Executive tapped for have launching tentpoles
David Dobkin has tapped longtime production eXEC Jeff Kleeman to run his Warner Bros.-based Big Kid Pictures shingle.
Dobkin chose Kleeman for the post because of the executive's receive in launching tentpoles, as well as his experience writing and creating funniness. Kleeman will help develop features of the tentpole, comedy and animated variety, as advantageously as telecasting projects.
Kleeman comes to Big Kid from MGM/UA, where he held was eXEC vp movement picture yield since September. That was actually Kleeman's second stint at MGM/UA. He beginning joined the company in 1993 and was responsible for overseeing a new phase of the James Bond dealership with "GoldenEye," "Tomorrow Never Dies" and "The World Is Not Enough." He also oversaw the development and production of "Rob Roy," "Hackers" and "The Thomas Crown Affair."
Kleeman began his career in 1987 as a production exec at Paramount, working on such movies as "Internal Affairs," "The Hunt for Red October" and "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country." He likewise did a stint at Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope, where as vp production he worked on "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" and "Haunted" and on the TV miniseries "Titanic" and "Kidnapped."
Prior to reverting to MGM/UA in 2007, Kleeman created, wrote and served as showrunner on "Misconceptions," a multicamera situation comedy from the WB and Imagine Television.
Big Kid has a three-year, first-look deal with Warners and produced, along with Silver Pictures, the Dobkin-directed clowning "Fred Claus." The company's current development slate includes "Skulduggery Pleasant," "Fratboy" and "Cecelia," from writers Judd Apatow and Lew Morton.
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Friday 29 August 2008
Tuesday 19 August 2008
Lennon's killer Chapman is denied parole
John Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman has been denied parole for a fifth time.
The New York State Division of Parole aforementioned in a statement that the 53-year-old's request for parole was denied "due to care for the public safety device and welfare".
Chapman is currently service of process a sentence of 20 years to life for shooting and killing Lennon as he arrived at his flat in New York on 8 December, 1980.
The control panel said: "Your conduct thusly precipitated a horrendously tragic event which has wedged many individuals.
"Your discretionary press release at this time would thus non be compatible with the welfare of society at large, and would tend to vilipend the earnestness of the instant offense, and undermine respect for the law."
According to Reuters, Heather Groll, spokesperson for the New York State Division of Parole, aforesaid the plank received a petition with about 1,100 signatures and close to 50 letters opposing Chapman's release and three letters supporting his release.
Chapman, wHO was as well denied parole in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006, may apply for parole again in 2010.
Erik Kriss, spokesman for the New York State Department of Correctional Services, said that Chapman was being held in a special quarantined housing unit away from the general prison population because of fears for his safety.
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Saturday 9 August 2008
Joi
Artist: Joi
Genre(s):
Techno
Discography:
We Are Three
Year: 2000
Tracks: 9
One and One is One
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Joi Gilliam possesses extensive grooming in respective humanitarian discipline, including dance, theatre of operations, painting, and poetry, as comfortably as music. After falling out of college in order to invalidate social ossification, she bounced round the country for several old age piece of writing poetry and take care for a book take. The wield finally materialized when she met producer Dallas Austin, wHO had worked with such artists as TLC, Boyz II Men, and Another Bad Creation. Her debut album, 1994's The Pendulum Vibe, reflects her admiration for the retro sounds of Lenny Kravitz; Amoeba Cleansing Syndrome followed in 1996.
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