| Morgan Freeman can be seen in two upcoming releases. He stars with Ben Affleck in the Tom Clancy thriller "The Sum of All Fears" and with Ashley Judd in "High Crimes." Freeman's performance in "Driving Miss Daisy" earned him a Golden Globe Award, the Berlin Film Festival's Silver Bear for Best Actor and an Academy Award® nomination. He was nominated for Best Actor in director Frank Darabont's adaptation of Stephen King's "The Shawshank Redemption." Earlier he won the Los Angeles, New York and National Society of Film Critics Awards and received Academy Award® and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor for his work on "Street Smart." Freeman's recent credits include "Along Came a Spider," "Nurse Betty," "Deep Impact" and "Amistad." |
| Thomas Jane stars opposite Cameron Diaz in the romantic comedy "The Sweetest Thing," which will be released later this year. He played baseball legend Mickey Mantle for director Billy Crystal in the Emmy-nominated HBO film "61*" and received critical praise for his work in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights." |
| Jason Lee played the lead singer of a 1970s rock band in Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous" and recently re-teamed with the director, playing the best friend to Tom Cruise's character in "Vanilla Sky." He stars in three upcoming releases, "Big Trouble," "The Promise" and "A Guy Thing." Lee won an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in "Chasing Amy" and played the lonely young skateboarding billionaire in Lawrence Kasdan's "Mumford." |
| Damian Lewis received an Golden Globe nomination for his performance as Major Richard Winters in Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks' award-winning series "Band of Brothers." The young British actor also played Laertes in the Broadway production of "Hamlet," which starred Ralph Fiennes. |
| Timothy Olyphant stars in the 2003 Sundance Film Festival entry "Coastlines" with Josh Brolin and Sarah Wynter. Olyphant, who recently appeared in "Rock Star" and "Gone In Sixty Seconds," captured attention as the drug dealer in Doug Liman's critically acclaimed film "Go." He played Mickey in "Scream 2" and joined Cameron Diaz and Ewan McGregor in "A Life Less Ordinary." |
| Tom Sizemore is currently on screen in "Black Hawk Down" and will be seen later this year in the comedy "Big Trouble" with Tim Allen, Stanley Tucci and Rene Russo. Sizemore co-starred in "Pearl Harbor" and "Saving Private Ryan." His credits include "Red Planet," "Bringing Out the Dead," "Heat," "Devil in a Blue Dress," and Lawrence Kasdan's "Wyatt Earp." He made his film debut in "Born on the Fourth of July." |
| Donnie Wahlberg plays Duddits, the character with mysterious powers at the center of the movie "Dreamcatcher." Wahlberg played Vincent Grey in
the M. Night Shyamalan blockbuster "The Sixth Sense," losing forty pounds for the role. He recently appeared in the award winning HBO series "Band of Brothers." Although Wahlberg's love of acting dates from his schooldays, any thoughts of an acting career had to be put on hold, when the band he started in his freshman year of high school, New Kids on the Block, became a huge success, racking up nine top ten hits and selling over fifty million records. Wahlberg made his movie debut alongside Mickey Rourke in "Bullet" and attributes his big break to director Ron Howard, who cast him as one of the kidnappers in "Ransom." |
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Lawrence Kasdan is the director of "Body Heat," "The Big Chill," "Silverado," "The Accidental Tourist," "I Love You To Death," "Grand Canyon," "Wyatt Earp," "French Kiss" and "Mumford." He also wrote or co-wrote all these pictures with the exception of John Kostmayer's "I Love You To Death" and Adam Brooks' "French Kiss." "The Big Chill" was nominated for three Academy Awards® including Best Picture. "The Accidental Tourist" was nominated for four Academy Awards® and earned Geena Davis the Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress. "Grand Canyon" won the Golden Bear Award for Best Picture at the Berlin International Film Festival and earned Kasdan and his wife, Meg, Academy Award® and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay. Charles Okun's film career has spanned over 30 films. Before joining director Lawrence Kasdan, he worked with Otto Preminger, Sidney Lumet and Jonathan Demme. He made three films with Michael Cimino, including "The Deer Hunter," which won 5 Academy Awards. Since 1984, when Okun first teamed with Kasdan on "Silverado," he has produced "Mumford," "Grand Canyon" and "The Accidental Tourist." He was executive producer on "Silverado," "I Love You to Death," "Wyatt Earp" and "French Kiss," and co-produced "Cross My Heart," a movie produced by Kasdan. Cinematographer John Seale won an Academy Award®, a BAFTA Award and a European Film Award for "The English Patient." He also received Academy Award® nominations for "Rainman" and "Witness" and BAFTA Award nominations for "Witness" and "Gorillas in the Mist." His most recent work includes "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," "The Perfect Storm" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley." Stephen Dunn was the 1st Asst. Director on Lawrence Kasdan's "Mumford" and "Wyatt Earp." "Dreamcatcher" is his seventh collaboration with Kasdan, with whom he first worked on "The Big Chill." Dunn was recently associate producer, as well as 1st Asst. Director, on "The Shipping News," his fourth film for Lasse Hallstrom. He was 1st Asst. Director on "Chocolat," "Cider House Rules" and "Something To Talk About." His credits also include "What Dreams May Come," "One Fine Day," "Kansas City," "A Little Princess," "Falling Down," "Dying Young" and "Patty Hearst." Dunn edited the Robert Altman films "Fool for Love" and "Beyond Therapy" and recently produced the independent film "Final." He is a graduate of U.S.C.'s School of Cinema. Casey Grant makes her home in Vancouver, where she worked her way up through the ranks of the Directors Guild of Canada in British Columbia, finally serving on its executive board. She worked as the production manager on "Double Jeopardy," "Along Came a Spider" and "Reindeer Games," which she also co-produced. And in 2000 she was the executive producer of "Winterdance." Jon Hutman, who won an Emmy for his production design on the multiple award-winning television series "The West Wing," collaborated with Lawrence Kasdan on "French Kiss" and "Mumford," which he also co-produced. Hutman also designed three films for Robert Redford: "The Horse Whisperer," "Quiz Show" and "A River Runs Through It." His most recent credits include "What Women Want" and "Coyote Ugly." Elizabeth Dollarhide left a career in advertising and marketing and began working in films and commercials in 1990. At the University of Mississippi she produced a literacy television program which aired live via satellite. She joined Kasdan Pictures during "Mumford" as assistant to Lawrence Kasdan. During the filming of "Dreamcatcher" she was the assistant to Charles Okun, while also producing the behind-the-scenes video for the website and managing the marketing and publicity for Kasdan. Born in Miami Beach, Florida, and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, Mark Kasdan grew up loving Hollywood movies of the fifties, particularly the Westerns so numerous at the time. His brother, Lawrence, shared his enthusiasm. At Harvard, Kasdan began studying linguistics but spent more time enthralled by the masterpieces of world cinema. He switched majors to focus on movies and later attended film schools in London and Los Angeles. An internship program sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences led to a job with John Sturges, the veteran director whose credits included several of the Westerns Kasdan had long admired, notably THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. An even greater thrill came some years later, after a variety of jobs in film and advertising, when Lawrence invited him to co-write and help produce a Western of their own — SILVERADO. The beauty of the New Mexico locations later led Kasdan and his wife Maxann to move to Albuquerque. After writing the thriller CRIMINAL LAW and co-writing several screenplays with Terry Swann, a friend and collaborator since UCLA Film School days, Kasdan returned to work with his brother and is now serving as associate producer of DREAMCATCHER. | |
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