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July 19, 2010 —

The Filmmakers

BRAD PEYTON (Director) is a Canadian-born writer/director who established himself with "Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl," which garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama in 2004.

Peyton also created, directed and served as executive producer on the Canadian Broadcasting Company's 2005 humorous stop-motion animated television series "What It's Like Being Alone."

Peyton has several writing/directing projects in development with various studios, including a live action romantic comedy "Billy Grimm," which he wrote; "The Doubtful Guest," based on the Edward Gorey novel; and "The Spider and the Fly," which is based on the poem by Mary Howitt.


ANDREW LAZAR (Producer) formed the Warner Bros. Studios-based production company Mad Chance in 1995 with a mandate to focus on intriguing material in every genre and budget-range, debuting with the Shakespeare-influenced teen comedy "10 Things I Hate About You," starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles.

The past few years have been wide-ranging and productive for Lazar. His latest production, "Jonah Hex," a supernatural Western based on the DC comic and starring Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox and Michael Fassbender, was released in June of 2010. Another recent production, "I Love You Phillip Morris," financed by Luc Besson's Europa Corp, and the directorial debut of writers John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, is a unique, comedic love story starring Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor and Leslie Mann, and set for release in 2010.

Lazar also has many highly-anticipated projects in development, including "Akira," a live action remake of the revered anime; madcap art-heist comedy "The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery"; a film version of the '70s hit TV show "Welcome Back, Kotter"; "Fleming," based on the life of James Bond creator Ian Fleming; and "Namath," a retelling of acclaimed football legend Joe Namath's story.

The Summer of 2008 saw the release of action comedy "Get Smart," starring Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson and Alan Arkin, and directed by Pete Segal. His previous feature releases include the critically acclaimed "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," starring Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts and George Clooney; the pre-teen caper "Catch That Kid"; Danny DeVito's black comedy "Death to Smoochy," starring Edward Norton, Robin Williams, and Catherine Keener; Clint Eastwood's "Space Cowboys," starring Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones; and Nora Ephron's lottery comedy "Lucky Numbers," starring John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow. He also produced the independent dramedy "Panic," starring William H. Macy and Neve Campbell, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival; the Wachowski brothers' directorial debut, "Bound," a noir thriller starring Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly; "The Astronaut's Wife," starring Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron; and Richard Donner's "Assassins," starring Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas.

Born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, Lazar discovered his passion for film while attending New York University. After making several student films, he got his first break working for Academy Award.-winning producer Richard Zanuck. He joined Dino De Laurentiis Communications as a file clerk and ascended the ranks to become Executive Vice President of Production. Lazar earned his first major film credit serving as executive producer on John Dahl's provocative "Unforgettable," starring Ray Liotta.


POLLY JOHNSEN (Producer) has a three-year first-look deal with Warner Bros. She was most recently a producer on the Kevin Smith comedy "Cop Out," starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, and has more than a dozen active projects in development at the studio, including "Excalibur," with Bryan Singer; "Alpha Moms," and "Abstinence Teacher," based on the novel by Tom Perotta.

Prior to forming her own company, Johnsen was President of Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) from 2006 to 2008. She was responsible for production, marketing and distribution of the company's slate of films, which included "The Painted Veil"; "A Scanner Darkly"; "For Your Consideration"; "In the Valley of Elah"; and the final picture to come out of Warner Independent Pictures, "Slumdog Millionaire," which won eight Academy Awards., including Best Director and Best Picture.

Before joining WIP, Johnsen spent nearly a decade at Warner Bros. Pictures. Joining the company as a creative executive in 1997, she was promoted to production executive in 1998. A year later she became Vice President of production and in 2003 was elevated to Senior Vice President. Johnsen was named Executive Vice President of Production in February of 2006. During her tenure, she was the executive on the first four "Harry Potter" movies, "Superman Returns," "Blood Diamond," "I Am Legend," "P.S. I Love You," "Scooby-Doo," "Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed," "Starsky & Hutch," "The Perfect Storm" and "Three Kings," among others.

Johnsen began her motion picture career at Jersey Films, where she was involved with such films as "Out of Sight" and "Erin Brockovich." Prior to beginning her career in entertainment, she received her undergraduate degree in Chinese Studies from the University of California at San Diego, and lived and worked in Southeast Asia. Johnsen received her MFA from the University of Southern California's Peter Stark Producing Program.


RON J. FRIEDMAN & STEVE BENCICH (Screenplay) most recently collaborated on the animated adventure "Open Season," a 2006 Annie Award nominee for Best Picture. They also teamed on "Chicken Little," which garnered numerous honors, including nominations for the Annie Award, Saturn Awards, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and the People's Choice Awards. Prior to that, they co-wrote "Brother Bear," an animated family adventure that earned an Academy Award. nomination for Best Animated Feature Film, Best Picture and Writing nominations from the Annie Awards and a Saturn Award nomination.

Friedman and Bencich's creative partnership has also resulted in the novelty song "Squirrels," which placed among the Funny Five on the nationally syndicated "Dr. Demento Show" for 15 weeks in a row.

Previously, Friedman wrote a number of short films, among them "Paul McCall," which screened at more than 60 film festivals and won over 20 awards in 1996, including the First Place Student Emmy for comedy from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, The Gold Award at the Festival Der Nationen in Austria, a CINE Eagle Award, the Florida Motion Picture and Television Association's Crystal Reel Award and the Best Shorter Film Award at the 1996 Lo-Con.com Film Festival in Los Angeles. He also owns and operates Filmmaker.com, a popular online resource that he created as a forum for filmmakers to exchange technical and creative information.

Bencich's work has also earned film festival honors, including the award for Best Video Programming at the Saguaro Film Festival in 1994 for a sci-fi farce, "Battle for the Planet of Cheese." His 16mm film "Grandma" was awarded Best Experimental Film Short at the 1995 Black Maria Awards. Additionally, Bencich served as head writer and director for "TV or Not TV," an episodic comedy that aired in Phoenix in 1992-93 and won a Rocky Mountain Regional Emmy. His comedy writing and directing experience also includes founding, directing and performing with Nothing Personal, a troupe at the Improvisation Comedy Club. He has also written, directed and performed at hundreds of theatrical competitions.


BRENT O'CONNOR (Executive Producer) most recently served as executive producer on the hit comedy "Get Smart," starring Steve Carell in the title role, and on Chris Carter's sci-fi thriller "The X-Files: I Want to Believe."

Previously, O'Connor was an executive producer on the inspiring drama "We Are Marshall," starring Matthew McConaughey and Matthew Fox; the thriller "Firewall," starring Harrison Ford"; the 2005 action thriller "Elektra," starring Jennifer Garner; and the 2004 family adventure "Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed." His co-producing credits include "K-19: The Widowmaker," starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson, and "Bulletproof Monk," starring Chow Yun-Fat and Seann William Scott.

Early in his career, O'Connor was an electrician and business agent. He went on to serve as production manager on a variety of feature films, including the Arnold Schwarzenegger thriller "The Sixth Day"; the comedic romp "Rat Race," starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson; Gus van Sant's Academy Award.-winning "Good Will Hunting," starring Matt Damon, Robin Williams and Ben Affleck; and "Seven Years in Tibet," with Brad Pitt; as well as "Eye See You," "Jumanji," "Deep Rising," "Disturbing Behavior" and "Andre."


BRUCE BERMAN (Executive Producer) is Chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures. The company has a successful joint partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures to co-produce a wide range of motion pictures, with all films distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.

The initial slate of films produced under the pact included such hits as "Practical Magic," starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman; "Analyze This," teaming Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal; "The Matrix," starring Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne; "Three Kings," starring George Clooney; "Space Cowboys," directed by and starring Clint Eastwood; and "Miss Congeniality," starring Sandra Bullock and Benjamin Bratt.

Under the Village Roadshow Pictures banner, Berman has subsequently executive produced such wide-ranging successes as "Training Day," for which Denzel Washington won an Oscar.; the "Ocean's" trilogy; "Two Weeks' Notice," pairing Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant; Eastwood's "Mystic River," starring Sean Penn and Tim Robbins in Oscar.-winning performances; "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions"; Tim Burton's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," starring Johnny Depp; the Oscar.-winning animated adventure "Happy Feet"; the blockbuster "I Am Legend," starring Will Smith; the hit comedy "Get Smart," teaming Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway; the comedy "Yes Man," starring Jim Carrey; the acclaimed drama "Gran Torino," directed by and starring Clint Eastwood; and "Where the Wild Things Are," the screen adaptation of the beloved book, directed by Spike Jonze. He most recently served as executive producer on director Guy Ritchie's hit action adventure "Sherlock Holmes," starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. Village Roadshow's upcoming film projects include Zack Snyder's animated adventure "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" and the romantic comedy "Life As We Know It," directed by Greg Berlanti and starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel.

Berman got his start in the motion picture business working with Jack Valenti at the MPAA while attending Georgetown Law School in Washington, DC. After earning his law degree, he landed a job at Casablanca Films in 1978. Moving to Universal, he worked his way up to production Vice President in 1982.

In 1984, Berman joined Warner Bros. as a production Vice President, and was promoted to Senior Vice President of Production four years later. He was appointed President of Theatrical Production in September 1989, and in 1991 was named President of Worldwide Theatrical Production, where he served through May 1996. Under his aegis, Warner Bros. Pictures produced and distributed such films as "Presumed Innocent," "GoodFellas," "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves," the Oscar.-winning Best Picture "Driving Miss Daisy," "Batman Forever," "Under Siege," "Malcolm X," "The Bodyguard," "JFK," "The Fugitive," "Dave," "Disclosure," "The Pelican Brief," "Outbreak," "The Client," "A Time to Kill" and "Twister."

In May of 1996, Berman started Plan B Entertainment, an independent motion picture company at Warner Bros. Pictures. He was named Chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures in February 1998.


STEVEN POSTER (Director of Photography) has been fascinated with the art and science of capturing images since the age of ten. Beginning with still photography, he knew he wanted to make movies by the time he was 14.

Poster launched his cinematography career at 21, filming commercials, cinema verite documentaries and industrial films. Segueing to features, he served as second unit director of photography on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Blade Runner." As director of photography, he shot a wide variety of films, including "Stuart Little 2," "Daddy Day Care," "Rocky V," "The Cemetery Club," "Life Stinks," "Opportunity Knocks," "Next of Kin," "Big Top Pee-wee" and "Testament." He received an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award nomination for Best Cinematography for Ridley Scott's "Someone to Watch Over Me," and has the distinction of being the only American cinematographer to shoot a French language film in France, "Une Chance sur Deux," for director Patrice Leconte.

Poster most recently filmed "The Box" for director Richard Kelly, the third in a collaboration which began on Kelly's cult favorite "Donnie Darko" and continued with "Southland Tales." Last year, he shot the drama "Spread," directed by David Mackenzie and starring Ashton Kutcher, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Poster's upcoming projects include director Rob Minkoff's movie "Flypaper," starring Patrick Dempsey.

In addition to numerous pilots, Poster served as cinematographer on the Emmy-nominated telefilm "Mrs. Harris" and such critically acclaimed television movies as "Roswell," "Color of Justice" and "Courage," as well as the controversial, award-winning Madonna video "Like a Prayer."

Poster is president of the International Cinematographers Guild, a 6000-member trade union representing camera workers and film publicists. Formerly a member of the executive board of the International Documentary Association, he is on the committee of the Nicholl Fellowship of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. During his tenure as ASC president, Poster was responsible for reforming its technology committee, at the forefront in standard-setting recommendations for the use of digital tools and the post-production control of images. He continues to act as committee co-chair.

His involvement in motion picture digital technology dates back to 1990, when he was asked to experiment with one of the first High-Definition television systems for NHK Television in Japan.

Poster began his education at Southern Illinois University in a special program conceived by Buckminster Fuller, later transferring to Los Angeles Art Center College of Design. He graduated from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he was greatly influenced by the Bauhaus philosophy of form following function.


RUSTY SMITH (Production Designer) recently wrapped production on the action drama "Soul Surfer," for director Sean McNamara, set for a 2011 release. He has served as production designer on the feature films "Beastly," "The Pink Panther 2," "The Jane Austen Book Club," "Accepted," "Meet the Fockers," "Elf," "Agent Cody Banks," "Austin Powers in Goldmember," "Serving Sara," "Meet the Parents," "Austin Powers in The Spy Who Shagged Me," "Mystery Alaska," "The Beautician and the Beast" and "Dunston Checks In."

Smith began drawing at the age of three, while growing up on a small farm in Georgia. After attending undergraduate classes at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, he received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. He began his industry career as an assistant art director, working on feature films including "A League of Their Own." He was art director on films including The Good Son" and "Diggstown. " His first feature film design was director Talia Shire's drama "One Night Stand," executive-produced by Roger Corman.

Among Smith's television credits are Billy Crystal's "*61," for which he shared an Emmy Award nomination as art director, and HBO's ""The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom."

For the theatre, his credits include designing the Broadway production of Athol Fugard's "Blood Knot" and the Off-Broadway Second Stage production of Lynda Barry's "The Good Times Are Killing Me."

He is married to singer and actress Connie Smith.


JULIE ROGERS (Editor) most recently edited the family drama "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl," staring Abigail Breslin in the title role, and the animated feature "Curious George," featuring the voices of Will Ferrell, Dick Van Dyke and Drew Barrymore. She has previous animation experience working as animation editor on the film "Fat Albert."

Rogers' additional feature editing credits include the comedy "Racing Stripes," staring Dustin Hoffman and Whoopie Goldberg; "Stuart Little," with Michael J. Fox; and "Trading Favors," starring Rosanna Arquette and directed by Sondra Locke.

Rogers began her film career as the extras coordinator on the set of Martin Ritt's "Murphy's Romance." Her first editing job was as an apprentice on Oliver Stone's biographical war drama "Salvador." She subsequently served as assistant film editor on a range of features including "Graffiti Bridge," "Cutthroat Island," "Tombstone," "Losing Isaiah" and "Hercules."


CHRISTOPHER LENNERTZ (Composer) most recently wrote the music for the big-screen family comedy "Marmaduke." His recent feature film work also includes the box office hit "Alvin and the Chipmunks," "The Comebacks," "The Perfect Christmas," "Meet the Spartans" and last year's critically acclaimed drama "Adam." His next score will be the comedy "I Hop," set for a 2011 release.

Lennertz's previous film projects include the animated "Sharkbait," "The Deal," "Dr. Doolittle 3," and work on "Frailty," "Free Willy 2," "The Jungle Book," "101 Dalmations" and "Soul Plane," which he co-composed with The RZA from Wu-Tang Clan. His eclectic music for "Tortilla Heaven" was named best score for an independent feature in 2007.

In 2006, Lennertz earned an Emmy Award nomination for his work on the hit series "Supernatural." His additional television work includes "The Deep End"; "The Strip," produced by Joel Silver; "Brimstone"; and "Clive Barker's Saint Sinner," for the Sci-Fi Channel, named one of Cinescape's top releases of 2002 and ranked in the year's top ten by Film Music Review.

His string arrangements on the Ozomatli album "Street Signs" won a Grammy Award for best Latin rock album of the year, and his full-blown orchestral score for the blockbuster video game "Medal of Honor: Rising Sun," won the Interactive Achievement Award for best original music of 2003. He was nominated again in 2005 for "Gun." Later that year, Lennertz traveled to London's Abbey Road Studios to record the James Bond videogame "From Russia with Love," with Sean Connery reprising his role as 007 for the first time in two decades.

Lennertz began his musical training at age nine. After studying composition, jazz arranging and theory in high school, he moved to California to study at USC's Thornton School of music with film music luminaries Elmer Bernstein, Buddy Baker, Christopher Young and David Raksin. Upon graduation, he launched his professional career writing a host of independent film scores spanning all musical and dramatic styles for a range of films that have premiered and/or won awards at such film festivals as Sundance, Slamdance, HBO's Comedy Arts Festival, Toronto, and Cannes.


TISH MONAGHAN (Costume Designer) most recently designed costumes for the blockbuster "Twilight" film sequels "New Moon" and "Eclipse," both starring Robert Pattinson and Kristin Stewart.

Her many film credits as costume designer include the sci-fi actioner "The Day the Earth Stood Still," starring Keanu Reeves; the drama "An Unfinished Life," with Robert Redford and Jennifer Lopez; the crime thriller "The Exorcism of Emily Rose," starring Laura Linney; the comedy "Happy Gilmore," starring Adam Sandler; and the thriller "Insomnia," starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hillary Swank. She also designed the costumes for "Cats & Dogs."

Monaghan began her career as a cutter, working on several stage productions in British Columbia. She transferred those skills to film, working her way up from costumer.


RANDY STARR (Visual Effects Producer) was most recently the visual effects producer on the comedy "Blades of Glory" and the fantasy adventure "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," which earned Starr a nomination for a Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects.

Starr began his career in 1995 as a Production Executive for Cinesite, a visual effects production company, where he worked on such titles as "Deep Blue Sea," "Sphere" and "Space Jam." In 1997, Starr moved to Rhythm & Hues, a leading animation and visual effects company, where he managed such films as "The Sixth Day" and "Red Planet."


DAVE BARCLAY (Animatronic Effects Supervisor) is a puppeteer, animatronic designer and supervisor, a CG key frame animator, and director and producer of animatronic and puppet projects for film and television. His work on the 2001 film "Cats & Dogs" was under consideration for an Academy Award. nomination.

Throughout his childhood, Barclay performed with marionettes, glove and rod puppets in his parents' Pex Puppet Theater in the UK and Europe, and learned to design and build his own puppets. In 1979, he was offered a position on "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back," to assist in the construction of Yoda, and was later drafted as a puppeteer, performing alongside Muppet master and chief puppeteer Frank Oz. He subsequently became a puppet maker on the Jim Henson/Frank Oz project "The Dark Crystal," and, by 1988, was supervising a team of 17 puppeteers for the Oscar.-winning, groundbreaking effects on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" for director Robert Zemeckis.

Barclay's association with the Henson Company continued with the feature "Labyrinth" and the public television series "Fraggle Rock" and he collaborated again with Frank Oz on "Little Shop of Horrors." His projects include Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen," George Lucas' "Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi," Lawrence Guterman's "Cats & Dogs," Joe Dante's "Looney Tunes: Back in Action," Trey Parker's "Team America," and Rob Minkoff's "Stuart Little 2." He also collaborated with director Brian Levant on "Snow Dogs," "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas" and "Are We There Yet?"

Barclay is also the developer of a proprietary motion-capture technology called the OUTABODY System, originally designed for performing animatronics, which controls real-time CG characters.


BOONE NARR (Boone's Animals for Hollywood) once again brings his internationally known and respected expertise with complicated animal stunts and the challenges of computer-enhanced film making to "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore," having worked on the 2001 film "Cats & Dogs."

For over three decades, Boone's Animals for Hollywood has provided animals and coordinated animal training for every major studio on hundreds of films, television shows and commercials in over 20 countries around the world.

Among Narr's film credits are the "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy, "Hachi: A Dog's Tale," "Underdog," "Must Love Dogs," "Catwoman," and the "Stuart Little" films. His upcoming feature work includes Todd Phillips' "Due Date," starring Robert Downey Jr. and "You Again," with Betty White.

Narr's television credits include 11 years on the series "7th Heaven," with Happy the dog, and seven years on "Mad About You," with Murray the dog. Recent work includes "House," "CSI," "Ugly Betty," and "True Blood."