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Wick also garnered a bevy of Academy Award ® nominations and a Golden
Globe Best Picture - Comedy win for his first solo producing effort, “Working Girl,”
directed by Mike Nichols.
Currently in production for Wick, and slated for a Spring 2014 release, is the
adaptation of Veronica Roth’s New York Times bestselling Young Adult novel
Divergent, directed by Neil Burger and starring Shailene Woodley and Kate Winslet.
Wick’s prior films include “Wolf,” also directed by Nichols, starring Jack
Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer; the original teen witch sensation “The Craft”; the
espionage thriller “Spy Game,” which paired movie icons Robert Redford and Brad
Pitt under director Tony Scott; and Paul Verhoeven’s “Hollow Man.” Wick’s “Girl
Interrupted” won Angelina Jolie both an Academy Award ® and a Golden Globe for
her breakthrough performance.
In 2001, Wick expanded his Red Wagon Entertainment to bring in Lucy Fisher,
former Vice Chairman of Sony’s Columbia Tri-Star Motion Picture Group, as Co-head.
The first picture in their new partnership was “Stuart Little 2,” the sequel to the Wickproduced
blockbuster “Stuart Little.” Wick and Fisher went on to produce a wide
range of motion pictures, including “Jarhead,” “Peter Pan” and “Memoirs of a
Geisha.” “Lawless,” which starred Jessica Chastain, Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy,
premiered last year at Cannes.
After graduating cum laude from Yale, Wick began his career as a
production assistant for filmmaker Alan Pakula. He earned his first credit as associate
producer on “Starting Over.”
Wick is the co-founder of CuresNow, an organization that promotes
regenerative medicine and stem cell research. In addition, he has been a co-chair
of Prop 71, the successful Stem Cell initiative in California, which now awards $3
billion for stem cell research in the State of California. He has also served on the
Board of Trustees for the Center for Early Education in Los Angeles and the Board of
Directors for the Producers Guild of America. He has been awarded the NATO
ShoWest Producer of the Year award, the Producers Guild of America David O.
Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, The Hollywood Film
Festival Producer of the Year Award, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s
Producer of the Year, the Motion Picture Club’s Producer of the Year, The Saturn
Award, the Los Angeles Father of the Year Award, and Friends of Cancer Research
Advocacy’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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