Hot Sheet June 2007

News

Beau Bauman '01
Is set to produce the feature adaptaion of the documentary The King of Kong.

Walt Becker '95
Has signed a first-look deal at Disney to develop projects to direct and produce.

Sanford Bookstaver '95
Has signed with CBS Paramount Network TV to serve as supervising producer and director on the up-coming drama Cane.

Norman Buckley '80
Edited the pilot of Josh Schwartz's Chuck and is directing on Schwartz's new show Gossip Girl.

Tom De Santo
Has secured the rights to City of Heroes a videogame from NCsoft and Crytic Studios.

Dana Fox '00
Has been named as a "Screenwriter to Watch" by Variety.

Patricio Ginelsa '99
Has just received the President's Award from the California Preservation Foundation for writing/ directing the BEBOT music video for the Black Eyed Peas.

David Goyer '88
Is set to write and direct The Invisible Man with Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment.

Gordon Gray '88
Is producing in conjuction with Walden Media a college hoops feature based on the true story of Frank and Issac Gildea.

Brian Grazer '74
Is set to produce The Invisible Man a new take on the H.G. Wells classic; will produce a live-action feature based on the graphic novel Cowboys & Aliens.

Jason Dean Hall
Has been named as a "Screenwriter to Watch" by Variety.

Craig Hammill '03
Has just sold his short film The Cleats of Imminent Doom to IFC.

Sean Hood '97
Has delivered the script for a Hercules feature in development with Avi Lerner's Millennium films.

Ron Howard
Will produce, along with Brian Grazer, the live action feature based on the graphic novel Cowboys & Aliens.

Tim Marino '04
Of Occupant Films has snagged feature rights to author Geoff Nicholson's The Food Chain.

John Milius '67
Will be writing an original series about Vietnam photojournalists for AMC called Saigon Bureau.

Brian Nathanson '06
Has had his spec script The Occasionally Interesting Anti-Adventures of an Unnamed Girl sold to Walt Disney with Scott Rudin producing.

Tim Neurauter '04
Of Occupant Films has snagged feature rights to author Geoff Nicholson's The Food Chain.

Mark Sawicki '77
Book Filiming the Fantastic, A Guide to Visual Effects Cinematography is now available.

Stephanie K. Smith '01
Has just sold her pitch for television and New Media series Iris Expanding to 20th Century Fox TV. The series will be produced in conjuction with Parkchester Pictures.

Tim Story '91
Is set to direct for Warner Bros. The Losers the bigscreen adaptation of DC-Vertigo's comicbook.

Joshua Zetumer
Has been named as a "Screenwriter to Watch" by Variety.

Films and TV Shows

Evan Almighty
Michael Bostick, Producer.

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Kevin Feige, Executive Producer;
John Ottman, Music;
Tim Story, Director.

Knocked Up
Judd Apatow, Producer/Writer/Director.

Mr. Brooks
Bruce A. Evans, Director/Writer;
Raynold Gideon, Writer.

Rescue Dawn
Peter Austin, Supervising Sound Editor.

Resolved
Brad Barber, Associate Producer/Co-Editor/Cinematographer;
Morgan Stiff, Assistant Editor;
Chuck Haine, Cinematographer;
Josh Wilkinson, Productionn Sound;
Tristan Whitman, Cinematographer.

Savage Grace
Howard A. Rodman, Writer.

Talk to Me
Rick Famuyiwa, Writer;
Terilyn A. Shropshire, Editor.

Transformers
Tom DeSanto, Producer;
Don Murphy, Producer;
Erik Aadahl, Sound;
Matthew Cohan, Associate Producer.

CBC Miniseries: St. Urbain's Horseman
Howard Wiseman, Writer.

Jericho
John Turteltaub, Executive Producer;
Stephen Chbosky, Executive Producer.

The Dead Zone
Katie Wech, Writer.

The Sopranos
Matthew Weiner, Executive Producer;
Gianna Maria Smart, Producer.

Traveler
Katie Wech, Writer.