People Behind Love Happens

He also helped adapt the RoboCop franchise for television and produced Robocop: The Series, for worldwide syndication. He produced three seasons of the popular reality series Top Cops for CBS, and three seasons of the now-cult classic Friday the 13th: The Series for Paramount Television.  The episodes of these series that Dale produced and directed scored numerous Gemini, Emmy, Peabody and other awards and nominations.

Dale also produced several dramatic pilots for ABC, CBS and NBC, and was the production supervisor on Daniel Petrie’s The Execution of Raymond Graham, ABC’s live-to-air two-hour Sunday night movie that examined both sides of the capital punishment issue, and starred Morgan Freeman, Jeff Fahey and Laurie Metcalf.

Dale’s introduction to the entertainment business came early in life when he tagged along to sets with his father, James Dale, who worked as the musical director on such groundbreaking television variety shows as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and The Sonny and Cher Show. 
He is currently writing his first feature, Stolen Fire, which he also plans to direct.

- Rick Solomon (Executive Producer) is currently president of Stuber Productions, a Universal Studios-based production company.  The company has produced such films as Role Models; Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins; The Break-Up; You, Me and Dupree; The Kingdom; and many others.

Prior to joining the company, Solomon served as president of The Bedford Falls Company, where he functioned as a producing partner to Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.  During his tenure, the company produced and released such films as Shakespeare in Love, The Siege and Dangerous Beauty. 

Solomon served as an executive producer on the highly successful, multiple Academy Award®-nominated film The Last Samurai and the Academy Award®-winning Traffic, while producing the very successful New Line Cinema release I Am Sam, starring Sean Penn (Oscar®-nominated for Best Actor), Michelle Pfeiffer and Dakota Fanning. 

Solomon was the first recipient of the prestigious Producers Guild of America’s Stanley Kramer Award for socially conscious filmmaking, for his work on I Am Sam. 
  
- Ryan Kavanaugh (Executive Producer) is a principal of Relativity Media, LLC, a self-sustaining media company engaged in the business of developing, creating and acquiring content and content-related assets.

Kavanaugh created business and financial structures for a number of studios, production companies and producers, and has introduced more than $10 billion of capital to these structures since moving from venture and private equity to entertainment industry transactions, including Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., Marvel and many others.

In 2008, Relativity Media finalized its acquisition of Rogue Pictures from Universal. The purchase of Rogue, a company that specializes in the production and distribution of lower-budget films, includes the label’s entire library of films, as well as producing deals and more than 30 projects currently in development. 

Rogue has had particular success within the horror genre; the first Rogue release under Relativity’s ownership was The Unborn, starring Gary Oldman, Cam Gigandet, Odette Yustman and Idris Elba. 

The Unborn grossed more than $19 million at the box office opening weekend and has earned nearly $60 million to date.  The Last House on the Left, based on a Wes Craven film, opened to $15 million at the box office and Fighting, starring Channing Tatum and Terrence Howard, grossed a strong $11.5 million opening weekend. 

Additionally, Relativity Media recently launched Rogue as an overall lifestyle brand to include a clothing line, a social networking platform and a music label.

In a significant milestone for the entertainment finance industry, Kavanaugh created a wholly owned subsidiary, Relativity Media Holdings, which has concluded an agreement with Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking on a co-financing package for approximately 45 studio films for the next five years. 

With this deal, Relativity will co-invest in approximately seventy-five percent of Columbia Pictures’ films, under a five-year revolving credit facility.

- Eric Edwards (Director of Photography) has been behind the camera on more than 30 films, starting with director Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho, for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Cinematography.

Edwards continued to do independent films including Van Sant’s Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and To Die For, starring Nicole Kidman; director Larry Clark’s first feature effort, the highly controversial Kids; James Mangold’s Cop Land, starring Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta; and David Dobkin’s Clay Pigeons, starring Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix.

As Edwards’ work became known, he mixed in such studio films as The Break-Up, starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn, and Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up, starring Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl.  Recently, Aniston remained in front of Edwards’ lens in Management, which also starred Steve Zahn.

Edwards continued to shoot such visual films as The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, directed by and starring Asia Argento, and Fragments, starring Forest Whitaker and Dakota Fanning.
Edwards recently wrapped Couples Retreat, which sent him to Bora Bora to shoot Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Kristen Bell and Jason Bateman.

- Sharon Seymour (Production Designer) most recently designed Overture Films’ The Men Who Stare at Goats and Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone.  Other credits include Friday Night Lights, Bad Santa, The Truth About Cats & Dogs and Don Juan DeMarco.

Seymour began her career working in theater.  After graduating from Ithaca College, she moved to New York City.  A job on George Romero’s Creepshow led her to Los Angeles and a master’s degree in production design from the American Film Institute.  Her design career started with The Ben Stiller Show, followed by Reality Bites and The Cable Guy.

Love Happens is released 9th October.

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