Lynda Obst, a seasoned film producer whose work ranged from Oscar winners “Flashdance” and “Interstellar” to rom-com classics “Sleepless in Seattle” and “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” has died. She ...

Lynda Obst is a producer and writer who has made 15 films in her producing career, at almost every major studio. Lynda Obst was recruited to Hollywood from the New York Times Magazine in 1979 by Peter ...

Six years after a life-altering health crisis, the megaproducer (and onetime "devoted pothead") talks 'Barbie' snubgate and why she's suddenly lost her filter: "I kind of don’t give a shit what people ...

She used her “crazy intuitive intelligence and taste” to get behind such films as 'Flashdance,' 'Sleepless in Seattle,' 'Contact,' ‘The Fisher King,’ 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,' 'Interstellar' and ...

Obst's first production credit came on the 1983 film Flashdance, starring Jennifer Beals as a welder with dreams of becoming a professional dancer. Though Obst played a key role in developing the film ...

She helped make films like “Sleepless in Seattle” and “Contact.” She also wrote widely about the industry, for The Times and other publications. By Clay Risen Lynda Obst, a New York journalist turned ...

Lynda Obst, one of the most prolific female producers in Hollywood, died Tuesday in Los Angeles, according to her brother, WME partner Rick Rosen. She was 74. Obst had previously been open about ...

Jane Fonda and Kate Hudson presented the Producers Guild of America Trailblazer Awards to posthumous recipients Paula Weinstein and Lynda Obst. Fonda worked with Weinstein on the films 9 to 5 and ...

The inspiration for David Obst’s latest creation came to him more simply than he expected. During a car ride with his granddaughter, trapped in a traffic jam from Santa Barbara to Ventura, he realized ...

Lynda Obst, the veteran film and TV producer behind films such as “Sleepless in Seattle,” “Flashdance,” “The Fisher King” and “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” among many others, died Tuesday in Los ...