Mama – Production Notes - I Watch Mike

produced three seasons of the popular reality seriesTop Cops, for CBS, and three seasons of the now-cultclassictelevision series Friday the 13th, for ParamountPictures. He also produced several dramatic pilotsfor ABC, CBS and NBC, and he was the productionsupervisor on Daniel Petrie’s The Execution ofRaymond Graham, a live-broadcast, two-hour Sundaynightmovie for ABC that examined both sides of thecapital punishment issue and starred Morgan Freeman.Most recently, Dale executive produced KimberlyPeirce’s film remake of the Stephen King classic“Carrie,” starring Julianne Moore and Chloë GraceMoretz, which is scheduled for release by Screen Gemsin the spring of 2013.Since winning the Mercedes-Benz Award at the1993 Cannes Film Festival and nine Mexican AcademyAwards for his first feature, Cronos, GUILLERMOdel TORO (Executive Producer) has establishedhimself among the most critically and commerciallysuccessful international writer/directors.Del Toro has built his career by moving betweenindependent Spanish-language films and big-budgetstudio productions. His films include Mimic, TheDevil’s Backbone, Blade II, Hellboy and its sequel,Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Del Toro is currently inpostproduction on Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros.’large-scale sci-fi action-thriller Pacific Rim, which hewrote, directed and produced.In 2006, his film Pan’s Labyrinth became a surpriseworldwide motion picture event. It went on to receivesix Academy Award ® nominations, including BestForeign Language Film and Best Original Screenplayfor del Toro, and won three Oscars ® . It was also therecipient of three BAFTAs, seven Goya Awards and aGolden Globe nomination for Best Foreign LanguageFilm, and was selected by the National Society of FilmCritics as the Best Film of the Year. It is the highestgrossingSpanish-language film of all time in the U.S.and the fifth highest-grossing foreign-language filmin U.S. box-office history, with $37.6 million in U.S.box-office receipts alone.In 2007, del Toro produced the Spanish thriller TheOrphanage, which is to date the highest-grossing locallanguagefilm in Spain’s history, with more than $80million in worldwide box-office sales.With his deal at DreamWorks Animation, del Torohas become a mainstay in the world of animation. Hehas served as an executive producer on Kung Fu Panda2, Puss in Boots and Rise of the Guardians and as acreative consultant on Megamind. Later this year, hewill co-direct and produce a new version of Pinocchio,using stop-motion animation. He also serves asproducer of the Reel FX animated film The Day of theDead, which will be completed in late 2013.In addition to working in film, del Toro is the coauthorof the “The Strain” trilogy of novels, each ofwhich has been a New York Times top-10 best sellerand has been published in 30 languages worldwide.He is currently developing television projects forHBO, ABC and FX Networks. Over the course of hisprolific career, the many projects with which del Torohas been involved have grossed more than $3 billionworldwide and have won Academy Awards ® andother awards at countless international festivals. He isrepresented by Exile Entertainment, William MorrisEndeavor and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matloff andFishman LLP.ANTONIO RIESTRA, AMC (Director ofPhotography) is an award-winning cinematographerwhose career extends from North America to Europe.A native of Mexico who currently resides in Prague,Riestra has forged an international career with a notablerange of feature films, from the Czech Republic’sLidice, Czech-Made Man and Normal the DüsseldorfRipper, to the Spanish-produced Kathmandu Lullaby(which was filmed in Nepal) and the upcoming U.S.feature Look of Love, starring Annette Bening andEd Harris. Riestra’s cinematography for Augustí– 24 –