The movie tracks the lives of an obviously dysfunctional family of filmmakers struggling to redefine the porno industry and led by a producer, played by Burt Reynolds.

For his sidekick, Leo Bloom, the accountant turned producer played by Gene Wilder in the film, producers are pursuing Matthew Broderick.

As Marsha Bickner, a brittle television talk show producer played by Christine Baranski, says to a new employee from the Midwest: "This is darling, Jim.

You recall, surely, the producer played by Geoffrey Rush.

It is also about the relationship between the whistle-blower, played by Russell Crowe, and the producer, played by Al Pacino.

Jim Gaffigan plays an Indiana guy brought in to be a weather reporter for a television show in New York by the brassy producer, played by Christine Baranski.

In some ways, Fuller is a version of Jane Craig, the producer played by Holly Hunter in "Broadcast News," but there's a big difference.

Phill Calvert (born 1958), Australian rock drummer and producer, played in the influential post-punk band "The Birthday Party"

There is also a character named Merc Lapidus, a producer played by John Pankow, on the television show Episodes.