Hub celebrity hounds are giddy about sightings of Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner and Amy Adams, but the person who is really shaking up Hollywood is the 27-year-old heiress who is signing their checks.
Megan Ellison is the daughter of Oracle Corp. co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison, who is ranked by Forbes as the fifth-richest person on the planet and whose $43 billion fortune includes the Hawaiian island of Lanai.
Megan and her brother, David, also a film producer, are Ellison's only children, the products of his marriage to Barbara Boothe — his third of four wives.
Like any young woman who has received — depending on which reports you believe — anywhere between $200 million and $2 billion from her father, Megan Ellison has skipped the waiting tables, fetching coffee and doing commercials stages of most Hollywood hopefuls. She seems to have started her career as a film producer — and a very talented one.
So far, unlike many super-rich folks who have tried to take Tinseltown by storm, Megan and her production company, Annapurna Pictures — operated from three houses in the Hollywood Hills — have backed some real winners.
In fact, if you enjoyed "Lawless, "The Master" or "Zero Dark Thirty," you have Megan Ellison to thank.
According to its website, Annapurna Pictures, which gets its name from the Hindu harvest goddess who protects the world from starvation, has "the goal of creating sophisticated, high- quality films that might otherwise be considered risky by traditional Hollywood studios."
It seems that Ellison is on the right track again by backing David O. Russell's untitled Abscam film project, which has brought the latest crop of stars to Boston.
Ellison, who "does not do press interviews," according to her publicist, reportedly rides a Harley and likes to hang out with Jessica Chastain. In a nod to Hollywood's love of sequels, she also has purchased the rights to the "Terminator" film franchise.
In other words, Ellison is living the dream.
According to her Twitter account, she was recently at the South by Southwest festival for the premier of "Spring Breakers," a film she produced that stars James Franco and several women in bikinis, including Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez.
Hopefully, Boston will be next on Ellison's itinerary. She can stop by the Herald — we're in the same building as the Abscam flick's offices — and we can join her in bashing Vanity Fair for a nasty little comment about her looks in a recent profile.
It may take several more great films, but we can't wait for the day when Larry is introduced as Megan Ellison's father.
Boston, keep an eye out for Megan. She's the one to watch.
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