“Spiderman” producer dies

Spider-Man" producer Laura Ziskin is dying of cancer

Los Angeles - Laura Ziskin, the Hollywood producer who helped turn "a star in''Pretty Woman star Julia Roberts and brought" Spider-Man''to the big screen, a public battle with breast cancer, died on Sunday after. She was 61.

Sony Pictures, which was based according to a statement from his production company, Ziskin seven years to fight the disease after it died in Los Angeles home.

2008 Ziskin, as well as other entertainment notables including newswoman Katie Couric, co-up cancer, cancer research advocacy group for a stand established. Later that year - and again last September - Ziskin all-star telethons broadcast live on the major U.S. networks have produced.

Besides the films, Ziskin produced the Academy Awards telecast twice and Fox 2000 Pictures, 20th Century Fox for a feature film division served as president.

Her probably the best three''Spider-Man''Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst starrer was known for producing films. Trilogy at the box office worldwide earned $ 2.5 billion. Superhero franchise currently have a new cast and with a focus on early years is being repaired.

Ziskin 2000 film drama on Fox championed the searingly brutal "was the''Fight Club, starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. An advance screening of the left bewildered and angry after the other studio executives, Ziskin announced boldly that it was brilliant writer Sharon Waxman backlot the "rebels, according to''.

She was just a strange line to White - "I want to abort - and begged director David Fincher to replace it. She reluctantly agreed, but the new line and also had strange and return to her old line of the solicitation. According to the book refused.

Ziskin, a Los Angeles resident who started out as a personal assistant, started making facilities in the mid-1980s. She teamed with actress Sally Field "Murphy's Romance production,''a 1985 comedy drama, which received an Oscar nomination for James Garner.

That the DOA''(1988) "''for not out (1987) and Dennis Quaid Way" for the hot young stars Kevin Costner hired, and help with the biggest sensation in Hollywood''Pretty Woman Roberts change,''the executive produced the 1990 smash.

Ziskin from a long dry spell by hiring her to write the adaptation famous Hollywood scribe Buck Henry (''Graduate'') saved "to die for,''a dark comedy directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Nicole Kidman.

Once it was released in 1995 by, Ziskin 2000 Fox, where she also films like Courage Under Fire `` oversaw''"''One Fine Day," Soul Food''and "Thin Red Line was sitting on." "

In 2002, she became the first female single output Oscar broadcast. Show in the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood for the first time is presented, the DU SOLEIL acrobatic troupe Cirque appearance marked the first Oscarcast. She also produced the 2007 event.

He was diagnosed with cancer in 2004, and a breast, chemotherapy, a stem cell transplant and radiation have. Cancer returned in 2009, spread to her liver and bones are.