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Production executive who worked in a variety of jobs in film production from the early 1980s. Other notable producing credits include HOWARD THE DUCK (1986, assoc. producer), BATMAN RETURNS (1992, assoc. producer), RISING SUN (1993, line producer), THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES (also 1993, producer) and SPEED (1994, exec. producer). Since then, he has produced TWISTER (1996), HARD RAIN and SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (both 1998), FORCES OF NATURE (1999), ALMOST FAMOUS (2000), SPIDER-MAN (2002), TEARS OF THE SUN (2003), THE ISLAND (2005), TRANSFORMERS (2007), and HANCOCK (scheduled for release in 2008).  Nominated for Best Picture of the Year 1998: SAVING PRIVATE RYAN - Producer at Dreamworks (w. Steven Spielberg, Mark Gordon & Gary Levinsohn) 1 nomination