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MARK PELLINGTON (Director)
Mark Pellington is a filmmaker based in New York City and Los Angeles. A native of Baltimore, Pellington attended the University of Virginia where in 1984 he earned a B.A. in Rhetoric. Upon graduation he joined MTV’s award winning On-Air Promotions Department where he developed a series of short conceptual spots combining and editing original live action footage with sound/image/text juxtaposition. This technique became a primary focus of Pellington’s work.
While at MTV Pellington branched out as a freelance music video director completing clips for Information Society, Malcolm McLaren, and De La Soul among others. He also ventured into the art world, collaborating in text image pieces with New York gallery artist Jenny Holzer.
In 1988 Pellington developed an idea for non-linear collage program. Created in partnership with MTV Europe producer/director Jon Klein, “Buzz” was an ambitious thirteen-part global series commissioned by MTV and channel 4 (UK). Hailed by critics as ground-breaking adventurous television, “Buzz” was the logical culmination of Pellington’s MTV career.
Upon completing “Buzz” Pellington refined his unique personal vision through a distinct series of TV and video projects. He is internationally recognized as one of the top music video directors. His clip for Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy” is one of the most popular in history, as well as one of the most honored; he was named Best Director at the 1992 Billboard Video Music Awards, and the clip picked up four 1993 MTV Video Music Awards including Best Director and Video of the Year.
His clips for such noted rock, pop and rap performers as U2, PM Dawn, Crystal Waters, Public Enemy and Alice in Chains form a serious and much-imitated body of work. A piece for INXS entitled “Beautiful Girl,” is a provocative visual essay on the female body which earned a Grammy nomination. With his video for the Jungle Brothers’ “I Get A Kick Out Of You,” Pellington joined Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmush and Jonathan Demme as one of the elite group of directors chosen for “Red, Hot and Blue,” a landmark AIDS special shown on ABC and later released as a home video.
Pellington brought his commentary on television and distinctive media manipulation techniques to large stadiums around the world when he created the multi-screen image environment for U2’s highly acclaimed “Zoo TV” tour.
He also served as creative director on an experimental multi-media project for the Spanish exhibition at World Expo ’92 in Seville, Spain. “The Memory Palace” is a five-screen live-action film evocation of cyberspace made in collaboration with science fiction writer Williams Gibson, Spanish performance group La Fura Dels Baus, “Buzz” director Mark Neale, artist Julia Heyward and musicians Brian Eno and Peter Gabriel.
Outside the music field, Pellington has further developed his eye for documentary and narrative. “Words In Your Face,” a half hour film he created for PBS’s prestigious series “Alive From off Center,” anticipated the current mania for spoken word poetry with high-energy precognition. A half-hour television poem, “Words” featured John Leguizamo, KRS-ONE and Henry Rollins, and was chosen as one of six U. S. entries at the 1992 input festival.
He also collaborated with Obie-award winning director David Gordon and music producer Hal Willner on a half-hour live action cartoon called “Punch and Judy Get Divorced” for the PBS series “Alive TV.”
Pelligton’s views about filmmaking took a profound turn in 1993 when he created his personal work to date, a 30-minute film for PBS called “Father’s Daze,” in which the director comes to terms with his own father’s suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. This intense, impressionistic diary was screened at the Berlin, Montreal and Rotterdam Film Festivals and was praised by critics worldwide.
His in-depth, compressive “The United States of Poetry” was a five-part series for PBS which took a year and a half to complete. In the program, Pellington takes the viewer on an eye-opening, cross-country journey through end-of-the-century America, guided by 72 poets and spoken word artists, a diverse array of witnesses to our time. They range from school children to cowboys, Beat poets to poet laureates, musicians Lou Reed to Leonard Cohen, housewives to the homeless and the person in the street.
In 1997, Pellington’s independent film directorial debut “Going All The Way” bowed at the Sundance Film Festival and was released by Gramercy Pictures. He followed that with “Destination Anywhere,” a short film he created for MTV starring Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Bon Jovi and Kevin Bacon. He later directed James Earl Jones in an episode of the dramatic television series “Homicide.”
His second feature, “Arlington Road,” a dark political thriller starring Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins, was released by Screen Gems in the summer of 1999.
TOM ROSENBERG (Producer)
Tom Rosenberg, a veteran of film financing and production, is the founder and chairman of Lakeshore Entertainment.
Among the recent feature film projects produced by Lakeshore are “The Gift,” starring Cate Blanchett and Keanu Reeves, directed by Sam Rami ; “Autumn in New York,” starring Richard Gere and Winona Ryder and directed by Joan Chen; “Passion of Mind,” starring Demi Moore, Stellan Skarsgard and William Fichtner; “The Next Best Thing,” starring Madonna and Rupert Everett and directed by John Schlesinger; “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,” starring members of the television series; Scott Winant’s “‘Til There Was You,” starring Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dylan McDermott and Sarah Jessica Parker; Tom DeCillo’s “Box of Moonlight,” starring John Turturro; DeCillo’s “The Real Blonde,” starring Matthew Modine, Daryl Hannah and Catherine Keener and Mark Pellington’s “Going All The Way,” based on Dan Wakefield’s best-selling novel, starring Jeremy Davies and Ben Affleck.
Additional credits include Theresa Connelly’s “Polish Wedding,” starring Claire Danes, Gabriel Byrne and Lena Olin; Stephen Gyllenhaal’s “Homegrown,” starring Billy Bob Thornton, Hank Azaria, Kelly Lynch and Ryan Phillippe; and Danny Cannon’s “Phoenix,” starring Ray Liotta and Angelica Huston.
Next up for Lakeshore and Rosenberg is “The Hunted” starring Tommy Lee Jones and directed by Billy Friedkin.
Before founding Lakeshore, Rosenberg spent five years as co-founder and chairman of Beacon Communications, which was later sold to Comsat Corp. in 1994. During his five-year stint at Beacon, he produced such films as “The Commitments,” “Sugar Hill,” “A Midnight Clear,” “Princess Caraboo” and “The Road To Wellville.”
GARY LUCCHESI (Producer)
Gary Lecchesi is the president of Lakeshore Entertainment. Lucchesi recently produced “The Gift,” starring Cate Blanchett and Keanu Reeves, directed by Sam Rami and “Autumn in New York,” starring Richard Gere and Winona Ryder and directed by Joan Chen. Lucchesi also executive produced “The Next Best Thing,” “Passion of Mind and the box-office hit “Runaway Bride,” starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, directed by Garry Marshall.
Lucchesi previously served as president of Gary Lucchesi Productions, an independent production company with projects at several studios. He was also president of The Really Useful Film Company, which produced film versions of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage productions “Cats,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” and “Starlight Express;” original feature films; as well as direct-to-video releases of theatrical hits.
Lucchesi’s feature film credits include the Academy Award®-nominated “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 Men” and “Vendetta,” all for HBO. He also executive produced the musical “Cats: The Video.”
Prior to becoming an independent producer, Lucchesi was president of production at Paramount and oversaw a large number of highly successful films, including “Ghost,” “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” “Fatal Attraction,” “The Hunt for Red October,” “Coming to America,” “The Naked Gun” and “The Untouchables.” These films had a cumulative box-office gross exceeding $2 billion. Other films which he oversaw include “The Godfather: Part III,” “Days of Thunder,” “Another 48 Hours,” “Naked Gun: The Smell of Fear,” “Pet Cemetery,” “Scrooged,” “Major League,” “Star Trek V & VI,” and “Black Rain.”
“Fatal Attraction” (1988), “The Godfather: Part 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 TriStar Pictures both as vice president and senior vice president of production.
He 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.
TED TANNEBAUM (Executive Producer)
Ted Tannebaum is co-chairman of Lakeshore Entertainment and a veteran of law, investments and finance.
Tannebaum’s recent credits include “The Gift,” “Autumn in New York” and “Passion of Mind.” He has also executive produced a number of Lakeshore feature film projects, including John Schlesinger’s “The Next Best Thing,” Garry Marshall’s “Runaway Bride,” Scott Winant’s “‘Til There Was You,” Tom DiCillo’s “Box of Moonlight” and “The Real Blonde” and Mark Pellington’s “Going All The Way.”
Additional credits include “Polish Wedding,” “Homegrown,” Danny Cannon’s “Phoenix” starring Ray Liotta and Anjelica Huston; “200 Cigarettes” and Mark Pellington’s “Arlington Road.”
Prior to forming Lakeshore Entertainment with Tom Rosenberg, Tannebaum was chairman of the board and principal shareholder of Chicago HMO until the company merged with United HealthCare Corporation in 1993.
GARY GOLDSTEIN (Producer)
As President of THE GOLDSTEIN COMPANY, a film and television production company based in Los Angeles, Gary Goldstein has been involved with some of Hollywood’s highest box-office grossing films.
Beginning his career as an attorney, Goldstein moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 1982 to create a literary management firm specializing in the representation of writers and writer-directors. By 1988, he had segued into producing films for his clients and others and, after producing a number of lower budget theatrical features and films for television, he dissolved his management firm to begin producing full time.
With J.F. Lawton’s original screenplay in hand, Goldstein developed and co-produced the critically acclaimed “Pretty Woman” with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. The film went on to become the highest grossing live-action film in Disney’s history, garnering the People’s Choice Award for Best Picture, Best Comedy, Best Actor and Best Actress.
Goldstein went on to Executive Produce J.F. Lawton’s “Under Siege” for Warner Bros., directed by Andrew Davis and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Steven Seagal. He also produced “The Hunted” at Universal, starring Christopher Lambert, Joan Chen and John Lone. With the success of “Under Siege,” Goldstein optioned and developed the original screenplay “Dark Territory,” which he tailored for production as the sequel “Under Siege 2: In Dark Territory” for Warner Bros.
Goldstein produced the comedy “Ringmaster,” starring Jerry Springer and released in November of 1999 by Artisan Entertainment.
Also being readied for production at New Line, Goldstein will produce Eric Kmetz’s thriller screenplay “The Other Side of Simple,” to be directed by Ted Demme.
Through his partnership with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer of Imagine Films, Goldstein will jointly produce the upcoming comedy “Live Bait” for Universal Pictures. In addition, he is paired with Arnold Kopelson to produce the adventure film “Maelstrom” for Warner Bros. He will team up with Konrad Pictures to produce the period romance “Cherokee Rose” for Miramax Films.
Goldstein has also formed a relationship with Lumiere Films, for whom he is adapting and will produce a contemporary American remake of “The Woman Next Door,” a film by Francois Truffaut.
Concurrently, Goldstein’s company has several projects in various stages of development and pre-production. In concert with major agencies and management firms, Goldstein is currently packaging a variety of films, including several dramatic and reality-based television properties.
Gary Goldstein is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and earned a J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law. He served as a faculty member at Emerson College and currently lectures periodically at UCLA, USC and AFI in their graduate film programs.
He dedicates time as a member of the steering committee for the Entertainment Industry Foundation. He is also acting chair of ‘Principal For A Day,’ a program designed in conjunction with Los Angeles Educational Partnership and the Los Angeles Unified School District to involve the private sector with the improvement of public education throughout Los Angeles.
RICHARD S. WRIGHT (Co-producer)
Richard Wright joined Lakeshore Entertainment in 1995 to run the feature film production department for the Paramount Pictures-based independent production company.
Recently, Wright has co-produced several films, including “The Gift” starring Cate Blanchett and Keanu Reeves, directed by Sam Rami, John Schlesinger’s “The Next Best Thing” starring Rupert Everett and Madonna, and “Runaway Bride” directed by Garry Marshall and starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. Wright has also served as co-producer on “Arlington Road” with Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack; “Polish Wedding” with Claire Danes, Lena Olin and Gabriel Byrne; “‘Til There Was You” with Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dylan McDermott and Sarah Jessica Parker; and “The Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy.” Wright’s other feature credits include his supervising production and post-production for “Autumn in New York” starring Richard Gere and Winona Ryder, directed by Joan Chen; the upcoming “Passion of Mind,” starring Demi Moore and directed by Alain Berliner; “200 Cigarettes,” starring Ben Affleck, Courtney Love and Christina Ricci; “Phoenix,” starring Ray Liotta, Anthony LaPaglia and Anjelica Huston; “Homegrown,” starring Billy Bob Thornton, Hank Azaria and Ryan Phillippe; “The Real Blonde,” starring Matthew Modine, Denis Leary, Elizabeth Berkeley and Kathleen Turner; “Going All The Way,” with Ben Affleck, Jeremy Davies, Rachel Weisz and Rose McGowan; and “Box of Moonlight” with John Turturro.
Wright supervises soundtracks for all of Lakeshore’s films, including “The Next Best Thing,” “Autumn in New York,” “200 Cigarettes,” “Arlington Road,” “Homegrown,” “The Real Blonde,” “Polish Wedding,” “Going All The Way” and “Bandwagon.” Prior to joining Lakeshore, Wright was a freelance producer, with production credits including “Ruby,” “Fifty-Fifty” and “Love at Large.” Wright earned degrees in comparative literature from Brown University and from the University of Grenoble, France.
FRED MURPHY (Director of Photography)
Fred Murphy’s numerous screen credits as a cinematographer include “Soul Survivors,” “Stir of Echoes,” “October Sky,” “Dance with Me,” “Metro,” “Faithful,” “The Fantasticks,” “Jack the Bear,” “The Pickle,” “Scenes from a Mall,” and “Funny about Love.”
His television work includes “Murder,She Wrote: The Last Free Man,” and “Stranger at My Door.”
BRIAN BERDAN (Editor)
Brian’s break in show business came with a job sweeping floors at a small sound studio in San Francisco. His first job in editing was as apprentice on the David Lynch film, “Blue Velvet” (the first in a long line of films he would not be able to show his mother). After assisting and editing on various other projects, he began an association with Oliver Stone, working on “Heaven and Earth”, “Natural Born Killers”, “Nixon”, and “U-Turn”. He has also edited “Grosse Pointe Blank”, starring John Cusack and Minnie Driver; “Smoke Signals” (1998 Sundance award winner); “Auggie Rose,” starring Jeff Goldblum and Anne Heche; and “Finder’s Fee” with James Earl Jones (2001 Seattle International award winner and releasing this fall).
He makes his home on an island in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and son and is actively pursuing the perfect raincoat.
RICHARD HOOVER (Production designer)
Richard Hoover’s work has been seen on both the stage and screen. Having recently designed “The Prime Gig” for director Greg Moser and “Girl Interrupted” for James Mangold. He Has collaborated with director Tim Robbins on “The Cradle Will Rock,” “Dead Man Walking” and “Bob Roberts” He also worked with Bryan Singer on “Apt Pupil.” His many other film credits include “Panther,” “Ed Wood,” “Dream Lover,” “Torch Song Trilogy” and Rob Reiner’s “Sure Thing.”
On the stage Hoover received the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of the Broadway production of “Not About Nightingales.”
He also served as a production designer on the television series “Twin Peaks” and the CBS miniseries “Family of Spies,” and music videos for The Traveling Wilburys and Michael Jackson. He began his career as a set designer in regional theater and off-Broadway.
SUSAN LYALL (Costume Designer)
Susan Lyall’s credits as a costume designer include “State and Main,” “Music of the Heart,” “200 Cigarettes,” “The Spanish Prisoner,” “Extreme Measures,” “She’s the One” “Home for the Holidays,” “Blink,” and “Nell.”