Production Notes The millennia-old battle between Vampires and Lycans rages on in stunning 3D in Underworld Awakening

Mårlind and Stein created the television series The Bridge, a Swedish/Danish co-production that commenced airing in September, 2011, for which Mårlind wrote two episodes. In 2001, Mårlind created, wrote and directed the Swedish television series The Befallen. He also wrote and directed for the tv series The Sixth Day, directing nine episodes in the penultimate season and writing all twelve of the final season’s episodes and directing six of them. The year prior, Mårlind created and wrote the episodic police series Crimewave, penning twenty-four scripts for the show.

For the small screen, Stein and Mårlind created the television series The Bridge, a Swedish/Danish co-production that commenced airing in September, 2011. Stein directed numerous episodes of the dramatic television series Spung for SVT Stockholm. He also directed multiple episodes of the series The Befallen, a thriller for SVT Goteborg created by Mårlind.

Stein has worked with numerous international advertising firms directing and editing commercials for clients such as Toyota, Coca-Cola, Ford and Ikea.

LEN WISEMAN (Screenplay By, Story By, Based on Characters Created By, Producer) started his career in the art department on blockbuster special effects features such as Godzilla, Men in Black and Independence Day.  He wrote and directed both Underworld and Underworld Evolution and directed Bruce Willis in the action hit Live Free or Die Hard.

Wiseman served as director on the Hawaii Five-0 pilot. Most recently, Wiseman directed Total Recall starring Colin Farrell.

Born in New Jersey, Straczynski’s family moved 20 times in his first 18 years, which is how he developed a love of words and writing: the neighborhoods were always changing, but the books in the library were always the same.  He received degrees in clinical psychology and sociology from San Diego State University, and was a reporter for many years, publishing over 500 articles for such publications as the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Writer’s Digest, and TIME, Inc.  He has also written a number of published novels and short stories.

In addition to being nominated for a British Academy Award^® for his screenplay for “Changeling,” Straczynski’s writing has received the Eisner Award, the Inkpot Lifetime Achievement Award, the Saturn Award, the Hugo Award (twice), the Ray Bradbury Award, the Christopher Foundation Award, the Space Frontier Foundation Award and the E Pluribus Unum Award from the American Cinema Foundation, in addition to a dozen other awards.

He writes ten hours a day, every day, except his birthday, New Year’s Day and Christmas Day.  He is single and in the market.

Among Burnett’s produced films are Autumn in New York, Resurrecting the Champ, Feast of Love, Untraceable, and Fame.   His latest film, Gone, starring Amanda Seyfried, will be released by Lakeshore in February, 2012.

TOM ROSENBERG (Producer) is the chairman and CEO of Lakeshore Entertainment, which he founded in 1994. He produced Million Dollar Baby, which won the 2004 Academy Award® for Best Picture. Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood and co-starring Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman, the film also won Oscars® for Eastwood (Best Director), Swank (Best Actress) and Freeman (Best Supporting Actor). Rosenberg recently produced The Lincoln Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei and Ryan Phillipe and the upcoming film One For The Money, starring Katherine Heigl. Rosenberg also produced The Ugly Truth, starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler, directed by Robert Luketic; Crank and Crank: High Voltage, starring Jason Statham. Additonally he recently produced Gone starring Amanda Seyfried. Rosenberg produced Elegy, the film adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel, “The Dying Animal,” starring Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley.

Among the other recent feature film projects produced by Lakeshore is the reinvention of the movie classic Fame; Untraceable, starring Diane Lane and directed by Gregory Hoblit; Feast of Love, starring Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear, directed by Robert Benton; The Dead Girl, which was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards, including best feature, directed by Karen Moncrieff; and The Last Kiss, starring Zach Braff and Jacinda Barrett, directed by Tony Goldwyn.

Additional Lakeshore projects include the first three Underworld Films, The Exorcism Of Emily Rose, The Cave, Wicker Park, The Human Stain, The Gift, Autumn In New York, Passion Of Mind, The Mothman Prophecies, Runaway Bride, Arlington Road, 200 Cigarettes, Kids In The Hall:  Brain Candy, ‘Til There Was You, Box Of Moonlight, The Real Blonde and Going All The Way.

Rosenberg began his film career as co-founder of Beacon Communications, under whose banner he served as Executive Producer of such films as The Commitments, Sugar Hill, A Midnight Clear, Princess Caraboo, The Hurricane and The Road To Welville.


GARY LUCCHESI (Producer) serves as President of Lakeshore Entertainment, an independent film company based in Los Angeles. Lucchesi executive produced Million Dollar Baby, which won the Oscar® for Best Picture of 2004. Directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman, the film won Oscars® for Eastwood (Director), Swank (Actress) and Freeman (Supporting Actor).  He most recently completed Lincoln Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei and Ryan Phillippe, and One For The Money starring Katherine Heigl.

Lucchesi also produced the Underworld Trilogy starring Michael Sheen. He also produced such recent films as The Ugly Truth directed by Robert Luketic and starring Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl; and Elegy, directed by Isabel Coixet and starring Penelope Cruz and Sir Ben Kingsley. Other credits include THE Last Kiss, starring Zach Braff and Jacinda Barrett, directed by Tony Goldwyn; Crank, starring Jason Statham and Amy Smart; and the box office smash The Exorcism Of Emily Rose. In 2004, Lucchesi produced Wicker Park, directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Josh Hartnett.

Prior to that, he produced The Mothman Prophecies, starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney; Autumn In New York, starring Gere and Winona Ryder; and Sam Raimi’s The Gift, which starred Cate Blanchett, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Hilary Swank and Giovanni Ribisi. Lucchesi was the Executive Producer on the box office hit Runaway Bride, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere and directed by Garry Marshall.

Lucchesi previously served as president of Gary Lucchesi Productions, an independent production company where he produced Primal Fear, for which Edward Norton was nominated for an Oscar®. He also produced the Emmy®-nominated Gotti and Breast Men for HBO. In addition, Lucchesi produced the Emmy®-winning Showtime movie Wild Iris.  

Prior to becoming an independent producer, Lucchesi was President of Production at Paramount and oversaw such films as Ghost, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, Fatal Attraction, The Hunt For Red October, Coming To America, The Naked Gun, The Godfather: Part Iii, Star Trek, Black Rain and The Untouchables. Prior to his tenure at Paramount, Lucchesi worked at TriStar Pictures for four years as both Vice President and Senior Vice President of Production.

Lucchesi 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.

At Lakeshore, Richard has supervised and produced over fifty films, including all the Underworld films; Lincoln Lawyer; Fame; Crank and Crank 2: High Voltage; Independent Spirit nominee The Dead Girl, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Mothman Prophecies, The Gift, Runaway Bride, and Arlington Road.

Prior to joining Lakeshore, Richard has degrees in comparative literature from Brown University and from the University of Grenoble, France.


DAVID KERN (Executive Producer) serves as the Vice President of Production at Lakeshore Entertainment. Kern executive produced Lakeshore's recent films The Lincoln Lawyer and Fame and co-produced Lakeshore's Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans and Henry Poole Is Here.

JAMES McQUAIDE (Executive Producer/VFX Supervisor/2^nd Unit Director) has been the Executive Producer and VFX Supervisor on all four of the Underworld pictures. He was most recently the VFX Supervisor and 2^nd Unit Director of Julie Anne Robinson’s One For the Money, the VFX Supervisor of Renny Harlin’s 5 Days of War and the Executive Producer and Visual Effects Supervisor of Neveldine/Taylor’s Gamer and Crank: High Voltage. Additionally, McQuaide produced and was the VFX Supervisor of Kevin Tancharoen’s internet short Mortal Kombat: Rebirth which was one of the most viewed YouTube clips of 2010.

Among his many credits, McQuaide was also the VFX Supervisor and 2^nd Unit Director of Robery Luketic’s The Ugly Truth, the Executive Producer and VFX Supervisor of Greg Hoblit’s Untraceable, the Executive Producer and VFX Supervisor of Bruce Hunt’s The Cave and the Co-Producer of Mark Pellington’s The Mothman Prophecies. He is the Senior Vice-President of Production for Lakeshore Entertainment. 

Prior to joining Lakeshore, McQuaide, as a screenwriter, wrote the script for a Sherlock Holmes project and adapted Sidney Sheldon's novel The Doomsday Conspiracy, both for Warner Bros. He began his career as Director of Creative Affairs for producer Joel Silver's Silver Pictures. McQuaide is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

 DAVID COATSWORTH (Executive Producer) recently served as executive producer on the feature Larry Crowne, directed by Tom Hanks.  He produced the HBO telefilm Grey Gardens, starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore, and the miniseries John Adams, both of which were honored with Golden Globe and Emmy® Awards.  John Adams also garnered the prestigious Peabody Award.  

Coatsworth executive produced Barry Levinson’s film Man of The Year; Underworld Evolution for Lakeshore Entertainment and Sony Screen Gems; Welcome to Mooseport for Fox and The In-Laws for Warner Bros.  His credits as executive producer also include the features 6th Day and Dick.  Coatsworth produced The Crossing for Columbia Tristar, served as co-producer on My Big Fat Greek Wedding, directed by Joel Zwik, and associate producer on the The Tuxedo for Dreamworks.

  Coatsworth produced the pilot episode of Boardwalk Empire for director Martin Scorsese and HBO and his television producing credits also include the HBO movies Rebound, Gotti and Sugartime.

Prior to joining Lakeshore, Mr. Reid was an entertainment attorney with the law firm of O’Melveny & Meyers in New York and in Los Angeles.  In addition to graduating from New York University’s acclaimed Film School and New York University Law School, Mr. Reid has produced and edited numerous music videos for MTV and VH1.

Along with heading Lakeshore Records, Williamson now produces films for Lakeshore Entertainment-bringing Lakeshore the Underworld franchise, the Crank film series starring Jason Statham and Gamer with Gerard Butler.

  Winterstern has completed the upcoming feature “Conan”, which he produced, along with Avi Lerner and Nu Image/Millennium Films, to be distributed by Lionsgate this month.

  Winterstern is the Executive Producer of the feature films Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (released in 2009); Thick as Thieves (aka “The Code”), released in 2009; Underworld: Evolution (released in 2006); The Breed (released in 2006) and producer of Wassup Rockers (released in 2005). Other notable films that he executive produced include Wicker Park on behalf of Lakeshore Entertainment (released in 2004) and Underworld (released in 2003).

  In 2007, Winterstern was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature for The Dead Girl (2006), shared with producers Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi.

  His post as Co-Chairman of First Look Studios was formed in 2005 through the merger of First Look Media and Winterstern’s Capital Entertainment. The merger combined each company's unique entertainment assets to create a strong independent studio platform focusing on theatrical distribution, home entertainment, film development and production and foreign sales.

Winterstern’s business acumen expanded First Look Studios’ library to almost 700 titles in November 2005, when he negotiated the acquisition of all equity interest of DEJ Productions Inc., a wholly owned film-acquisition and distribution subsidiary of Blockbuster, Inc. Since the merger he successfully released: Australian box-office hit The Proposition; Larry Clark’s Wassup Rockers; Dito Montiel’s Spirit and Gotham Award-nominated A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, starring Robert Downey Jr.; and Karen Moncrieff’s star-studded and Spirit Award-nominated drama The Dead Girl. Prior to merging with First Look Media,

Winterstern was co-founder of Capital Entertainment and managed CDPQ’s entertainment investments, including Lakeshore Entertainment Group, Mosaic Media Group, Mosaic Music Publishing, MGM and Dick Clark Productions. A seasoned business executive, Winterstern has an impressive 20-year track record as a strategic advisor for acquisitions and financing in the media, entertainment and real estate sectors.

  During his career, Winterstern has been a board member for a number of prestigious business and cultural organizations including MGM Studios, Dick Clark Productions, Mosaic Media, Mosaic Music Publishing, the Saidye Bronfman Center, the Consoltex Group Inc., Algo Group and currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Wet Seal. Winterstern also served as Co-Chairman of Lakeshore Entertainment.

Other feature films distributed on Winterstern’s slate include Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, from the popular Adult Swim series on the Cartoon Network and Paris je’taime, which joins celebrated directors from around the world with an outstanding cast of actors; King of California starring Michael Douglas and Evan Rachel Wood, produced by Michael London and Alexander Payne; Gregg Araki’s comedy Smiley Face, starring Anna Faris; and An American Crime, a Killer Films co-production directed by Tommy O’Haver, starring Catherine Keener and Ellen Page.

Since earning his MFA from The American Film Institute in 1998, where he received the Mary Jane Pickford award for excellence, Kevan went on be included in the Hollywood Reporter’s 2007 Next Generation list of “the brightest and most talented cinematographers under 35”. Kevan’s credits include Cabin Fever, Borderland, Beauty Remains, Cleaner, Stomp the Yard, Death Race, Fame and The Losers.

Most recently Kevan has completed work on the sci-fi project The Darkest Hour shot in 3D on location in Russia.
 

 CLAUDE PARÉ (Production Designer) served as production designer on Rise Of The Apes, Night At The Museum and Night At The Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, all for 20th Century Fox. He recently won a Genie Award for Best Art Direction for Barney’s Version starring Paul Giamatti and Dustin Hoffman.

Pare served as production designer for The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus (development) and Elegy, starring Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley for Lakeshore Entertainment. He was the supervising art director on The Aviator, which received Academy, BAFTA, LAFCA and Art Directors Guild award nominations for Best Art Direction.

Pare served as supervising art director on the blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, directed by Roland Emerich and The Sum Of All Fears, starring Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman. His credits as supervising art director also include The Score, The Bone Collector, Grey Owl and 7 Years In Tibet (London).

McEvoy, quickly began working as a feature film editor, building a resume that includes the movies Wonderland, starring Val Kilmer and Kate Bosworth, Turistas, and Swing Vote with Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper and Paula Patton. Most recently McEvoy served as editor on The Lincoln Lawyer starring Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei and Ryan Phillippe.

Prudhomme designed the costumes for Jason Reitman’s runaway hit comedy Juno starring Ellen Page and Jennifer Garner, which earned her a nomination for “Excellence in Contemporary Costume Design” by the Costume Designer Guild.

Prudhomme’s feature film costume design credits include, Christopher Guest's Best In Show, Thor Freundenthal's Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, Griffin Dunne's Fierce People starring Diane Lane, and Case 39 starring Renée Zellweger and Bradley Cooper, and David Frankel’s The Best Year, starring Owen Wilson, Jack Black and Steve Martin.

Prudhomme is currently back with the Wimpy Kid team, doing Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, with David Bowers directing.

Haslinger released three solo albums and scored two landmark animated science-fiction films, Planetary Traveler and Infinity’s Child. He continued honing his skills as the programmer for Graeme Revell, supplying memorable textures and atmospheric style to Blow, The Negotiator, The Siege, Pitch Black, and Tomb Raider. Haslinger earned his first solo credit as a film composer for the 2000 movie Cheaters, directed by John Stockwell. Since then, he has worked on Stockwell’s Crazy/Beautiful, Blue Crush, and Into the Blue. He recently did the music for The Three Musketeers for Summit.

2002 found Haslinger composing and producing musical segments for the thriller Minority Report and in 2003, Haslinger scored Underworld. In recent years, Haslinger’s score for the Ubisoft/Xbox release “Far Cry: Instincts” was enthusiastically received by the gaming community; while his work on the Golden Globe nominated series “Sleeper Cell” (Showtime) received wide critical acclaim for its integration of Western and Middle Eastern music elements. He also worked on Turistas for John Stockwell and the upcoming The Fifth Commandment for Rick Yune.