About The Filmmakers

Director PAUL WEILAND began his career in 1973 as a copywriter at London advertising agency Collett Dickenson Pearce & Partners. He worked briefly for the Alan Parker Film Company before setting up the Paul Weiland Film Company in 1980. The company now represents eleven directors both in the UK and America and is responsible for award winning commercials for clients including Hamlet Cigars, Heineken, British Telecom, Levis 501, Carlsberg, Walkers, and Coca-Cola. In 1988, he was voted top UK commercials director in Campaign's Top 100 League Table for his past 10 years work.

In 1987, Weiland turned his attention to drama and directed Anthony Minghella's "The Storyteller: The Three Ravens," starring Miranda Richardson and John Hurt for Jim Henson Productions. He went on to direct two additional projects for Jim Henson Productions: in 1989, "Living With Dinosaurs" with Michael Maloney and Juliet Stevenson, which won an Emmy Award for Best International Children's Program, and in 1990, "The Storyteller: Daedalus & Icarus," starring Michael Gambon and Derek Jacobi.

In 1991, Weiland directed episodes of the Rowan Atkinson hit television series "Mr Bean" and the charming "Bernard and the Genie," a BBC Christmas special, starring Lenny Henry and Rowan Atkinson, which was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award.

He followed this by taking the helm of City Slickers II -- The Legend of Curly's Gold, starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Jon Lovitz, and Jack Palance. In 1997, he directed the romantic comedy Roseanna's Grave, starring Jean Reno and Mercedes Reuhl. The film won the Houston Film Festival Grand Award for Best Feature Film.

In 1999, he directed Rowan Atkinson, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Colin Firth, and Kate Moss in Blackadder Back & Forth.

While developing and directing feature films, Weiland continued to direct commercials. He has been recognized many times by the Design and Art Direction Awards and the British Television Advertising Awards (BTA). He also received the Best TV Commercial of the year (Schweppes), the Grand Prix de Press at Cannes (Heineken), as well as a BAFTA and a BTA Award for Best Cinema Commercials (Fosters).

In 1993, he won the BTA Chairman's Award for his outstanding contribution to the industry. From 1994 to 1997, The Paul Weiland Film Company took the BTA Award for the Most Successful Production Company. In 1997, the company was voted Campaign's top production company of the year and was ranked second top production company in the world. In 2002, at D&AD's fortieth anniversary ceremony, the company received the President's Award.

In 2003, Weiland set up Contagious, a company to develop and produce film projects in partnership with David Barron. In 2005, he directed Sixty Six, a Working Title feature based on his own life story.

ADAM SZTYKIEL (Story by, Screenplay by) graduated from USC's School of Cinema-Television in 2000. He sold Made of Honor, which is his first feature film credit, as a spec script in 2003.

HARRY ELFONT & DEBORAH KAPLAN (Screenplay by) wrote and directed the films Can't Hardly Wait and Josie and the Pussycats. They have also written numerous screenplays, including A Very Brady Sequel, and the upcoming 99 Problems, Leap Year, and Sisters of Mercy, with Will Smith set to star.

NEAL H. MORITZ (Producer) is one of the most prolific producers working in Hollywood today, with a wide range of film and television projects to his credit. Founder of Original Film, a feature film and television company, Moritz is currently in postproduction on several features, including the fourth installment of The Fast and the Furious franchise. His most recent feature films include the hit film Vantage Point, which opened #1 in February, and the April release Prom Night.

Moritz also recently produced the blockbuster I Am Legend, starring Will Smith, and this past summer's successful comedy Evan Almighty, starring Steve Carell and Morgan Freeman. His other recent credits include Click, starring Adam Sandler; Gridiron Gang, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson; and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. For television, he is an executive producer on the acclaimed drama series "Prison Break."

After Moritz established Original Film in 1997, the company's first self-financed feature was the 1999 hit Cruel Intentions, a modern take on the classic novel Dangerous Liaisons, starring Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe. The 1999 teen drama grossed more than $75 million at the box office and is considered a cult favorite among those who came of age at the time of its release.

Moritz then produced The Skulls, which marked one of five collaborations with director Rob Cohen. The two have also teamed on the blockbusters The Fast and the Furious and xXx, both starring Vin Diesel; Stealth, starring Jamie Foxx, Jessica Biel and Josh Lucas; and the HBO movie "The Rat Pack," which earned 11 Emmy Award nominations.

With more than 35 movies to his credit, Moritz's producing credits also include the smash hit romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama, starring Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas and Patrick Dempsey; The Fast and the Furious sequels; the Denzel Washington thriller Out of Time; the motorcycle actioner Torque, starring Ice Cube; S.W.A.T., starring Samuel L. Jackson and Colin Farrell; The Glass House; the Jack Black comedy Saving Silverman; the action comedy Blue Streak, starring Martin Lawrence; and Volcano, starring Tommy Lee Jones.

Moritz has also made a number of teen films, including I Know What You Did Last Summer, which spawned a successful sequel; Urban Legend; the college comedy Slackers; and Not Another Teen Movie, a spoof of the very teen-film genre he helped to create. Prior to that, the first major feature film he produced was 1992's Juice, starring Omar Epps and the late Tupac Shakur.

A graduate of UCLA with a degree in economics, Moritz went on to earn a graduate degree from the Peter Stark Motion Picture Producing Program at the University of Southern California.

CALLUM GREENE (Executive Producer) has worked on a variety of acclaimed independent movies and is renowned for his ability to bring projects to the big screen under any circumstance. He was nominated twice by the IFP in 2004 for Happy Here and Now, which won the audience award at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, and Homework, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance the same year.

Most recently, Greene served as executive producer of Columbia's hit feature Vantage Point. Previously, he served as co-producer on Columbia's Marie Antoinette, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. He also line-produced Emilio Estevez's Bobby, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, as well as director-writer-producer Sofia Coppola's Academy Award® winner, Lost in Translation.

Other producing credits for Greene include such independents as Thumbsucker; The Beautiful Country; Second Best, which premiered at Sundance; and The Next Best Thing. He also produced the acclaimed television movies "Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story," starring James Woods; and "3 A.M.," starring Danny Glover, Michelle Rodriguez and Pam Grier. In addition, Greene has produced numerous documentaries, including This So Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs The Late Henry Moss, featuring Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Woody Harrelson and Sam Shepard.

Greene began in Europe as a producer and stage manager of theater before enrolling in the Masters program at Columbia University in 1995. The following year, he was awarded the Arthur Krim fellowship to encourage his producing abilities. He went on to co-produce such features as Long Time Since, The Farmhouse and In The Weeds, as well as line-producing Better Living, Hostage and Hamlet.

Greene is currently executive producing Everybody's Fine for Radar Pictures. The film stars Robert De Niro and is directed by Kirk Jones.

TANIA LANDAU (Executive Producer) joined Original Film five years ago. She has since overseen such projects for the dynamic company as the 2006 successful comedy Click, as well as executive producing the recent hit Vantage Point.

The British native came to Los Angeles in the mid-1990s. Landau first worked at New Line Cinema under Michael De Luca, and later teamed with producer Mark Gordon, for whom she helped set up Casanova, starring Heath Ledger.

Executive Producer AMANDA LEWIS is Executive Vice President of Development at Original Films. She was a co-producer on the company's blockbuster hit, S.W.A.T., starring Colin Farrell, Samuel Jackson and L.L. Cool J., on The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and on Gridiron Gang, staring The Rock. Amanda is executive producing the upcoming Fast and Furious which reunites Vin Diesel and Paul Walker.

Lewis grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a major in English. Prior to joining Original Film, she worked at the ICM talent agency in New York and Los Angeles.

In 2002, MARTY ADELSTEIN (Executive Producer) left the Endeavor Agency, which he helped found. Adelstein represented clients such as David E. Kelley ("Ally McBeal," "The Practice") and Bonnie and Terry Turner ("3rd Rock from the Sun," "That '70s Show"), among others.

Immediately thereafter, Adelstein struck a television deal with 20th Century Fox. Since then, he has produced fourteen pilots, with "Still Life," "The Help," "Tru Calling" and "Point Pleasant" going to series. His series "Prison Break" was a breakout hit for Fox in the fall of 2005.

Of Adelstein's feature endeavors, Black Christmas, written and directed by Glen Morgan and Jim Wong, was released in December 2006 by Dimension. Adelstein is also set to produce The Experiment, written and directed by Paul Scheuring who created "Prison Break."

Adelstein continues his deal with Fox Studios, for whom he is developing several drama and comedy pilots for the 2008 season.

AARON KAPLAN and SEAN PERRONE (Executive Producers) founded Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment in 2000. The company has a first-look producing deal with Sony-based Escape Artists. Their first feature film, You, Me and Dupree, was released in 2007. They are currently in production on Summit Entertainment's Knowing, starring Nicolas Cage for director Alex Proyas.

RYAN KAVANAUGH (Executive Producer) is the principal of Relativity Media, LLC, a financing, consulting and production company that structures slate financing for both major studios and independent production entities and who, according to Seth Lubove of Bloomberg News, "is one of the pre-eminent middlemen between hedge funds and Hollywood."

Kavanaugh creates business and financial structures for a number of studios, production companies and producers, and has introduced over $8 billion of capital to these structures over the years. Current deals and clients include Sony, Universal, Warner Brothers, Marvel, Atmosphere Entertainment MM, Marvel, French distributor/sales agent Exception Wild Bunch among others. Most recently, Kavanaugh closed an extensive four-year co-financing partnership between Relativity Media and Universal Pictures. Through the agreement, Relativity Capital, a newly announced partnership between Relativity Media and Elliott Associates, L.P., will co-finance a significant portion of Universal's release slate through 2011.

In a significant milestone for the entertainment finance industry, in 2007 Kavanaugh created a wholly owned subsidiary, Relativity Media Holdings I LLC, which has concluded an agreement with Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking on a co-financing package for approximately 45 studio films over the next five years. Under this subsidiary, a co-financing deal with Sony was established called Beverly Boulevard. With this deal, Relativity will co-invest in approximately 75% of Columbia's films, under a five-year revolving credit facility.

Jill Goldsmith of Variety wrote of Kavanaugh: "His co-financing deals are the most successful ever in Hollywood. He's been amazingly proactive, and is the envy of many on Wall Street involved in the business."

Kavanaugh has created a number of other unique financing packages, including Gun Hill Road I and Gun Hill Road II, which provide discrete and separate funds for both Sony Pictures Entertainment and Universal Pictures, marking the first time two studios received funding from the same source, resulting in a total of 44 films in various stages of production and release. In addition, Kavanaugh facilitated a $528 million multi-picture, co-financing arrangement for Warner Bros. Pictures as well as a $525 million financing deal for Marvel Enterprises. Kavanaugh also structured and raised a 120 million Euro acquisition, production and distribution fund for Exception Wild Bunch S.A., the French distribution and sales company founded by former Studio Canal management. In January 2008, Relativity Media announced the formation of the wholly-owned subsidiary, Relativity Capital, which is to be a principal investor in major media transactions, including studio slates, the Relativity Media Single Picture Business, library acquisitions, and other media-related cash flow investments. Elliott Associates, L.P, a New York- based hedge fund with $10 billion in assets under management, will be working with and providing financing to Relativity Capital In these media transactions.

Kavanaugh also runs Relativity Media's "single picture business," wherein the company finances, produces and distributes an average of one film per month. The Relativity Single Picture business was set up to offer "studio quality product to the independent world" and has so far committed over $400 million to a slate that includes the following projects: 3:10 to Yuma ($55M budget) starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale for director James Mangold; The Bank Job ($22M budget) starring Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows, and directed by Roger Donaldson; the upcoming The Forbidden Kingdom ($55M budget) in which Jet Li and Jackie Chan star together for director Rob Minkoff; The Untouchables ($67M budget) starring Academy Award® winners Nicolas Cage and Benicio Del Toro and directed by Brian De Palma; and Without Remorse, based on the Tom Clancy best seller.

Prior to his work with Relativity, Kavanaugh started a venture capital company at the age of 22, and during such time raised and invested over $400 million of equity to a number of venture and private equity transactions.

Director of Photography TONY PIERCE-ROBERTS, BSC was born in Birkenhead, England, where he lived until the age of 11, when he immigrated with his parents to Central Africa. On an impulse, he left school to join the Central African Film Unit, where he found he enjoyed making game films and doing freelance work for visiting film crews, including units for the BBC.

Within five years, Pierce-Roberts went to London and joined the BBC, beginning as an assistant cameraman. He has won two BAFTA awards for Best Film Cameraman, for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and for Caught on a Train. Among his work in television dramas have been several distinguished films, including "A Voyage Round My Father," "The Good Soldier," and "Homeless." His first feature film, Moonlighting, directed by Jerzy Skoliomowski, was followed by P'tang Yang Kipperbang, part of David Puttnam's "First Love" series.

Made of Honor is Pierce-Roberts' second project with Paul Weiland, after collaborating with the director on Time for Blackadder, which was shown in the theater outside the Millennium Dome during the year it was open.

Pierce-Roberts began a long collaboration with Merchant Ivory productions when he shot Slaves of New York. For his work on A Room With a View, Pierce-Roberts received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematography and The London Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement, as well as BAFTA and Oscar® nominations. He also received great personal acclaim for his cinematography on the Merchant Ivory productions Howards End (for which he received Oscar®, BAFTA and ASC nominations for Best Cinematography) and The Remains of the Day (for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography). He later collaborated with James Ivory on the films Surviving Picasso and The Golden Bowl.

His feature credits include A Private Function, A Tiger's Tale, Out Cold, White Fang, The Dark Half, Splitting Heirs, The Client, Disclosure, Jungle 2 Jungle, and Paulie: A Parrot's Tale, Haunted, and Astérix et Obélix contre César.

Pierce-Roberts's most recent credits include J'aurais votre etre un danseur for Alain Berliner; director Irwin Winkler's films Home of the Brave and De-Lovely; and Lights 2: Return of the Shadow for Marcus Dillstone.

Among the additional films he has photographed are Julian Fellowes' Separate Lies; Doom, for Andrzej Bartkowiak; and Underworld for Len Wiseman. Prior to that he shot The Importance of Being Earnest for Oliver Parker, Dinotopia for Marco Brambilla, The Trench for William Boyd and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang for Stewart Sugg.

Production Designer KALINA IVANOV was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. Together with her family, she escaped the communist regime in 1979 and landed in New York.

Ivanov's design philosophy is to immerse herself in the script, fully embody the characters and reveal their history through color, texture, and architecture in a visually original way.

She has brought this sensibility as a production designer and visual consultant to 26 films, including Little Miss Sunshine, Smoke, Uptown Girls, Swimfan, Chapter 27, Brown Sugar, Household Saints, and The Manchurian Candidate, among others.

Ivanov also designed the upcoming films Raving, written and directed by Julia Stiles, and My Sassy Girl, directed by Yann Samuel.

She has also contributed as a storyboard artist to over 30 films, including The Silence Of The Lambs, Quiz Show, The Horse Whisperer, and The Brave One, among others.

Ivanov received her BFA from NYU/TSOA Design Department and her

MFA from NYU/TSOA Graduate Film School. She graduated with honors from both.

Ivanov's design work has been exhibited in Lincoln Center.

Editor RICHARD MARKS, A.C.E. has received four Academy Award® nominations for his works on Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and James L. Brooks' As Good As It Gets, Broadcast News, and Terms of Endearment.

Marks most recently co-produced and edited Brooks' Spanglish. Other editing credits include Timeline, Riding in Cars with Boys, What Planet Are You From?, You've Got Mail, Father of the Bride, Dick Tracy, Pretty In Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Max Dugan Returns, Pennies From Heaven, The Last Tycoon, The Godfather Part II, Bang The Drum Slowly, Little Big Man, and Jumpin' Jack Flash, on which he also served as associate producer.

In addition, he co-produced As Good As It Gets and Say Anything and was associate producer on I'll Do Anything.

Costume Designer PENNY ROSE was nominated for both the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and the Costume Designers Guild for her work on director Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. She also designed the costumes for the third film in the trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, as well as Verbinski's The Weather Man.

Most recently, she designed the costumes for St. Trinians, starring Rupert Everett, Emily Watson and Colin Firth, as well as the blockbuster comedy Wild Hogs, directed by Walt Becker and starring Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy.

Rose had received a previous BAFTA nomination for her work on director Alan Parker's acclaimed screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical, Evita, starring Madonna and Jonathan Pryce. Rose is a long-time collaborator of Parker's and has designed costumes for three of his other films: The Road to Wellville, Pink Floyd: The Wall, and The Commitments.

Rose's additional credits include King Arthur, The Sleeping Dictionary, Neil Jordan's The Good Thief, Just Visiting, Entrapment, and Disney's hit remake of The Parent Trap, directed by Nancy Meyers. Earlier in her career, she designed costumes for Brian De Palma's Mission: Impossible and has twice worked with Academy Award winning director Lord Richard Attenborough, on Shadowlands and In Love and War. Her resume also includes Christopher Hampton's Carrington, Vincent Ward's Map of the Human Heart, Bill Forsyth's Local Hero, Pat O'Connor's Cal, Marek Kanievska's Another Country, and Jean-Jacques Annaud's Quest for Fire.

Rose was trained in West End theatre and began her career there and also in television, designing for commercials where she first met such directors as Alan Parker, Adrian Lyne, Ridley and Tony Scott and Hugh Hudson. She was born and raised in Britain, and is fluent in French and Italian.

RUPERT GREGSON-WILLIAMS (Music by) has scored a wide variety of film and television projects. Most recently, he has composed the scores to Adam Sandler's Click and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, as well as the animated films Bee Movie and Over the Hedge. For his work on Bee Movie, he was nominated for an Annie Award and an award from the International Film Music Critics Association. He is currently completing work on Adam Sandler's next films, You Don't Mess with the Zohan and Bedtime Stories.

In 2004, Gregson-Williams collaborated with Andrea Guerra to compose the score for the acclaimed true-life drama Hotel Rwanda, for which the composers won the European Film Award. He more recently contributed to the scores of the Oscar®-winning animated feature Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Antoine Fuqua's live-action epic King Arthur.

Gregson-Williams has also created the scores for such feature films as the teen comedy What a Girl Wants, starring Amanda Bynes and Colin Firth; the biographical comedy-drama The Night We Called it a Day, starring Dennis Hopper and Melanie Griffith; Brad Mirman's crime-comedy Crime Spree, starring Gérard Depardieu and Harvey Keitel; Nick Hurran's Plots With a View, starring Brenda Blethyn and Alfred Molina; Peter Hewitt's Thunderpants, starring Simon Callow; Nick Hurran's Virtual Sexuality; and Geneviève Jolliffe's Urban Ghost Story. He has also collaborated with composer Hans Zimmer on a number of animated and live-action features.

NICK ANGEL (music supervisor) was the director of A&R at Island Records from 1990 to 1999. He was responsible for the signings of P.J. Harvey, Pulp, The Orb, Talvin Singh, and Apache Indian amongst others. Since 1999, Nick has been the Music Supervisor at Working Title Films. His films include Definitely Maybe, Atonement, The Golden Age, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, About a Boy, Love Actually, Bridget Jones Diary, Pride & Prejudice, Ali G Indahouse and Billy Elliot.

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