ABOUT THE CAST
LAURA LINNEY (Erin Bruner) Few actresses in the entertainment world today have made a lasting impression on Hollywood as Laura Linney. She was last seen on the big screen starring in Kinsey, opposite Liam Neeson and directed by Bill Condon which garnered her Oscar®, Golden Globe® and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. In addition, she was awarded Best Supporting Actress by the National Board of Review. Last spring, Linney starred in Donald Margulies’ Broadway staging of Sight Unseen, the same play she did 12 years ago. Her role as Patricia earned her a Tony nomination as well as nominations from the Drama League, the Drama Desk Club and the Outer Critic Circle for Outstanding Actress in a play. Coming out this fall is The Squid and the Whale in which she stars opposite Jeff Daniels. Linney just completed production on Jindabyne, a modern day adult ghost story shot entirely on location in the outback of Australia ; as well as Driving Lessons, which is directed by Jeremy Brock.
Linney earned her first Oscar® nomination for her starring role as Sammy Prescott in Kenneth Lonergan’s You Can Count On Me. In addition, this role garnered her nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Golden Globe® Award and an Independent Spirit Award. She was awarded Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics. In 2003, she graced the screen in the ensemble romantic comedy Love Actually, written and directed by Richard Curtis and Mystic River , directed by Clint Eastwood for which she earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination in a Drama by The British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Her first starring film role was in Paramount ’s jungle action picture, Congo . Linney starred in Absolute Power, directed by Eastwood. Previously, she teamed up with Richard Gere in Paramount ’s hit suspense thriller, Primal Fear, directed by Gregory Hoblit. Linney’s other screen credits include co-starring opposite Jim Carrey in The Truman Show; Edith Wharton’s turn-of-the-century novel, The House of Mirth; Lorenzo’s Oil; Dave; Searching for Bobby Fischer; A Simple Twist of Fate; The Mothman Prophecies; The Life of David Gale; and P.S.
Last year, Linney returned to television to appear in the NBC hit comedy "Frasier." She starred in four episodes as Dr. Frasier Crane’s love interest, Charlotte . For this role, she earned a 2004 Emmy® Award for Best Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. She previously won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress for Showtime’s "Wild Iris" opposite Gena Rowlands. Her television appearances include the leading role of Mary Ann Singleton in PBS’s award-winning "Tales of the City" based on the novels by Armistead Maupin and she also reprised her role as Mary Ann Singleton in "More Tales of the City" for Showtime. In addition, she starred opposite Joanne Woodward in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of "Blind Spot" and opposite Steven Weber in "Love Letters" directed by Stanley Donen.
Linney, a graduate of Juilliard and an accomplished theatre actress, was nominated for a Tony for her performance in Richard Eyre’s The Crucible, opposite Liam Neeson. Her theatre credits also include roles in the Broadway presentations of Six Degrees of Separation; The Seagull; Hedda Gabler, for which she won a 1994 Calloway Award; Phillip Barry’s Holiday, a comedy of manners, opposite Tony® Goldwyn; John Guare’s Landscape of the Body at the Yale Repertory Theatre; Gerald Gutierrez’s Honour on Broadway and Sight Unseen, for which she earned a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk nomination.
TOM WILKINSON (Father Richard Moore) is an accomplished veteran of stage and screen whose numerous awards include a New York Film Critic’s Award, Independent Spirit Award, Sundance Film Festival Award and Oscar® nomination as Best Actor for In the Bedroom, opposite Sissy Spacek. He was nominated for a BAFTA as Best Actor for his role as Burbage in Shakespeare in Love. For HBO, Wilkinson was nominated for an Emmy® Award and Golden Globe Award® for his work in Normal opposite Jessica Lange. He co-starred with Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet in The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; and Stage Beauty with Billy Crudup and Claire Danes. Wilkinson’s recent film credits also include Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins; A Good Woman opposite Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johannsen; Picadilly Jim with Sam Rockwell; Julian Fellows' directorial debut Separate Lies; and The Last Kiss with Zach Braff.
Wilkinson appeared in Girl with the Pearl Earring opposite Scarlett Johansson; and Ride With The Deviland Sense And Sensibility, both for director Ang Lee. He was nominated for a BAFTA for his role as Gerald, in the hit British comedy The Full Monty; and was seen in Oliver Parker’s The Importance of Being Earnest; as Queensbury in Brian Gilbert’s Wilde; and as Loyen in the critically acclaimed thriller, Miss Smilla’s Sense of Snow.
Wilkinson’s television credits include the award winning BBC TV series "Martin Chuzzlewit"; the title role of "Resnick: Lonely Hearts" in the BBC detective series; "Prime Suspect", and "Measure for Measure" as part of the Performance series for the BBC. He was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actor for his performance in Piers Haggards’s television movie Cold Enough For Snow.
Wilkinson’s theatre work includes The Crucible at the Royal National Theatre; the title role in King Lear at the Royal Court and in the West End, and Dr. Stockmann in the award winning production of An Enemy of The People. Wilkinson won acclaim at the Royal Court in David Hare’s production My Zinc Bed with Steven Mackintosh and Julia Ormond.
CAMPBELL SCOTT’s (Ethan Thomas) first film role was in From Hollywood To Deadwood followed by the highly praised Longtime Companion and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Sheltering Sky. Scott appeared in Dead Againdirected by Kenneth Branagh; and starred opposite Julia Roberts in Dying Young directed by Joel Schumacher. He co-starred with Steve Martin in David Mamet's film The Spanish Prisoner.
Scott’s impressive list of feature credits includes Singles directed by Cameron Crowe; The Innocent directed by John Schlesinger; Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle directed by Alan Rudolph; Roger Dodger, The Secret Lives Of Dentists,Only With You and Let It Be Me. Scott co-starred in Big Night which he also co-directed with Stanley Tucci. He has appeared in Ship Of Fools, The Daytrippers, Hi-Life, Top Of The Food Chain, Spring Forward, Other Voices, Lush, Delivering Milo and Marie and Bruce. Scott also took the role of director for the film, Off the Mat, starring Joan Allen and Sam Elliot.
For television, Scott starred in, co-directed and produced Hamlet for the Odyssey Network. He also starred as Joseph Kennedy Jr. in "The Kennedys of Massachusetts"; co-starred with Ben Kingsley and Joanna Lumley in Sweeney Todd for Showtime; and co-starred with Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Love Letterfor Hallmark Hall of Fame. He appeared in Shot In the Heart for HBO and Follow The Stars Home for Hallmark Hall of Fame, again co-starring with Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Scott appeared on Broadway in an acclaimed production of Long Days Journey Into Night with Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhust. He portrayed Angelo in Measure For Measure at Lincoln Center and the title role of Pericles at the New York Shakespeare Festival.
COLM FEORE (Karl Gunderson) recently appeared in The Deal, starring opposite Christian Slater; and the ABC mini series "Empire" in which he portrays Julius Caesar. Feore recently finished starring with Denzel Washington and received rave reviews from critics everywhere for his portrayal of Cassius in the Broadway performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."
Colm appeared in Chicago with Richard Gere, which won the SAG award for Best Ensemble Cast. He played the title role in the miniseries "Trudeau" for which he won the 2002 Monte Carlo Television Festival award for Best Actor and the 2002 Gemini Award for Best Actor in a Mini Series. Feore won a Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work on the film The Red Violin. He also earned a Genie Award nomination for his performance as Canada ’s eccentric music genius in Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould.
Feore played major roles in National Security with Martin Lawrence; Sum Of All Fears with Ben Affleck; John Woo’s Paycheck, also with Ben Affleck; The Chronicles of Riddick starring opposite Vin Diesel; Pancho Villa opposite Antonio Banderas; Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor with Ben Affleck and Kate Beckinsale; The Day Reagan Was Shot with Richard Dreyfuss; Titus with Anthony Hopkins; The Insider with Russell Crowe and Al Pacino, City Of Angels with Meg Ryan, and John Woo’s Face/Off with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage have made Feore a familiar face in major motion pictures.
His television work includes starring roles in the movies "Trapped in a Purple Haze" and "Forget Me Never" with Mia Farrow; the mini-series "Haven" with Natasha Richardson; Stephen King’s "Storm Of the Century"; the Emmy Award winning cable movie "Truman", with Gary Sinise; and "The Virginian", starring and directed by Bill Pullman.
Feore first gained prominence as one of Canada ’s premier stage actors through thirteen seasons with the prestigious Stratford Festival, playing virtually all of Shakespeare’s leading men, from Richard III and Lago, to Romeo and Hamlet. He was recently on stage as Claudius in the Public Theater production of Hamlet in New York .
JENNIFER CARPENTER (Emily Rose) is an impressive new talent who most recently co-starred in the Wayan’s brothers’ hit comedy White Chicks. Carpenter studied at the Juilliard School and appeared on Broadway in The Crucible directed by Sir Richard Eyre opposite Laura Linney and Liam Neeson.
MARY BETH HURT (Judge Brewster) co-starred with Nick Nolte in director Paul Schrader’s critically acclaimed film Affliction. She was a member of the stellar ensemble casts of Six Degrees of Separation and Woody Allen’s Interiors. Her film credits also include Autumn in New York; Family Man; Bringing Out the Dead; The Age of Innocence; Light Sleeper; Defenseless; Slaves of New York; Parents; Compromising
Positions; Red Dragon; The World According to Garp; and Chilly Scenes of Winter.
On Broadway Hurt has starred in A Delicate Balance, The Secret Rapture,Benefactors, for which she received a Tony nomination; Crimes of the Heart for which she received an Obie Award and Tony nomination; The Misanthrope, and Trelawney of the Wells which also garnered a Tony nomination. She has appeared in numerous stage productions at the New York Shakespeare Festival including Othello, As You Like It, Pericles and The Cherry Orchard.
SHOHREH AGHDASHLOO (Dr. Adani) was b orn in Tehran and began performing in various cutting-edge performance groups, among them the acclaimed Drama Workshop of Tehran. Aghdashloo was cast by directors Abbas Kiarostami and Ali Hatami - two towering figures of the nascent Iranian New Wave - to play starring roles in several of their formally adventurous, socially progressive productions, including 1977's Gozaresh and Sutedelan.
In the late '70s, Aghdashloo left Iran after her work as an actor was either censored or forbidden. Discouraged by the dearth of non-stereotyped roles for Middle Eastern women in Hollywood , Aghdashloo created meaningful work for herself. She focused her attention on stage work, even creating a traveling theater troupe with her husband that performed plays in Farsi for Iranian audiences. Her film work includes roles in such topical dramas as America So Beautiful and Maryam, both about the struggle of Iranian immigrants in the U.S.
It was such work that caught the attention of director Vadim Perelman, who was looking to cast the supporting role of Nadi in his big-screen adaptation of the best-selling book, House of Sand and Fog. Opposite Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly, Aghdashloo’s subtle, simmering performance brought her kudos from the Independent Spirit Awards, the New York Film Criticsand the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, all of which named her 2003’s Best Supporting Actress. The Academy followed suit, nominating Shohreh as an Oscar® contender for Best Supporting Actress.
Aghdashloo has recently been seen on Fox's award-winning television drama, "24", opposite Kiefer Sutherland. Next spring she can be seen in the remake of "Il Mare." She is also set to star in the motion picture adaptation of the best selling book, Reading Lolita in Tehran.
JOSHUA CLOSE’s (Jason) break-out role was starring in the gritty independent film Twist for director Jacob Tierney. Co-starring Nick Stahl, Twist is a modern day retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic story "Oliver Twist." The film screened at the Venice Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival and the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Close’s first film was the independent feature In the Lair; followed by K-19: The Widowmaker, alongside one of his screen idols, Harrison Ford. He went on to star in the short film Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl, which screened at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival.
Close’s other film credits include: A Home at the End of the World with Colin Farrell and Robin Wright Penn; and Haunted. He has also made numerous television appearances, most notably a recurring role on the ABC television series, "Life As We Know It."
KENNETH WELSH (Dr. Mueller) was the recipient of the 1998 Earl Grey Award for lifetime achievement. His film credits include The Fog, directed by Rupert Wainwright; Four Brothers, directed by John Singleton; Karol, directed by Giacomo Battiato; Bailey’s Billions, directed by David Devine; The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese; Miracle, directed by Gavin O'Connor; The Day After Tomorrow, directed by Roland Emmerich; The Wild Guys, directed by William Gereghty; Focus, directed by Neal Slavin; Love Come Down, directed by Clement Virgo; Absolute Power, directed by Clint Eastwood; The Wrong Guy, directed by David Steinberg; The Amateurs, directed by Masato Harada; Turning April, directed by Geoff Bennett; Habitat, directed by Rene Daalder; Boozecan,directed by Nicholas Campbell; Margaret’s Museum, directed by Mort Ransen; Hideaway, directed by Brett Leonard; Timecop, directed by Peter Hyams; Whale Music, directed by Richard Lewis; Legends of the Fall, directed by Edward Zwick; Les Amoureuses, directed by Johanne Pregent; The Big Slice, directed by John Bradshaw; Perfectly Normal, directed by Yves Simoneau; The Freshman, directed by Andy Bergman; Crocodile Dundee 2, directed by John Cornell; The House on Carroll Street, directed by Peter Yates; Lost, directed by Peter Rowe; Loyalties, directed by Anne Wheeler; Perfect, directed by James BridgeCentury; Falling in Love, directed by Ulu Grosbard; Reno and the Doc,directed by Charles Dennis; Heartburn, directed by Mike Nichols and Cphobia, directed by John Huston.
DUNCAN FRASER (Dr. Cartwright) His film credits include The Core, Seven Years In Tibet , K-9: P.I., Unforgettable, Alaska , Wrongfully Accused and The Claim. Fraser played lead roles in the USA Network’s "Traffic" and the series "DaVinci’s Inquest." He was a series regular on "Hawkeye", "Horsemen" and "The Heights." Fraser has made guest starring appearances on numerous series including, "First Wave", "X-Files", "Stargate", "Outer Limits", "Highlander" and "Viper."
JR BOURNE (Ray) Bourne has recently finished Douglas Copeland’s original screenplay Everything’s Gone Green after returning home in May from Calgary , where he completed the starring role in David Christenssen’s film adaptation of Fred Lebron’s novel Six Figures. Bourne closed out 2004 with The Score, Sum of Equation and Carl Bessai’s ecological thriller Severed.
Bourne received a Leo nomination and The Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Feature in 2004 for his portrayal of the heroin addicted, Cliffie, in Nathaniel Geary’s On The Corner. Bourne has also completed short films, Dealing With Jerks and Johanna Mercer’s much anticipated A Jade’s Trick.
Bourne has achieved considerable success as a performer on a number of television series. Most notably and internationally recognized as Martouf on MGM’s " Stargate SG-1", he also recurred on Bravo’s " Beggars and Choosers" and in David Steinberg’s " Big Sound."
HENRY CZERNY (Dr. Briggs) is one of Canada 's most respected dramatic actors and has earned acclaim on stage, television, and in feature films. Czerny got his start acting in musicals at Humberside Collegiate in Toronto and went on to receive formal training at the National Theatre School in Montreal . After graduating in 1982, he went on to perform onstage across the country, from Ottawa 's National Arts Center to Edmonton 's Citadel Theatre and the Stratford Festival. He got his break in Hollywood after portraying an abused and abusive All Saints Brother in the internationally acclaimed Tele-film The Boys of St. Vincent (1991). Film credits now include Fido, directed by Andrew Currie; The Pink Panther, directed by Shawn Levy; Chaos, directed by Tony Giglio; Mission Impossible, directed by Brian DePalma; The Interview, directed by Monique Gardenberg; Notes from the Underground, directed by Gary Walkow; The Michelle Apartments, directed by John Pozer; Clear and Present Danger, directed by Phillip Noyce; Anchor Zone, directed by Andree Pelletier; The Ice Storm, directed by Ang Lee; Buried on Sunday, directed by Paul Donovan; Love a Man in Uniform, directed by David Wellington and Klepto, directed by Thomas Trail.
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ABOUT THE CAST
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
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ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
SCOTT DERRICKSON (Director/Writer) graduated from Biola University with a degree in Humanities, a second degree in Communications, and a minor in theological studies. He also graduated from the University of Southern California with a Masters Degree in Film Production.
Derrickson worked with Wim Wenders to create the story for Wenders’ latest film, Land Of Plenty . With Paul Harris Boardman, he recently adapted the book Beware The Night for Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, as well as penning a science fiction epic for director Martin Scorsese.
Derrickson (alongside Boardman) penned the screenplays for The Church of the Holy Ghost and Darkness Falling, with Derrickson attached to direct both films. Derrickson and Boardman wrote the screenplays for Disney’s spiritual thriller Mystic, Ghosting for Dimension Films, Future Tense for Artist Production Group, Urban Legends: Final Cut for Phoenix Pictures; and Hellraiser: Inferno, which Derrickson also directed.
Derrickson and Boardman recently did a production rewrite of the soon-to-be released film Scarecrow for Sony Pictures, and an un-credited rewrite of Dracula 2000 for Dimension films.
Derrickson lives in Glendale , California with his wife and two sons.
PAUL HARRIS BOARDMAN (Writer/Producer) graduated Phi Beta Kappa from The University of the South ("Sewanee") with degrees in English and Psychology, and a special diploma for summer studies at St. John's College , Oxford . Boardman then received a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from The Johns Hopkins University, where he was a Teaching Fellow, wrote a thesis of original poetry, acted in several plays and studied drama with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee. After Hopkins , Boardman attended the USC School of Cinema-Television, where he received the Jeffrey Jones Scholarship in Screenwriting and wrote and directed a short film, The Roof, which won a CINE Eagle and various festival awards.
At USC, Boardman began his collaboration with Scott Derrickson, co-writing Derrickson’s thesis film Love in the Ruins. Since then, Boardman and Derrickson have co-written numerous screenplays, including Darkness Falling, which they sold to TriStar Pictures; Beware the Night for Bruckheimer Films; The Mystic for Disney; Ghosting for Dimension; FutureTense for APG; and most recently, a sci-fi epic for IEG and director Martin Scorsese. His produced credits (as co-screenwriter, with Derrickson) include Hellraiser: Inferno and Urban Legends: Final Cut.
TRIPP VINSON and BEAU FLYNN (Producers) launched the New Line Cinema based production company, Contrafilm, in March 2004. The first film released under the banner was the Brett Ratner helmed After the Sunset. Flynn and Vinson commence principal photography November 2005 on The Guardian, starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher written by Ron Brinkerhoff and directed by Andy Davis for Disney’s Touchstone Pictures. Contrafilm is also prepping Solace, The Number 23 and Dead Asleep for New Line Cinema. Flynn and Vinson are developing Baywatch for DreamWorks amongst other films at various major studios. Contrafilm is completing production on Disney's 3-D CG film, The Wild, which will be released Easter 2006.
Vinson first worked with Flynn at Bandeira Entertainment in 2000 and then headed up Firm Films with Flynn. Vinson started in Hollywood at Jerry Bruckheimer Films, after he graduated from USC.
Prior to Contrafilm, Flynn was a partner at The Firm where he ran the motion picture and television production divisions. Flynn also produced critically acclaimed films Tigerland, Requiem for a Dream, The House of Yes, The Alarmist, Guinevere and Johns. After graduating from NYU, Flynn's first job in the industry was as Scott Rudin's assistant.
TOM ROSENBERG (Producer)is the founder and Chairman of Lakeshore Entertainment. Rosenberg produced Academy Award®-winning Million Dollar Baby that won Best Picture at the 2005 Academy Awards®. Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, along with Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman, the film won Oscars® for Eastwood (Best Director), Swank (Best Lead Actress), and Freeman (Best Supporting Actor). Rosenberg is currently producing The Last Kiss, starring Zach Braff and Jacinda Barrett, directed by Tony Goldwyn. He recently produced Underworld: Evoluion; starring Kate Beckinsale and Scott Speedman, directed by Len Wiseman, set for release in January, 2006.
Among the other feature film projects produced by Lakeshore are Wicker Park; starring Josh Hartnett; Underworld; The Human Stain; starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman, directed by Robert Benton; The Gift, starring Cate Blanchett and Keanu Reeves, directed by Sam Raimi; Autumn in New York, starring Richard Gere and Winona Ryder, directed by Joan Chen; Passion of Mind, starring Demi Moore, Stellan Skarsgard and William Fichtner; The Mothman Prophesies, starring Richard Gere; Runaway Bride, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, directed by Garry Marshall; Arlington Road, with Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack; and 200 Cigarettes, starring Ben Affleck, Courtney Love and Christina Ricci.
Rosenberg ’s other feature films for Lakeshore include Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, Til There Was You,Box of Moonlight, The Real Blonde and Going All the Way.
Rosenberg began his film career as co-founder of Beacon Communications under whose banner he was the executive producer such films as The Commitments, Sugar Hill, A Midnight Clear,Princess Caraboo, The Road to Wellville, and The Hurricane.
GARY LUCCHESI (PRODUCER)is Producer /President of Lakeshore Entertainment, an independent film company in Los Angeles . Most recently, Lucchesi executive produced Million Dollar Baby, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. Lucchesi is currently producing The Last Kiss, starring Zach Braff for DreamWorks, Aeon Flux, starring Charlize Theron for Paramount ; Underworld: Evolution, starring Kate Beckinsale for Screen Gems; and Wannabe for Lions Gate. In 2004, Lucchesi produced Wicker Park , directed by Paul McGuigan starring Josh Hartnett for MGM. In 2003, Lucchesi produced Underworld and The Human Stain, based on the Philip Roth novel, directed by Academy Award® winner Robert Benton and starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman.
Lucchesi’s released credits with Lakeshore Entertainment include The Mothman Prophesies, starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney; Autumn in New York , , starring Richard Gere and Winona Ryder; and Sam Raimi’s, The Gift, which starred Cate Blanchett, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Hilary Swank and Giovanni Ribisi. Lucchesi was the executive producer on the box-office hit Runaway Bride, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere and directed by Garry Marshall; as well as The Next Best Thing, a Madonna/Rupert Everett film directed by John Schlesinger; and Passion of Mind, a Demi Moore feature, directed by Alain Berliner.
Lucchesi previously served as president of Gary Lucchesi Productions, an independent production company where he produced the Oscar® nominated film Primal Fear, as well as Virtuosity, Jennifer Eight, Three Wishes, and Just the Ticket. He also produced the Emmy nominated Gotti, as well as Breast Man, and Vendetta all for HBO. In addition, Lucchesi produced the Emmy-winning Showtime movie, Wild Iris.
While serving as President to Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s The Really Useful Film Company, Lucchesi executive produced the film version of the musical Cats, as well as original feature films and direct-to-video releases of theatrical hits.
Prior to becoming an independent producer, Lucchesi was President of Production at Paramount and oversaw production of a large number of highly successful films, including Ghost, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Fatal Attraction, The Hunt for the Red October, Coming to America, The Naked Gun and The Untouchables, with a cumulative box office gross exceeding $2 billion. Other films which Lucchesi oversaw include: Godfather III, Days of Thunder, Another 48 Hours, Naked Gun: The Smell of Fear, Pet Cemetery , Scrooged, Major League, Star Trek V and VI, and Black Rain. Fatal Attraction (1988), Godfather III (1990) and Ghost (1990) were nominated for Academy Awards® for Best Picture. Ghost was awarded an Academy Award® for Best Screenplay.
Prior to his tenure at Paramount , Lucchesi worked at Tri-Star Pictures for four years as both Vice-President and Senior Vice President of Production. Lucchesi began his career in Los Angeles as an agent for the William Morris Agency where he represented such stars as Kevin Costner, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon and John Malkovich.
ANDRE LAMAL (Executive Producer) His most recent productions include: The Last Kiss starring Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett and Rachel Bilson; Lakeshore’s Wicker Park starring Josh Hartnett, Diane Kruger and Rose Byrne; and The Human Stain, directed by Robert Benton, starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman. He co-produced Autumn in New York, starring Richard Gere & Wynona Ryder; Passion of Mind with Demi Moore, Stellan Skarsgard and William Fichtner; and 200 Cigarettes; Phoenix ; Homegrown; Box of Moonlight; andGoing All the Way.
Lamal started his production career at Beacon Communications in 1991 where he served as production executive on AMidnight Clear and Sugar Hill.
TERRY McKAY (Executive Producer) As one of the partners of Lakeshore Entertainment, McKay executive produced the film, The Real Blonde, starring Darryl Hannah and Kathleen Turner. He also executive produced The Mothman Prophecies, starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney in 2002; and Underworld, starring Kate Beckinsale and Scott Speedman in 2003.
DAVID McILVAIN (Executive Producer) McIlvain is currently the head of the literary department at The Firm. He began his career at a literary agency called Majors Clients. In 2000, he joined Artist Management Group working primarily with writers and directors. After The Firm purchased AMG in 2002, he became the head of The Firm Literary Department. He is currently producing Vandel TPT for New Regency and First Sunday for Screen Gems.
JULIE YORN (Executive Producer) is the head of Firm Films. Yorn co-founded Artists Management Group with Michael Ovitz and Rick Yorn. She began her career in entertainment as a trainee at the William Morris Agency in New York where she spent her first year in the literary department and her second year in the motion picture talent department. She soon moved to Los Angeles to work with Chuck Gordon at Daybreak Productions. One year later, she joined Addis-Wechsler and began her career as a talent manager and producer. After the Firm purchased AMG in 2002, Yorn became a partner in the new venture. As a producer, Yorn’s first production credit came with Trees Lounge in 1996, which she packaged and developed with then first-time director Steve Buscemi. She next executive produced the acclaimed 1997 film Eve’s Bayou, a critical success and the highest-grossing independent film of 1997. Yorn also produced Steve Buscemi’s film Animal Factory, which was released in the fall of 2000. She has also executive produced Cherry Falls ,, The Caveman’s Valentine, Formula 51 and Wonderland . As head of Firm Films, Yorn has over 30 film and TV projects in various stages of development, including The Devil’s Rejects, which opened July 22. In addition, Firm Films is also producing Alice for Universal, Bachelor Boys for Fox 2000, and The Runaway and Max Payne for Fox.
JEFF BETANCOURT (Editor) graduated from USC’s School of Cinema-Television in 1996. Upon graduating, he began his editing career with the film Star Maps for director Miguel Arteta and producer Matthew Greenfield. Star Maps began a string of successful independent films including: Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss, Chuck & Buck, and The Good Girl.
Betancourt edited Get Over It for Miramax Films and Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle for New Line Pictures. His most recent film was The Grudge for Columbia Pictures, which was produced by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Taka Ichise and directed by Takashi Shimizu.
DAVID BRISBIN (Production Designer) was production designer on Gus Van Sant’s iconic films My Own Private Idaho and Drugstore Cowboy. Most recently, Brisbin designed In the Cut, directed by Jane Campion; City of Ghosts directed by Matt Dillon; and Snow White directed by Caroline Thompson. His other design credits include James Foley’s The Corruptor; The Chamber;After Dark, My Sweet; as well as Beautiful Joe; Shakespeare’s Sister; Dead Presidents; Mad Love; A Dangerous Woman; Ruby; Crooked Hearts; and The Tender.
Brisbin received his BA in architecture from Rice University and then interned under the noted American architect Robert Venturi. He completed his MFA in film at the California Institute of the Arts. In 1985, Brisbin won the Henry Luce Foundation Scholars Grant and spent a year in the Philippines reporting news for a Manila television station. He wrote and directed the documentary Electronic Revolution of the Philippines about the fall of the Marcos dictatorship, and is completing a new documentary about Cambodia .
TOM STERN (Director of Photography) was Cinematographer on Million Dollar Baby which took the Oscar® for the Best Picture at the 2005 Academy Awards.
Stern worked with director Clint Eastwood on two of his earlier films. He was Director of Photography on Mystic River , starring Sean Penn; and Blood Work starring Angelica Huston and Jeff Daniels. Stern was Cinematographer on Romance & Cigarettes directed by John Turturro and starring Kate Winslet, James Gandolfini and Susan Saranden; and Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius, starring James Caviezel and Jeremy Northam.
Stern’s credits as Chief Lighting Technician include, Road To Perdition, American Beauty, Space Cowboys, The Phantom, Dangerous Minds, French Kiss, A Perfect World, Class Action, Impulse, The Dead Pool and Unforgiven.
CHRISTOPHER YOUNG (Composer) has evolved into one of the most skilled of a new generation of film composers who are able to move effortlessly between hardcore melodrama and off-the-wall satire and comedy. He combines the orchestral craftsmanship of the great film composers of the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s with an edgy sensibility as well as a keen and sharply-tuned intelligence. His music can enhance dramas with subtlety and simplicity, propel suspense and action films with powerfully thrusting rhythms and electrifying textures, and provide comedies and unusual subject matter with hip, cutting-edge musical commentary. He achieved early recognition in 1987 with his bone-chilling score to the Clive Barker horror tale Hellraiser and in 1988 added two more thundering horror scores: Hellbound: Hellraiser II and The Fly II.
Young’s distinctive and imaginative approaches to several unusual projects have made him a highly sought-after commodity on films with unusual subject matter. He wrote an ingenious score incorporating breathing effects for the offbeat film The Vagrant in 1992. His score to the moody serial killer film Jennifer Eight added immeasurably to the film’s unnerving atmosphere, while his darkly dramatic score to the Christian Slater/Kevin Bacon prison drama Murder in the First, distinguished it from several competing courtroom thrillers. In 1995, his music elevated a trio of thrillers: the sci-fi horror film Species received an unnerving score in the manner of Saint-Saens; the cyber-reality adventure Virtuosity was energized by a supercharged action score, and the Sigourney Weaver/Holly Hunter serial killer film Copycat received a brilliantly nuanced score that burrowed deeply into the psychologies of both Weaver’s and Hunter’s characters. He tuned in perfectly to the offbeat sensibility of the Bill Murray comedy, The Man Who Knew Too Little; and provided an appropriate urban blues groove to the John Dahl gambling melodrama Rounders. His other works include the scores for Head Above Water; Jon Amiel’s Entrapment;The Big Kahuna, starring Kevin Spacey and Danny DeVito; Norman Jewison’s Hurricane, starring Denzel Washington; The Wonder Boys, starring Michael Douglas; Sam Raimi’s The Gift; as well as the scores to such hits asRunaway Jury; The Core; and An Unfinished Life. Christopher recently scored the hit film The Grudge starring Sarah Michelle Gellar; and MGM’s Beauty Shop, starring Queen Latifah.
TISH MONAGHAN (Costume Designer) Monaghan’s first encounter with the performing arts was quite accidental, stumbling across a theatre course while taking a first year arts program. She moved from acting to costumes, eventually receiving her B.F.A. from the University of Victoria , following with a Diploma Course in Period Costume Cutting from Dalhousie University in Halifax , Nova Scotia .
Monaghan began working in the film industry in 1981, after a few years of employment as a cutter for several theatrical productions in British Columbia . She initially worked as a costumer, cutter, and supervisor until her first design job in 1983, on a mini-series entitled "Brothers by Choice." She has also enjoyed the position of Costume Supervisor and Assistant Designer, on several large period features.
In the last few years she has worked as a Costume Designer on a wide range of projects with renowned actors and directors including, Al Pacino, Hilary Swank, Robin Williams, Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, Christopher Nolan, and Lasse Hallstrom.
Monaghan is currently working on Catch and Release for Sony, featuring Jennifer Garner and written and directed by Susannah Grant.
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