[1] Hollinger was considered an expert on the international box office and the sale independent productions directly to foreign film distributors.
[2] He worked as a messenger and copy boy in the classified ad department at the New York Times on Saturdays from 1932 to 1935 as a high school student.
[2] Following the end of the war, Hollinger wrote for a weekly newspaper in suburban Philadelphia and worked as a sports reporter for the now defunct New York Morning Telegraph.
[1] Hollinger departed The Morning Telegraph to take a job as a publicist at Warner Bros.[1] He next joined Variety, the weekly entertainment trade magazine, from 1953 to 1960.
[2] While working under Variety's London bureau chief Don Grove, Hollinger co-developed a new system for tracking the overseas box office, which had been difficult to follow at the time.
[2] His clients included the National Basketball Players Association and Sagittarius Productions, owned by Edgar Bronfman, Sr., the head of Seagram at the time.
[2] That unintended meeting with Silverman and Hawkins led to Hollinger rejoining the staff of Variety in 1979 as an associate editor focused on international issues within the entertainment industry.