Women in Entertainment 2010 - Power 100 List

The Boston University graduate, who has been producing since 1983’s Mr. Mom, says she has managed to find time to start a new hobby: making pottery. “When you are throwing, every fiber of your being has to watch what you’re doing with your hands or it will collapse and go wrong,” she says. “It’s intensely therapeutic.” The wife of director Richard Donner will need all the therapy she can get with a new franchise blooming at Disney and a push into theatrical musicals. That’s in addition to landing Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn the helming gig for X-Men: First Class and Darren Aronofsky for X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2, which begins shooting next year.