men
1992-10-31
0
Blade: The Series
2006-06-28
0
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
2013-06-15
0
Silver Surfer
1998-02-07
0
The Bots Master
1993-09-01
0
The Avengers: United They Stand
1999-10-30
0
Fantastic Four
1994-09-24
0
Super Monsters
2017-10-13
0
Super Monsters
2017-10-13
0
Kong: King of the Apes
2016-04-15
0
Kong: King of the Apes
2016-04-15
0
Spider-Man
1994-11-19
0
X-Men
1992-10-31
0
Mutant X
2001-10-06
0
Mutant X
2001-10-06
0
The Incredible Hulk
1996-09-08
0
Spider-Man Unlimited
1999-10-02
0
X-Men '97
2024-03-20
0
Super Monsters
2017-10-13
0
Super Monsters Monster Party
2018-09-14
0
Spider-Man Unlimited
1999-10-02
0
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
2013-06-15
0
Kong: King of the Apes
2016-04-15