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Riche’s previous producing credits, partnered with Tony Ludwig, include, Todd Phillips’ action comedy “Starsky & Hutch,” teaming Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson; the comedy “Tomcats,” starring Jerry O’Connell; the holiday feature “The Family Man,” starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Brett Ratner; the horror film “Komodo”; Renny Harlin’s thriller “Deep Blue Sea”; “The Mod Squad,” teaming Claire Danes, Giovanni Ribisi and Omar Epps; the comedy “Mousehunt,” starring Nathan Lane and directed by Gore Verbinski; and “Empire Records,” starring Liv Tyler. He also served as an executive producer on “Duets,” directed by Bruce Paltrow and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Maria Bello and Paul Giamatti.

Before partnering with Ludwig, Riche was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Hughes Entertainment, filmmaker John Hughes’ production company. Previously he served as the Executive Vice President at TriStar Pictures, working on such films as “Hook,” “Sleepless in Seattle,” “The Fisher King” and “So I Married an Axe Murderer.” Earlier in his career, Riche held the posts of Senior Vice President of DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, supervising “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”; Executive Vice President at Guber/Peters Productions; and consultant to the film unit at Quincy Jones Entertainment.
TONY LUDWIG (Producer) partnered with Alan Riche to produce a wide range of films. His producing credits include the action comedy “Starsky & Hutch,” starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, under the direction of Todd Phillips; the comedy “Tomcats,” starring Jerry O’Connell; Brett Ratner’s holiday comedy/drama “The Family Man,” starring Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni; the horror thriller “Komodo,” starring Billy Burke; Renny Harlin’s thriller “Deep Blue Sea”; the actioner “The Mod Squad,” starring Claire Danes, Omar Epps, and Giovanni RIbisi; Gore Verbinski’s “Mousehunt,” starring Nathan Lane; and “Empire Records,” starring Liv Tyler.

In addition, Ludwig was an executive producer on “Bride Wars,” starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, and Bruce Paltrow’s “Duets,” starring Maria Bello, Paul Giamatti and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Ludwig is the former President of Interstar Releasing, which distributed the films “Highlander II: The Quickening,” “A Midnight Clear” and “Split Second.” Prior to that, Ludwig was President of Imagine Entertainment, where he supervised the production of Joe Dante’s “The `Burbs,” Ron Howard’s “Parenthood,” Howard Zieff’s “The Dream Team” and Oliver Stone’s “The Doors.”

Ludwig began his career at the William Morris Agency in 1966 and rose from the mailroom to become a literary agent. He went on to form the literary department at Creative Artists Agency. As an agent there, he was involved in setting up such films as “Stand by Me,” “Mr. Mom,” “This Is Spinal Tap,” “About Last Night,” “Lethal Weapon” and “Dragnet.”

Brewer's subsequent project, “Black Snake Moan,” starring Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, and Justin Timberlake, was released in 2007. In 2011, he wrote and directed a remake of the classic film “Footloose,” starring Julianne Hough, Kenny Wormald, Dennis Quaid, Andie MacDowell and Miles Teller.

For the small screen, Brewer directed the pilot for FX’s “Terriers,” starring Donal Logue and .Michael Raymond-James. He also helmed an episode of “Empire,” reuniting him with “Hustle & Flow” stars Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson.
ADAM COZAD (Screenplay / Story) made his screenwriting debut with the actioner “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner and Branagh.

Cozad grew up in Chico, California, and attended Trinity University in Texas, majoring in history and minoring in economics. While planning to enter the firefighter academy, he sold his first screenplay, which went on to become “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.”

Cozad has since adapted a number of novels for studios, including The New York Times bestseller Rules of Deception and the Patrick Lee novel Runner.
SUSAN EKINS (Executive Producer) worked with Jerry Weintraub for more than 30 years and has produced or executive produced more than 15 projects for film and television. She currently has several projects in the works with various studios.

She was an executive producer on the remake of “Ocean’s Eleven” and its sequels, “Ocean’s Twelve” and “Ocean’s Thirteen,” all directed by Steven Soderbergh and featuring all-star ensemble casts, led by George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle. Her credits as an executive producer also include the remake of “The Karate Kid”; “Nancy Drew”; “Soldier,” starring Kurt Russell; “The Avengers,” teaming Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman; and the comedy “Vegas Vacation,” starring Chevy Chase.

Her foray into television as a producer has been very successful, including Emmy and Golden Globe wins for the HBO movie “Behind the Candelabra,” starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, under Soderbergh’s direction. The film won an additional ten Emmys as well as the Golden Globe for Best Television Mini Series or Motion Picture. Her other credits include the HBO series “Westworld,” and “The Brink,” starring Jack Black and Tim Robbins.

Ekins began her association with Weintraub when she was hired to work on the first “Karate Kid” film. She earned her first producing credit as an associate producer on “The Karate Kid, Part II.” She went on to work as an associate producer on “Pure Country,” starring country legend George Strait; “The Next Karate Kid,” starring a young Hilary Swank; and “The Specialist,” starring Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone.

A native of Los Angeles, Ekins began her career working on “Tom Horn” and “The Hunter,” both starring Steve McQueen in his last film roles.
Nikolas Korda (Executive Producer) was an executive producer on James Gunn’s 2014 breakout summer blockbuster “Guardians of the Galaxy,” starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper. He is also serving as an executive producer on the sequel, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” due out in May 2017.

He was previously a co-producer on Ridley Scott’s “Robin Hood,” on which he also served as the unit production manager (UPM), and Chris Weitz’s “The Golden Compass.” As a UPM, his credits include Scott’s “Prometheus,” Jonathan Liebesman’s “Wrath of the Titans,” Tim Burton’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy. In 2004, Korda was part of the team that won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.”

He has also worked as an assistant director on such films as Burton’s “Batman,” Richard Attenborough’s “Cry Freedom” and Jim Henson’s “Labyrinth.”
KEITH GOLDBERG (Executive Producer) is Senior Vice President of Dark Horse Entertainment, where he oversees the development and production of all Dark Horse properties for entertainment.

Goldberg was recently an executive producer on “R.I.P.D.,” starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds. Before that, he spent seven years at New Line Cinema, most recently as Vice President of Production and Development. During his tenure, he served as executive producer on “17 Again,” starring Zac Efron; “Rendition,” starring Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep and Jake Gyllenhaal; “Cellular,” starring Chris Evans; and “The Number 23,” starring Jim Carrey.

He is also an executive producer on the TV show “Dark Matter,” on Syfy, and was consulting producer for the pilot “12 Monkeys,” also on Syfy.

Prior to New Line, Goldberg spent two years working at Destination Films as an assistant and story editor.

Richardson owns a successful pop culture retail chain, Things From Another World, stretching from Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles to his hometown in Milwaukie, Oregon.

His recent ventures include Dark Horse Digital; a book-publishing imprint, M Press; a toy division, Dark Horse Deluxe; and an award-winning website, TFAW.com. Richardson’s writing credits include numerous graphic novels and comics series, including Atomic Legion, 47 Ronin, Star Wars: Crimson Empire and The Secret, as well as Comics Between the Panels and Blast Off, two critically acclaimed books about pop culture.
BRUCE BERMAN (Executive Producer) is Chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures. The company has successful joint partnerships with Warner Bros. Pictures and Sony Pictures to co-produce a wide range of motion pictures, with all films distributed in select territories around the world by affiliates in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore and in all other territories by Warner Bros. Pictures and Sony Pictures, respectively.

Under the Village Roadshow Pictures banner, Berman has executive produced such recent hits as George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road,” starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron; “San Andreas,” starring Dwayne Johnson; Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper,” starring Bradley Cooper; and “The LEGO^® Movie,” directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

His upcoming projects include Clint Eastwood’s “Sully” starring Tom Hanks as Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger; a new King Arthur adventure, directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Charlie Hunnam and Jude Law; and Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One,” based on the bestselling book by Ernest Cline.

Berman has also served as executive producer on such films as Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio; Guy Ritchie’s hit action adventure “Sherlock Holmes,” starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, and its sequel, “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows”; the acclaimed drama “Gran Torino,” directed by and starring Clint Eastwood; “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions”; Eastwood’s “Mystic River,” starring Sean Penn and Tim Robbins in Oscar-winning performances; the “Ocean’s” Trilogy, with all-star casts, led by George Clooney and Brad Pitt; and “Training Day,” for which Denzel Washington won an Oscar.

The initial slate of films under the partnership with Warner Bros. included such hits as “Practical Magic,” starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman; “Analyze This,” teaming Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal; “The Matrix,” starring Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne; “Three Kings,” starring Clooney; “Space Cowboys,” directed by and starring Clint Eastwood; and “Miss Congeniality,” starring Bullock and Benjamin Bratt.

Berman got his start in the motion picture business working with Jack Valenti at the MPAA while attending Georgetown Law School in Washington, DC. After earning his law degree, he landed a job at Casablanca Films in 1978 and worked his way up to a production Vice President at Universal Pictures in 1982.

In 1984, Berman joined Warner Bros. as a production Vice President, and was promoted to Senior Vice President of Production four years later. He was appointed President of Theatrical Production in September 1989, and in 1991 was named to the post of President of Worldwide Theatrical Production, which he held through May 1996. Under his aegis, Warner Bros. Pictures produced and distributed such films as “Presumed Innocent,” “GoodFellas,” “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” the Oscar-winning Best Picture “Driving Miss Daisy,” “Batman Forever,” “Under Siege,” “Malcolm X,” “The Bodyguard,” “JFK,” “The Fugitive,” “Dave,” “Disclosure,” “The Pelican Brief,” “Outbreak,” “The Client,” “A Time to Kill,” and “Twister.”

In May of 1996, Berman started Plan B Entertainment, an independent motion picture company at Warner Bros. Pictures. He was named Chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures in February 1998.

He previously won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography, as well as a BAFTA TV nomination for Best Cinematography, for the television movie “Shackelton,” starring Kenneth Branagh.

His previous motion picture credits include the Kirk Jones-directed films “Everybody’s Fine,” starring Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell; “Nanny McPhee,” written by and starring Emma Thompson; and “Waking Ned Devine.” He has also lensed such films as Chris Weitz’s “The Golden Compass,” starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig; “Flyboys,” starring James Franco; Stephen Fry’s “Bright Young Things”; “The Land Girls”; and “Shooting Fish.” He has also worked on a number of short films, including cinematography for filmmaker Neil Gaiman, among others.

Braham has also had an award-winning career in fashion, including cinematography for Mario Testino and Nick Knight, as well as commercials, music videos and documentaries.

He won his first Academy Award for his work on Richard Attenborough’s acclaimed biopic “Gandhi.” He subsequently won Oscars for his production design work on Stephen Frears’ “Dangerous Liaisons” and Anthony Minghella’s “The English Patient,” also winning an Art Directors Guild Award for the latter.

He has also received seven more Oscar nominations, including four for his work on “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” for which he won a BAFTA Award, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1” and, most recently, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2,” also winning an Art Directors Guild Award for the last. Additionally, Craig garnered BAFTA Award nominations for seven other Harry Potter movies, including “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.” In addition, he was Oscar-nominated for his production designs for David Lynch’s “The Elephant Man,” for which he also won his first BAFTA Award; Roland Joffe’s “The Mission”; and Attenborough’s “Chaplin.” Craig was also recognized with BAFTA Award nominations for all of those films, as well as Hugh Hudson’s “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes.”

In 2012, he was honored by the Art Directors Guild with a Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award for his work on all of the Harry Potter films.

Craig had a long creative partnership with Richard Attenborough, with whom he first worked as an art director on “A Bridge Too Far.” Craig went on to serve as the production designer on Attenborough’s “Cry Freedom,” “Shadowlands” and “In Love and War,” in addition to the director’s aforementioned films.

His other film credits as a production designer include Michael Hoffman’s “Gambit,” Robert Redford’s “The Legend of Bagger Vance,” Roger Michell’s “Notting Hill,” Jeremiah Chechik’s “The Avengers,” Stephen Frears’ “Mary Reilly,” Agnieszka Holland’s “The Secret Garden,” Michael Caton-Jones’ “Memphis Belle” and Pat O’Connor’s “Cal.” Earlier in his career, Craig served as art director on Richard Donner’s “Superman.”

An award-winning editor, Day won a BAFTA Award and also earned a nomination for a Royal Television Society (RTS) Award for his collaboration with Yates on the 2003 miniseries “State of Play.” The following year, Day won a BAFTA TV Award and an RTS Award for Best Editor for his work on the Yates-directed telefilm “Sex Traffic.” Day’s work with Yates has also brought him RTS and BAFTA Award nominations for the miniseries “The Way We Live Now,” another RTS Award nomination for the telefilm “The Young Visiters,” and an Emmy Award nomination for the television movie “The Girl in the Cafe.” Day has also worked with Yates on the miniseries “The Sins” and the short film “Rank.”

Day’s more recent credits include Alex Garland’s “Ex Machina,” Richard Curtis’s “About Time,” and Robert Redford’s “The Company You Keep.”

He has also had multiple collaborations with other directors, including David Blair on the feature “Mystics,” and the television projects “Anna Karenina,” “Split Second” and “Donovan Quick”; Paul Greengrass on the feature “The Theory of Flight” and the television movie “The Fix”; and John Schlesinger on the telefilms “The Tale of Sweeney Todd,” “Cold Comfort Farm” and “A Question of Attribution.”

Day’s additional television credits include such longform projects as Julian Farino’s “Flesh and Blood,” Paul Seed’s “Murder Rooms,” Richard Eyre’s “Suddenly Last Summer,” and Jack Clayton’s “Memento Mori,” for which he was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award.
RUTH MYERS (Costume Designer) has earned two Academy Award nominations for Best Costume Design: in 1992 for her work on Barry Sonnenfeld’s fantasy comedy “The Addams Family”; and in 1997 for Doug McGrath’s 19^th-century comedy “Emma,” based on the Jane Austen novel. She has also received two BAFTA Award nominations for her costume designs, the first for Karel Reisz’s 1968 Isadora Duncan biopic, “Isadora,” and another, in 1998, for Curtis Hanson’s 1950s-set crime drama “L.A. Confidential.”

In 2004, she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Series, as well as the Costume Designers Guild (CDG) Award for Excellence in Television, for her work on HBO’s “Carnivàle.” She won the CDG Award for Excellence in Costume Design for Film for her work on the 2007 fantasy feature film “The Golden Compass.” In 2008, the CDG presented Myers with their Lifetime Achievement Award.

Myers began her career at London’s Royal Court, and then worked on many classic films in England as assistant to the legendary Sophie Devine. In 1967, she began working as a costume designer in her own right on UK-based films, including “A Touch of Class” and “The Ruling Class.” Persuaded by Gene Wilder to move to America, she collaborated with the director on “The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother,” “The World’s Greatest Lover,” “The Woman in Red” and “Haunted Honeymoon.”

Her career spans 50 years and encompasses more than 80 films, working with many noted directors. Just a portion of her credits includes Mel Brooks’ “The Twelve Chairs,” Richard Attenborough’s “Magic,” Norman Jewison’s “…and justice for all,” Ken Russell’s “Altered States,” Arthur Hiller’s “Teachers,” Lawrence Kasdan’s “The Accidental Tourist,” Carl Reiner’s “Bert Rigby, You’re a Fool,” Sydney Pollack’s “The Firm,” Taylor Hackford’s “Proof of Life,” Richard Eyre’s “Iris,” Kevin Spacey’s “Beyond the Sea,” Douglas McGrath’s “Infamous,” John Curran’s “The Painted Veil,” Ricky Gervais’s “Cemetery Junction,” Jaume Collet-Serra’s “Unknown,” Terence Davies’ “The Deep Blue Sea,” and Mark Waters’ “Vampire Academy.”

On the small screen, she designed for the pilot episode of the hit HBO series “Big Love,” and, more recently, the HBO film “Hemingway & Gellhorn,” directed by Philip Kaufmann and starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman in the title roles.
RUPERT GREGSON-WILLIAMS (Composer) is an award-winning film composer who has created the scores for a wide range of film and television projects.

Gregson-Williams won a European Film Award for his score for the acclaimed drama “Hotel Rwanda.” His other credits include Akiva Goldsman’s directorial debut, “Winter’s Tale” (with Hans Zimmer); “Zookeeper”; “The Maiden Heist”; “Made of Honor”; and “Love + Hate,” for which he earned a Reims International Composer Award. He also composed the scores for the animated features “Over the Hedge” and “Bee Movie,” receiving an Annie Award nomination for the latter.

He has had a long association with Adam Sandler, and has composed the scores for most of his movies over the last 10 years, including “Click,” “Bedtime Stories,” “Grown Ups,” “Just Go With It,” “Here Comes the Boom,” “Blended” and, most recently, “The Do-Over.”

In addition, Gregson-Williams has written music for the small screen, recently including the award-winning HBO series “Veep.” He previously received an Emmy nomination for the 2002 telefilm “Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story.” His other television credits include “Agatha Raisin: The Quiche of Death,” “The Prisoner” and “The Last Detective.”

Educated at St. John’s College choir school in Cambridge and at Lancing College, Gregson-Williams honed his craft as a film composer as a former member of Hans Zimmer’s Media Ventures team of composers.
TIM BURKE (Visual Effects Supervisor) is an Academy Award-winning visual effects artist. He has also earned three more Oscar nominations for the visual effects on the Harry Potter films “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2,” for which he won a BAFTA Award. He also received BAFTA Award nominations as a visual effects supervisor on “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.” In addition, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” won the Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Motion Picture. Burke joined the franchise as one of the visual effects supervisors on “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” and also held the post on “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.”

He most recently returned to the wizarding world as the visual effects supervisor on David Yates’ “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” due out this fall.

Burke won his Academy Award, and received his first BAFTA Award nomination, as a member of the visual effects team on Ridley Scott’s Oscar-winning Best Picture, “Gladiator.” He also collaborated with Scott as the visual effects supervisor on “Black Hawk Down” and “Hannibal.”

Burke also served as the visual effects supervisor on “A Knight’s Tale” and was the digital effects supervisor on “Enemy of the State.” His other credits include the films “Babe: Pig in the City” and “Still Crazy,” and the television movies “Merlin” and “The Mill on the Floss.” Prior to segueing to the film industry, Burke worked for 10 years creating visual effects for television and commercials.