Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures has acquired Michael Galvin and Peter Speakman’s fantasy comedy spec script “Executive VP David M. Murch’s Adventures in Zametherea” for development and feature film production. The announcement was made by Mary Parent, Chairman, Worldwide Motion Picture Group.
Brittany Snow is one of the brightest and most engaging acting talents to emerge in recent years. Brittany recently starred in New Line Cinema’s Hairspray, playing Amber Von Tussle, the daughter of Michelle Pfeiffer’s character, Velma Von Tussle. Snow recently wrapped production as the title role in the independent film Finding Amanda, opposite Matthew Broderick. Snow also wrapped shooting the Tony Kaye film Black Water Transit..
Neal H. Moritz is one of the most prolific producers working in Hollywood today, with a wide range of film and television projects to his credit. Founder of Original Film, a feature film and television company, Moritz most recently produced the thriller Vantage Point, starring Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, Matthew Fox and Forest Whitaker. He is currently in post-production on the romantic comedy Made of Honor, starring Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan, due for release in early 2008, and just began shooting the fourth installment of the Fast and Furious series this month.
Most recently Moritz produced this past summer’s successful comedy Evan Almighty, starring Steve Carrell and Morgan Freeman. Other recent credits include Click, starring Adam Sandler, Gridiron Gang, starring Dwayne ‘The Rock,’ Johnson, and the action-packed Fast and Furious:Tokyo Drift. For television, he is an executive producer on the acclaimed drama series Prison Break.
Nelson McCormick makes his feature film directorial debut with Prom Night. McCormick’s work in television includes “CSI, “Prison Break, “Alias,” “Nip/Tuck,” “ER,” “Cold Case,” “House,” and “The West Wing.”
Kyle Cooper has directed over 100 film title sequences, and has been credited with “Almost single-handedly revitalizing the main title sequence as an art form” (Details magazine). He is the founder of two internationally recognized motion design companies: in 2003 he founded Prologue films, and in 1996 he co-founded Imaginary Forces.
Danny Elfman was born in 1953, in Los Angeles, California, where he currently resides. Over the last 20 years, he has established himself as one of Hollywood’s leading film composers. In addition to his score for Standard Operating Procedure, Elfman has written close to 50 film scores featuring his unique sound, including Batman, Spider-man, Men in Black, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. In addition to these signature soundtracks, he has scored such diverse films as Big Fish, Good Will Hunting, Dolores Claiborne, Midnight Run, To Die For, Dead Presidents, Sommersby and Chicago. For television, Elfman created the infectious themes to The Simpsons and Desperate Housewives. His honors include a Grammy, an Emmy and three Academy Award nominations.
In 1981, Hardie graduated from Film School in London with a B.A. (Hon’s) in Photographic Arts (Film). He entered the film industry the following year on Star Wars: Return of the Jedi as a production assistant and camera department trainee. While continuing to explore the possibilities within the industry by brief stints in the special FX make-up department (Highlander) and the art department (Never Say Never Again, Half Moon Street and Hammer Horror), Hardie also pursued his cinematography passion, shooting a few small independent projects. Eventually settling in the art department, Hardie made his debut as a Production Designer on Clive Barker’s Nightbreed at Pinewood Studios.
Andy Grieve grew up north of Chicago, half way to Kenosha. He left the Midwest to study film at New York University, graduating with the class of ‘99. For the next few years he continued to learn the craft, absorbing the twisted wisdom of editor/mentor Hank Corwin.
Robert Richardson (ASC) studied film and art at the Rhode Island School of Design before earning his master’s degree at the American Film Institute. He is a two-time Academy Award winner for Best Cinematography, for The Aviator (2004) and JFK (1992), and has also earned Oscar nominations for Snow Falling on Cedars (2000), Born on the Fourth of July (1990), and Platoon (1987).
Beginning as a video artist in the Alternative Media movement in New York, Robert Chappell went on to become a successful documentary cameraman, shooting an eclectic list of projects in the U.S. and around the world. The projects ranged from experimental films with Yoko Ono; to the avant-garde Robert Wilson’s Civil Wars; to HBO’s production of Elliot Erwitt’s The Great Pleasure Hunt; to Lebanon’s war zones in Coming of Age in Armageddon; and numerous films for British and German television. Errol Morris’ Standard Operating Procedure is his latest film.
