Education
Medill School of Journalism.
Medill School of Journalism.
After graduating from Northwestern University"s Medill School of Journalism in 1978, became a journalist, a staff writer at newsmagazine Newsweek. He moved to the Los Angeles Times in 1985 where he wrote about the entertainment industry and had a weekly column exploring the business side of the film industry until 1987, when he was approached by Imagine Entertainment co-founders Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, and he became Imagine"s Vice President of Motion Pictures. With Imagine, he executive produced My Girl, My Girl 2, Foreign Love or Money, Greedy, and The Chamber.
In 1994, joined Davis Entertainment as President, where he produced Daylight and Digging to China, as well as overseeing the development and production of many other Davis films.
With his own independent company, Productions, he has produced the 2000 film Here on Earth. and producer/financier Marc Turtletaub founded Deep River Productions in September 2000 and, after working at 20th Century Fox for three years where he produced Big Momma"s House, they produced their first feature, Laws of Attraction. After the release of Little Mission Sunshine, which had been in production at Deep River Productions for six years, and Turtletaub split and left the company to work elsewhere and made a two-year producing deal with 20th Century Fox that landed him producing roles on the 2008 film Meet Dave and Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son.
He is also set to produce the upcoming projects Office Romance, Q School, and The Warden.