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SEASON OF THE WITCH - Ascot Elite Entertainment Group

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consistently produce commercial films, package A-list talent and deliver films on time and on<br />

budget.<br />

In 1999, Tooley established the production shingle Newman/Tooley Films with then<br />

producing partner Vincent Newman. Over the next seven years, the duo produced a successful<br />

slate of both independent and studio movies, working with some of the top talent in Hollywood.<br />

In 2006, Tooley served as CEO of Tooley Productions and produced Shadowboxer,<br />

starring Academy Award winner Helen Mirren and directed by Lee Daniels, as well as the<br />

critically acclaimed Felon, directed by Ric Roman Waugh.<br />

After a decade of producing 12 feature films and television productions on his own,<br />

Tooley joined Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media as president of production. Along with<br />

Kavanaugh, Tooley has built the company’s “single picture” division into a full-fledged<br />

production company, developing, financing and producing eight to 10 films a year.<br />

Tooley and his executive team currently oversee all of Relativity Media’s upcoming<br />

single pictures including Immortals, an action adventure film from the producers of 300 and<br />

acclaimed director Tarsem Singh; The Fighter, directed by David O. Russell and starring Mark<br />

Wahlberg, Amy Adams and Christian Bale; Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh’s<br />

Haywire, starring Michael Douglas, and the 3-D action picture Sanctum, produced by James<br />

Cameron.<br />

The most recent features overseen by Tooley were Dear John, directed by Academy<br />

Award-nominated filmmaker Lasse Hallstrom and starring Channing Tatum and Amanda<br />

Seyfried, and The Spy Next Door, starring Jackie Chan, George Lopez and Billy Ray Cyrus.<br />

Previous releases Rob Marshall’s Nine and Jim Sheridan’s Brothers were nominated for seven<br />

Golden Globe awards.<br />

In 2009, Tooley received the Ischia Global Film Festival’s Executive of the Year award.<br />

AMIR MOKRI (Director of Photography) received his B.F.A. in mass communications<br />

from Emerson College in Boston and a M.F.A. from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.<br />

He has served as director of photography on numerous television commercials and feature films<br />

since 1984. Film credits include Fast & Furious, Vantage Point, National Treasure: Book of<br />

Secrets, Lord of War, Taking Lives, Bad Boys II, The Salton Sea, Don’t Say a Word, Coyote<br />

Ugly, The Joy Luck Club and many others. Mokri is currently prepping for the third installment of<br />

Transformers.

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