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Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, Jonathan Liebesman (Director) was always interested in the arts and dreamed of someday working in the film industry. After high school, he attended the South African School of Film and Drama before moving to the U.S. to study at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. His short thesis film, Genesis and Catastrophe, has been screened at numerous festivals around the world, winning top awards at both the Hollywood Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival.
In 2003, at 26-years-old, he directed his first feature film, Darkness Falls, which opened at number one at the box office, for Revolution Studios. The film was nominated for Best Horror/Thriller at the Teen Choice Awards, while the film's star, Emma Caulfield (Caitlin Greene), won Face of the Future from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films that year.
Liebesman's next film, Rings, which he co-wrote with Ehren Kruger, was a short that garnered high praise from fans of both feature length films, The Ring and The Ring 2, as it offered an insightful transition between the two movies.
Filmmaker Michael Bay's (Producer) five movies have grossed over $1.75 billion in worldwide ticket sales. His newest film, The Island, starring Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean and Steve Buscemi is still in release around the world, earning receipts well beyond $100 million.
While Bay Films remains one of the hottest production entities in Hollywood today, the director saw the need to begin another arm of his company, Platinum Dunes, as a way to help new talent hone their skills on smaller projects before being subjected to larger scale, high-budget movies. His first offering with producing partners Andrew Form and Brad Fuller was The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a remake of the 1974 cult classic. The film opened to excellent reviews and grossed over $110 million worldwide. The company's second film, still in theatres worldwide, The Amityville Horror, continues it's earning potential with current box office receipts over $110 million.
Michael Bay also directed the summer 2003 hit Bad Boys II, his fifth collaboration with producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Prior to that, he directed Pearl Harbor, on which he shared producer credit with Bruckheimer. The film grossed over $450 million worldwide. His first feature film, the original Bad Boys, starred Will Smith and Martin Lawrence; it wowed critics and audiences alike and grossed over $140 million worldwide, making it Columbia Pictures' top-grossing film of 1995. The following year saw the release of Bay's second film; starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, The Rock eclipsed Bay's blockbuster debut, taking in more than $300 million worldwide. His third directing effort, Armageddon, which he produced with Bruckheimer, starred Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, and Liv Tyler; it took in over $550 million around the globe.
Bay began his career in the advertising industry, directing commercials and music videos for Propaganda Films. In 1995, he was honored by the Directors Guild of America as Commercial Director of the Year. At age 24, he made his first foray out of film school into the music video business. His works for such acts as Meat Loaf, Aerosmith, Tina Turner, Donny Osmond, and the DiVinyls won him huge recognition and led to a number of MTV Best Music Video nominations, and the coveted prize in 1992.
Bay's first television spot - for the American Red Cross - was a Clio winner, and it heralded an expeditious rise from anonymity to renown. Within three years, the Los Angeles native and Wesleyan University graduate had directed some of the best known and professionally acclaimed advertising campaigns in the world. Nike, Budweiser, Coca Cola, Reebok, and Miller Lite were just a few of his clients.
Bay is the youngest director to have won nearly every award bestowed by the advertising industry. He won the Grand Prix Clio for Commercial of the Year for the irreverent "Got Milk?/Aaron Burr" commercial; this famous spot, along with two others in the "Got Milk?" campaign created by Bay, won Best Campaign of the Year at New York's Museum of Modern Art. In Cannes, the world's largest competition for commercials, Bay won the Gold Lion for "The Best Beer" campaign for Miller, and the Silver Lion for the "Got Milk?" spot.
Bay is already at work on his next movie, Transformers, which is readying to begin production in spring of 2006 for Dreamworks SKG and Paramount Pictures.
Andrew Form and Brad Fuller (Producers) are partners at Platinum Dunes, which has a first look deal with Dimension Films. Along with Michael Bay, the duo produced the company's successful first offering, the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which won the Teen Choice Award for Best Horror/Thriller and was nominated for an MTV Movie Award in the same category. The film grossed more than $110 million worldwide. Their next feature, the 2005 adaptation of The Amityville Horror, which is still playing in theatres around the world, has grossed an impressive $110 million to date.
In 2004 Variety included Form and Fuller among the "Top 10 Producers to Watch," and again, this October they were listed in Fade In Magazine's Mojo Rising piece, "The Top 100 in Hollywood," as newcomers making their mark in the industry.
Upcoming Platinum Dunes projects include remakes of the dramatic thriller, The Hitcher and Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 hit, The Birds. The 1986 version of The Hitcher starred Rutger Hauer as John Ryder, a serial killer trying to frame innocent Jim Halsey, played by C. Thomas Howell, whose only crime was to pick up a seemingly innocent hitchhiker while driving cross-country. Jennifer Jason Leigh played truck stop waitress, Nash, who tries to help Halsey outwit his deadly nemesis. The film is set to go before cameras early in 2006. No cast has yet been finalized.
The filmmakers are currently in talks with Universal to complete plans on The Birds. One of Hitchcock's signature films, the story was conceptualized by novelist Daphne Du Maurier. The movie's advertising tag lines are quintessentially 60s: Suspense and shock beyond anything you have seen or imagined!; Nothing you have ever witnessed before has prepared you for such sheer stabbing shock!; The Birds is coming! . . . And the next scream you hear could be your own! The cast list read like a who's who of Hollywood from Rod Taylor to Jessica Tandy and Suzanne Pleshette to newcomers of the day, Tippi Hedren and Veronica Cartwright. Platinum Dunes plans on recreating an equally compelling cast of veteran actors paired with new, exciting talent, as well as capturing picturesque backdrops equal to those of Bodega Bay in the original.
Prior to becoming partners, Fuller produced the films Emmett's Mark starring Gabriel Byrne and Tim Roth, and A Better Way To Die featuring Natasha Henstridge and Andre Braugher, while Form produced The Shrink Is In, starring Courteney Cox and David Arquette; Kissing A Fool starring Jason Lee, David Schwimmer and Bonnie Hunt; and Do Me A Favor with Rosanna Arquette. He also produced documentaries on the making of Crimson Tide and Bad Boys.
Form earned his bachelor degree at the University of Arizona. Fuller is a graduate of Wesleyan University, and previously worked as a talent manager.
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