Old-school retro while "new era" ballsy as hell, the films of producer Arthur Sarkissian - among them the RUSH HOUR series, WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING, Walter Hill's LAST MAN STANDING, Rutger Hauer's back-in-day classic WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE, Martin Campbell's THE FOREIGNER with Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan, THE PROTÉGÉ, MEMORY and more - were all shepherded to the screen by Mr. Sarkissian not necessarily because of how critics or studios or distributors would react to them, ... but more importantly by how audiences would. And this is because Sarkissian grew up falling in love with films like THE GUNS OF NAVARONE, KELLY'S HEROES, JAWS and others while watching them in theaters surrounded by audiences laughing, screaming, cheering and more. As such, it's my great honor to present a nifty sit-down wherein "filmic king" Arthur delves into his past, inspirations, mentorship under iconic Hollywood mogul Howard W. Koch, Sr., early involvement with MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, AIRPLANE and Abel Ferrara's KING OF NEW YORK and much, much more.

Ladies and gentlemen, one of the last of Hollywood's great gentleman producers, Mr. Arthur Sarkissian.

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