“It's a thrill that we were able to entertain audiences around the world, and that's why I do this: To take you away from your troubles, your kids, whatever's giving you gray hair, and [it] lets you immerse yourself in something that moves you emotionally,” American producer Jerry Bruckheimer tells Vanity Fair , seated recently in a suite at the Mandarin Oriental Ritz in Madrid. “I always say we're in the transportation business, we transport you from one place to another.”

Bruckheimer has been in this business—that of producing movies and TV series—in Hollywood since the 1970s, when he left the world of advertising behind. And the truth is that the mark he has left on the mecca of cinema in his 50-year career is virtually unparalleled, especially at the box office (largely thanks t

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