Background
Daniel Halsted was born in New York on July 12, 1962, and moved to Beverly Hills, California in 1976.
Daniel Halsted was born in New York on July 12, 1962, and moved to Beverly Hills, California in 1976.
He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.
His Hollywood career started in 1984 as an assistant to Scott Rudin at 20th Century Fox before later becoming an agent at United Talent Agency (formerly Bauer Benedek Agency). UTA While at 20th Century Fox and UTA, Halsted packaged and sold films such as: There"s Something About Mary, New Jack City, The Fabulous Baker Boys, K-9, RoboCop, Casualties of War, Jumpin" Jack Flash, Alien, Predator, and The Untouchables. Hollywood Pictures Halsted left the representation business in 1990 to work at Hollywood Pictures, a division of The Walt Disney Company.
While there he oversaw projects such as: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,Tombstone, Evita, Mr.
Holland"s Opus, Encino Manitoba, Son in Law, The Joy Luck Club, and While You Were Sleeping. Illusion Entertainment Halsted partnered with filmmaker Oliver Stone in 1995 to create Illusion Entertainment, a joint production company.
Together, they produced films such as: Nixon, U Turn, The Art of War, The Corruptor, Beyond Borders, Freeway, Any Given Sunday, and the documentary The Last Days of Kennedy and King for Turner Broadcasting System. Halsted Pictures In 1999, Halsted ventured out on his own with Halsted Pictures a multi-year, first-look production deal with Mandalay Pictures. That same year he produced The Virgin Suicides and the action film South.W.A.T. Halsted also executive produced both the TNT television pilot and series Witchblade, and the movie Serving Sara during that time.
One of Halsted"s final projects as a full-time producer was the award-winning Garden State.
Halsted helped find buyers for the film, which started as a relatively unknown independent and eventually sold for $5 million to Miramax Films and Fox Searchlight Pictures at Sundance 2004. In 2004, Halsted formed his own company representing various film, and television writers and directors. television clients in the past, along with current writers and producers have created such shows as Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Sopranos, whereas in film, represents writers and directors of such movies as,, and Halsted and also provide equity consulting and investment banking services to financiers, with services provided on such films as Michael Clayton, The Namesake, Garden State, the 2010 Best Documentary Emmy nominee Crips and Bloods: Made in America, and Samsara, the sequel to Baraka.
At the end of 2013, Halsted signed a first-look, two-year producing deal with Fox Television Studios.
Drama Some of the writers, producers and experienced show runners/creators represented by the company: Maria & Andre Jacquemetton (Mad Men) Joe Weisberg (The Americans) George Mastras (Breaking Bad) Dana Calvo (Good Girls Revolt) Tom Spezialy (The Leftovers) Colette Burson (Hung) Steve Katz (The Knick) Jim Leonard (Major Crimes) Theresa Rebeck (Smash) John Pardee & Joey Murphy (Desperate Housewives) John Strauss (Mozart in the Jungle) also represents writers on shows such as House of Cards, The Americans, Manhattan, Narcos, The Sopranos, Rescue Maine, NCIS, Scorpion, House, Hannibal, Damages, Urban Cowboy, Brain Dead, Bates Motel, Grimm, Suits, Rogue, Secrets & Lies, Heroes, Under the Dome. At the end of 2013, Halsted signed a first-look, two-year producing deal with Fox Television Studios.