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Published on: 9/8/2006
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Directed by Allen Coulter; screenplay by Paul Bernbaum; cinematography by Jonathan Freeman; edited by Michael Berenbaum; production design by Leslie McDonald; music by Marcelo Zarvos; produced by Glenn Williamson.
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Produced by Glenn Williamson.
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Williamson began working to bring the script to the screen in the fall of 2001.He says, "I knew right away that these were roles any actors would love to play, and here was a script about a compelling universal theme; we all fixate on what we don't have, and don't see what we do have.
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Williamson adds, "Reeves, as a creative talent, wanted to do different things.
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"I've worked with Ben before, and I hadn't seen him as happily focused on his work as I did on Hollywoodland," says Williamson.
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Glenn Williamson adds, "Adrien brings such nuance and complexity to every single scene he plays.
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Williamson says, "We all talked -- and with the cast -- about how we want people to walk out of this movie and debate what they think happened."
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"Diane had been a fan of the project over the years, tracking the script's progress," remembers Williamson.
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Producer Glenn Williamson adds, "Having worked on this project for so long, I couldn't be happier to see things come together the way they did.
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Williamson says, "We'd like audiences watching our movie to get more of an understanding of who George Reeves was as a person and, through Simo's story, be moved to take stock of what's good in their own lives."
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His other films as actor include the upcoming Smokin' Aces, written and directed by Joe Carnahan; Roger Michell's Changing Lanes; Ben Younger's Boiler Room; John Madden's Academy Award-winning Shakespeare in Love; Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused; Mike Binder's Man About Town; Mark Steven Johnson's Daredevil; Phil Alden Robinson's The Sum of All Fears; John Woo's Paycheck; Michael Bay's Armageddon and Pearl Harbor; Mark Pellington's Going All the Way; several movies for writer/director Kevin Smith, including Chasing Amy and Dogma; and Bronwen Hughes' Forces of Nature, which was based on a story idea by Hollywoodland producer Glenn Williamson.
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GLENN WILLIAMSON (Producer)
Independent producer Glenn Williamson's production company is Back Lot Pictures.He most recently produced the hit remake of The Omen, directed by John Moore.
Mr. Williamson was executive producer of Focus Features' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, directed by Michel Gondry from an Academy Award-winning screenplay by Charlie Kaufman; and The Ice Harvest, directed by Harold Ramis.
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Mr. Williamson was previously president of production at Focus.In that capacity, he supervised such pictures as Todd Haynes' award-winning Far from Heaven, starring Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid, Christine Jeffs' Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig, and Mira Nair's Vanity Fair, starring Reese Witherspoon and Hollywoodland's Bob Hoskins.
Immediately prior to the formation of Focus, he was president of production at USA Films.His stint at USA followed his seven years as a senior production executive at DreamWorks, which he had joined at its inception in 1994.During that time, he brought to the company Alan Ball's spec script American Beauty, and oversaw production of Sam Mendes' filmization, which went on to win five Oscars (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay).He was also instrumental in bringing Cameron Crowe to the studio and in supervising Almost Famous, which earned Crowe an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Other productions that Mr. Williamson supervised for DreamWorks included Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition; Gore Verbinski's The Mexican; and Bronwen Hughes' Forces of Nature (based on Mr. Williamson's own story idea, and starring Ben Affleck of Hollywoodland).Other productions that Mr. Williamson supervised for DreamWorks included Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition; Gore Verbinski's The Mexican; and Bronwen Hughes' Forces of Nature (based on Mr. Williamson's own story idea, and starring Ben Affleck of Hollywoodland).
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