What does a movie producer do? No, seriously, who really knows?
When the best picture winner is announced at the Oscars on Sunday, the statues will go to the film's producers. Fundamentally, it's the producers who got the film made.
But what does that even mean? It's not hard to suss out what a director does - or a costume designer, or a screenwriter or an editor. But a producer? What does a producer actually do?
"I get this question all the time and I can answer it differently every time because every project is different," said Robert Teitel, a longtime producer and Chicago native whose credits include the movies "Soul Food," the "Barbershop" franchise and most recently "The Hate U Give."
"I use a sports analogy," he said. "The studio or whoever finances the movie is the team owner. The director is the coach. The star is your star athlete. And the producer is the general manager. If you
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