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PRODUCER BIOS/HEADSHOTS

PRODUCERS

Executive Producer Ridley Scott

Executive Producer Tony Scott

Executive Producer Rola Bauer

Executive Producer David W. Zucker

Executive Producer Michael Prupas

Executive Producer Tim Halkin

Executive Producer Jonas Bauer

Executive Producer David A. Rosemont

Producer John Ryan

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RIDLEY SCOTT

Golden Globe® and multiple Oscar®-

nominated and Emmy Award®-winning

director/producer Ridley Scott is one of the

most influential filmmakers of his time. His

career spans from his early success in

commercial direction to the expansion of his

vision into his ground breaking early films

such as Alien (1979) and Blade Runner

(1982), and on to the critical and

commercial success of his latest projects

Gladiator (2000) and American Gangster

(2007). Mr. Scott has personally received

over 40 prestigious award nominations,

many of which he has won.

Scott was born in South Shields,

Northumberland, England. Reared in London,

Cumbria, Wales and Germany, he returned

to Northeast England to live in Stockton-on-

Tees. He studied at the West Hartlepool College of Art where he studied graphic design

and painting. Scott also studied at the Royal Academy of Art, where his contemporaries

include David Hockney. It was there that Scott made his first short film, Boy and a

Bicycle which starred his brother Tony.

Graduating with honors, Scott was awarded a travelling scholarship to the United States

for one year. During that time, he was employed by Time Life, Inc. where he worked

with award-winning documentarians Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker. Upon his

return to the U.K., he joined the BBC as a production designer and, within a year, was

promoted to their directing team.

Scott began his feature film directing career with The Duellists, which brought him the

Grand Jury Prize at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. His second film was the breakthrough

hit Alien, which won an Academy® Award for Special Effects. This was followed by Blade

Runner, starring Harrison Ford. The film is now considered one of the landmark science

fiction films of all time.

In 1992, Scott received his first Academy® Award nomination and a BAFTA nomination

for Best Director for Thelma and Louise. The film also was nominated for Best Picture by

the Academy and BAFTA.

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In 2002, Scott was nominated for an Academy® Award for his blockbuster Black Hawk

Down which he directed and produced with Jerry Bruckheimer. The movie was praised

for its accurate depiction of the 1993 American military effort in Somalia. He previously

was nominated for an Academy® Award for directing Gladiator, which won Best Picture

at the 2000 Academy® Awards. This epic and dramatic evocation of ancient Rome

starred Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix and was nominated for twelve awards,

winning five, including Best Actor (Russell Crowe) and Best Picture. Gladiator also won

both the Golden Globe® and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)

Awards for Best Picture and grossed over $450 million dollars worldwide. Also in 2000,

Scott directed Hannibal, based on Thomas Harris’ sequel to The Silence of the Lambs,

which starred Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore.

These films have only further solidified Scott’s position as one of the most influential and

versatile filmmakers of our time, earlier confirmed by such motion pictures as Alien,

Blade Runner and Thelma and Louise. Some of Scott’s other directorial credits include,

Legend, starring Tom Cruise, Someone to Watch Over Me, starring Tom Berenger and

Black Rain, starring Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia.

In 2003, the director re-edited his cult classic Blade Runner for DVD release. The original

release became a science fiction classic and the “youngest” film added to the National

Film Archives maintained by the U.S. Library of Congress. Scott also re-cut his classic

Alien which was released last year to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Also in 2003, Scott

was knighted by the Queen of England.

Scott has involved himself in diverse areas of the film industry. He created Scott Free

Entertainment, RSA and Black Dog Films. He is co-chairman of The Mill, one of the

largest commercial production and post production houses in London. This company

boasts involvement in the visual effects of the following films: Shakespeare in Love,

Babe: Pig in the City, Pitch Black, Cats & Dogs, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Black Hawk Down and dozens of other films. In 2001, The Mill

received an Academy® Award for their visual effects work in Scott’s Gladiator.

Over the years, Ridley Scott has directed over two thousand commercials, many of which

have won awards at the Venice and Cannes Film Festivals, as well as being honored by

the New York Art Directors’ Club. In addition to his film work, Scott remains actively

involved with RSA. With offices in London, New York, and Los Angeles, RSA represents

some of the most acclaimed directors in the advertising industry.

Scott is also Co-Chairman of Pinewood Shepperton in London, one of the largest studio

facilities in Europe with forty-two stages, back lots and locations as well as award

winning post-production and full production support services. He and his brother were

part of a consortium that purchased Shepperton Studios in 1995 which merged with

Pinewood Studios in 2001.

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Scott is currently in production on Nottingham, a role-reversal of the classic Robin Hood

starring Russell Crowe.

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TONY SCOTT

Born in Stockton-on-Tees in North East

England, Tony Scott’s first foray into

filmmaking was not from behind the camera,

but rather in front of it. At the age of sixteen,

Scott appeared in Boy and Bicycle, a short film

marking the directorial debut of his then

twenty-three-year-old brother, Ridley. He

followed in his older brother’s footsteps,

studying at Grangefield School, West Hartlepool

College of Art and Sunderland Art School, the

latter for a fine arts degree. He subsequently

graduated from the Royal College of Art, fully

intending to become a painter. It was only the

success of his older brother’s fledging television

commercial production outfit, Ridley Scott

Associates (RSA), that turned his attentions

towards film.

In the course of the next two decades, Tony

Scott directed literally thousands of television

commercials for RSA, a company he co-founded with his brother in 1968, while also

overseeing the company’s operation during periods in which his brother was developing

his feature film career. Tony also took time out in 1975 to direct an adaptation of the

Henry James story The Author of Beltraffio for French television, a project he landed by

virtue of winning a coin-flip against his brother. After the considerable feature film

successes of fellow British commercial directors Hugh Hudson, Alan Parker, Adrian Lyne

and his elder brother in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Scott was beginning to receive

overtures from Hollywood himself.

In 1982, Scott began production on The Hunger, starring David Bowie and Catherine

Deneuve as chic Manhattan socialite vampires. Willem Dafoe was introduced on film via

a small, walk-on part in the movie. The Hunger had elaborate photography and

sumptuous production design, unlike many pictures at the time of its release in 1983

and ultimately became a cult favorite.

In 1985, producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer signed Tony Scott to direct Top

Gun. Both of them were among the admirers of The Hunger. Top Gun became one of the

highest-grossing films of 1986, taking in more than US$176 million at the box office, and

making a star of its young lead, Tom Cruise.

Following Top Gun’s success, Scott found himself on Hollywood’s A list of action

directors. Reteaming with Simpson and Bruckheimer in 1987, Scott directed Eddie

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Murphy in the highly anticipated sequel Beverly Hills Cop II, which became one of the

year’s highest grossing films.

Scott’s next film brought him back into the Simpson-Bruckheimer fold for a big-budget,

box office-hit thriller, Crimson Tide, starring Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington.

From there, Tony Scott went on to direct the popular thriller, Enemy of the State,

starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman and the critically acclaimed, Spy Game with

Robert Redford and Brad Pitt.

More recently Scott reteamed with Denzel Washington for the futuristic action movie

Deja Vu. Its performance was spectacular both at the box office and with critics. Tony’s

newest feature film The Taking of Pelham 123, is in theatres now, starring Denzel

Washington and John Travolta

Tony, along with brother Ridley Scott, are co-producers of the TV series Numb3rs, and

have teamed up for the miniseries remake of The Andromeda Strain for A&E, which was

the 2nd highest rated show in the network’s history in May 2008.

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ROLA BAUER

Partner / Managing Director

Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominated

producer, Rola Bauer, began her career in the

entertainment industry working on film sets as

an assistant director of feature films and

television productions. Bauer now owns and

runs, together with her three partners, TANDEM

Communications, a vertically-integrated,

television production and worldwide distribution

company, based in Munich, Germany.

Bauer has accrued over 25 years of experience

in the fields of production, sales, and marketing.

Prior to founding TANDEM in 1999, Bauer was

hired in 1996 by ProSieben, one of Germany’s

first-tier broadcasters, to become Executive Vice

President of International Fiction. At ProSieben

she was responsible for setting up a new

division in international theatrical and television co-productions, as well as running the

departments of international series, animation and documentary. Collectively these

areas comprised approximately two thirds of the network's slots.

Before joining ProSieben, Bauer was the Paris-based President of Alliance International

Television. In this position she was responsible for international co-productions, sales

and marketing worldwide of Alliance's growing slate of television productions. In her

previous position as Vice President of Television Sales for Alliance International, she

played a key role in the launching and building of this subsidiary.

Bauer holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours degree in film and television from York

University Toronto, Canada.

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DAVID W. ZUCKER

David W. Zucker is President of Television

for Scott Free, and Executive Producer of the

forthcoming CBS drama, The Good Wife,

starring Julianna Margulies, as well as the

long-running CBS hit series, Numb3rs, set to

enter its sixth season. During his tenure,

Scott Free has also produced a steady

stream of event long form programs

including HBO's Into The West, sequel to the

Emmy-winning telefilm The Gathering

Storm, A&E's Emmy-nominated mini-series,

The Andromeda Strain, adapted from

Michael Crichton's landmark novel, and

TNT's epic six-hour spy thriller, The

Company, nominated for a Golden Globe®

and Broadcast Film Critics Award as Best

Television Film.

Currently in production, in addition to The

Good Wife and Numb3rs, is the 8-hour

limited series adaptation of Ken Follett's international best-seller, The Pillars of the Earth,

now filming in Hungary and Austria with Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Donald Sutherland,

Hayley Atwell, Eddie Redmayne and Sarah Parish.

New development include an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's classic novel, The Man In The

High Castle for the BBC, an international money-laundering thriller for HBO, a medieval

western at FBC, a domestic spy drama for FX and an independent film about the

Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik.

Prior to joining Scott Free, Zucker worked as Story Editor on the popular CBS series,

Judging Amy, and wrote pilot scripts for CBS, ABC, and various stage plays. Zucker also

served as Vice President of Drama Series for CBS, and Vice President of Drama Series

and Current Programs at Warner Bros. Television, overseeing such shows as E.R. and

Murphy Brown.

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MICHAEL PRUPAS

President and CEO of Muse Entertainment

Enterprises, Michael Prupas is a 30-year

veteran of the Canadian and international

film and television industries. He

practiced entertainment law for 20 years,

including 15 years as a senior partner at

the law firm Heenan Blaikie. Prupas was

the head of the firm’s entertainment law

practice, which is the largest in Canada.

As a lawyer, he was involved in the initial

public offerings (IPO’s) of several

Canadian entertainment companies.

With his extensive experience in

international production financing as well

as legal and business affairs, Prupas

launched Muse Entertainment Enterprises

in June 1998, which has quickly become

one of the major independent production

companies in the country known for its

high-quality, award-winning products. Many of Muse’s projects are international co-

productions. In 2000, he set up Muse Distribution International, which represents Muse

Entertainment and other independent Canadian producers at major markets and brings

Canadian programs to audiences worldwide.

Most recently, Mr. Prupas executive produced the mini-series The Phantom (Sci-Fi/Movie

Central) starring Ryan Carnes, Sandrine Holt and Isabella Rossellini and the television

movie Unstable (Lifetime) starring Shiri Appleby, David Alpay and Kathy Baker. He is

executive producer of the mini-series Ben Hur, filming from May to June 2009 in

Morocco; and the eight-hour limited series The Pillars of the Earth, shooting June to

November 2009 in Austria and Hungary.

In 2008, Prupas executive produced the mini-series The Last Templar (NBC/Global)

starring Mira Sorvino and Victor Garber as well as five sci-fi films for the Sci Fi Channel

and Super Channel (Rise of the Gargoyle, Hellhounds, Sand Serpents, Carny and Alien

Western). He also served as executive producer on the second season of the critically

acclaimed and five Gemini Award-winning series Durham County as well as three movies

for the Hallmark Channel (An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving, Accidental Friendship and A

Christmas Choir). He was the executive producer of the series Crusoe for NBC and Citytv

and of the miniseries Impact for ABC.

In 2007, Prupas produced the feature film The Deal starring William H. Macy and Meg

Ryan, which premiered at the Sundance Festival. He also executive produced the TV

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movies Too Young to Marry starring Nina Dobrev and Polly Walker, I Me Wed starring

Erica Durance, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde starring Dougray Scott and Tom Skerritt, Girl’s Best

Friend starring Janeane Garofalo, Black Swarm starring Robert Englund, Swamp Devil

starring Bruce Dern, The Watch starring Clea DuVall and Infected starring Gil Bellows,

Judd Nelson and Isabella Rossellini.

In 2006, Mr. Prupas produced or executive produced a number of television projects

including the lavish, live-action adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s children’s classic The

Wind in the Willows starring Bob Hoskins and Matt Lucas; (…)

the special-effects disaster miniseries Flood, starring Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn Gilsig and

Tom Courtenay; the miniseries Killer Wave, starring Angus MacFadyen, Karine Vanasse

and Tom Skerritt; the TV series Durham County, starring Hugh Dillon and Justin Louis;

the TV movies The Party Never Stops, starring Sarah Paxton and Chelsea Hobbs; House

Next Door, starring Lara Flynn Boyle and Cohn Ferguson; Tipping Point, starring

Katheryn Winnick and Nicolas Wright; House Sitter, starring Tori Spelling and Dean

McDermott; and Proof of Lies, starring Amanda Detmer and Jonathan Scarfe.

In 2005, he executive produced two award-winning television mini-series: Human

Trafficking, about the global reach of sex slavery directed by Christian Duguay and

starring Donald Sutherland, Mira Sorvino, Robert Carlyle and Rémy Girard as well as

Answered by Fire, about the violent creation of East Timor, starring David Wenham and

Isabelle Blais. Prupas also executive produced three seasons worth of episodes of the

award-winning dramatic series This is Wonderland, a series that has been sold for

broadcast in over 100 territories. He also executive produced the television movie

Murder in the Hamptons starring Poppy Montgomery and David Sutcliff as well as two

murder mystery TV movies, Mind over Murder, starring Tori Spelling, and Black Widower,

starring Kelly McGillis.

In 2004, he produced the feature film Niagara Motel starring Craig Ferguson, Anna Friel

and Kevin Pollak which was in official competition of the Shanghai International Film

Festival in June 2005. He executive produced the TV film Plain Truth, starring Mariska

Hargitay and Alison Pill.

His many other credits include the TV film Ice Bound, starring Susan Sarandon, The

Clinic, starring Mike Farrell, the television series Twice in a Lifetime, Largo Winch, Doc

(Season 1) and Tales from the Neverending Story that won two Awards of Excellence in

2003. He also executive produced a collection of Sherlock Holmes TV movies including

The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of Four, The Royal Scandal and The Case of the

Whitechapel Vampire, starring Matt Frewer and Kenneth Welsh.

His other credits as executive producer include the television movies The Legend of

Sleepy Hollow, The Stork Derby, The Investigation, The Many Trials of One Jane Doe

(winner of 4 Gemini Awards), and Chasing Cain II: Face and Silent Night, starring Linda

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Hamilton. The feature films he executive produced are The Guilty, starring Bill Pullman

and Joanne Whalley, Tracker, starring Casper Van Dien and Russell Wong and Savage

Messiah (winner of 3 Genie Awards), starring Polly Walker, Luc Picard and Isabelle Blais.

Mr. Prupas established the first entertainment law course at McGill University, which he

taught from 1997-2002. He coached a minor league baseball team for five years, served

on the Board of Trustees of the Banff Television Festival and sits on the Board of

Advisors of the Just for Laughs comedy festival and on the finance committee of the

Association des producteurs de film et de télévision du Québec.

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TIM HALKIN

Partner / Managing Director

PARTNER / MANAGING DIRECTOR

Bringing years of marketing, business affairs and

development experience with him, Emmy® and

Golden Globe® nominated producer, Tim Halkin,

joined Rola Bauer as a Partner in TANDEM

COMMUNICATIONS in November 1999.

Prior to TANDEM, Halkin worked for the German

television network, ProSieben. First hired as

Managing Director for their video arm, he was

promoted to Senior Vice President of the

International Fiction division in January 1998. In

this position, he played a key role in setting up

businesses in international theatrical co-

productions, ran the Animation Department and

was Deputy for the entire division.

Prior to his work in television, Halkin headed up

marketing for Buena Vista Home Entertainment Germany - a company he helped set up.

During his 7-year tenure at Buena Vista, he set up operations in both Switzerland and

Austria.

New York born, Halkin came to Germany in 1983 and studied at the Ludwig-Maximillians

University in Munich prior to taking over all marketing activities for Walt Disney at one of

their licensees, EuroVideo.

In America, he studied at Fordham University in New York and worked in the area of

theatre stage and production management for renowned theatre institutions such as

Ellen Stuart's La Mama and the Chelsea Theatre Center prior to working in marketing for

the Metropolitan Opera, where he set up and run a direct marketing department.

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JONAS BAUER

Partner

Golden Globe® nominated producer Jonas Bauer

joined forces with Tandem Communications in

August 2004 as an affiliated producer and sales

agent, and was named partner in October 2007.

Bauer played a key role in securing the

international rights for Ridley Scott's miniseries

The Company, as well as the miniseries The Hades

Factor based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling

novel. Since then, he has been overseeing several

development projects, as well as acquiring

international rights. Jonas Bauer is also

responsible for TANDEM's sales in Italy and Spain.

Prior to TANDEM, Bauer was Head of International

Production at the DeAngelis Group in Rome,

responsible for international financing, production and distribution. In this capacity, he

put together financing for over a dozen projects and produced, amongst others, the

miniseries Julius Caesar for TNT and ARD.

Before entering the television industry, Jonas Bauer was a management consultant for

several years at Bossard Consultants in Munich. In 1995 he started working for

ProSieben in advertising sales and subsequently joined the Kirch Group as assistant to

Jan Mojto, with a focus on English-language co-productions.

Bauer holds an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau and a Bachelor of Arts with a major in

history and literature from Princeton University. Jonas Bauer speaks four languages

fluently.

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DAVID A. ROSEMONT

Emmy® Award winning producer, David A.

Rosemont has earned the unique distinction over

his television career of associating with some of

the biggest international talents in the film

industry including Steven Spielberg, Ridley

Scott, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Shirley

Maclaine, Quincy Jones, Magic Johnson, Sam

Shepard, Liza Minnelli, Tom Skerrit, Kathy

Bates, William H. Macy, Helen Mirren, Lauren

Bacall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Kristen Davis,

Matthew Modine and many more. He has

produced some of the most prestigious films for

television and has been nominated for three

Emmy Awards and three Golden Globes.

Rosemont has won the Peabody award, two

Critics Choice Awards, The Media Access Award,

The Celebration of Diversity Award, The AFI

Award of Excellence, the Christopher Award, and

the Emmy Award for Best Picture for the

critically acclaimed Door To Door.

Rosemont has produced films for almost every major television studio including ABC,

NBC, CBS, Showtime, The Hallmark Hall of Fame, Dreamworks, Scott Free and Turner

Network Television where he produced the epic twelve hour mini series, Into The West

executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Into The West was seen by a record 81 million

people during the course of its six week run on TNT and was nominated for 16 Emmys

including Best Miniseries. Rosemont also produced the international six hour miniseries

The Company for Sony, TNT and Ridley Scott, starring Michael Keaton, Chris O’Donnell

and Alfred Molina.

Some of Rosemont’s forty films include Graham Greene’s The Tenth Man, The West Side

Waltz, Purgatory, Riders of the Purple Sage, The Long Road Home, Henry James’ Turn of

the Screw, Robin Cooks Harmful Intent, What Love Sees, The Mixed Up Files of Mrs.

Basil E. Frankweiler, The Wool Cap, The Seventh Stream, and a remake of High Noon...

Rosemont recently produced the critically acclaimed film, Gifted Hands starring

CubaGooding Jr, and America starring Rosie O’Donnell. He is currently in production on

an 8 hour international miniseries called The Pillars of the Earth based on the bestselling

novel by Ken Follett.

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JOHN RYAN

Multi award-nominated John Ryan is a veteran

producer with 30 years experience producing a

wide range of film and television projects.

Ryan’s credits include Saving Grace, Beautiful

People, John Woo’s Blackjack, Lonesome Dove

(series), Salem Witch Trials, the Emmy®

nominated miniseries Judy Garland: Me and My

Shadows and the Emmy® nominated Hitler: The

Rise of Evil. Ryan’s current project is the eight

hour limited series The Pillars of the Earth, an

adaptation of the bestselling novel written by Ken

Follett.