Paula Wagner (born Paula Kauffman 12 December 1946 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American film producer and film executive. December 12 is the 346th day (347th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 19 days remaining. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Location within the state of Ohio Coordinates: Country United States State Ohio Counties Mahoning Founded 1796 Incorporated 1848 (village) - 1867 (city) Government  - Mayor Jay Williams (I) Area  - City  34. ... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about motion pictures, actors, movie stars, TV shows, TV stars, production crew personnel, movie pictures, cast, crew as well as video games. ... December 12 is the 346th day (347th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 19 days remaining. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Location within the state of Ohio Coordinates: Country United States State Ohio Counties Mahoning Founded 1796 Incorporated 1848 (village) - 1867 (city) Government  - Mayor Jay Williams (I) Area  - City  34. ...

Wagner earned her BA at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She began her career as an actress, appearing in several Broadway and off-Broadway stage productions. Wagner also performed at the Yale Repertory Theatre. In addition to being an actress, she is also a published playwright, co-writing the play Out of Our Father's House. Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... Nickname: Steel City, Iron City, City of Champions, City of Bridges, City of Colleges, P-Burgh, The Burgh Motto: Benigno Numine Location in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Allegheny County Founded 1758 Mayor Luke Ravenstahl (D) Area    - City 151. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... Yale Repertory Theatre at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut was founded by Robert Brustein, dean of the Yale School of Drama in 1966, with the goal of facilitating a meaningful collaboration between theatre professionals and talented students. ...

Wagner became a talent agent at the Creative Artists Agency; her clients included Kevin Bacon, Val Kilmer, Demi Moore, Liam Neeson, Oliver Stone, and Tom Cruise. Wagner paired Cruise with Stone for Born on the Fourth of July, with Kilmer on The Doors, and helping him cast JFK.^[1] Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the most powerful talent and literary agency in all of American show business. ... Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film and theatre actor who has starred in Footloose, Stir of Echoes, Wild Things, JFK, and Apollo 13, among many others. ... Val Edward Kilmer[1] (born December 31, 1959) is an American actor. ... Demi Moore (born Demetria Gene Guynes on November 11, 1962 in Roswell, New Mexico) is an American actress. ... William John Liam Neeson OBE, born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland on June 7, 1952, is an Oscar-nominated Irish actor. ... William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946), known simply as Oliver Stone, is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. ... Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer. ... Born on the Fourth of July (ISBN 1888451785) is the best selling autobiography of Ron Kovic, a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war activist. ... The Doors is a 1991 film about Jim Morrison and The Doors. ... JFK is an American film directed by Oliver Stone, first released on December 20, 1991. ...

Cruise and Wagner formed Cruise/Wagner Productions in 1993. Their films include the Mission: Impossible series, Vanilla Sky, The Last Samurai, and War of the Worlds. Other projects include Without Limits, The Others, Narc, Ask the Dust, and Elizabethtown. Vanilla Sky is a 2001 film which has been variously characterized by published film critics as an odd mixture of science fiction, romance, and reality warp [2], part Beautiful People fantasy, part New Age investigation of the Great Beyond[3] a love story, a struggle for the soul, or an... The Last Samurai is an action/drama film written by John Logan and Edward Zwick & Marshall Herskovitz based on a story by Logan. ... War of the Worlds is a 2005 science fiction/disaster film based on H. G. Wells original novel of the same name. ... Without Limits is a 1998 biographical film about the friendship between running star Steve Prefontaine and his coach Bill Bowerman, who would later co-found Nike, Inc. ... The Others has been the name of various films and TV series: In film: The Others, a 2001 film by Alejandro Amenábar, starring Nicole Kidman and Christopher Eccleston. ... Narc is a 2002 film about dirty cops involved in policing the drug trade. ... Ask the Dust is a 1939 novel by Italian-American author John Fante set in Depression-Era California. ... Elizabethtown is the name of several places in the United States of America: Elizabethtown, Illinois Elizabethtown, Indiana Elizabethtown, Kentucky Elizabethtown, New York Elizabethtown, North Carolina Elizabethtown, Ohio Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania Elizabethtown, Texas These should not be confused with Elizabethton, Tennessee (without the w). Also see Elizabeth. ...

On November 2, 2006, MGM announced that Wagner and Cruise acquired a small stake in United Artists. Wagner was named CEO, while Cruise will serve as a producer. The announcement came after Sumner Redstone terminated Cruise's association with Paramount Pictures, citing that his personal life, religious beliefs, and controversial comments were a liability to the box-office earnings of Mission: Impossible III and the studio as a whole. ^[2] For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... The current United Artists logo (a variant was used during the 1980s). ... Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein on May 27, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts) is Chairman of the Board and controlling shareholder of the Viacom and CBS Corporation media conglomerates. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ...

Wagner is married to Tom Cruise's agent Rick Nicita, who is also Co-Chairman of Creative Artists Agency. Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the most powerful talent and literary agency in all of American show business. ...

She was a juror at the 2006 Venice Film Festival. For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... The Venice Film Festival (it: Mostra Internazionale dArte Cinematografica) is the oldest Film Festival in the World (began in the 1932) and takes place every year in late August/early September on the Lido di Venezia in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi, in Venice, Italy. ...

External links

• Paula Wagner at the Internet Movie Database