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JOE PICHIRALLO (Producer)
Joe Pichirallo is a well-respected producer who served as a senior executive at both Fox
Searchlight Pictures and Universal’s Focus Features. He also served as the head of feature film
production and development for Overbrook Entertainment, the actor Will Smith’s company and
currently oversees features films for The Gold Company, which is headed by well know manager
Eric Gold.
While at Twentieth Century Fox, where he helped launch Fox Searchlight Pictures,
Pichirallo shepherded ONE HOUR PHOTO, starring Robin Williams, THE BANGER SISTERS,
starring Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon, ANTWONE FISHER, the directorial debut of Denzel
Washington, QUILLS, which was nominated for three Academy-Awards and THE BROTHERS
McMULLEN, winner of the 1995 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
While serving as executive vice president at Focus Features, his credits included:
HOLLYWOODLAND, a noir thriller starring Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck and Diane Lane and
SOMETHING NEW, a romantic comedy starring Sanaa Lathan, Simon Baker and Alfre
Woodard. Pichirallo previously worked at HBO Pictures and films include: John
Frankenheimer’s, AGAINST THE WALL, a story about the Attica prison uprising, THE
BURNING SEASON, and GOTTI.
Pichirallo is an executive producer for LAKEVIEW TERRACE, a psychological thriller,
directed by Neil LaBute and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington,
the film will be released by Screen Gems films fall 2008.
Prior to getting into entertainment, Pichirallo enjoyed a successful career as a reporter at
The Washington Post, covering national security, Congress and the judicial system.
JADA PINKETT SMITH (Executive Producer)
Jada Pinkett Smith has proven herself to be one of today’s most versatile and talented
stars both on and off the screen. As an actress, Jada has amassed an impressive list of film credits
which includes a recent teaming with box office superstars, Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle in
REIGN OVER ME for Columbia Pictures, as well as a pivotal role opposite Tom Cruise &
Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx in Michael Mann’s COLLATERAL. But Jada is perhaps
best known as the take-charge Niobe in the hugely successful sequels MATRIX RELOADED
and MATRIX REVOLUTIONS. This fall, moviegoers can find Jada on the big screen in the
long-awaited remake of THE WOMEN from writer-director Diane English and in the animated
feature MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA for DreamWorks.
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