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Mike Binder was born in 1958 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for The Comedy Store (2020), Reign Over Me (2007) and The Upside of Anger (2005). He is married to Diane Murphy. They have two children.- Writer
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J. F. Lawton was born on August 11, 1960 in Riverside, California. His father was the famous writer Harry Lawton, author of the award winning novel "Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt" (1960). The book became the basis for the movie Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969), starring Robert Redford. When he was young, Lawton was diagnosed with severe dyslexia which made school life very difficult. His learning disability didn't make him give up the desire of being a screenwriter. After high school he went to study filmmaking at California State University in Long Beach. Lawton then moved to Los Angeles and worked in various post-production companies. During this time he wrote a number of feature film scripts including one called "Three Thousand", which was selected by the Sundance Institute. Touchstone Pictures purchased the script and later he changed the title to Pretty Woman (1990). Starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, the movie became one of the most successful romantic comedies of all times. Julia Roberts won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. J. F. Lawton was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award and a British Academy Award. He then wrote and executive produced his next original screenplay Under Siege (1992), based on his million-dollar spec "Dreadnought". Starring Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey, the movie broke box office records and a successful sequel followed, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995). With Barry Primus, Lawton co-wrote Mistress (1992), a movie starring Robert De Niro, Danny Aiello, Christopher Walken and Martin Landau. The comedy was one of the first films produced by de Niro's production company, Tribeca Productions. The next project was Blankman (1994) a movie he co-wrote with comedian Damon Wayans for Columbia Pictures. Following that, Lawton wrote and directed The Hunted (1995) for Universal Pictures, which starred Christopher Lambert, John Lone and Joan Chen. Next came Chain Reaction (1996), an action thriller with Morgan Freeman, Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz. For television, he created and executive produced the Sony hit syndicated show V.I.P. (1998), starring Pamela Anderson. Blending action and humor in a fast-paced adventure series, the show ran successfully for five seasons. After that, Lawton returned to the big screen with a script for DOA: Dead or Alive (2006), a film based on the huge video game series success of the same name. He then wrote and directed Jackson (2008), a comedy-drama-musical starring Barry Primus, Charles Robinson, Steve Guttenberg and Debra Jo Rupp. His latest script with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker is in development at Paramount Studios.- Director
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Born in Hong Kong, Ronny Yan-Tai Yu dreamed of making films since he was a child. At only 9 months of age, Yu contracted polio, resulting in a long recovery that prevented him from developing an active childhood and had to spend much time in isolation. To cope with the loneliness, Yu created fantasy worlds of his own, with furniture as props. As he grew older, his world of escape became the cinema, where he could immerse in grander, more exciting adventures. It was then that his passion to become a director began to grow.
However, as the only son of a traditional Chinese family, film making was cast aside by the time he started college. Under pressure to take up the family business, Yu studied business instead and earned an MBA from Ohio University.
Soon after graduation, a pivotal turning point occurred for Yu. His friend Philip Chan, a police lieutenant with acting ambitions, persuaded Yu to direct The Servant, a screenplay that he wrote based on his experiences in the police force. Yu took up the opportunity and learned the craft as the filming proceeded. The film became the No.1 box office hit for the summer, and Yu's future seemed destined to be in film after all.
Throughout the 1980s Yu directed and produced many other box office successes in Hong Kong. In 1993, the romantic swordplay epic The Bride with White Hair (1993) (The Bride with White Hair) established his signature style of kinetically-paced story-telling through sumptuous imagery. Bride was a huge summer hit in Hong Kong, and also became an art house theater favorite in the U.S. and Europe, leading to international critical acclaim. It also won the Grand Prize at the Fantastica film festival in Belgium.
In 1995 came the equally ravishing The Phantom Lover (1995) (The Phantom Lover), a love story inspired by the original novel of The Phantom of the Opera, and the Chinese movie Songs of Midnight from the 1920s.
Following these two stunning films, Yu launched his Hollywood career. His flair for visually rich narration appealed immediately to broader Western audiences and has been associated mostly with the horror film genre, as he has revived three franchises - with Bride of Chucky (1998); then Freddy vs. Jason (2003), of the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises, respectively, where its box office total is more than the two franchises'combined earnings.
Never one who confines himself to a genre, Yu went on to direct Fearless (2006) (Fearless), a film starring Jet Li, based on the true story of the martial arts master Huo Yuanjia.- Writer
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Michael Swerdlick is known for Can't Buy Me Love (1987), Love Don't Cost a Thing (2003) and Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990).- Producer
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Chris Morgan is known for Furious 7 (2015), Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) and Fast & Furious 6 (2013).- Producer
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- Lucille Fletcher was born on 28 March 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), Lights Out (1946) and The Twilight Zone (1959). She was married to Douglass Wallop and Bernard Herrmann. She died on 31 August 2000 in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, USA.
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John Whitesell was born on 2 December 1953 in Iowa Falls, Iowa, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Guiding Light (1952), Holidate (2020) and Deck the Halls (2006). He has been married to Jolie Barnett since July 1999. They have two children. He was previously married to Emily Whitesell.- Writer
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Fax Bahr began his career as a documentary filmmaker. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse - co-directed with Eleanor Coppola - chronicled of the making of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won numerous awards for Bahr, including a Primetime Best Director Emmy, the D.W. Griffith Award, and Best Documentary Award from the National Film Board of Canada. Gene Siskel called it "The best film of 1991."
Next, Bahr teamed up with Adam Small to join the writing staff of In Living Color, where they created several of the show's premier characters, including Jim Carrey's Fire Marshal Bill. In his second season, Bahr became a segment director for sketches shot on location. Bahr's contributions resulted in two Emmy nominations and two NAACP Image Awards.
Bahr and Small left In Living Color to co-write and co-executive produce the pilot for the John Leguizamo sketch comedy series House of Buggin' for Fox. Next, they co-wrote the feature film Son-In-Law for Disney's Hollywood Pictures.
They were then hired by Quincy Jones to create and executive produce the late-night sketch comedy MAD TV , which ran for 14 seasons on Fox Network. After spending three seasons establishing the series, they went to create and show run the stop-motion series Gary & Mike for UPN, hailed by Rolling Stone as "a worthy heir to The Simpsons" .
Bahr & Small then created WB's hidden camera show The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, which ran for three seasons. While producing the series, Bahr co-wrote and produced the feature film Malibu's Most Wanted for Warner Brothers.
Bahr/Small then partnered up with Jeff Foxworthy to create the sketch series Blue Collar TV for the WB, and spun that show into Foxworthy's Big Night Out, a variety series for CMT, featuring comedy and musical performances from country music's biggest stars.
Bahr and Small served as show runners for several network reality series, including NBC's Thank God You're Here, ABC's The Next Best Thing, and Same Name for CBS. They went on to co-create and show run the sketch series Chocolate News with David Alan Grier, for Comedy Central. Bahr and Small next worked as contributing writers for TBS' late night strip series Lopez Tonight.
Bahr co-write the original screenplay Defriended (Sony/Escape Artists), and co-wrote the story for Paramount's Bad Grandpa.
In 2016, Bahr produced the feature documentary Doin' My Drugs about activist/musician Thomas Muchimba Buttenschøn, born HIV+, and his crusade to raise awareness and wipe out AIDS in Zambia.- Writer
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Adam Small is known for Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013), Walk the Prank (2016) and In Living Color (1990).- Writer
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A native of Washington D.C., John Pogue became interested in movies when he was in high school. While attending Yale University, he helped create a student production company, and by his senior year he decided to concentrate his talents on screenwriting.
After moving to Los Angeles in 1987, Pogue spent the next couple of years holding down a variety of jobs while he honed his screenwriting skills. In 1994, Pogue had sold his first spec script "Man with the Football" to Morgan Creek Productions, months later another spec script "The Damocles Network" was sold, further establishing his reputation for unique, character-driven material.
Based on the strength of his work, Pogue was invited to write a sequel to the 1993 blockbuster "The Fugitive", the resulting film was 1998's "U.S. Marshals", starring Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, and Robert Downey Jr., he followed up with the 2000 film "The Skulls", starring Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker, and Leslie Bibb. 2002 saw two more films scripted by Pogue, "Rollerball" directed by John McTiernan, and "Ghost Ship", directed by Steve Beck.
Pogue has also worked as a script doctor, doing rewrites on the 1996 film "Eraser", 1997's "Shadow Conspiracy", and 2001's "The Fast and the Furious" (in which he was also an executive producer).
In 2011, Pogue made his directorial debut on Quarantine 2: Terminal", he would go on to direct other films such as "The Quiet Ones", "Blood Brother", Deep Blue Sea 3, and "Eraser: Reborn".- Writer
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John grew up in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. After graduating St. Thomas Academy, an all-boys, military, Catholic highschool, John moved to Iowa City to attend the University of Iowa. There he would make the move from writing to film. Two years later, John moved to Manhattan to attend NYU's film program. After graduating NYU, John moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in filmmaking. John wrote and directed his first feature, Full Moon Rising (1996) just out of college. For his sophomore effort, The Dry Spell, John was joined by his brother Drew, who produced the film as John wrote, directed and edited. They now live in Los Angeles, working together as The Brothers Dowdle.- Writer
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Jeffrey Price is the co-writer of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Doc Hollywood, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Wild Wild West, Shrek III and Last Holiday. He co-wrote and directed an episode of Tales From the Crypt entitled, For Cryin' Out Loud and co-wrote and co-produced the television comedy, Johnny Bago. He also wrote the satirical western novel, Improbable Fortunes.- Writer
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Peter S. Seaman was born on 26 October 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Wild Wild West (1999), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000). He has been married to Margaret 'Nini' Swift Seaman since 1968. They have one child.- Director
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Ralph Bakshi worked his way up from Brooklyn and became an animation legend. He was born on October 29, 1938, in Haifa, Israel, the son of Mina (Zlotin) and Eliezar Bakshi, and is of Krymchak Jewish descent. He was raised in Brownsville, after his family came to New York to escape World War II. Bakshi attended the Thomas Jefferson High School and was later transferred to the High School of Industrial Arts and graduated with an award in cartooning in 1957.
At the Terrytoons studio, he started as a cel polisher then graduated to cel painting. Practicing nights and weekends, he quickly became an inker and then an animator. There, he worked on such shows as Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle, Deputy Dawg, Foofle and Lariat Sam. At 28 he created and directed a series of superhero spoof cartoons called The Mighty Heroes.
In 1967, Bakshi moved to Paramount Studios. Working with producer Steve Krantz, Bakshi worked on episodes of the Spider-Man TV series and several short films. In the 1970s, Bakshi set out to produce films using his innovative vision for how animated films should be. Krantz suggested Robert Crumb's "Fritz the Cat" comic book as Bakshi's first feature. The two set out to meet with Crumb and get the film rights. In 1972, the film premiered and was extremely successful, as the first feature-length animated film to receive an X rating by the American rating system (when it was distributed worldwide, it generally received lower ratings the equivalent of an R rating, and was released as being unrated on DVD).
The success of "Fritz the Cat" allowed Bakshi to produce films featuring his own characters and ideas, and so "Heavy Traffic" and "Coonskin" were produced, both of which were extremely controversial, but were praised by critics. During the same period, he shot and completed another feature titled "Hey Good Lookin'" for the Warner Brothers studio, who didn't think that a combination of live-action and animation would sell, and forced Bakshi to go back and animate the live action sequences.
During this period, Bakshi also produced two very successful fantasy films, "Wizards" and part one of an animated film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings." Although these films were financially successful, they were misunderstood by critics, and United Artists, the studio that produced "The Lord of the Rings" refused to fund the second part, or sequel to Bakshi's ambitious adaptation.
During the 1980s, animation went into a decline. "American Pop," done using the same style of realistic animation as "The Lord of the Rings" was not successful financially, and critics did not see the point of the film being animated. The finished version of "Hey Good Lookin'" was released during the same year as "American Pop," but was also unsuccessful financially. Bakshi's last film of the decade, "Fire & Ice," a collaboration with famed artist Frank Frazetta, was a flop.
Bakshi produced several television features with mixed results before returning to film with what would eventually become "Cool World" - the script was rewritten several times during production without Bakshi's knowledge until it came to the point where Bakshi did not recognize his own work. The film was critically scorned, and was a box office flop. Fans feel that the film is not a true Bakshi film.
Since then, the Internet and DVD releases of Bakshi's work have brought him a new generation of fans and increased interest, encouraging Bakshi to produce another film. "Last Days of Coney Island" is in production. Bakshi lives in New Mexico. A three-day retrospective was held at American Cinematheque at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California and the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, California in April, 2005.- Producer
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Michael Grais has written and produced movies of domestic and international acclaim, whose gross revenues have exceeded 650 million dollars. He has written everything from romantic comedies to action thrillers for seven Academy Award winning producers & directors.
From his association with Steven Spielberg, Grais co-wrote the mega-hit POLTERGEIST. This hugely successful film guaranteed a sequel, POLTERGEIST II, which Grais wrote and produced. In 2015, his screenplay for POLTERGEIST was remade into a hit for MGM.
Grais produced another box office hit, Stephen King's SLEEPWALKERS for Columbia Pictures, and co-wrote COOL WORLD starring Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger, and Gabriel Byrne with director Ralph Bakshi for Paramount Pictures.
Michael wrote and executive produced a limited series VISITORS FROM THE UNKNOWN for CBS and executive produced the film GREAT BALLS OF FIRE, starring Dennis Quaid, Alec Baldwin and Winona Ryder for Orion Pictures. He then co-wrote, produced, and financed the successful MARKED FOR DEATH with Steven Seagal for 20th Century Fox.
In Television, Michael executive produced WHO KILLED ATLANTA'S CHILDREN, the highest rated movie of that year for Showtime. He was also show runner in episodic television on the syndicated series, THE IMMORTAL, a supernatural one-hour action skein that shot in British Columbia and Prague.
In the late 90s to 2018, Grais' stage works included THE IMPERSONAL LIFE, play written and directed by Michael Grais (West L.A.). Notable plays directed by Michael Grais are MANGO TEA by Paul Weitz (L.A.), THE DEATH OF REASON by Stephanie Glick (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico), DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA by John Patrick Shanley (Berkeley, CA)- Director
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Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his comedic Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy consisting of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), made with recurrent collaborators Simon Pegg, Nira Park and Nick Frost. He also collaborated with them as the director of the television series Spaced.- Writer
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Steve Rudnick is known for Kicking & Screaming (2005), The Santa Clause (1994) and Space Jam (1996).- Writer
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Timothy Harris was born on 21 July 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Trading Places (1983), Astro Boy (2009) and Falling Down (1993). He has been married to Mary Bess Walker since 1980.- Writer
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Karey Kirkpatrick was born on 14 December 1964 in Monroe, Louisiana, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Smallfoot (2018), Over the Hedge (2006) and Chicken Run (2000).- Writer
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Writer/producer Ed Naha was born June 10, 1950 in New Jersey in the town of Linden, where he was raised. He attended Kean College. Naha started his career as a rock music and film journalist. He made contributions to such publications as "Playboy," "The Village Voice," "Rolling Stone," "Heavy Metal," "Science Digest," and "The Twilight Zone." Ed was a onetime columnist for "The New York Post." Naha was a co-editor for the science fiction magazine "Starlog" and wrote a regular column for "Starlog" called "L.A. Offbeat." He was the founding editor for the popular horror magazine "Fangoria." Moreover, Naha even worked in the A&R Department at Columbia Records and helped get Bruce Springsteen's debut album "Born to Run" released. Ed also produced the album "Gene Roddenberry: Inside Star Trek" for CBS Records in 1976. He has written over twenty-five novels in the horror, mystery and science fiction genres. Naha wrote the "Traveler" science fiction series under the pseudonym DB Drum. His mystery novel "Cracking Up" was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America in 1992. Ed penned the novelizations for the movies "Dead-Bang," "Ghostbusters II," and the first two "Robocop" pictures. In addition, Naha has written the nonfiction books "The Science Fictionary," "The Films of Roger Corman: Brilliance on a Budget," and "Science Fiction Aliens." He wrote the screenplays for the comedy "Oddballs" and the fantasy flick "Wizards of the Lost Kingdom" for Roger Corman. Ed penned three scripts for producer Charles Band: the fun "Troll," Stuart Gordon's excellent "Dolls," and the shoddy "Spellcaster." Naha achieved his greatest commercial success by co-writing the script for the hit comedy "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids." He's served as a writer and producer on the TV shows "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" and "The Adventures of Sinbad." Ed Naha resides in California.- Writer
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Melissa Mathison was born on 3 June 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), The BFG (2016) and Kundun (1997). She was married to Harrison Ford. She died on 4 November 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Producer
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Jon Turteltaub was born on 8 August 1963 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Cool Runnings (1993), While You Were Sleeping (1995) and Phenomenon (1996). He has been married to Amy Eldon since 6 July 2006. They have three children.- Director
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Michael Ritchie was born on 28 November 1938 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Golden Child (1986), The Island (1980) and Fletch (1985). He was married to Jimmie Brown and Georgina Tebrock. He died on 16 April 2001 in New York City, New York, USA.- Writer
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David Chaskin is known for A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985), Monsters (1988) and The Curse (1987).- Writer
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Carol Watson was born on 26 March 1952. Carol is a writer and cinematographer, known for Friday the 13th: Part 3 (1982), Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) and Meatballs Part II (1984).- Script and Continuity Department
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Martin Kitrosser was born on 9 August 1949. He is a writer and director, known for Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).- Producer
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Like William Girdler, Oliver Hellman or even Ed Wood, Sean S. Cunningham had a successful career of starting films cheap and fast. Originally from New York, Cunningham had a vast knowledge of directing films and came to Hollywood. He started about the same time Wes Craven did. Cunningham meets Craven and decided to make a comedy-romance film called Together (1971). Then they both shocked the world with the rape and ultra-violence of The Last House on the Left (1972). Craven directed the flick and Cunningham financed and produced. However Cunningham wanted to get a mix of comedy and horror and made Case of the Full Moon Murders (1973) and then started other comedy films like Manny's Orphans (1978) and Here Come the Tigers (1978) . Struggling in Hollywood Cunningham saw John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) and wanted to make a follow up type film but would possibly regret it. Cunningham brought Friday the 13th (1980) into the cinema in 1980, a year of many other horror films. Friday the 13th (1980) was a shocking, gory and violent film about camp counselors being slashed by a killer and had Betsy Palmer in the lead role. Little did Cunningham know that Friday the 13th would have never ending sequels. Cunningham gladly avoided all of them and Friday the 13th remains one of the most popular horror films in history. Instead Cunningham wanted to make it big when he brought a best-selling novel to the screen, A Stranger Is Watching (1982) with Rip Torn, but it was a disappointment. Cunningham went downhill with the over sexed teen comedy Spring Break (1983) and The New Kids (1985). Cunningham then produced House (1985) and several of its sequels. Cunningham next entered the world of underwater terrors after The Abyss (1989) was released. Cunningham did a follow up called DeepStar Six (1989), but it was a flop, however it beat another 1989 underwater thriller Leviathan (1989) at box office receipts. Cunningham was finished with directing and moved on to producing films and teaching. He produced House III: The Horror Show (1989), My Boyfriend's Back (1993) and Friday the 13th's last sequel Jason Goes to Hell (1993). Cunningham then did yet another follow up to Friday the 13th with Jason X (2001).- Additional Crew
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Brian Taylor grew up in the suburban wastelands of Southern California. After a gloriously well-spent youth traveling around the world in punk bands he took an abrupt change of direction in the early naughts, enrolling in a ten-month film program to study camera. Brian wrote, shot and edited what may well have been the first full H.D. student film, the acclaimed Charles Bukowski adaptation The Man Who Loved Elevators.
He shot two independent features as a director of photography before teaming up with Mark Neveldine to form the gonzo camera/directing duo neveldine/taylor. The team signed with @radicalmedia in 2004 as commercial directors, knocking out campaigns for Nike, Powerade, Budweiser etc. before setting sights on the big screen.
Crank (2006) was written as a guerrilla attack on studio film-making. "If they love the script they've got to hire us, because there's no one else that could possibly make the thing," said Brian at the time. The film spawned a sequel, Crank: High Voltage (2009) that Quentin Tarantino called "The Gremlins 2 of action movies." The team pioneered the Red camera on the bonkers dystopian sci-fi mashup Gamer (2009) and trampled through Europe with Nicolas Cage on Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance (2011).
Brian teamed up with comics legend Grant Morrison to adapt the graphic novel Happy! for Original Films as writer, director and producer. The series premiered on SyFy in 2017. Brian and Grant went on to adapt Aldous Huxley's masterpiece Brave New World with Amblin/UCP as a USA series in 2018.
His first solo feature as a writer-director, the twisted satire Mom and Dad premiered at TIFF 2017 as a part of the Midnight Madness line-up.- Writer
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Ronald Lang born in Hollywood Florida raised in Harlem New York since the age of 4. Lang an eight-year, U.S Army veteran serving a 4-year tour in Germany and another 4 years stateside (Fort Sill Oklahoma and Fort Lewis Washington). Lang a single Mr. Mom Father of 6 and a former South Florida Firefighter awarded the hometown hero award by late Broward County Sheriff Ron Cochran. A few years later Lang gained his successful filmmaking credits after Writing and Executive Producing the action comedy film "All About The Benjamins", starring Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Eva Mendez, and the Now Golden Globe winner Oscar Isaac. "Ol'Skool" as he is affectionately known in Hollywood Circles because of his old school Harlem "Give & Go" Style Basketball game. In 2005 Lang teamed up with Academy Award Winner Jamie Foxx on the production of the feature film "Miami Vice". That's when the filmmaking grooming process began. He knew there wasn't a better way to learn the business of filmmaking other than teaming with legendary director Michael Mann and the ubiquitous Jamie Foxx. It was the 2005 introduction to Denzell Washington by Foxx during the Essence Magazine cover photo session when Denzel Washington told Lang to "Create, Believe and Never Surrender" and to always remember "Without Commitment You Will Never Start, Without Consistency You Will Never Finish". Those words from Denzel embedded such a spark in Lang it led him to Writer and Create several bodies of work under his film & Television Development Production Company Flipside Entertainment Group- Producer
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Joseph Zito is a well known action film director. Three of his movies--Missing in Action (1984), Invasion U.S.A. (1985) and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)--each reached the #1 box office position of top grossing film in the country in their opening weeks of U.S. theatrical release. "Missing in Action" is Chuck Norris' most successful movie and, along with "Invasion U.S.A.", set new box-office records for the action star. "Missing in Action" not only spawned a series of sequels but also turned martial arts veteran -+Norris into a legitimate movie star and household name.
Zito attended the City University of New York where, as an undergraduate, he majored in economics and went on to earn a Masters Degree in psychology. He has worked in the motion picture industry as a director, producer and writer. He even dabbled in exhibition, fulfilling a childhood fantasy: he owned a grand old movie palace, the Sanders Theatre in New York.
He also had a post-production editorial service and became well known as a film "doctor," performing emergency surgery on ailing films to turn them into healthy box office prospects. As a director, Zito started by making documentaries and then soon segued into directing feature films: Abduction (1975) and The Prowler (1981).
Zito often makes movies in exotic lands, having directed "Missing in Action" in Southeast Asia, Red Scorpion (1988) (starring Dolph Lundgren) in Africa, Delta Force One: The Lost Patrol (1999) in the Middle East and Power Play (2003) in South America. "Delta Force One: The Lost Patrol", made on a grand scale, is a hard-hitting action adventure about a team of international peacekeepers on a perilous search for a missing convoy of soldiers. "Power Play", starring Dylan Walsh and Alison Eastwood, is the story of a newspaper reporter who, while investigating the mysterious disappearance of three radical environmentalists, uncovers unorthodox scientific testing that is causing devastating earthquakes throughout Los Angeles.
Zito is a frequent lecturer at universities and colleges around the country including USC, University of Ohio at Bowling Green and UCLA. He is working in the Middle East as producer of a large-scale hospital drama television series.- Director
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Peter Atkins was born in Liverpool, England on 2 November 1955. He was a founder member of The Dog Company, a 1970s avant-garde theatre group, along with Clive Barker and Doug Bradley - with whom he would later work on the Hellraiser movies. As well as his movie and TV work, he is the author of the novels Morningstar (1992) and Big Thunder (1997) and the collection Wishmaster and Others (1999). He is married to Dana Middleton and lives in Los Angeles, California.- Editor
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Tony Randel was born on 29 May 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an editor and director, known for Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), The Hybrids Family (2015) and Escape from New York (1981). He has been married to Eugenia Vasels since 26 March 1996. They have four children.- Producer
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Paul Harris Boardman graduated from The University of the South ("Sewanee") with degrees in English and Psychology, and was Phi Beta Kappa. He also attended British Studies at Oxford at St. John's College, Oxford. He received a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from The Johns Hopkins University and studied with playwright Edward Albee. Boardman later attended USC's School of Cinema-Television.- Writer
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Tim has written projects for Dimension Films (Hellraiser: Hellseeker and Hellraiser: Deader, Pulse and Halloween), Jerry Bruckheimer (Aftershock), Roland Emmerich/Sony (untitled Atlantis Project), Lionsgate (You've Been Warned/James Patterson novel adaptation), A Bigger Boat (Dark Corners - 2010 Bloodlist), and ABC (Seattle Grace/Message of Hope)
As a member of the WGA and IATSE Tim has worked both as screenwriter and Best Boy Grip in Hollywood for the past thirty years.- Writer
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Carl V. Dupré was born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is known for Detroit Rock City (1999), Barb Wire (1996) and Mimic (1997).- Cinematographer
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Ana Clavell has been writing, directing, producing and distributing for the Film and Television Industries for the last 20 years, her expertise being cross-cultural themes and international co-productions, and all technical aspects of production and post production. Her specialty in re-writing, directing and re-purposing intellectual properties has taken Ana to far-flung places such as New York, Paris, Madrid, London, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Taiwan and Shanghai. She is constantly sought by both aspiring writers and established producers, all looking for ways to position and sell their creative efforts. An alumni of the University of London and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Ana started her career in London, working in the Classical Music and Stage Musical Industries as a stage manager. Her switch to Film and Television came naturally, having signed on to work as an AD and in Post Production for Paradiso Films in Puerto Rico. Recruited by a talent scout Ana moved to Los Angeles and began directing music videos and shorts in 1992. During her long VP stint at a Taurus Entertainment ( fifteen years), Ana has had her work broadcast domestically on SyFy Networks, Showtime Networks and HBO Video On Demand, among others. Her work has also been broadcast and exhibited all over the world. More recently Ana directed the critically acclaimed short film Pasaje for Scene 51 and the Ricky Martin Foundation, and has extended her efforts to help launch a new web-based platform for short format content, Zanzibaa, now in beta testing. As of 2011 Ana is co- developing a music-driven reality show for Asia and has a feature film lined up for co-production with the US, China and Latin America. Since the beginning of 2012 she is in talks to produce and direct a Latino paranormal-themed reality series. She continues to consult for various domestic and international companies on all aspects of Film and TV Production and Distribution.- Producer
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James Glenn Dudelson is known for Compromising Situations (1994), Day of the Dead: Bloodline (2017) and Morella (1999).- Producer
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Melissa Rosenberg was born on 28 August 1962 in Marin County, California, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Jessica Jones (2015), Dexter (2006) and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010). She has been married to Lev L. Spiro since 1995.- Director
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David Slade was born on 26 September 1969 in the UK. He is a director and producer, known for Hard Candy (2005), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) and 30 Days of Night (2007).- Writer
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John Hopkins was born in Kansas, USA. He is known for Torment (1986), Dunston Checks In (1996) and The Power (1984).- Writer
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Stu Krieger was born in 1952. He is a writer and producer, known for The Land Before Time (1988), Where the Boys Are (1984) and Amazing Stories (1985).- Writer
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Tom McLoughlin was born on 19 July 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), Date with an Angel (1987) and Sometimes They Come Back (1991). He has been married to Nancy McLoughlin since 2 July 1983. They have two children.- Writer
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David Cohen is known for Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985), Hollywood Zap (1986) and The Treasure (1990).- Writer
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Rob Hedden wrote and directed the 2012 romantic action comedy "You May Not Kiss The Bride" starring Dave Annable, Katharine McPhee, Kathy Bates, Rob Schneider and Mena Suvari. His original feature script "The Condemned" was released theatrically by Lionsgate in 2007. The action film starring Stone Cold Steve Austin and Vinnie Jones was a national top ten DVD rental for over a month in 2008. Additionally, he wrote the novelization of "The Condemned" for Simon & Schuster to coincide with the film's release. Hedden also co-wrote the screenplay and story for the Nickelodeon/ Paramount feature film "Clockstoppers," which he co-produced. The film was based on his original spec script, which sold in less than 48 hours in a bidding war. "Clockstoppers" remained in the top ten at the domestic box office for an impressive four weeks straight. He also penned the novelization of the movie for Simon & Schuster.
He wrote and directed his first feature film "Friday 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan" for Paramount, which critic Leonard Maltin dubbed as: "The best film in the Friday series, imaginatively directed and written by Hedden." Additionally, he directed and wrote the successful TV movies "The Colony" starring John Ritter and "Alien Fury: Countdown To Invasion" starring WWF wrestling star Chyna, directed and co-wrote "Dying To Live" starring Jonathan Frakes, Shannon Elizabeth and Linda Cardellini, and directed the USA films "Any Place But Home" and "Kidnapped In Paradise."
Hedden wrote and co-executive produced "When The Cradle Falls" and co-wrote "Simon & Simon: Together Again" for CBS, as well as wrote the highly rated NBC films "The Return of Ironside" and "Knight Rider 2000;" the latter was the highest rated TV movie for NBC that year. Among his series writing credits are "MacGyver," "SeaQuest DSV," and the revival of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," the latter of which brought him an ACE nomination. His episodic directing credits include "Star Trek - Enterprise," "Danny," and "The Commish." He also directed and wrote several episodes of the cult favorite "Friday the 13th: The Series," one of which was Emmy nominated. He has also written for UPN's revival of "The Twilight Zone."
Rob Hedden graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA, and began his career making behind-the-scenes documentaries. "What Is Brazil?," his film on the making of Terry Gilliam's acclaimed film "Brazil," brought him a CINE Eagle Award, a C.I.N.D.Y. Award and was selected for exhibition at the Smithsonian Institute.
In addition to his larger budgeted studio and network projects, Hedden wrote, directed and co-produced the independent feature "Boxboarders!" The comedy won the Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking award at the 2007 Newport Beach Film Festival and was nominated for Best Picture at the 2007 Giffoni Hollywood Festival. He is also a co-producer of "Augie," the true story of ALS survivor Augie Nieto's quest to find a cure for Lou Gehrig's Disease. Directed by James Keach, the feature documentary is slated for release in 2017.- Special Effects
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James Isaac was born on 5 June 1960 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a director, known for Pig Hunt (2008), Jason X (2001) and eXistenZ (1999). He was married to Harriet Isaac. He died on 6 May 2012 in Sausalito, California, USA.- Producer
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Jay Huguely was born on 21 September 1940 in Richmond, Kentucky, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Jason Goes to Hell (1993), Magnum, P.I. (1980) and Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982). He died on 13 December 2008 in Valencia, California, USA.- Producer
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Dean Lorey was born on 17 November 1967 in Conyers, Georgia, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Arrested Development (2003), Harley Quinn (2019) and My Wife and Kids (2000).- Producer
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Timothy Dolan is known for Trailer Park of Terror (2008), Red Riding Hood (2006) and Monster Mutt (2011).- Producer
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William Brent Bell is known for Orphan: First Kill (2022), The Boy (2016) and The Devil Inside (2012).- Writer
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David Coggeshall was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Family Plan (2023), Orphan: First Kill (2022) and Prey (2019). He has been married to Lori Evans Taylor since 9 June 2007.- Writer
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Ash Brannon is an Emmy Award winning writer, director and visual artist. His credits include Disney/Pixar's TOY STORY (Directing Animator), and TOY STORY 2 (Co-Director, Story Co-Creator). Ash directed and co-wrote the Sony Pictures film SURF'S UP, which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature. At Riot Games, Ash served as a story co-creator, writer and co-executive producer on the Netflix series ARCANE.- Actor
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Conrad Vernon is an American voice actor, storyboard artist, writer and director from Texas. He provided the voices of the Gingerbread Man in the Shrek franchise and Mason from the Madagascar franchise. He would direct Shrek 2, Sausage Party, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Monsters vs. Aliens and The Addams Family film series.- Art Department
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Among Kelly Asbury's many achievements, he directed UglyDolls (2019) and Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017). He also co-wrote the 3D computer-animated feature film Gnomeo & Juliet (2011).
Asbury's other past directorial efforts include the Oscar-nominated films, Shrek 2 (2004) and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002).
During his over thirty-year career as an animation artist, Kelly Asbury had served many creative capacities on some of Hollywood's most popular animated films, including Frozen (2013), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), Shrek (2001), Toy Story (1995), Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), "Beauty and the Beast" (Disney 1992) and "The Little Mermaid" (Disney 1989).
Asbury also provided a variety of character voices on Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) and Shrek 2 (2004).
In addition to films, Asbury was a noted author and illustrator of several published children's books, as well as having written and compiled the offbeat, non-fiction book, "Dummy Days - America's Favorite Ventriloquists from Radio and Early TV" (Angel City Press - 2003)
He sadly passed away on June 26, 2020. He is survived by his wife, Jacquie, two step-sons, a sister, and a niece- Art Department
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Bibo Bergeron was born on 14 July 1965 in Paris, France. He is a director, known for The Road to El Dorado (2000), Shark Tale (2004) and A Monster in Paris (2011).- Writer
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- David Bowers was born in Cheshire, England, UK. He is known for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011), Flushed Away (2006) and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012).
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Jeff Judah was born on 23 December 1960 in the USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Bad Teacher (2011), The Night Shift (2014) and Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010).- Writer
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Gabe Sachs was born in the USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Night Shift (2014), Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) and Life as We Know It (2004).- Writer
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Michael J. Wilson is known for Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), Shark Tale (2004) and Ice Age (2002).- Animation Department
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Jim Capobianco received the 2008 Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Ratatouille. He went on to write and direct the short film, "Your Friend The Rat," found on the Ratatouille DVD, winning the 2008 ASIFA-Hollywood Annie Award for short films. Jim followed YFtR up with directing the critically acclaimed end titles for Pixar's 2008 release Wall.E. A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, Jim started in the story department at Walt Disney Feature Animation on The Lion King. After five years at Disney, Jim relocated to Pixar Animation Studios where he was influential on the stories of many of Pixar's films from A Bug's Life to Coco. In 2009 Jim finished Leonardo, his first independent film, now in the permanent collection of the MoMA NYC. He also formed Aerial Contrivance Workshop a 'story design studio'. With ACW, Jim created and directed the 2D animation sequence for Walt Disney Motion Pictures, Mary Poppins Returns, winning his second Annie Award. Following that up as the Animation director of Philharmonia Fantastique an animated concert film similar to Fantasia for live symphony in collaboration with Mason Bates and Gary Rydstorm. Jim has recently written and directed his first feature film The Inventor and is working on writing and developing numerous scripts and books for children. Including a new concert film once again with Mason Bates and Gary Rydstorm.- Director
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Marcus Nispel was born on 26 May 1963 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. He is a director and producer, known for Friday the 13th (2009), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and Pathfinder (2007).- Writer
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Mark Swift (along with his writing partner Damian Shannon) wrote the box office hits "Friday the 13th" (Feb 2009) and "Freddy vs. Jason", and was the first writer on the animated hit "Shark Tale". They are working on a new original horror project for New Line Cinema, an Untitled sci-fi project for Skydance productions, and are co-producing "O'Lucky Day", a comedy for Paramount Pictures starring Peter Dinklage. They have also co-written a number of projects currently in development, including "Vikings" for Disney; the 1950s noir "Hawaiian Dick," for director Frank Coraci; and an adaptation of Howard Chaykin's graphic novel "Power & Glory."
Mark Swift and Damian Shannon met while attending The University of Southern California. Damian went on to graduate from NYU's TISCH School of the Arts, and Mark graduated from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. They both currently reside in Los Angeles, California, and are represented by UTA, Magnet Management, and Colden, McKuin & Frankel LLP.- Writer
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Lawrence D. Cohen is an American screenwriter who, although hardly prolific, has worked with some of the most respected names in the genre movie and genre fiction industry. He first came to prominence in the 1970s when he penned the screenplay for the Stephen King adaptation Carrie (1976): the film was directed by Brian De Palma and featured an all-star cast that included Amy Irving, William Katt, Piper Laurie, P.J. Soles, Sissy Spacek, and John Travolta. With a long-awaited and phenomenal resurgence in the horror novel and film - mostly due to the arrival of Stephen King - Cohen has clearly found his niche.
His next writing project was the John Irvin film Ghost Story (1981) based on the classic novel by Peter Straub. This chilling - and often ambiguous - horror tale starred Fred Astaire and 'Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in lead roles. Cohen would then script another two Stephen King adaptations. Firstly the adaptation of It (1990) that was shot by cult horror director Tommy Lee Wallace, a bildungsroman tale laced with horror and science fiction, set in the small town of Derry, Maine. Following this was the alien invasion film The Tommyknockers (1993), a body snatcher tale starring Jimmy Smits and E.G. Marshall. Both teleplays were superbly executed and have remained extremely popular.
Cohen recently scripted a fourth Stephen King story, 'The End of the Whole Mess' from his collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006). He is also a movie producer.- Producer
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Scott Kosar was born on 26 September 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for The Machinist (2004), The Haunting of Hill House (2018) and The Crazies (2010).- Director
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Breck Eisner was born on 24 December 1970 in California, USA. He is a director and producer, known for The Crazies (2010), The Expanse (2015) and Sahara (2005). He has been married to Georgia Irwin Eisner since 24 June 2006.- Producer
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Jonathan Liebesman was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on September 15, 1976. He would remain in his home country, studying filmmaking at the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, until 1996; that year, he traveled to New York City to visit his cousin who was attending New York University. Soon after the visit, Jonathan enrolled at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
For his student first film, Jonathan turned Roald Dahl's short story Genesis and Catastrophe (2000) into a 8-minute, award-winning short that help him land Hollywood representation; accolades included the 2000 Hollywood Film Festival's Young Filmmaker Award and the Austin Film Festival's Student Short Film Award.
Jonathan would make his feature-film debut in 2002 with Darkness Falls (2003), a dark twist on the Tooth Fairy tale that opened at #1 at the box office despite being critically panned. It also served as the big-screen debut for Emma Caulfield Ford, long a fan-favorite as Anya Jenkins on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997).
Rings (2005), his short film that connected The Ring (2002) and its sequel, was first released as a bonus disc with the re-release of The Ring on DVD. The short caught the attention of Michael Bay and his production company, Platinum Dunes, and soon Jonathan was installed as the director of the company's project The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006), a prequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), the widely successful remake of the original.
Initially announced as the director of the Friday the 13th reboot, Jonathan's next feature would instead be The Killing Room (2009) with Peter Stormare, Chloë Sevigny, Clea DuVall, Timothy Hutton, Nick Cannon and Shea Whigham. The psychological thriller played the festival circuit before being released on DVD in the United States.
A few months before The Killing Room's Sundance world premiere in January 2009, Jonathan was announced as the director of Battle Los Angeles (2011), an alien-invasion film starring Aaron Eckhart and released by Columbia Pictures. The sci-fi/action film was a worldwide hit and put Jonathan in the running for a handful of big-studio pictures.
Before Battle LA's release, he had handed the job of directing [error] as Warner Bros., though that project remains in development at this time. Instead, Jonathan took the reins for Wrath of the Titans (2012), the sequel to successful but maligned Clash of the Titans (2010).
Currently, Jonathan is in development on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) at Paramount and an Untitled Julius Caesar Project with Warner Bros.- Writer
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David James Schow was born in Marburg, Germany and was adopted by American parents then living in Middlesex, England.
After publishing non-fiction book and film criticism in newspapers and magazines, his first professionally published fiction was a novelette in Galileo Magazine in 1978. He spent the next decade honing his skills in the short fiction form. He won a Dimension Award from Twilight Zone Magazine (for most popular short story) in 1985 and a World Fantasy Award (best short fiction) in 1987.
He commenced screenwriting in 1989 with an uncredited dialogue polish on "A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 5: The Dream Child," after which both his first teleplay and first screenplay were bought and produced (the "Freddy's Nightmares" episode "Safe Sex" and the feature "Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III" respectively).
After inventing the rubric "stalk-and-slash" in 1977 to describe the genre later simplified as "slasher films," Schow similarly coined the notorious neologism "splatterpunk" in 1986. To reflect the shifting climate of the horror aesthetic during the early 1990s, he logged 41 installments of his popular "Raving & Drooling" column for Fangoria Magazine. This and other non-fiction op-ed material was collected in the book "Wild Hairs" (2000), which won the International Horror Guild's award for best nonfiction in 2001.
Schow is the foremost authority on the 1963-65 television series "The Outer Limits." The revised, updated 1998 edition of his "Outer Limits Companion" contains everything anyone would ever care to know about this cult classic.
Schow's published canon (by 2006) includes four novels, seven collections of his short stories, five books as editor (including the three-volume "Lost Bloch" series and John Farris' "Elvisland") and a number of pseudonymously published series and tie-in paperbacks done earlier in his career.
He wrote large text supplements for such DVDs as Reservoir Dogs and From Hell, contributed to several British documentaries for BBC4 both on- and off-camera, and appears as expert witness on DVD supplements for such movies as "The Dirty Dozen," "The Green Mile," "Incubus" and "Creature from the Black Lagoon." He co-produced and filmed much of the on-location supplemental material seen on the discs for "I, Robot" and "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe." He also makes sneaky cameo appearances (credited and uncredited) in his own films as well as those of friends.- Producer
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James Vanderbilt was born in 1975 in the USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Zodiac (2007), Scream (2022) and Independence Day: Resurgence (2016). He has been married to Amber Freeman since 7 May 2005.- Writer
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Debra Sullivan is known for Secret Santa (2018), Texas Chainsaw (2013) and Momentum (2015). She has been married to Adam Marcus since 12 December 1998.- Writer
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Seth M. Sherwood is a Los Angeles based screenwriter, director, designer, and producer. He is a credited writer on Leatherface, and Hellfest and is serving as Co-Executive Producer on season 2 of Light As A Feather for Awesomeness TV & Hulu. He has feature and television projects in development across town.- Writer
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Chris Thomas Devlin is known for Cobweb (2023), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) and The Wretched Emily Derringer.- Producer
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Rodo Sayagues is known for Don't Breathe (2016), Don't Breathe 2 (2021) and Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022).- Writer
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Ehren Kruger is an American film producer and screenwriter who is known for writing The Ring starring Naomi Watts and Daveigh Chase. He also wrote a majority of the Transformers sequels, Scream 3 & 4, Reindeer Games, The Ring Two, Blood & Chocolate, Dumbo, The Skeleton Key, The Brothers Grimm and Ghost in the Shell.- Producer
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Roberto Orci was born on 20 July 1973 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a producer and writer, known for Star Trek (2009), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and Fringe (2008). He has been married to Adele Heather Taylor since 6 June 2020. He was previously married to Melissa Blake.- Writer
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Mark Feldberg is known for Beverly Hills Ninja (1997), Let's Get Harry (1986) and Getting Even (1981).- Writer
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Rich Wilkes was born on 15 August 1966 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for xXx (2002), The Dirt (2019) and Airheads (1994).- Writer
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Bruce Wagner was born on 20 March 1954 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Maps to the Stars (2014), Knight of Cups (2015) and Wild Palms (1993).- Writer
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Three-time Oscar nominee Frank Darabont was born in a refugee camp in 1959 in Montbeliard, France, the son of Hungarian parents who had fled Budapest during the failed 1956 Hungarian revolution. Brought to America as an infant, he settled with his family in Los Angeles and attended Hollywood High School. His first job in movies was as a production assistant on the 1981 low-budget film, Hell Night (1981), starring Linda Blair. He spent the next six years working in the art department as a set dresser and in set construction while struggling to establish himself as a writer. His first produced writing credit (shared) was on the 1987 film, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), directed by Chuck Russell. Darabont is one of only six filmmakers in history with the unique distinction of having his first two feature films receive nominations for the Best Picture Academy Award: 1994's The Shawshank Redemption (1994) (with a total of seven nominations) and 1999's The Green Mile (1999) (four nominations). Darabont himself collected Oscar nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for each film (both based on works by Stephen King), as well as nominations for both films from the Director's Guild of America, and a nomination from the Writers Guild of America for The Shawshank Redemption (1994). He won the Humanitas Prize, the PEN Center USA West Award, and the Scriptor Award for his screenplay of "The Shawshank Redemption". For "The Green Mile", he won the Broadcast Film Critics prize for his screenplay adaptation, and two People's Choice Awards in the Best Dramatic Film and Best Picture categories. The Majestic (2001), starring Jim Carrey, was released in December 2001. He executive-produced the thriller, Collateral (2004), for DreamWorks, with Michael Mann directing and Tom Cruise starring. Future produced-by projects include "Way of the Rat" at DreamWorks with Chuck Russell adapting and directing the CrossGen comic book series and "Back Roads", a Tawni O'Dell novel, also at DreamWorks, with Todd Field attached to direct. Darabont and his production company, "Darkwoods Productions", have an overall deal with Paramount Pictures.- Producer
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Born in 15 March 1959 as Renny Lauri Mauritz Harjola, he is the most successful Finnish film director in the history of Hollywood.
Harlin started his career in film business in the beginning of 1980s when he was directing commercials and company films for companies like Shell. Later he worked as a buyer for Finnish film distributor and met Finnish Markus Selin in Los Angeles. They became friends and started writing a screenplay called "Arctic Heat". The project started fast and soon they had Chuck Norris signed on leading role for the film. But with money problems shooting schedule didn't hold and Norris left the project, but Selin and Harlin got Mike Norris for the leading role. They wrote new script, Born American (1986), and got financial help from USA. In the year 1986 Born American (1986) was finished and the most expensive Finnish film ever opened in USA in over 1,000 theaters and reached no 9.
The film wasn't successful in Finland, where it was banned. Harlin moved to Los Angeles and got a job from Halloween (1978) producer Irwin Yablans who offered him script of "Prison" to film. Film was made with low budget and distributed with only 42 copies. In the same year 1988 he got a job from New Line Cinema to direct A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) after meeting producer Robert Shaye numerous times, who at the first didn't want Harlin to direct the film. It became the highest-grossing film in the series, though its budget was seven times greater than the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film.
20th Century Fox wanted Harlin to direct the Andrew Dice Clay rock'n roll comedy The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) and also a sequel to Die Hard (1988). Harlin made the both, but only Die Hard 2 (1990) was commercially successful, with over 239 million dollar worldwide gross. Next he directed Cliffhanger (1993) with Sylvester Stallone which made $255 million worldwide and was nominated for 3 Oscar's. Before Cliffhanger (1993) Harlin was hired to direct "Alien³" but he left the project because of creative differences.
His next film Cutthroat Island (1995) was a pirate film made with $100 million budget. Unfortunately it came out without good promotion and flopped badly. It made only $10 million in USA and for a time became the biggest flop in Hollywood history. But for Harlin, it wasn't a total loss.
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) was a critical success, but was a box office flop, grossing only $30 million domestically with a $65 million budget.
In year 1998, Warner Bros. wanted a summer blockbuster for the year 1999 and Renny Harlin was the right name to direct. Deep Blue Sea (1999) came to theaters after costing 60 million dollars to film and made $160 million worldwide. The film never hit the top spot in the USA but still grossed $73 millions in the USA alone.
Harlin was hired to direct Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) after John Frankenheimer left the job and died shortly after it, and Paul Schrader was fired. Producers knew that Harlin could made a blockbuster even with the weak script, and so he did. With $50 million budget the film opened in number 1 and grossed $80 million worldwide.
Probably most liked Harlin's film Mindhunters (2004) was released in 2004 after years post-production. It was released in USA in 2005 in over 1,000 theaters but it only reached 10th place. In 9 weeks it grossed only $4 million dollars.
The Covenant (2006) was released in 2006. With non-famous (but attractive) actors, the film hit the top in its opening weekend and became a successful film. With a $20 million budget, it grossed $37 million worldwide and DVD sale brought $20 million more.- William Kotzwinkle was born in 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a writer, known for A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988), Book of Love (1990) and Fat Boys: Are You Ready for Freddy (1988). He has been married to Elizabeth Gundy since 1965.
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Ivan Raimi was born in 1956 in Michigan, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Drag Me to Hell (2009), Army of Darkness (1992) and Spider-Man 3 (2007). He is married to Kyle Raimi. They have two children.- Writer
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Jim Hecht was born on 19 September 1975 in New York, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022), Robots (2005) and The Big Cigar (2024).- Producer
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Stephen Hopkins is a producer and director, known for Lost in Space (1998), A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989) and Predator 2 (1990).- Writer
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Author, screenwriter, and musician John Mason Skipp was born in 1957. In 1979 John released a solo album under the band name Arcade. He moved to New York City in 1981 and worked as a street messenger prior to getting his writing career off the ground. Skipp's first published short story "The Long Ride" was printed in "Twilight Zone" magazine. John achieved his greatest success and popularity with several well-received bestselling novels that he co-wrote with fellow author and musician Craig Spector: "The Light at the End," "The Cleanup," "The Scream," "Dead Lines," "The Bridge," and "Animals." (The pair also wrote the novelization for the 1985 vampire horror feature "Fright Night.") Skipp and Spector were two of the principal writers involved in the "splatterpunk" horror fiction movement of the 1980s. Moreover, the duo appear together in bit parts in the films "Death Collector" and "Nightbreed" as well as collaborated on the script for "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child." In addition, they served as editors on the acclaimed zombie horror short story anthologies "Book of the Dead" and "Still Dead: Book of the Dead 2." John parted ways with Spector in 1993. He did uncredited work co-writing the script for "Class of 1999." He has penned the solo novels "Conscience" and "The Long Last Call," plus co-written the novels "The Emerald Burrito of Oz" with Marc Levinthal and "Jake's Wake" with Cody Goodfellow. John Skipp lives in Los Feliz, California.- Producer
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Wesley Strick was born on 11 February 1954 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for The Man in the High Castle (2015), Cape Fear (1991) and Wolf (1994).