AFTER THE WEDDING

JOEL B. MICHAELS

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Producer

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JOEL B. MICHAELS (Producer) began his career in the entertainment business as an actor. He became a member of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Theatre in Ontario, Canada as well as performing on television with the CBC in Canada and on British television.

Michaels most recently served as President of the Halcyon Company from July 2008 through April 2010. During that time, he served as Executive Producer on the feature film, Terminator Salivation starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington.

He was an executive producer on the hit television series Terminator: The Sara Conner Chronicles for Warner Bros. Television.

During his career as a feature film producer he was President of Production and Distribution at Cineplex Odeon Films from 1986 through 1990 where he initiated production of films such as Oliver Stone’s Talk Radio; John Schlessinger’s Madame Sousatzka starring Shirley MacLaine; the four-time academy award nominated Martin Scorcese production of The Grifters directed by Stephen Frears and starring Angelica Houston, Annette Bening and John Cusack; The Glass Menagerie directed by Paul Newman, starring Joanne Woodward and John Malkovich; the Merchant/Ivory production of Mr. and Mrs. Bridge starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, for which Joanne Woodward received an Academy Award nomination for best actress; and Martin Scorsese’s production of The Last Temptation of Christ in partnership with Universal Pictures.

When Michaels completed his tenure with Cineplex Odeon Films he reunited with Mario Kassar at Carolco Pictures where he had collaborated on films with Kassar and Andy Vajna in the early 1980s and produced The Silent Partner starring Elliot Gould, Christopher Plummer and Susannah York; The Changeling starring George C. Scott; Tribute starring Jack Lemon, for which he received a best actor Academy Award nomination; and The Amateur starring John Savage, Martha Keller, and Christopher Plummer.

From 1990 to 1996 Michaels produced several films for Carolco Pictures. These films included: Adrian Lyne’s Lolita starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith; Renny Harlin’s Cutthroat Island starring Geena Davis; Roland Emmerich’s Stargate starring Kurt Russell and James Spader; and Roland Emmerich’s Universal Soldier starring Jean Claude Van Damme, and Last of the Dogmen starring Tom Berringer and Barbara Hershey.

In 1996, Michaels was President of MK Productions where he headed up Mario Kassar’s production company at Paramount Pictures until 1998 when he joined C-2 Pictures and served as the President of Production. At C-2 Pictures he produced Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines with Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, which was released in July 2003 through Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures. In 2004 Michaels produced Half-Light starring Demi Moore and directed by Craig Rosenberg. Michaels also produced Basic Instinct 2 with Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna, starring Sharon Stone, David Morrissey and Charlotte Rampling, which were released in 2006 through Sony Pictures.

Amongst the many films Michaels produced throughout his career are: Three of Hearts starring Billy Baldwin, Kelly Lynch and Sherilyn Fenn; Black Moon Rising starring Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Hamilton; The Philadelphia Experiment; and Losin’ It starring Tom Cruise and Shelly Long, and directed by Curtis Hanson.