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Bangkok--Mar 11--WARNER BROS.& VILLAGE ROADSHOW PICTURES WILL SMITH (Executive Producer) is currently receiving rave reviews for his starring role in Ali, a biopic that explores the life of the legendary boxer, and has completed production on Men in Black II, reuniting him with Tommy Lee Jones and director Barry Sonnenfeld. For The Legend of Bagger Vance, Smith earned an NAACP Award nomination for Best Actor. He starred in Wild Wild West, for which his theme song went gold and the soundtrack, produced by his company, Overbrook Entertainment, went platinum. Other film credits include Enemy of the State, Men in Black, Independence Day, Bad Boys, Six Degrees of Separation, Made in America and Where the Day Takes You. He has been honored by NATO/ShoWest as the Male Star of Tomorrow, won the International Box Office Achievement Award and was named 1999 Entertainer of the Year by the NAACP Image Awards. Smith has recorded several platinum and multi-platinum albums, winning two Grammys and three American Music Awards. He made his transition into television as the star of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. He is partnered with James Lassiter in Overbrook Entertainment. JAMES LASSITER (Executive Producer) is partnered with Will Smith in Overbrook Entertainment and served as producer for the current feature release Ali, starring Smith. He recently won the 2000-2001 Outer Circle Critics Award for Jitney, the Off-Broadway play he produced which is currently being performed at London's West End National Theatre. For his work in music, Lassiter has also won accolades, among them American Music Awards for the soundtracks to Men in Black and Wild Wild West. ERIC MCLEOD (Executive Producer) is currently producing New Line Cinema's next Austin Powers film. McLeod also produced Disney's Bubble Boy, The Cell, with Jennifer Lopez, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, both starring Mike Myers. McLeod was co-producer of New Line Cinema's Living Out Loud, directed by Richard La Graveness, Wag the Dog, directed by Barry Levinson, Now and Then, starring Demi Moore, and Feeling Minnesota, starring Cameron Diaz and Keanu Reeves. Among his other credits are Corrina, Corrina and Gus Van Sant's Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. He was production manager for Enemy of the State, 8 Seconds, Wide Sargasso Sea, The Rapture, Faith and Live Wire. McLeod lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children. BRUCE BERMAN (Executive Producer) joined the production division of Warner Bros. Pictures and rose through the ranks of executives to become President of Worldwide Theatrical Production. Under his aegis, the studio produced and distributed such titles as the Oscar-winning Driving Miss Daisy, as well as GoodFellas, Presumed Innocent, Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, Batman Forever, Malcolm X, The Bodyguard, JFK, The Fugitive, Dave, A Time To Kill and Twister. In 1996, Berman started Plan B Entertainment, the Warner Bros. Pictures-based independent production company that was later acquired by Village Roadshow Pictures. Village Roadshow Pictures, where Berman now holds the post of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, currently has 20 projects in various stages of development at Warner Bros. Pictures. More recently, Berman executive produced the immensely successful Training Day, Cats & Dogs, Three Kings, The Matrix, Analyze This, Deep Blue Sea, Practical Magic, Space Cowboys and Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's 11, through Village Roadshow's partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures, as well as the hit comedy Miss Congeniality, produced jointly with Warner Bros. Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment. Berman will serve as executive producer for the two highly anticipated sequels to the international blockbuster The Matrix, currently in production. Showtime is KEITH SHARON's (Screenplay) first produced screenplay. His next project, Peach Fuzz, has been optioned by Thousand Words Pictures. Sharon is a reporter for the Orange County Register, a daily newspaper in Southern California. He and his wife, Nancy Gill, live in Rancho Santa Margarita with their 6-year-old twins, Alison and Dylan. ALFRED GOUGH & MILES MILLAR (Screenplay) currently have Shanghai Knights in production for Disney and Spyglass Entertainment. This is the sequel to Shanghai Noon, the hit action comedy starring Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson and Lucy Liu that has grossed over $100 million, and for which the team wrote the screenplay. Gough and Millar are also creators and executive producers of the critically acclaimed hit series Smallville, the story of a teenage Clark Kent, on The WB. Other writing credits for Gough and Millar include Lethal Weapon 4, and the HBO films Double Tap and Made Men, all three produced by Joel Silver and Richard Donner. Gough and Millar first made a name for themselves as students in the Peter Stark Producing Program at USC in Los Angeles. During this time they made a made a high-profile sale of the script Mango to New Line Cinema and have been writing and producing together ever since. BILLY WEBER (Editor) recently earned an Academy Award nomination for his editing work on The Thin Red Line for director Terrence Malick, with whom he previously collaborated on Days of Heaven. Earlier in his career, Weber earned an Academy nomination for Top Gun. Among his numerous feature film editing credits are Iceman, Beverly Hills Cop and Beverly Hills Cop 2, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Midnight Run, Days of Thunder, Pure Luck, Grumpier Old Men, Murder at 1600 and Miss Congeniality. Additionally, Weber contributed to a number of films as additional editor, among them Warriors, 48 Hours, Extreme Prejudice, The Cowboy Way and Bulworth. Weber was born and raised in Los Angeles. While working at UCLA as a researcher, he met film editor Sid Levin, who introduced him to the craft. Beginning his film industry career in 1966 in the print shop at MCA, it was not long before Weber found his way to the editing room as an apprentice on the television series Name of the Game. He wrote two scripts before his next editing job as an assistant on The Candidate. An introduction to editor Bob Estrin then led to Weber being hired as an assistant on Terrence Malick's acclaimed Badlands. JEFF MANN (Production Designer) made his feature film debut as a production designer for director Dominic Sena's Gone In 60 Seconds, after previously working as an art director on Sena's Kalifornia. He was also the production designer on the recent thriller Swordfish and is currently designing Terminator 3. Prior to beginning his film career, Mann accumulated a number of varied and offbeat experiences that gave him a unique perspective on the world. Contacts he made in the art and music scenes led to art department work on music videos, which segued into work on television commercials. His natural artistic ability, together with skills and a strong work ethic, catapulted him through the ranks. He quickly advanced to assistant art director and by 1995 was busy working as one of the top commercial production designers in the industry. His resum? of commercials includes many award-winning ads for such well-known directors as Dominic Sena, Michael Bay, Samuel Bayer and Antoine Fuqua. Mann's extensive client roster includes Mercedes, Canon, Budweiser, RCA, Nike, L'Oreal, Lexus, Sony, Levi's American Express, Black & Decker, Kodak, Nike and Coca-Cola. THOMAS KLOSS (Director of Photography) has a wide range of experience covering feature films, television commercials and an impressive list of music videos. He was honored twice with the Austrian National Award for Best Photography, in 1986 and again in 1987. Kloss made his feature debut with Peter Medak's Pontiac Moon and went on to work on James Foley's Fear and Palmetto for director Volker Schloendorff. Among the commercials to his credit are for clients such as Old Navy, L'Oreal, Honda, On Star Communications, Verizon, Chevy, Coke, Jaguar and Showtime. Additionally, Kloss has served as director of photography on numerous and diverse music videos, including those for Aaliyah, Aerosmith, Lil' Kim, Jennifer Lopez, Busta Rhymes, Ben Harper, Third Eye Blind, Bon Jovi, Faith Hill, Madonna, Lenny Kravitz, Will Smith and Bush. Oscar- and Grammy-nominated composer ALAN SILVESTRI (Music) has been associated with an extraordinary number of diverse and successful films. He has composed more than 70 scores over the past 30 years, since his first film, The Doberman Gang, to the recent blockbuster The Mummy Returns, for which he conducted a 100-piece orchestra and 30-voice choir. Silvestri's initial collaboration with Robert Zemeckis on the 1984 hit Romancing the Stone launched one of the longest-running and most successful director/composer relationships in Hollywood. They have worked on nine films together, including the Back to the Future trilogy, for which the composer received Grammy nominations, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which earned him two more Grammy nominations, Death Becomes Her, the multiple-Oscar-winning Forrest Gump, which brought both Oscar and Grammy nominations, Contact, What Lies Beneath and Cast Away. Silvestri won a CableACE Award for his work on an episode of HBO's Tales From the Crypt. Among the scores Silvestri has composed for some of the most interesting films and creative filmmakers of the past two decades are John McTiernan's Predator; The Abyss for James Cameron; Charles Shyer's Father of the Bride; a memorably melancholy theme for Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard; Rob Minkoff's Stuart Little; Gore Verbinski's The Mexican; and, more recently, What Women Want. Interested in jazz at an early age, the Manhattan-born Silvestri formed a jazz ensemble and enrolled in Boston's famed Berklee College of Music in 1968. Two years later he played in Las Vegas with Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders. After relocating to Los Angeles for the promise of a record contract that turned out to be bogus, he landed a job from lyricist Bradford Craig, a colleague of Quincy Jones, playing guitar on demos. In 1972, Silvestri was approached to provide music for a film-- something the young musician had never done before. He rose to the challenge, thus launching his composing career with The Doberman Gang, and went on to score 120 episodes of the popular television series CHiPs for MGM before getting the referral to Robert Zemeckis that led to his work on Romancing the Stone. End. -SS-