News
Judd Apatow
Is producing the comedy Year One for Columbia.
Gregg Araki '85
Will be jury chief of the cutting edge Venice Horizons section.
John August '94
Will direct The Nines.
Angela Bromstad '81
Is expected to take a new job heading an international unit for NBC Universal.
Stephen Chbosky '92
Is part of a newly formed cooperative venture that will target the passion projects of major stars in an effort to give both scribes and thesps more control over the creative process.
Scott Clements '93
Served as visual effects assistant on sci-fi film Jumper; developing The Scarlet Avenger into a feature film that he'll also direct.
Aurelio De Laurentiis
Will fund the $100,000 prize, in memory of his father Luigi De Laurentiis. The prize will be split between the helmer and producer winner of The Venice Film Festival.
Susan Downey
Will produce RocknRolla.
Frank Flowers '01
Will write and possibly direct 20th Century Fox and New Regency's remake Taps.
Dana Fox '94
Wrote 20th Century Fox's What Happens in Vegas.
Scott Goldman '93
Recently created the end main title Kazakh Anthem for Fox's Borat.
Gordon Gray '86
Will be producing Disney's untitled life story of Penny Chenery, owner of 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat.
Taylor Hackford '68
Will direct Beacon Pictures' and Disney's Good Luck, Mr. Anthony.
Ken Kwapis '82
Will direct Walden Media's untitled teen mayor comedy.
Nolan Lebovitz '01
Wrote and will direct Tortured for Five Star Pictures, Insight Film Studios and Proud Mary Entertainment.
Shawn Levy '94
Will begin lensing coming-of-age dramedy A Way Back for Fox Searchlight in the summer of 2007.
George Lucas '66
Will oversee and commission a slate of documentaries that are apart of the digital programming, which The History Channel has greenlit and acquired.
Paul Maibaum '75
Will be the director of photography on ABC/Touchstone's Sam I Am.
Bill Mechanic '79
Will head the jury of The Venice Film Festival's Lion of the Future prize for first-time filmmakers.
Neal Moritz '85
Has paired with Columbia Pictures to bring The Ark, the tale marring the story of Noah's Ark with a UFO crash, to the big screen; will develop a pitch by Sarah Thorp for Columbia Pictures, will produce Made of Honor for Columbia Pictures, Evan Almighty for Universal Pictures and I Am Legend for Warner Brothers.
Don Murphy '88
Of Angry Films, will produce a big-screen version of Second Sight a 1999 BBC miniseries about a detective struggling to solve a murder before he goes blind.
Ruvin Orbach
Sold the comedies Great Sex and How to Catch A Gangster and sold his film Lucky Man for U.S. distribution to Echelon Studios.
Jason Reitman '99
Will produce the screenplay The Ornate Anatomy of Living Things for Fox Searchlight.
Howard Rodman
Is part of a newly formed cooperative venture that will target the passion projects of major stars in an effort to give both scribes and thesps more control over the creative process.
Thomas Schlamme
Will direct and executive produce the pilot for ABC drama Life on Mars.
Matthew Spicer '06
Wrote the screenplay The Ornate Anatomy of Living Things for Fox Searchlight.
Max Winkler '06
Wrote the screenplay The Ornate Anatomy of Living Things for Fox Searchlight.
Films and TV Shows
Kickin' It Old School
Trace Slobotkin, Screenplay.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, John Knoll, Visual Effects Supervisor.
The 11th Hour
D.M. Hemphill, Re- recording Mixer.
The Invisible
Jonathan Glickman, Producer;
David S. Goyer, Director.
Aliens in America
Tim Doyle, Executive Producer;
Luke Greenfield, Director.
Big Shots
Charles McDougall, Director.
Canterbury's Law
Dave Erickson, Writer.
Chuck
Josh Schwartz, Executive Producer;
Chris Fedak, Writer.
Dirty Sexy Money
Bryan Singer, Director.
Gossip Girl
Josh Schwartz, Executive Producer.
On the Lot
Andrew Frank, Supervising Producer.
Private Practice
Shonda Rhimes, Executive Producer.
Pushing Daisies
Chad Gomez Creasey, Story Editor;
Dara Resnik Creasey, Story Editor.
Sarah Connor Chronicles
Josh Friedman, Executive Producer.
Reaper
Tom Spezialy, Executive Producer.