News About Cornellians Working in Hollywood
ROBERT SCHENKKAN's new play, "All the Way," which was commissioned as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's "American Revolutions" cycle of plays about U.S. history, will be presented in the fall of 2013 by the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA. Bryan Cranston will star as President Lyndon B. Johnson.
TIM SQUYRES received an Oscar nomination for editing "Life of Pi."
KATHRYN SCHUBERT is the Assistant Editor of 2013 Oscar nominee "Beasts of the Southern Wild."
DAVID SEIDLER, who won an Oscar for his script "The King's Speech," will write the pilot script for NBC's drama, "George Washington."
KEVIN ASHWORTH recently filmed an episode of "90210." He also created a parody commercial Occupy Wall Street
Realty, inspired by current events. It is available on YouTube. He has appeared on "Y&R" as the club manager.
CHRISTINA STEINBERG produced the animated film "Rise of the Guardians."
JESSE WIGUTOW is writing a new script for Disney's "Tron 3."
BRAXTON POPE produced "The Canyons," starring Lindsay Lohan, for release in 2013. Paul Schrader directed the drama, which was written by Bret Easton Ellis.
RON MOORE is writing a TV series based on "A Knight's Tale," the 2001 feature starring Heath Ledger. ABC has bought the project from Sony Pictures TV.
MICHAEL MILLER is the film editor of "Liberal Arts."
WILL GLUCK, who directed and produced Easy
A and Friends With Benefits director-producer has co-created a new series for Michael J. Fox, to air on Fox in September 2013. Fox
will star as a husband and father of three from New York City dealing with
family career, and challenges, including Parkinson's disease. He is also working on a CBS pilot, "The McCarthys." In addition, he will direct a new film version of "Annie."
DAVID GREENMAN'S web series "Checked Out" can be seen here: http://www.dailymotion.com/CheckedOutSeries
JIMMY SMITS starred in the latest season of FX's "Sons of Anarchy," in which he played a tattooed gangbanger.
LORI BALTON, a veteran location scout, lists among her credits "We Bought a Zoo," "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," "The Lone Ranger" and Steven Spielberg's "Robopocalypse."
JUSTIN LERNER's film "Girlfriend," won the 2011 Gotham Independent Film Audience Award.
ANDREA BERLOFF has a sold her pilot "Chameleon," about an undercover FBI agent, to ABC.
STEVE McPHERSON, former head of ABC, is now focused on his Napa Valley winery.
CAROL MENDELSOHN of "CSI" will reboot "The Rifleman" for CBS with Chris Columbus. She will serve as Executive Producer.
SETH JARET is CEO of Content Engine, a transmedia studio, and CEO of
Jaret Entertainment, a management & production company.
JOSH GREENBAUM has written and directed a short starring: Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Kevin Spacey, Jack Black, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen and President Bill Clinton! It played this summer at the Hollywood
Bowl to 18,000 people to a standing ovation and has gone on to get over 2
million hits online. You can view it at http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/66md
BRUCE ALAN GREENE is a cinematographer based in Los
Angeles. He recently completed shooting
a Russian romantic comedy, "8 First Dates" in Moscow (ok, a little
far from Hollywood:). The film stars
Oksana Akinshina and Vladimir Zelenskiy.
ELENA SANCHEZ is a stunt double. See her in "Trespass," with Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman.
JOHN HEFFERNAN is developing a sci-fi feature for Paramount that takes place onboard an alien spaceship.
ROBERT SCHENKKAN is adapting Taylor Branch's Pulitzer-prize winning trilogy,"America in the Time of King" as a seven-part miniseries for Harpo and HBO.
JANE LYNCH starred in “The Three Stooges” for 20th Century Fox.
LEILA GERSTEIN is executive producing the medical drama "Hart of Dixie" for The CW.
CRAIG REID's book, "The Ultimate Guide to the Martial Arts of Movies of the 1970s," is now in bookstores and available through amazon.com. He recently appeared on Fox News, where he did a couple of martial arts demos, wielded a weapon or two and talked about the book and healing, and how martial arts and Qigong were instrumental in overcoming cystic fibrosis.
JORDAN BERMAN is Senior VP of Integrated Marketing at MTV.
ALYSSA VRADENBURG at United Entertainment represents Parker Posey.
BOB BRODSKY has a new book out, "The World in a Jug"--The Lure of New Orleans and Dixieland Jazz. It is available on Amazon.com. The book focuses on what was once called "Hot Jazz."
ROBERT PROFUSEK and RYAN SILBERT co-produced "Holy Rollers," with Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Bartha starring.
SHELDON TURNER won numerous awards for co-writing (with Jason Reitman) the film script "Up in the Air," starring George Clooney. He will make his directorial debut on "By Virtue Fall," a project he wrote about a man who is framed by his mentor and winds up in prison. He is also co-producing a number of his other scripts, including "Kiss & Tell," "Man Camp," "Paths of Glory, "Orbit" and "Two Minutes to Midnight." He has adapting "Magneto" for Richard and Lauren Shuler Donner and Twentieth Century Fox. It's the story of a mutant who hones his powers in order to seek revenge on the Nazis who slaughtered his family is based on the Marvel character. Turner is also writing and exec-producing a contemporary remake of the 1970s cop show "The Streets of San Francisco" for Paramount TV. He wrote the script "Conspiracy of Fools," based on Kurt Eichenwald's book about the Enron scandal. Robert Schwentke will direct for Warner Bros. Leonardo DiCaprio is producing.
DAVID HALBERSTADTER and SUSAN GRODE, partners at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, have been recognized by the Daily Journal as outstanding intellectual property practitioners. The publication recognized lawyers whose work made the most impact on their clients, their area of law and the larger society.
ANAT BARON's documentary "Beer Wars" is available to rent On Demand through Digital Cable and Satellite providers Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox, Cablevision, Charter, Insight, Bresnan, Verizon FiOS, AT & T U-Verse, Dish Network and DirecTV. It is also available for Download on iTunes, Amazon Video On Demand, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. The film is also available on Netflix as well as for purchase on Amazon.
JASON GRODE is an independent talent agent in the animation/comic books/toys space.
SCOTT FERGUSON was Production and Unit Production Manager of "You Don't Know Jack" for HBO Films. The film, which stars Al Pacino as Dr. Jack Kevorkian, aired recently on HBO. He also produced "Temple Grandin" for HBO. Claire Danes won a 2010 Emmy Award for her performance as the title character. Grandin was a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor at Cornell.
ANDY ZAX is an independent music producer, specializing in historic box sets. He recently did a box set of Woodstock, digitizing over 30 hours of tape stock.
MARC HENRY JOHNSON's documentary "Soundtrack for a Revolution" was short-listed in the 2010 Oscar for Best Documentary category.
JIM JACKS will produce the supernatural action thriller "Mortis Rex," set in 122 A.D. and is about a disgraced Roman war hero who is given a last opportunity to redeem his reputation when sent to a Roman garrison beset by a spate of brutal and unexplained killings. His recent credits include the "Mummy" series.
BRAD MINNICH's short film, "Maasai: A Warrior's Rite of Passage," was recently screened at The Museum for African Art in New York City. The film has played in various film festivals, universities and countries around the world including Nigeria, New Zealand, South Africa, England and Canada. Brief Synopsis: The Maasai tribe, who live an exotic and adventuresome life on the border of Kenya, are the subject of this documentary about a people and a place as far removed from our own everyday reality as it’s possible to get. To see a clip of the film, log onto: http://pictureprime.com/id4.html.
RICKY JAY recently starred in a one-man show at the Geffen Playhouse
JEFF HIRSCHBERG's "Reflections of the Shadow: Creating Memorable Heroes and Villains for Film and TV" is now available on Amazon.com. Barnes & Noble is also carrying the book, which has a Foreword from Steven de Souza ("Die Hard," "48. Hrs.").
ANDREW MITTMAN oversees feature film development at BermanBraun.
MICHAEL BERG recently released his debut album, "Lights Down," on CD. The 12-song album is available at: http://cdbaby.com/cd/michaelberg. A list of his current gigs is available on www.myspace.com/minus12
HART BOYKIN played a scene with Meat Loaf in "House" (episode 20, season 5). He also played Friar Lawrence in Buntoku Productions’ “Romeo and Juliet” as a fundraiser for The Sunshine Kids.
LAURA WEINSTOCK launched a new website: www.weinstockscripts.com. The title of her blog is: The Doctor is in: Notes From a Script Doctor at weinstockscripts.blogspot.com
ALEX GARTNER will produce "Winter's Discontent," a Columbia Pictures comedy. He produced "The International," starring Naomi Watts and Clive Owen.
PATTY LIN was nominated for two 2009 Writers Guild Awards for "Breaking Bad," an AMC series.
JOSE ARROYO was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild Award for "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."
BILL MAHER was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild Award for "Real Time with Bill Maher."
RON MOORE will write a new version of "The Thing" for Universal.
CHRIS FENTON’s H2F Entertainment, a management and production company, will produce "BFF," a female buddy comedy, for Wind Dancer Films. Fenton recently wrapped "Still Waiting" for Lionsgate and is preparing to produce a sequel to "The Marine."
ERIKA GREEN is a staff writer for CBS' "The Mentalist."
SALLY ROBINSON will write the book for the Broadway version of "Betty Boop." Pop composer-producer David Foster will write the music. Robinson has written for TV (HBO's "Iron-Jawed Angels") and film ("Medicine Man").
JENNIFER MAISEL is currently writing a movie for Lifetime and Braunstein/Jaffe films. Her newest play, "There or Here," got rave reviews in its New York premiere. Here is one from the NY Times: "Ms. Maisel has written a thought-provoking play that touches on reproductive yearnings, sexual desire, cultural imperialism and more. And Annie Meisels gives a convincing performance as the woman at the center of it all--- this production by the Hypothetical Theater Company, directed by Amy Feinberg, is never less than engaging. --Neil Genzlinger, NY TIMES
LAUREN WEISBERGER has sold her new novel, "Chasing Harry Winston," to Universal. Andy Tennant will direct, and Gina Wendkos will write the adaptation.
ELLEN KOTHEIMER plays drums for Whole Lotta Rosies, an all-female AC/DC tribute band based here in LA. We've won the Rock City News Award for "Most Outstanding Tribute Band" 3 years running and have toured nationally and internationally, including shows for troops abroad. If you are in need of a wild night out, check out www.wholelottarosies.com for dates in town.
MONA MILLER won the award for "Most Ambitious Script" at the Action on Film Festival for her script, "Escape from Sumatra," about a group of young people of different racial backgrounds, who have lost their parents, joining together to fight the Japanese invasion of Sumatra in World War II. Now she just needs a producer.
CHRISTINE BAU was one of the producers of "Bottle Shock," starring Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Rachael Taylor, Chris Pine, Freddy Rodriguez, Eliza Dushku and Dennis Farina.
JOHN ARLOTTO's short film DEFACE won the Production Excellence Award at the 13th annual Angelus Student Film Fest.
DREW BRODY's film "Desert of Blood," the greatest Mexican-American Vampire Movie of all time, is now available on DVD!
DAN OLIVERIO translated and wrote a core Inca play for the Unknown Theatre.
STEVE REICH, a New York-based composer, won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for "Double Sextet," a piece composed for two identical sextets of instruments, each made up of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, vibraphone and piano.
MITCHELL GOSSETT, who works at UTA, specializes in representing young talent, including Miley Cyrus.
PHIL SCHWARTZ was the "A" operator on "Journey 3-D", with Brendan Fraser.
ELIZABETH KARR is Co Producer and Casting Director of the feature "Radio Free Albemuth," an adaptation of the Philip K Dick novel by John Alan Simon (fellow Ivy from Harvard), currently in post-production.
LEE ROSENTHAL is Exec VP of Feature Production Management at Paramount Pictures.
REED VAN DYK's film "THE CONSERVATORY," won First Prize in the 2008 comedy category at The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' COLLEGE TELEVISION AWARDS (these are the folks who hand out the Emmys!).
TOM SWARTWOUT edited Sidney Lumet's "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead."
JOSH GREENBAUM will make his feature film directing debut with Columbia Pictures' "The Art of Cool." His short film "The Morning Routine" was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2007 Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker's Award. He also recently won mtvU's Best Filmmaker On Campus Award. He recently sold his script "The Mascot" to Paramount.
ELIZABETH ALLEN directed FOX 2000's children's film "Ramona and Beezus." She is also attached to direct "My Mother's Boyfriend," a dark comedy produced by Chris and Paul Weitz's company. Allen recently sold her first novel, "My 40 Hot Sisters."
YELENA CHAK is VP of drama development at CBS Entertainment.
PHILLIP VAN won a Student Academy Award for his short "High Maintenance."
JON GUMPERT is president of Whitsett Hill Entertainment's Reliant Pictures. He oversees the company's slate of films, all budgeted above $10 million.
ROB FRIED launched his new company SpiritEMX. He has written and directed many of the short films on the company's website.
THELMA SCHOONMAKER won a 2007 Oscar for editing "The Departed."
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