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- Professions: Producer
Peter Rice—yeah, that Peter Rice—has been all over the Hollywood map, and honestly, the guy’s career reads like a highlight reel of modern entertainment. These days, he’s rolling with A24 as an independent producer, making deals and cooking up new stuff, but before that? Wild ride. Remember when Disney just up and fired him in 2022? Total shocker. The whole industry was like, “Wait, what?” He used to be the big boss of General Entertainment Content over at Disney, running the show for everything from Hulu and FX to ABC News and National Geographic. Streaming, cable, broadcast—he had his hands in all the cookie jars. Before Disney scooped up Fox, Rice was running the show at 21st Century Fox and Fox Networks Group, basically doubling their revenue and shuffling the brands so they’d hit over 2 billion subscribers around the world. Sports deals? He locked in rights with the NFL, MLB, UFC, and, honestly, just about every acronym you can think of. He helped launch FS1 and FS2, got National Geographic Partners up and running, and even dove into gaming with FoxNext. His team brought us stuff like “The Simpsons,” “Glee,” “Modern Family,” and way more—plus all those Emmy and Golden Globe nods. He kicked off his career at Fox Searchlight, backing movies like “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Juno,” “Little Miss Sunshine,” and “Moulin Rouge.” Not too shabby for a guy who started as an intern at Twentieth Century Fox back in ‘89. And yeah, he’s sat on a bunch of fancy boards, too. Dude’s been everywhere.
Started out at Fox as a summer intern way back in ‘89—yeah, that’s pre-social media, pre-cell phones (unless you were some Wall Street dude with a brick-sized Motorola). Imagine being thrown into the whirlwind of a major studio when movies were still shot on film and everyone smoked in the break room. You’d be grabbing coffee for execs, running around with scripts in hand, probably getting lost in the maze of bland hallways, all while trying to look like you knew what you were doing. Those early days at Fox were all about soaking up the chaos, making connections, and hoping someone remembered your name. It was less about fancy titles and more about hustle—staying late, saying “yes” to everything, maybe even sneaking into the back of a screening or two. That’s how a lot of careers started—awkward, messy, and totally unforgettable.
Konidela Ram Charan