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MEN IN BLACK 3 (2012)PRODUCTION NOTESSpielberg's most successful series for television was the Emmy-winning "ER," which heexecutive-produced with his Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros. TV. The miniseries "Bandof Brothers" and "The Pacific," both of which he executive produced, won Emmys forOutstanding Miniseries. He is currently an executive producer for the DreamWorks TV shows"Falling Skies," "The River" and "Smash. "Spielberg has also devoted his time and resources to many philanthropic causes. He establishedThe Righteous Persons Foundation using all his profits from "Schindler's List. " He also foundedthe Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which in 2005 became the USC ShoahFoundation Institute for Visual History and Education. The Foundation has recorded more than52,000 Holocaust survivor testimonies and is dedicated to research and scholarship in thehumanities and social sciences.G. Mac Brown (Executive Producer) has had a long and distinguished career in film production.Long based in New York City, he has worked for over 30 years producing or executiveproducing some of the city's finest films, such as Last Exit to Brooklyn (Uli Edel), Light Sleeper(Paul Schrader), Scent of a Woman (Martin Brest), You've Got Mail (Nora Ephron), Unfaithful(Adrian Lyne), The Interpreter (Sydney Pollack) and the award winning The Departed (MartinScorcese).Along the way, he has also produced or executive produced films with Warren Beatty, JamesToback, Steve Kloves, Beeban Kidron, Susan Seidelman, Sydney Lumet, Lasse Hallstrom andFrank Oz.In the last few years, Brown has moved away from NYC, continuing to team with some of thebest directors of our time. He first went to Australia to produce Baz Luhrmann's epic Australia.From there he went to Chicago and joined Michael Mann on Public Enemies and then to L. A. toproduce Sofia Coppola's award winning Somewhere.Bill Pope, ASC (Director of Photography) is no stranger to lensing blockbuster franchises,having done Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3 for Sam Raimi, and the The Matrix trilogydirected by the Wachowski brothers, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2000(for the first film). His other credits as cinematographer include Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,Clueless, directed by Amy Heckerling; and Team America: World Police with Matt Stone andTrey Parker. He also was the cinematographer for Barry Sonnenfeld's thesis project at NYU filmschool.Bo Welch (Production Designer) is one of the most gifted and versatile production designers incontemporary cinema. He has forged significant collaborations with top directors, earning fourOscar®nominations along the way and also earning his own turns behind the camera.A graduate of the University of Arizona College of Architecture, Welch began a promisingcareer as an architect in Los Angeles. Excited to try something new, he then found work atUniversal Studios as a set designer. Welch gained his first screen credits for his efforts on RobertZemeckis' Used Cars and Walter Hill's period western The Long Riders.© 2012 Columbia Pictures (Sony) 24
MEN IN BLACK 3 (2012)PRODUCTION NOTESAfter further work as a set designer on films such as Mommie Dearest and Mel Brooks' Historyof the World: Part I, Welch graduated to art director on Jonathan Demme's Swing Shift.Welch received an Oscar®nomination in 1986 for his work as an art director on StevenSpielberg's The Color Purple. He was production designer on Joel Schumacher's slick vampiretale The Lost Boys, and soon after began a fruitful collaboration designing for Tim Burton onBeetle Juice, Edward Scissorhands (which brought him a BAFTA) and Batman Returns.Welch's beautiful design for Alfonso Cuarón's A Little Princess occasioned his secondOscar®nomination, in 1996. The Academy nominated him for Oscars®again in 1997 for MikeNichols' The Birdcage, and in 1998 for the sci-fi comedy Men in Black. His other film creditsinclude The Accidental Tourist, Ghostbusters II,Grand Canyon, Men in Black II, PrimaryColors, Wild Wild West and What Planet Are You From?, among many others.Welch ventured into a second career as a director, making his television directorial debut in 2000on an episode of the Barry Sonnenfeld/Barry Josephson spy-spoof television series "SecretAgent Man," followed by episodes for another Sonnenfeld/Josephson effort, the comic booksatire, "The Tick," in 2001. Welch also created the pilot's production design.His feature directorial debut came with the live-action adaptation of Dr. Seuss' The Cat in theHat in 2003.Before designing Men in Black 3, Welch was production designer for last year's Thor.Don Zimmerman, A. C. E. (Editor) recently edited Shawn Levy's two Night at the Museumfilms with Ben Stiller, in addition to Just Married. His long list of credits also includes TheyCame from Upstairs, Fun With Dick And Jane, Flight of the Phoenix, The Cat in the Hat, A Walkin the Clouds (shared credit), Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, Half Baked, Patch Adams, Dragonfly,Friends for Norman Jewison, Roxanne for Fred Schepisi, Prince of Tides for Barbra Streisand,Everyone's All-American, Fatal Beauty, Navy Seals, Diggstown, Indecent Proposal,Ace:Ventura: Pet Detective, The Scout and Rocky III and Rocky IV (shared credit).In 1978, Zimmerman was nominated for an Academy Award® for his first film as an editor, HalAshby's Coming Home, starring Jane Fonda and Jon Voight. He went on to edit Ashby's BeingThere, starring Peter Sellers. Before becoming a director, Ashby was an editor with whomZimmerman collaborated for thirteen years.DANNY ELFMAN (Composer) has earned numerous honors, including a Grammy Award, anEmmy Award, three Golden Globe nominations and four Academy Award® nominations. In1998, he was honored with dual Oscar® nominations for Best Original Score for his work onBarry Sonnenfeld's Men in Black and Gus Van Sant's Good WillHunting. He received his thirdOscar® nomination for the score for Tim Burton's acclaimed fantasy Big Fish. Elfman earned hismost recent Oscar® nomination for his score for the acclaimed biopic Milk, directed by Gus VanSant, and his most recent Golden Globe nomination for his score to Tim Burton's Alice inWonderland.© 2012 Columbia Pictures (Sony) 25
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