Mario Kassar (Arabic: ماريو كسار) (born Beirut, Lebanon, 10 October 1951) is a movie-industry executive whose projects are frequently in association with Andrew Vajna.
Working for Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures he was executive producer of several movies starting with Escape to Victory in 1981. In 1984, together with Vajna, he founded Carolco Pictures where he was executive producer of a large number of movies starting with Rambo: First Blood Part II, and including many science fiction movies such as Total Recall, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Universal Soldier and Stargate.
