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Brian Robbins (Director) most recently directed the breakout hit film "Varsity Blues," starring James Van Der Beek and Jon Voight. He previously directed the family comedy "Good Burger" for Paramount Pictures in 1997, having previously made his feature debut with "The Show," a real-life drama and concert film featuring hip-hop artists.

In 1993, while producing the award-winning film "Hardwood Dreams," he partnered with its director, Mike Tollin, to form their production company, Tollin/Robbins Productions. Robbins is a co-creator and executive producer on Nickelodeon's hit shows "All That," "Kenen & Kel" and "Cousin Skeeter." He served as a co-writer and director on the DGA and CableACE Award-winning Nickelodeon show "Sports Theater With Shaquille O'Neal" and is also an executive producer of the successful HBO comedy "Arli$$" and of the new WB series, "Popular."

Robbins also starred for five seasons on the hit ABC sitcom "Head of the Class."
 
Over the past ten years, partners Bobby Newmyer (Producer) and Jeffrey Silver (Producer) have produced numerous of independent and major studio releases.

Under their Outlaw Productions banner, Newmyer and Silver produced Steven Soderbergh’s "sex, lies and videotape," winner of the 1989 Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or Award, the box office hit "The Santa Clause," starring Tim Allen, "Don Juan DeMarco" with Marlon Brando and Johnny Depp and "Addicted to Love," starring Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick. Other releases include "Crossing the Bridge" and "Indian Summer," both written and directed by Mike Binder, "Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead," starring Christina Appelgate, and, most recently, "Three to Tango" starring Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell and Oliver Platt. Soon to be released is "Gossip", a Warner Bros. feature directed by Davis Guggenheim.
 
Steven Reuther (Executive Producer), while President of New Regency Films, produced "The Client," "Sommersby," "Under Siege" and "That Night," and received executive producer credit on "Made in America," "Mambo Kings," "The Power of One," "Boys on the Side" and "Guilty By Suspicion." Reuther also produced "Pretty Woman," the top-grossing hit of 1990, which starred Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.

Reuther began his career as an agent for William Morris before joining Galactic Films as vice-president of production, working on the feature "9-1/2 Weeks." He moved to RKO Pictures as vice-president of production and was involved with "Plenty" and "Hamburger Hill" while managing Cherubusco Studios in Mexico City and supervising RKO financing and distribution deals.

Moving to Vestron, Reuther executive produced numerous features including the box office smash "Dirty Dancing," "The Promised Land," "Love Hurts," and "Backtrack."

In 1992 Reuther left New Regency Productions and formed Douglas/Reuther Productions in partnership with Michael Douglas. In 1998, he participated in the formation of Bel Air Entertainment. The company plans to finance or co-finance and distribute four to six films per year for the next five years.

Most recently Reuther produced "The Rainmaker," starring Matt Damon, and shared executive producer credit with Michael Douglas on "Face/Off." He is also the producer of the forthcoming comedy "Chain of Fools," starring Steve Zahn, Salma Hayek and Jeff Goldblum.
 
Mike Tollin (Executive Producer) is currently making his feature film directorial debut on the Warner Bros. Pictures film "Summer Catch," starring Freddie Prinze, Jr.

An Academy Award nominee and Peabody Award winner for his documentary "Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream," he also directed the award-winning film "Hardwood Dreams," narrated by Wesley Snipes. He served as producer on "The Show" and "Good Burger" and the hit film "Varsity Blues," both directed by his partner, Brian Robbins.

Tollin has been honored with three Emmy Awards as a producer and director. He also currently serves as an executive producer of the HBO comedy "Arli$$" and as executive producer and co-creator of Nickelodeon's hit shows "All That," "Kenan & Kel" and "Cousin Skeeter."

A founding board member of Children Now, Tollin has a well-established track record of working to positively influence young children's lives. It is no surprise that he and Brian Robbins have made youth-oriented programming a primary focus.
 
A native of Utica, New York, Steven Brill (Screenplay) studied film, theater and acting at Boston University’s Film School.

An actor as well as a successful screenwriter, Brill scripted "The Mighty Ducks," which starred Emilio Estevez as coach of a pee-wee hockey team. Brill next wrote and executive produced the 1995 sequel, D2: The Mighty Ducks Are Back" and, in 1997, "D3: The Mighty Ducks." 1995 also saw Brill’s motion picture directorial debut with the Disney film "Heavyweights," a comedy about a group of kids at a weight loss summer camp, which he co-wrote with Judd Apatow.

Aside from writing and directing, Brill has kept busy as an actor on such diverse films as "sex, lies & videotape," "Postcards From the Edge," "Edward Scissorhands," "Batman Returns," "The Mighty Ducks," "When A Man Loves A Woman," "The Wedding Singer" and "Big Daddy."

Brill’s latest project, "Late Last Night," which he wrote and directed, debuted at the 1998 AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival. He most recently directed Adam Sandler's next film, "Little Nicky," which just wrapped.
 
J. Clark Mathis (Director of Photography) is currently the cinematographer on the Warner Bros. television pilot "Sullivan St.," and the upcoming feature "Learning Curve," directed by Brian Robbins. His previous collaborations with Robbins include the pilot for "Popular" and the DGA Award-winning drama "First Time." He has photographed the television series "Cousin Skeeter," as well as numerous commercials and music videos.
 
Ned Bastille (Editor) has been working in film since childhood and majored in painting and film at Rhode Island School of Design.

After an early career as a television news cameraman, then as a location film sound mixer, Bastille settled in New York as a film editor working initially on documentaries, then dramas. Some of his feature credits include "Looking for Richard," directed by Al Pacino, and "AFT," directed by Dean Parisot.

His association with director Brian Robbins includes the award-winning project for Nickelodeon entitled "Four Points," the hit film "Varsity Blues," and the TV show "Popular."
 
Jaymes Hinkle (Production Designer), a native Texan from Houston, worked as a graphic and scenic artist on staff at Paramount in the 1970s, working on such projects as "Chinatown," "Heaven Can Wait," "Day of the Locusts" and "Godfather II."

As an independent art director and production designer, Hinkle has worked on a number of films including "A Texas Funeral," "Man's Best Friend," "National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon," "Passenger 57," "Ricochet" and "Die Hard II." He reunites with director Brian Robbins, with whom he worked on "Varsity Blues."

In addition to feature films, Hinkle has worked on many commercial and music videos for artists such as Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston and Boys II Men.
 
Carol Ramsey (Costume Designer) holds an undergraduate degree in piano from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and a graduate degree in harpsichord from the New England Conservatory of Music.

Ramsey got her professional start with the Boston Shakespeare Company. She continued to work in theatre while working with her husband, a documentary filmmaker, as a sound recordist and editor.

Her first work in entertainment television was as the costume designer on "Three Sovereigns for Sarah," starring Vanessa Redgrave, for American Playhouse. She followed with the CBS movie for television, "A Case of Deadly Force." Ramsey moved into costume design for films with "Slaves of New York" and continued with "King of New York," "Mr. & Mrs. Bridge," with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead," "The Santa Clause," with Tim Allen, "Crossing The Bridge," "That Night," "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story."

She most recently designed costumes for the films "A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries," "Jungle2Jungle" and "Surviving Picasso," starring Anthony Hopkins.

Ramsey is currently the costume designer on The WB's hit series "Popular."
 
George S. Clinton (Music) was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and began his professional career in Nashville, where he wrote songs and did session work while earning degrees in both music and drama from Middle Tennessee State University. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles, formed the acclaimed but short-lived George Clinton Band, and signed a songwriter deal at Warner Bros. Music. At Warner, Clinton had songs recorded by Michael Jackson, Joe Cocker, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson, The Jackson Five, Bobby Darin and others. He also studied acting and appeared in the Broadway production of "Pump Boys and Dinettes" with Maria Muldaur, Shawn Colvin and Tom Chapin.

Clinton's recent film scores include the hit comedy "Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery" and its blockbuster sequel, "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me." His first film scores were for the Cheech and Chong movies "Still Smokin'" and "The Corsican Brothers," but he first entered public consciousness in 1992 as the result of his association with Zalman King on the features "Wild Orchid 2" and "Delta of Venus," as well as the Showtime TV anthology "The Red Shoe Diaries," narrated by David Duchovny. Since then, Clinton has composed music for a number of successful films, including "Mortal Kombat," "The Viking Sagas," "Beyond the Call," "Beverly Hills Ninja," the action thriller "Black Dog" and the thriller "Wild Things." He most recently composed the thriller "The Astronaut's Wife" and the acclaimed telefilm "Lansky." His other works include two musicals for theatre, "Smoky Mountain Suite" and "Spirit of the Mountain," both of which were commissioned by the Cumberland County Playhouse near his hometown.

Clinton currently resides in Tarzana, California, with his wife Charlotte and daughter Jessica.
 
Chris "Kanyon" Klucsarits (Wrestling Coordinator) is quickly conquering the film world as he conquered the world of wrestling. In the past year, he served as wrestling coordinator/choreographer for the following, in which he also appeared: the NBC TV movie "The Jesse Ventura Story," an episode of HBO's "Arli$$," and Bif Naked's music video for "We're Not Gonna Take It." A former masked wrestler and member of both The Triad and The Flock, Kanyon was considered one of the most dedicated and innovative professionals in the sport.

Kanyon represents one of the most learned and agile heavyweights in WCW. Besides his natural strength and balance, Kanyon relies on a plethora of original holds that most wrestlers have never encountered. One of his most notorious holds is the That's a Wrap finisher — a reverse Russian Leg Sweep that makes his opponents see stars of the unconscious variety.
 
Joel J. Kramer (Stunt Coordinator) worked on the recent comedy release "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas." As stunt coordinator, his feature film credits include the critically acclaimed "The Insider," as well as "The Siege," "Jingle All The Way," "Eraser," "Terminator II: Judgment Day" "True Lies," "Kindergarten Cop," "Total Recall," "Ghostbusters II," "Twins" and "The Running Man," among many others. In addition to being stunt coordinator, Kramer served as second unit director on "The Negotiator," "Father's Day" and "Heat." He also coordinated stunts for the Terminator II-3D, the ride on the Universal Studios Tour, and for a number of popular television series including the long-running "Knots Landing" and "Love Boat."

As a stunt player, Kramer's prolific and wide-ranging work in both features and television includes the films "Lethal Weapon 3," "Conair," "Back to the Future," "Patriot Games," "The Predator," "Action Jackson," "Total Recall," "Fire Down Below" and "The Bodyguard"; and the television series "Matlock," "Knight Rider," "Baywatch," "The A-Team," "The Fall Guy" and "MacGyver."


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