CHARLES WOOD LEE HAXALL
CHARLES WOOD (Production Designer) began his entertainment industry career in 1991 as a visual effects art director, working on such projects as “The Fugitive,” Peter Weir’s “Fearless,” “Under Siege” and “Army of Darkness.” Segueing to design work, he has since collaborated on projects ranging from big studio movies to independent films. His credits include Michael Apted’s “Amazing Grace,” “Fool’s Gold,” “Flyboys,” directed by Tony Bill, “Laws of Attraction,” “The Italian Job,” directed by F. Gary Gray, “Get Carter” and “Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.”
Wood earned an Emmy Award nomination in 2000 for the television movie “Geppetto” and a 2007 Satellite Award nomination for “Amazing Grace.”
LEE HAXALL (Editor), a native of Pennsylvania and graduate of the USC School of Cinema, edited Jay Roach’s “Meet the Fockers,” starring Robert De Niro, Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. She then worked for director Jay Chandrasekhar on “The Dukes of Hazzard,” starring Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott and Jessica Simpson, and “Beerfest,” starring the Broken Lizard Comedy Troupe, Will Forte and Cloris Leachman.
More recently, she edited the Universal and Imagine Entertainment movie “Kids in America,” directed by Michael Dowse and starring Topher Grace, Anna Faris and Dan Fogler.
In 2004, Haxall received an Emmy Award for Best Editing of a Single Camera Comedy Series for the pilot of “Arrested Development.” She was also recognized for her work on the comedy series “Arli$$” with a Cable Ace Award for Best Editor of a comedy series.
GREGORY PERLER (Editor) was born in New Jersey and educated at New York University, where he graduated with a BA in film studies. While still in film school, Perler found his interests gravitating towards editing.
Perler’s most recent film credits include the box office smash “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour” and the critically acclaimed ”Enchanted,” for Disney. His relationship with Disney began when he was hired as an assistant on “Beauty and the Beast” (the only animated film to be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award®); he was then promoted to co-editor, where he remained for two years.
His other feature animation credits include “Tarzan”; the Oscar®-nominated “Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius”; and the Oscar®-winning “Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.” Live-action credits include “102 Dalmatians” and two Emmy-winning “Eloise at the Plaza” television films.
Perler and his family live in Studio City, California.
BILLY WEBER (Editor) received an Academy Award® nomination for his editing work on “The Thin Red Line” for director Terrence Malick, with whom he had previously collaborated on “Days of Heaven.” Earlier in his career, Weber earned an Oscar® nomination for “Top Gun.”
Most recently, he edited “Nacho Libre,” starring Jack Black, “Gigli,” starring Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, and “Showtime,” for director Tom Dey. 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 HRS.,” “Extreme Prejudice,” “The Cowboy Way” and “Bulworth.” “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Midnight Run” producer and director Martin Brest produced Weber’s directorial effort, “Josh and S.A.M.” He was also the associate producer on “The New World” for Malick.
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 “The 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 led to Weber’s being hired as an assistant on Malick’s acclaimed “Badlands.”
Weber will next be editing Malick’s “Tree of Life,” starring Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain and Sean Penn.
KAREN PATCH (Costume Designer) most recently designed costumes for “Drillbit Taylor,” “You, Me and Dupree,” “Bad News Bears” and “Team America: World Police.” Her work will next be seen in “Bride Wars,” with Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway. Her additional credits include “The School of Rock,” starring Jack Black, and “The Royal Tenenbaums,” for which she received the Costume Designers Guild Award.
Patch also designed costumes for Wes Anderson’s “Rushmore” and “Bottle Rocket,” as well as for “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” “Simpatico,” “My Girl,” “Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey,” “Bright Angel,” “Chattahoochee” and “The Big Picture.”
GEORGE S. CLINTON (Music) began his professional musical career as a songwriter, arranger, and session musician in Nashville, while earning degrees in music and drama at Middle Tennessee State University. The summer after graduation, he attended the Atlanta Pop Festival and, upon hearing Joe Cocker perform ”With a Little Help from My Friends,” left his native Chattanooga, bound for Los Angeles and ready to rock and roll.
Clinton became a staff writer for Warner Bros. Music, with songs recorded by such artists as Michael Jackson, Joe Cocker and Three Dog Night; he continued arranging and doing session work; and, as a recording artist, he did albums for MCA, Elektra, ABC, and Arista. The critically acclaimed George Clinton Band attracted the attention of a movie producer, giving Clinton the opportunity to score his first film, Cheech & Chong’s “Still Smokin,” and, subsequently, “Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers.”
He developed his craft scoring ”Ninja” movies for Cannon Films, network and cable television movies and miniseries, writing for a wide range of genres and musical styles. The soulful, erotic jazz for Zalman King’s Showtime anthology “Red Shoe Diaries” developed quite a following and brought Clinton more public awareness.
His musical inventiveness and versatility in both orchestral and popular idioms have allowed him to contribute memorable scores to such diverse films as the hit comedy “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery” and its blockbuster sequels, as well as the hit martial arts fantasy “Mortal Kombat” and its sequel. Other noteworthy projects include John Waters’ “A Dirty Shame”; Disney’s holiday hit “The Santa Clause 2: The Mrs. Clause”; Tim Allen’s poignant “Joe Somebody”; Kevin Costner’s wild “3000 Miles to Graceland”; the scary “The Astronaut’s Wife,” starring Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp; and the sexy thriller “Wild Things.”
More recent projects include “The Santa Clause 3,” “Deck the Halls,” the Emmy Award-winning “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” and “Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.”
In addition, Clinton has written several concert works and three musicals, and is proud to serve as an advisor at the Sundance Composers Lab. Awards include a Grammy nomination, an Emmy nomination and eight BMI Film Music Awards, including their highest honor, the Richard Kirk Career Achievement Award.
JOHN HOULIHAN (Music Supervisor) has collaborated with Mike Myers on four previous projects — the highlights being the three “Austin Powers” films. The “Austin Powers” albums have sold millions of copies worldwide and spawned hit singles and hit music videos by Madonna, Lenny Kravitz, Beyoncé Knowles and Britney Spears. He most recently oversaw the music for “Gracie,” “The Lake House,” “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” “Two for the Money,” “Assault on Precinct 13,” “New York Minute” and “13 Going on 30.” His work on the “Charlie’s Angels” soundtrack album resulted in sales of more than three million copies worldwide. The album’s success was driven by the popular single “Independent Women, Part II” by Destiny’s Child. Houlihan served in the same capacity on “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.”
Houlihan has helped shape the music on more than 30 feature films and almost as many soundtrack albums. Other credits include “Nacho Libre,” “Biker Boyz,” “The Sweetest Thing,” “Training Day,” which earned Denzel Washington an Oscar® for Best Actor, and “Charlotte’s Web,” starring Dakota Fanning and the voices of Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Robert Redford and others.