Career
In 1983 he left academia to join General Cinema Corporation, a major film company founded by his grandfather,Philip Smith, and now headed by his uncle, Richard Smith. He worked as an executive in the company as a liaison between General Cinema Corporation and the production community in Hollywood. He was also an advisor in The General Cinema national film buying office.
He then founded Chestnut Hill Productions in 1985 which produced a string of Hollywood Movie & TV "Bombs". 1988 Sweet Hearts Dance (producer) $3,790,493 1990 I Love You to Death (producer) $16,186,793 1991 V.I. Warshawski (producer) $11,128,309 1993 Blind Side (TV movie) (executive producer 1994 State of Emergency (TV movie) (executive producer) 1996 Malibu Shores (TV series) (co-executive producer) (co-producer) 10 episodes 1996 Foxfire (producer) $269,300 2009 Sergio (documentary) (executive producer) 2010 Inside Job (documentary) (executive producer) $4,312,735 Academy Award for Best Documentary The company also produced television commercials. On February 27, 2011, the Lurie-produced documentary film Inside Job won an Academy Award for best documentary film.
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