Ray Price Dies: Respected Indie Film Producer Was 75
deadline.comRay Price, the respected indie movie producer who championed the likes of Tran Anh Hung, Gurinder Chadha and Carl Franklin, has died aged 75.
Price’s death after a long battle with cancer was confirmed by his long-term partner, Meg Madison. Price launched his film career in 1972, managing the Berkeley storefront theater the Rialto, and went on to build with Allen Michaan Renaissance Theaters.
Under Price’s stewardship, Renaissance Theaters was renowned for redesigning marketing materials which fledgling distributors often adopted when the films hadn’t found success in other markets.
The company also took films out of studio vaults and relaunched them, including Ridley Scott’s The Duelist. Roadside Attractions Co-President Howard Cohen said of Price: “He had a deep knowledge and love of movies, and was the source of great lore about the theatrical distribution business.
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