People Behind Love Happens
02 October 2009
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Ok so we all know that Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart are the faces of the new romantic comedy Love Happens but what about those behind the picture?
So to celebrate the release of the movie we take a look at the crew that helped get Love Happens to the big screen beginning with director Brandon Camp.
- Brandon Camp (Written by/Directed by) is currently producing his thriller script Choose and will next direct Relativity, for Walden Media and 20th Century Fox. Lensing is scheduled to begin in the fall of this year.
Camp has written scripts for Disney, Paramount Pictures, MGM and Warner Bros., among others, including the supernatural drama Dragonfly. He was a co-creator, writer and executive producer of the FOX television series John Doe, and he also produced A Lawyer Walks Into a Bar, a film about law, lawyers and litigiousness.
Camp also creates and directs commercial spots and branded entertainment. His latest is a short-film collaboration with Independent Media for Liberty Mutual’s The Responsibility Project.
Camp grew up in Dallas but was born and raised in the 'industry': his father, Joe Camp, created, wrote and directed the numerous Benji movies and television shows.
Camp currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is repped by David Kramer and Jason Burns at UTA and Karl Austen at Jackoway/Tyerman. He likes bicycles, dogs, his Kindle and, most especially, his two rugrats.
- Mike Thompson (Written by/Produced by) has sold more than a dozen screenplays and pitches to nearly every Hollywood studio.
His film credits include the South by Southwest Film Festival selection and AFI Award-winning A Lawyer Walks Into a Bar, which he executive produced; multi-award winner The King of Kong, in which he appears; Dragonfly, starring Kevin Costner and Kathy Bates, which he co-wrote; and the recently completed Choose, which he co-wrote and produced. Thompson also co-created and executive produced the FOX television series John Doe, starring Dominic Purcell.
- In March 2008, producer Scott Stuber (Produced by) transitioned the company he founded with Mary Parent into Stuber Productions. This producing agreement with Universal Pictures began in 2006, after he left his post as the studio’s vice chairman of worldwide production.
Prior to that, Stuber had served as president of production since February 2001, having joined Universal Pictures as senior vice president of production in August 1997. Now, Stuber solely runs the company, Stuber Productions.
As a producer, Stuber has put together a prolific and varied slate of films that includes tent-pole comedies, star-driven dramas and thrillers, as well as high-profile books and original scripts by established and visionary writers. Stuber Productions has development and production deals with the industry’s foremost directors, writers and actors.
This October, Universal will release Couples Retreat, which stars Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau who also penned the script and Jason Bateman, and in February 2010, the studio will release The Wolfman, directed by Joe Johnston and starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt.
Also slated for a 2010 release is the sci-fi thriller Repo Men, starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker, and directed by Miguel Sapochnik; and Your Highness, from the comedic team of Danny McBride and Ben Best, directed by David Gordon Green and starring McBride, James Franco and Natalie Portman.
Upcoming projects in various stages of production include Love and Other Drugs, based on Jamie Reidy’s book Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman, about the behind-the-scenes look at Pfizer and the launching of its most popular drug, to be directed by Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond) and starring Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal; the epic period film 47 Ronin, written by Chris Morgan (Wanted) and starring Keanu Reeves; the film adaptation of the hugely popular EA videogame Army of Two, to be written by Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum, The Informant!); Moby Dick, a reimagining of the Herman Melville whale tale that Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) will direct; and the time-travel thriller Archive, penned by playwright David Auburn and to be directed by James Mangold.
- J. Miles Dale (Executive Producer) most recently served as executive producer on Spyglass Entertainment and Universal Pictures’ Flash of Genius, starring Greg Kinnear and Alan Alda and directed by Marc Abraham.
He is currently executive producing Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, a Universal picture scheduled for wide release in the summer of 2010, based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novels and directed by Edgar Wright.
Prior to these films, Dale executive produced the Focus Features/Sidney Kimmel Entertainment film Talk to Me, starring Academy Award® nominee and Golden Globe Award winner Don Cheadle, in addition to Focus Features’ film noir Hollywoodland, starring Ben Affleck, Diane Lane and Adrien Brody.
His producing credits also include Danny Leiner’s hit comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and the charming family Christmas film Blizzard, directed by LeVar Burton and starring Kevin Pollak, Christopher Plummer and Brenda Blethyn and featuring the voice of Whoopi Goldberg. Dale also produced James Toback’s feature Harvard Man, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Eric Stoltz.
Dale produced and made his feature directorial debut with The Skulls III, a sequel to the 1999 box-office hit thriller The Skulls. He previously co-executive produced two seasons of the popular action show F/X: The Series and directed multiple episodes.
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