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Andrew Stevens, President/CEO of Andrew Stevens Entertainment and Stevens
Entertainment Group, has produced and/or financed over one hundred and
seventy films through his various production and distribution companies.
Unique in the motion picture industry, Stevens has functioned in almost every
capacity in the entertainment business, from creative development of motion
picture stories and screenplays, to foreign sales, distribution,
post-production, deliveries and collections. He is an accomplished screen
writer, director, as well as prolific producer, and was a successful actor
for more than 20 years.
Andrew Stevens Entertainment and its subsidiary, Stevens Entertainment Group
has been active since January of 2003 and has developed, produced and/or
arranged the financing for more than twenty-five motion pictures, including “7 Seconds” (2005) and “The Marksman” (2005), both
starring Wesley Snipes, “Black Dawn” (2005), starring Steven Seagal,
“Pursued” (2004), starring Christian Slater, “Blessed” (2004), starring
Heather Graham, “Method” (2005), starring
Elizabeth Hurley, “Silent Partner” (2005), starring Tara Reid.
From 1997 through 2002 Stevens co-founded, and served as President and Chief
Operating Officer of Franchise Pictures, an independent film production and
distribution company with a domestic theatrical output deal with Warner Bros.
During his five and a half tenure at Franchise, Mr. Stevens produced or
executive produced and provided the finance or co-finance for more than 60
feature films including the enormously successful “The Whole Nine Yards” (2000), and its sequel “The
Whole Ten Yards” (2004), both starring Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry, “The
In-Laws” (2003), starring Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks, “Angel Eyes”
(2001) starring Jennifer Lopez and James Caviezel, “The Art Of War” (2000) starring Wesley Snipes, “City
By The Sea” (2002), starring Robert De Niro, “Driven” (2001) and “Get Carter”
(2000), both starring Sylvester Stallone, “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever” (2002),
starring Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas, “Heist”
(2001), starring Gene Hackman and Danny DeVito, “The Pledge” (2001), starring
Jack Nicholson, “3000 Miles to Graceland” (2001), starring Kevin Costner and
Kurt Russell, and “Half Past Dead” (2002) starring Steven Seagal.
Mr. Stevens was also responsible for creating Franchise Classics, a division
which produced and distributed many films which appeared in such major film
festivals as Cannes, Sundance Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival
including “The Big Kahuna” (1999), starring
Kevin Spacey, “Things you Can Tell Just by
Looking at Her” (2000), starring Cameron Diaz and Glenn Close, “Green Dragon”
(2001), starring Forrest Whitaker and Patrick Swayze and “The Caveman's
Valentine” (2001), starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Concurrent with the formation of Franchise, Stevens co-founded and served as
president of a sister company, Phoenician Entertainment which produced such
films as “The Third Miracle” (1999),
starring Ed Harris and Anne Heche, “Entropy” (1999), starring Stephen Dorff and
U2, “Woman Wanted” (2000), starring
Kiefer Sutherland and Holly Hunter, and many genre action/adventure films.
Prior to Franchise and Phoenician, Stevens was an owner and president of
Royal Oaks Entertainment, which produced and/or distributed seventy pictures
over a three-year period including many HBO, Showtime and Sci-Fi Channel
world premieres. Prior to Royal Oaks, Stevens' entrée into foreign sales and
production company ownership was with Sunset Films International, which
amassed a library of nineteen titles, (including seven in-house productions)
during his first year as president of the company.
Stevens serves on the board of directors of the International Film and
Television Alliance, (the former American Film Marketing Association) and
until recently served as Chairman of the Independent Producers Association
(IPA), which is, among other things, active in collective bargaining for
independent producers and film companies. Stevens has been involved in many
guild negotiations with both the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the Directors
Guild of America (DGA) on behalf of the constituency of independent producers
and was a key architect of the current DGA/IPA multi-tiered low-budget
agreement.
Through 1993, Stevens was a successful award-winning actor, including a
Golden Globe nomination and the Star of Tomorrow award from the National
Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) starring in over 80 feature films and/or
television series. He has directed nine motion pictures and a dozen episodic
television shows. Additionally, Stevens is an accomplished writer, having
written half a dozen feature films.
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