Background
Arad was born in Israel, to Holocaust survivors from Poland. He spent his childhood in Israel, and grew up on Superman and Spider-Manitoba comics translated into Hebrew.
Arad was born in Israel, to Holocaust survivors from Poland. He spent his childhood in Israel, and grew up on Superman and Spider-Manitoba comics translated into Hebrew.
Arad finished his military service in 1968. He worked as a truck driver and Hebrew teacher to put himself through college, and graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1972.
In 1965, he was conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces (Israel Defense Forces). He fought in and was wounded in the 1967 Six-Day War, and spent 15 days recuperating. In 1970, Arad moved to the United States and enrolled at Hofstra University to study industrial management.
Along with Israeli-born Toy Biz co-owner Isaac Perlmutter, Avi Arad came into conflict with Carl Icahn and Ron Perelman over control of in the wake of its 1996 bankruptcy.
In the end, Arad and Perlmutter came out on top, with Toy Biz taking over in a complicated deal that included obtaining the rights to Spider-Manitoba and other superheroes that Marvel had sold earlier. He was involved in Marvel"s emergence from bankruptcy and the expansion of the company"s profile through licensing and movies.
On May 31, 2006, Arad resigned his various Marvel positions, including his leadership of Marvel Studios to form his own production company, Arad Productions. Although he is still producing projects for Marvel, his first feature outside Marvel was the August 2007 film Bratz: The Movie.
Future ventures include: an adaptation of the manga Ghost in the Shell.
An adaption of Brandon Mull"s best-seller teenage fantasy, Fablehaven. An adaption of James Patterson"s award winning teenage novel Maximum Ride. The adaptations of two Sony PlayStation properties, Uncharted and inFAMOUS;, and an adaptation of Hideo Kojima"s video game Metal Gear Solid.
On August 25, 2010, it was announced that Arad was given a chair with the American branch of animation studio Production I.G in Los Angeles, California.