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August 2006

Apatow, Judd 1985-1987 Filmic Writing: will write and produce Walk Hard, a comedy pitch that Columbia has acquired, with Jake Kasdan

Atchison, Doug 1988 BA Production: has signed a three-picture, first-look deal with the independent Weinstein Co. in which he will direct his next two pictures

Baker, Kelley 1980. 1982 BA Production, MFA Production: independent filmmaker, is about to go on a self-distributing tour for his lastest movie, Kicking Bird, the story of Martin "Bird" Johnson, a 17-year-old white trash high school kid who runs

Booth, Malik 2003 BA Critical Studies: and his team, Team Voltron, won Best Narrative Film at the Elevate Film Festival for their movie My Letter to Hip-Hop

Candis, Sheldon 2002 BFA Production: directs Young Cesar for CodeBlack Entertainment/Universal Home Video

Scholibo, Corey 2001 Critical Studies: has been named arts and entertainment editor at the Advocate. He was formally, a senior account executive at ID-PR

Chapman, Dina 1992 BFA Filmic Writing: co-wrote the teen comedy The Prom for the Weinstein Company's Dimension Films. She also is currently working on the screenplay adaptation of John O'Farrell's novel The Best a Man Can Get for Little Bird Productions of London and director Peter Cattaneo. Chapman has also had her first book of humor, I Love You, Man...But Not Like That, published by Andrews-McMeel Publishing and due to stores in September 2006.

Chiarelli, Pete 1999 MFA Peter Stark: is executive producing a DreamWorks Pictures adaptation of the studio's book property Nightlife, about a female serial killer who changes identification every time she commits a murder.

Chu, Jon 2000 BA Cinema will directing the teen comedy The Prom for the Weinstein Company's Dimension Films.

De Laurentiis, Luigi 2003 BA Production: is producing the new Filmauro feature, Christmas In New York.

Ferrell, Will 1990 Sports Information: plays Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

Gray, James 1991 BA Critical Studies: has been set to rewrite and direct Alphabet City, based on a novel by Steven Knight, who originally wrote the first draft.

Grazer, Brian 1974 BA Psychology: will be producing the Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment thriller The Changeling by J. Michael Straczynski

Greutert, Kevin : is editing Saw 3, his third in the horror franchise.

Heslov, Grant 1986 BFA Cinema: will launch and run Smoke House, a Warners-based production shingle, with longtime colleague George Clooney in August 2006

Howard, Ron Attended Cinema: will be directing the Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment thriller The Changeling by J. Michael Straczynski

Klass, David 1989 MA Production: is author of the young adult bookFirestorm, which he has also adapted into screenplay for Warner Bros. Pictures. This will be the first in the planned Caretaker Trilogy.

Kroll, Jon 1989 MFA Peter Stark: will executive produce for New Line Television's Wedding Crashers, a hidden-camera reality take on the comedy feature.

Marciano, Meredith Jacobson 1981 Cinema Production: has ran a successful casting company in New York City since 1986, and has begun casting an Italian film for Filmauro, which will shoot in NYC called Christmas In New York.

McCollum, Kevin 1989 MFA Peter Stark: produced the new Off Broadway musical In the Heights, based off the book by Quiara Alegria Hudes.

McGurk, Chris : is in line to run the film side in the new Starz pay TV operation, which is in the making of becoming a full-fledged media company.

Moritz, Neal 1985 MFA Peter Stark: is producing a DreamWorks Pictures adaptation of the studio's book property Nightlife, about a female serial killer who changes identification every time she commits a murder; producing futuristic crime story, Roadside Picnic, based on the book by Russian writers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky.

Murphy, Don 1988 MA Cinema: of Angryfilms is producing the Warner Bros. Pictures adaptation of DC Comics' Deadman

Polhemus, Mack 1993: has written and directed two independent features, one of which is a family comedy that premiered at the Dances with Film Festival in Los Angeles, My Bad Dad. It's about a burned-out biker dude who is entrusted with three children when his ex-girlfriend dies.

Pratt, Chuck 1978 BA Cinema: has signed on to be executive producer of Fox's Vanished. Earlier this year, he signed a deal to wite two blind scripts for 20th Century Fox TV.

Shadyac, Tom : of Shady Acres will produce Magic 8 Ball, a high-concept comedy about the toy, with Universal Pictures

Shamberg, Michael : was signed with Double Feature partner, Stacey Sher, to a three-year, first-look production deal with Paramount Pictures

Sher, Stacey 1985 MFA Peter Stark: was signed with Double Feature partner, Michael Shamberg, to a three-year, first-look production deal with Paramount Pictures

Singleton, John 1990 BFA Filmic Writing: has signed a five-picture domestic distribution pact with Universal Pictures under his production company, New Deal Productions

Taylor, Michael Chair of USC CNTV Production Division : will produce the romantic drama Unforgettable for Gold Circle and released by Universal

Tennant, Andy 1977 BA Drama: will direct the adventure comedy Fool's Gold starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson for Warner Bros.

Thurber, Rawson 1999 MFA Peter Stark: is directing Groundswell Production's, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, which will star Peter Sarsgaard, Sienna Miller, Nick Nolte, Jon Foster, and Mena Suvari

Weiner, Matthew 1994 MFA: has had his original drama Mad Men, a cinematic drama set in the 1960s Madison Avenue will follow the professional lives, social mores, and sexual exploits of ad execs, bought by AMC to premiere next June.

Weissman, Benjamin 1974 Production: is editing the limited anthology series Battleground by Stephen King for TNT

Ziskin, Laura 1973 BA Cinema: has been hired to produce the 79th Academy Awards by president, Sid Ganis

Crowley, J.D. 2003 BA Critical Studies: won three local EMMY awards producing on the air promos while working at KCBS. He also works for Paramount Executive Producer Linda Bell Blue, and Mary Hart of PM Magazine

Hutner, Becky 2003 BFA Screenwriting: will be producing and editing a new, daily entertainment show for NBC called Your LA

FILMS IN RELEASE

You, Me and Dupree Mike LeSieur Screenplay

Monster House Robert Zemeckis Executive Producer

Click Neal Moritz Producer

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest John Knoll Visual Effects Supervisor

My Super Ex-Girlfriend Sheldon Kahn Editor

Ant Bully Jon Price Editor

Zoom Suzanne Todd Producer

Zoom Jennifer Todd Producer

Zoom Nicholas Osborne Executive Producer

Zoom Trevor Engelson Executive Producer

Step Up Melissa Rosenberg Screenplay

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Rickey Bobby Judd Apatow Producer

Invincible Gordon Gray Producer

Invincible Ericson Core Director and Camera

Beerfest Lee Haxall Editor

The Black Dahlia Josh Friedman Screenplay

TV SHOWS

Blade: The Series David Goyer Executive Producer

Blade: The Series Jon Kroll Executive Producer

Entertainment Tonight J.D. Crowley Supervising Producer

The Insider J.D. Crowley Supervising Producer

Vanished Chris Black Co-executive Producer

Prison Break Neal Moritz Executive Producer

Prison Break Zack Estrin Co-executive Producer

Weeds Craig Zisk Co-executive Producer

Nip/Tuck Christopher Baffa Camera

Standoff Tim Story Director and Executive Producer


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