About Robert Kosberg
Studio head and producer Sherry Lansing dubbed Robert Kosberg, "The best idea man in Hollywood." Fade In magazine named him to its "Top 100 People to Know in Hollywood" list. Gentleman's Quarterly (GQ) magazine wrote a feature story about him called, "The Art of the Pitch."
He was featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" on February 19, 1997. You can hear that interview by clicking here. (The pitch story, with Noah Adams, is the second from the bottom.)
Kosberg's credits as a producer include "12 Monkeys," "Commando," "Fade to Black" and National Lampoon's "Dad's Week Off."
He is currently producing The Hardy Men, starring Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller.
As a creative producer, he has pitched hundreds of ideas to the Hollywood studios, production companies and American television networks. At any given time, he might have as many as 30 projects in active development with the various studios.
Kosberg maintains relationships with key creative executives at all of the major studios - Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Sony Pictures, Disney, MGM, Paramount - and with dozens of key production companies. He sells ideas for feature films, television movies-of-the-week and cable movies.
Kosberg knows that having more good ideas to pitch means having more chances to succeed. Therefore he looks for ideas everywhere and from anyone regardless of who they are.
This is extremely unusual in Hollywood, where most producers enforce a strict policy of not accepting ideas from anyone who isn't already established in the business. Kosberg's openness to outsiders (a dreadful term) is the basis for MoviePitch.
Using the Internet, Kosberg is making it possible for idea people from all walks of life and in any location to have their idea seriously considered. If he likes your idea, he will contact you about pitching your idea to Hollywood.