Guy McElwaine

Guy McElwaine (June 29, 1936 – April 2, 2008) was a Hollywood agent, producer, and studio head.

McElwaine played Minor League Baseball as a teenager, pitching in the C league in 1955 and leaving the game to join Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's publicity department. He left MGM in 1959 to join the marketing and public relations agency Rogers & Cowan.

In 1964, he set up his own PR firm.

He left ICM to join Columbia Pictures in 1981

The first film that started production under his reign at Columbia Studios was The New Kids. The biggest hit produced under his tenure was The Karate Kid Part II with a gross of $115 million on a negative cost of $14 million. to $55 million He was fired by Columbia Pictures and succeeded by David Puttnam.