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SCOTT CHAMBLISS (Production Designer) most recently designed Star Trek, directed by J.J. Abrams. For his work, he was nominated, along with his team, for an Excellence in Production Design Award from the Art Directors Guild. Chambliss also collaborated with Abrams as production designer on Mission Impossible III, starring Tom Cruise, and on the television series “Felicity” and “Alias.”

Chambliss has designed for motion pictures, television and theater productions in both New York and Los Angeles. His feature credits include Krippendorf’s Tribe, I Like It Like That, and The Celluloid Closet.

Chambliss is also the author and illustrator of the graphic novel series Princess Puut and Dali Do The World. The first published title is Maahvelous! Princess Puut and Dali Do Venice. Its successor, Fromage d’Amour: Princess
Puut in Love has been serialized on the web.

Chambliss started his career as an associate designer with Tony Walton on a number of Broadway productions, including Anything Goes, Macbeth and Grand Hotel.

POPCORN & WEDNESDAY
Because we want everyone to catch the “Wednesday Night Fever”!!

Petaling Jaya, 26th August 2010 - Like moths to a flame, great actors gravitate to brilliantly written pieces, as established in the spectacular line up of movies we have in store for you this September, exclusively on 8TV! Catch the star-studded casts in the extravagant streak of life changing, true stories of ordinary people who live extraordinary lives!

DRIVEN
TX date: 1 September 2010
Time: 10.00 pm

With immense pressure put on him by his overly ambitious brother cum promoter, as well as his romantic involvement with his arch rival’s girlfriend Sophia, the very talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has begun to loose his focus and starts to slip in the race rankings. With much riding on him, car owner Carl Henry brings former racing star Joe Tanto on board to help Bly buck up and drive him back to the top of the rankings. But to do that, Tanto must first learn to deal with the emotional scars left over from a tragic racing accident which nearly took his life and destroyed his marriage to his wife Cathy. Based on the real life story of Formula One legend Ayrton Senna, belt up and catch all fast turns, burning rubber and power slides designed to keep you glued to your screens!

Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds

SAVING MILLY
TX date: 8 September 2010
Time: 10.00 pm
Based on the best-selling book and real-life journey of political journalist Mort Kondracke and wife Milly Martinez, who was said to have everything a woman wants. A picture perfect life, with a successful job, loving husband, two great kids, a beautiful house! Everything seems faultless until their lives take a dramatic turn when Milly notices a change in her handwriting and numbness in her fingers. After a series and tests, her worst fears come true when she is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Holding on to his promise of “in sickness and in health,” Mort changes his focus from being a careerist to becoming a devoted caregiver. As Milly’s illness progresses, his life becomes committed to saving his beloved wife. Actor Michael J. Fox, a Parkinson’s victim himself, makes a significant cameo appearance in the film. An inspiring love story that defines true love.
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Madeleine Stowe
GET CARTER
TX date: 15 September 2010
Time: 10.00 pm
After spending a life time collecting debts, agendas, and retribution for other people, vicious London mobster, Jack Carter travels home to his abandoned family in Newcastle for his brother’s funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to question them but finds a wall of silence from the local underworld. He begins to suspect that his brother’s death was not really an accident after all. When he is ordered to leave town by the minions of a shadowy mob boss, his suspicions are confirmed, and he begins his brutal revenge. Realizing that this might be his only chance to sort things out for his past, he reunites with his brother’s wife Gloria as well as her daughter Doreen and sets out to follow a complex trail of lies, deceit, and backhanders through Newcastle’s underworld, hoping that it would lead him to the man who ordered his brother killed. Nominated for the BAFTA Film Award, catch all the action and drama exclusively on 8TV!

Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Rachael Leigh Cook

AMBULANCE GIRL
TX date: 22 September 2010
Time: 10.00 pm
Ambulance Girl” is the fascinating true story of how and why Jane Stern, a depressed and anxious agoraphobic, decides to become an Emergency Medical Technician. Being 52 years old, a food writer and married for thirty-three years, Jane she realizes she was sinking emotionally and sinking fast. Her marriage was beginning to fall apart, she spent an excessive amount of time wandering around the house in her bathrobe and constantly suffering from panic attacks. Even sessions with therapists were not at all helping her. Determined to change her life and face her fears, she decides that in order to help herself, she would have to help others first. As a result, she joins the training of Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) by the Grafton Volunteer Fire Department, with the encouragement of her husband Michael. Things become rough when colleagues comment on how strange it was for a woman who was emotionally shaky and always terrified to take up such a profession. Both hilarious and poignant, this true story tells of how one woman lifted herself out of a deep depression, gaining the acceptance of the Georgetown firemen and her fellow EMT’s. An unusual account of a brave woman’s determination, to face her fears and bring out the best in herself against all odds.
Starring: Kathy Bates, Robin Thomas

BRAVE NEW GIRL
TX date: 29 September 2010
Time: 10.00 pm
Holly is a lower middle-class Texas teen who is raised by her single mother. Being gifted with a beautiful voice, a dream and dedication, she has everything it takes to become a star except the means of breaking away from her humble Texas upbringing. Her mother, Wanda, secretly sends off an audition tape that wins Holly a scholarship to a prestigious art and music school on the East coast. However, the road to stardom is a bumpy one. Holly has to face snobby attitudes, competitive classmates and compete with the arrogant Angela for the star spot. Luckily, with the support of her mother and roommate Ditz, she realises that being a star has nothing to do with fame but everything to do with faith, family, and friends - because before all the number one hits and the adoring fans, all she had was a dream. Inspired by the book “A Mother’s Gift” by Britney & Lynne Spears, catch the story that tells the true meaning of being a star.
Starring: Lindsey Haun, Virginia Madsen

“We at 8TV we have handpicked an array of amazing movies to ensure your Wednesday nights will never be the same!” says Ms Lam Swee Kim, General Manager of 8TV. Kim adds, “This month we give you a fantastic line up of stars with stories based on real people and events, giving you the perfect blend of warmth, love, grief and inspiration.”
You can get all this and more exclusively on 8TV. 8TV is also available on Astro’s Channel 708. Don’t forget, you can also catch your favourite 8TV programmes, by simply logging on to www.8tv.com.my or mobile.8tv.com.my if logging on via your mobile phone.

KURT WIMMER (Written by) is an American screenwriter and film director. Wimmer attended the University of South Florida and graduated with a BFA degree in Art History. He moved to Los Angeles where he worked for twelve years as a screenwriter, adapting works such as Sphere, starring Dustin Hoffman, and The Thomas Crowne Affair, starring Pierce Brosnan.

In 2002, Wimmer made his directorial debut, Equilibrium, starring
Christian Bale and Emily Watson. Wimmer also wrote and directed Ultraviolet, starring Milla Jovovich, and penned the screenplay for Street Kings, starring Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker. His most recent screenplay is Law Abiding Citizen, starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx, for director F. Gary Gray.

LORENZO DI BONAVENTURA (Producer) joined Columbia Pictures in June 1986 and held positions in distribution, marketing, and the office of the President.

In February 1989, di Bonaventura joined Warner Bros., rising swiftly through the production ranks to head up their film slate. While president, he was involved in over 130 productions. Amongst his biggest critical and commercial successes were: Falling Down, A Time to Kill, the Matrix series, Three Kings, Ocean’s Eleven, the first three Harry Potter movies, and Training Day.

In January 2003, di Bonaventura formed a production company at Paramount Pictures. Since its inception, the company has produced 14 pictures. Most recently, di Bonaventura Pictures produced the box-office hits Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and is currently shooting Transformers 3. Soon to be released movies include RED, starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich and Mary Louise Parker.

Among the projects in development at the company are Asteroids, based on the Atari mega-video game; Moscow, the prequel to the Jack Ryan series; and The Associate, based on the John Grisham thriller and starring Shia LeBoeuf.

SUNIL PERKASH (Producer) is an independent producer whose credits include Disney’s smash hit Enchanted (executive producer), which grossed 340 million worldwide; the supernatural thriller Premonition (producer), starring Sandra Bullock and Julian McMahon, for Tri-Star Pictures; and the New Line Cinema romantic comedy Blast From The Past (executive producer), starring Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone.

Perkash grew up in Palo Alto, California. The son of two doctors (his brother is also a doctor) he followed his passion for film and moved to Los Angeles in 1991, the day after he graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Economics and Communications. After briefly working as the US production coordinator on Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos he set off on his own to develop and produce his own material.

RIC KIDNEY (Executive Producer) has previously served as producer or executive producer on such films as Imagine That, Shooter, Four Brothers, Flight of the Phoenix, The Rundown, The Recruit, Life Or Something Like It, D-Tox, Legally Blonde, Mercury Rising, Fear, The Chamber, A Simple Twist of Fate, Six Degrees of Separation, Other People’s Money and After Dark, My Sweet.

As a second-unit or assistant director, Kidney’s work has been seen in such films as A Simple Twist of Fate, Bull Durham, Angel Heart and Who’s That Girl?

MARK VAHRADIAN (Executive Producer) was born in Mission Viejo, California. He is a graduate of Duke University and the UCLA School of Law. He spent eight years as a film executive at the Walt Disney Company and three years as president of Jerry Weintraub Productions, and is currently president of production for di Bonaventura Pictures. He has worked on such films as Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Annapolis, Flight Plan, Miracle, Remember the Titans, Gone in 60 Seconds, Con Air, Enemy of the State, and Nancy Drew.

RYAN KAVANAUGH (Executive Producer) is not just a successful producer but also a highly regarded expert in film finance through his company Relativity Media, LLC (Relativity). Relativity is a media and entertainment company engaged in creating, financing and distributing first class, studio quality entertainment content and intellectual property across multiple platforms, as well as making strategic partnerships with, and opportunistic investments in, entertainment-related companies and assets.

Kavanaugh has created business and financial structures for a number of studios, production companies and producers, and has introduced over $10 billion of capital to these structures. Past structures/deals include Sony, Universal, Warner Brothers, Marvel and many others.

Kavanaugh has embraced philanthropy with the same vigor he has brought to the entertainment industry. He is an active participant in over 25 charities including Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters, Firstar, Best Buddies, Habitat for Humanity and currently serves as Chairman of the Board for The Art of Elysium.

As a producer, Ryan Kavanaugh’s personal production line-up includes: Tarsem Singh’s War of Gods, an epic action adventure film in the vein of 300, and David O. Russell’s The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale.

Kavanaugh’s recent films include Universal’s Mamma Mia and A Serious Man; Lionsgate’s Brothers and 3:10 to Yuma; The Weinstein Company’s Nine; Screen Gems’ Dear John; and under Rogue Pictures, Last House on the Left, The Unborn, and The Strangers.

Kavanaugh was recently honored with the 2009 Hollywood Producer of the Year Award at the 13th Annual Hollywood Awards Gala and Daily Variety recently published a special issue honoring Kavanaugh as a Billion Dollar Producer.

ROBERT ELSWIT, ASC (Director of Photography) won an Academy Award® for his work on Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, and was honored in 2006 with an Academy Award® nomination for his work on George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck. For the latter film he won an Independent Spirit Award, a Boston Society of Film Critics Award, and a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography. He also received a nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography from the American Society of Cinematographers.

Elswit has worked with numerous acclaimed directors, including Tony Gilroy on Michael Clayton and the recent Duplicity; Stephen Gaghan on Syriana; Paul Thomas Anderson on Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, and Hard Eight; David Mamet on Heist; Don Roos on Bounce; Curtis Hanson on The River Wild, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, and Bad Influence; and Stephen Gyllenhaal on A Dangerous Woman, Waterland, Paris Trout, and A Killing in a Small Town.

His other film credits include Paul Weitz’ American Dreamz; Gary Fleder’s Runaway Jury and Imposter; Roger Spottiswoode’s Tomorrow Never Dies; Boys; The Pallbearer; Mike Newell’s Amazing Grace and Chuck; Desert Hearts; and Rob Reiner’s The Sure Thing.

Elswit most recently served as cinematographer on Men Who Stare at Goats, for director Grant Heslov, starring George Clooney and Ewan McGregor.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

Born in the Australian outback town of Griffith, New South Wales, PHILLIP NOYCE (Director) moved to Sydney with his family at the age of twelve. As a teenager, he was introduced to underground films produced on shoestring budgets as well as mainstream American movies. He was eighteen when he made his first film, the 15-minute “Better to Reign in Hell,” utilizing a unique financing scheme selling roles in the movie to his friends.

In 1973, Noyce was selected to attend the Australian National Film School in its inaugural year. Here, he made Castor and Pollux (1973), a 50-minute documentary, which won the award for Best Australian Short Film of 1974.

Noyce’s first professional film was the 50-minute docu-drama God Knows Why, But It Works in 1975. This helped pave the way for his first feature, the road movie Backroads (1977), which starred Australian Aboriginal activist Gary Foley. In 1978, he directed and co-wrote Newsfront (1978), which won Best Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the Australian Film Awards, as well as proving a huge commercial hit in Australia. In addition to opening the London Film Festival, Newsfront was the first Australian film to screen at the New York Film Festival.

In 1982, Heatwave, co-written and directed by Noyce and starring Judy Davis, was chosen to screen at the Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

Noyce’s other film credits include the box office hits Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994), political thrillers starring Harrison Ford, as well as the acclaimed films Dead Calm (1989) starring Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill and Billy Zane and The Bone Collector (1999) which starred Oscar© winners Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.

Returning to his native Australia after 12 years working within the Hollywood system, 2002 saw two Noyce films released worldwide at almost the same time: The Quiet American and Rabbit-Proof Fence.

The Quiet American starred Michael Caine in an Academy Award®-nominated Best Actor performance, while the film also appeared on over 20 top ten lists for 2002, including the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute.

Rabbit-Proof Fence was based on the true story of three Aboriginal girls abducted from their families by Australian authorities in 1931 as part of an official government policy. The film won Best Picture at the Australian Film Awards, and, together with The Quiet American, garnered Noyce numerous best director awards, including National Board of Review in the US and UK’s London Film Critics Circle.

In 2006 and 2007 Focus Features/Universal released Noyce’s South African set thriller Catch A Fire, starring Tim Robbins and Derek Luke. The film was named one of the top Independent Films of 2006 by the National Board of Review in the US.

Noyce’s television credits include the Australian miniseries “The Dismissal” (1983) as well as “Cowra Breakout” (1984), which he also co-wrote, and both produced by fellow director, George Miller. Noyce also directed the pilots for Fox’s “Tru Calling” (2003) and Showtime’s “Brotherhood” (2006) TV series. In 2010, FX will premiere the series “Lights Out,” on which Noyce is an Executive Producer.

One of Hollywood’s most respected actors Emmy Award-winner ANDRE BRAUGHER (Secretary of Defense) finds he is able to cross over from television to film to theatre with ease.

Perhaps best known for his riveting Emmy Award-winning portrayal of Detective Frank Pembleton on the NBC series “Homicide: Life on the Street” (1992-98), Braugher returns to television for a second season in the TNT series “Men of a Certain Age” alongside Ray Romano and Scott Bakula.

Most recently, Braugher co-starred in Passengers opposite Anne Hathaway; in the Frank Darabont film The Mist, based on the novel by Stephen King; and in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. He was also seen starring in the sci-fi miniseries “The Andromeda Strain” alongside Benjamin Bratt and Eric McCormack for A&E.

In 2006, he won a second Emmy® Award for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Miniseries for his starring role in miniseries “Thief,” which aired on FX in April 2006.

In 2004, Braugher starred in the TNT original four-hour miniseries “Salem’s Lot,” based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King. Prior to that film, he starred in the Showtime Original Film “A Soldier’s Girl.”

In 2002, he starred in the critically acclaimed CBS series “Hack” opposite David Morse and in the Showtime Original Film “10,000 Black Men Named George” with Charles Dutton and Mario Van Peebles for director Robert Townsend. Braugher served as Executive Producer on this film and he received an NAACP Award nomination for his role as A. Philip Randolph.

In 2000-2001, Braugher starred in the critically acclaimed ABC drama series “Gideon’s Crossing,” which was created by Paul Attanasio also one of the creators of “Homicide: Life on the Street.” Braugher received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Dr. Ben Gideon.

In 1999 Braugher made his directorial debut with one vignette of the Showtime trilogy “Love Songs,” in which he also starred, and he starred in the TNT telefilm “Passing Glory” (1999) for director Steve James (Hoop Dreams), garnering critical acclaim for his performance.

In addition to Braugher’s success on the small screen, audiences have seen him star in a variety of feature film roles. Most recently he co-starred in Poseidon (2006); in Duets (2000) opposite Gwyneth Paltrow for director Bruce Paltrow; in the independent feature A Better Way to Die (2000); and alongside Dennis Quaid in the critically praised film Frequency (2000). Before that he starred with Alec Baldwin in the independent film Thick As Thieves (1999), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and later aired on HBO; he was a part of an ensemble cast, which included Jeff Daniels, Gary Sinise, Joan Allen and Anna Paquin, in director Jim Stern’s All The Rage (1999); and starred in City of Angels (1998) with Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, and Dennis Franz.

Braugher’s other notable feature film credits include Primal Fear (1996) with Richard Gere, which marked his first collaboration with Frequency director Gregory Hoblit; Spike Lee’s Get on the Bus (1996); and Glory (1989), the Oscar®-winning story of America’s first unit of black soldiers during the Civil War.

On television, he was also honored with an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries for his work in the Peabody Award-winning HBO production “The Tuskeegee Airmen.” His other television credits include him reprising his Emmy® Award-winning role of Detective Frank Pembleton in the two-hour NBC Special “Homicide: The Movie” (2000); the title role in “The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson” (1990), HBO’s “Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture” (1990) and NBC’s “Murder in Mississippi” (1990). He began his television career as the late Telly Savalas’ sidekick in television movies based on the original “Kojak” series.

A most versatile performer, Braugher has appeared on stage with the New York Shakespeare Festival in “Measure for Measure” and “Twelfth Night” and most recently, in the title role of “Henry V,” which earned him an Obie Award. At Joseph Papp’s Public Theater, Braugher preformed in “The Way of the World,” and Shakespeare’s “Richard II” and “Coriolanus.” He played Iago in the Folger Shakespeare Festival production of “Othello” and performed the title role in “Macbeth” for the Philadelphia Drama Guild.

Braugher, who was born and raised in Chicago, earned a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.F.A. from Juilliard.