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ABOUT THE CAST
HAYDEN PANETTIERE (Beth Cooper) has an impressive resume of feature film, television, animation and commercial credits that have made her name synonymous with a rising star.
Currently starring in the popular NBC Television drama Heroes, Hayden has been cast in the unique and challenging role as a high school cheerleader who is literally indestructible.  The NBC series is a critical and audience hit and was been nominated for a 2007 Emmy® Award by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in the Outstanding Drama Series category.  The series also received a Golden Globe® nomination from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 2007.
Also in 2007, Hayden herself was honored with the Capri Hollywood Film Festival’s Breakout Actress Award, as well as the 1st Annual Wave Award as Favorite Clipped Dramatic Artist for the Television Season.  She also has received the Genesis Wyler Award from The Humane Society of the United States for her impassioned efforts in raising awareness of animal welfare worldwide.  In July, 2008 she was named Choice Female Actress in a Television Drama Series by the wildly popular Teen Choice Awards.
Hayden’s film credits are impressive.  She co-starred in Fireflies in the Garden, opposite Julia Roberts, Willem Dafoe and Emily Watson for Senator International, which debuted at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival.  The story, directed by Dennis Lee, explores the complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart when faced with an unexpected tragedy.  She also starred in the independent feature The Architect, opposite Anthony LaPaglia and Isabella Rossellini, and The Good Student for Kevin Spacey’s company, Triggerstreet, co-starring Bill Sadler and Tim Daly.  She co-starred in the romantic dramedy Shanghai Kiss, and she starred as the lead in Bring It On: All or Nothing, the sequel to the box office hit Bring It On, for Universal Home Video.  
  Hayden dazzled everyone in her role as a competitive ice skater in Ice Princess.  In order to bring authenticity to her role for the film, she trained rigorously and executed all of her own stunts.  In addition, she recorded the ballad “I Fly” for the film’s soundtrack and closing credits.  She co-starred in the Lifetime Original movie Lies My Mother Told Me, based on a compelling true story, opposite Joely Richardson, and she embodied the challenging leading role as a jockey in Warner Bros.’ Racing Stripes, opposite the voices of Dustin Hoffman and Whoopi Goldberg.
Hayden had a lead role in the feature film comedy Raising Helen, directed by Garry Marshall.  Additionally, she starred in Tiger Cruise, a dramatic story based on the true events of September 11th, which debuted to rave reviews on The Disney Channel. 
Hayden’s film, Normal, opposite Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson, and directed by Jane Anderson for HBO, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.  Her spitfire characters in both Joe Somebody (as Tim Allen’s daughter) and Remember the Titans (in which she co-starred with Denzel Washington) helped to establish her as a unique talent.  Her portrayal of a young Jeanne, played by Hilary Swank, in The Affair of the Necklace, is a cameo performance of depth beyond her years.
Hayden’s other film credits include Message in a Bottle with Kevin Costner and The Object of My Affection with Jennifer Aniston.  Her television appearances have won her numerous nominations and awards.
Hayden’s voice is as recognizable as her face.  She starred in the delightful animated feature, A Bug’s Life, as Princess Dot, and as Suri in Disney’s Dinosaurs.  Her work for A Bug’s Life Read-A-Long garnered her a Grammy® nomination for Best Spoken Word Album, as well as a nomination for The Hollywood Reporter’s Young Star Award for Best Young Voiceover Talent.
Hayden is a Fresh Face for Neutrogena and has participated in popular campaigns for Candie’s and Dooney & Burke, the latter for which she designed several exclusive handbags.
She is a spokesperson for The Whaleman Foundation and Save the Whales Again! Campaign.  The Foundation is an oceanic non-profit conservation, research and production organization dedicated to preserving and protecting dolphins, whales and our oceans.

PAUL RUST (Denis Cooverman) is a writer, performer, improver and videographer who can pretty much do it all.  And if he can’t, he can probably fake it.
Rust’s first major feature film role was opposite Will Ferrell in the sports comedy Semi-Pro.  Prior to that, he appeared in the experimental comedy, Exquisite Corpse, for which 15 writers created a scene apiece, which were then played in random order at each screening.  He also had a role in writer/director Adam Deyoe’s indie fest comedy Psycho Sleepover. 
Upcoming for Paul is the new film from Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, in which he performs alongside an international ensemble cast, including Brad Pitt and Samuel L. Jackson.  The film follows a special group of guerrilla soldiers parachuted into Nazi-occupied France, who aim to spread fear among Hitler’s troops by single-handedly killing as many German soldiers as they can.   
Paul first began writing and performing comedy in his home state at the University of Iowa.  Upon moving to Los Angeles, he quickly began catching attention as a regular performer at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, performing sketch, improv and stand-up comedy.  His stage work (along with partner, Neil Campbell) was featured at HBO’s The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas, as well as San Francisco Sketchfest.
His writing credits include Adult Swim’s Moral Orel, MTV’s Human Giant and the Fox pilot The Right Now Show, which also featured Paul as a lead performer.  Paul’s self-made videos have gained a growing following on the Internet and can be viewed at funnyordie.com/paulrust/videos.

JACK T. CARPENTER (Rich) made his film debut in the teen comedy Sydney White, a modern-day version of the classic Snow White, with Amanda Bynes.  Next up, he will show his range of acting in the drama Harvest, an independent film written and directed by Marc Meyers.  The film centers around three generations of a family coming together one summer, and around the eventual passing of the patriarch of the family, a WWII veteran.  Carpenter stars opposite Robert Loggia and Barbara Barrie.
In 2006, just months out of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama, Carpenter nabbed the lead role of Adam Lipshitz opposite Leslie Nielson in the NBC Television pilot Lipshitz Saves the World, which unfortunately never aired.   However, he later went on to a recurring role in the Fox comedy The Return of Jezebel James, opposite Lauren Ambrose and Parker Posie.
Carpenter, a classically trained actor who is also a writer, lives in New York and continues to pursue his first love, the theatre.  In 2006, he starred in the off-Broadway production of The Night That Roger Went to Visit the Parents of His Old High School Girlfriend, directed by Andrew McCarthy.

LAUREN LONDON (Cammy) made her feature film debut opposite rapper T.I. in ATL, directed by Chris Robinson, and next appeared in the all-star cast of Sony Screen Gems’ This Christmas, alongside Idris Elba, Loretta Devine, Delroy Lindo, Columbus Short and Chris Brown.
  Recently, Lauren played the hot new cheerleader, Christina, on the cutting-edge resurrection of TV’s 90210, and also appeared in Benny Boom’s feature film, Next Day Air.
  Lauren, a Los Angeles native, also has starred on the critically-acclaimed HBO Original Series Entourage as the romantic interest of the character Turtle (played by Jerry Ferrara), and impressed the fashion world as a spokesmodel for the Sean Jean women’s line.

LAUREN STORM (Treece), at the young age of 14, landed a two-episode arc of the hit series Boston Legal, and things quickly developed from there.  Up next was a scene-stealing recurring role on the show Malcolm in the Middle, along with a very different and dramatic turn on the popular and critical success 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland.  Lauren followed that with a string of memorable guest-starring roles on some of the most-watched series on the air:  Joan of Arcadia, CSI: Miami and 7th Heaven.       
She also had a supporting role opposite Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley in the multiple Emmy-nominated movie for HBO, Mrs. Harris.  She then got cast as a series regular on the long-running NBC/Discovery Kids series Flight 29 Down.
Her feature film credits include big budget films, as well as grittier, independent fare, most notably as Nanny Cindy to Dwayne Johnson’s daughter in the box office hit, The Game Plan.  Her commitment to her career and her determination in being cast in the role of Treece are evident in her willingness to gain 15 pounds for the I Love You, Beth Cooper screen test (and more than 30 pounds for the role).  Lauren can currently be seen on television as the Mac Genius in the Apple Computer commercials.  She will next be seen in the Screen Gems thriller The Roommate.

SHAWN ROBERTS (Kevin) recently completed production on Edge of Darkness, opposite Mel Gibson for director Martin Campbell and GK Films.  Roberts starred in The Weinstein Company’s George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead and in Lions Gate Films’ Skinwalkers.  His other film credits include:  Land of the Dead, directed by George A. Romero for Universal Pictures; X-Men, directed by Bryan Singer for Twentieth Century Fox; and the successful Canadian teen comedy Going the Distance.
  Roberts was raised in Stratford, Ontario, and began acting professionally at age 12, when he landed a lead role on the CBC series Emily of New Moon, which was produced by Academy Award®-winning producer Michael Donovan.  Since the completion of the show’s successful run, Roberts has worked continuously in film and television.
 
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
CHRIS COLUMBUS (Director / Producer) is a major force in contemporary Hollywood filmmaking, from his anarchic, genre-bending 1980s classics Gremlins and The Goonies, to the blockbuster Harry Potter films, which are among the most successful book-to-screen adaptations of all time.
Columbus was born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, and grew up outside of Youngstown, Ohio.  As a student, he aspired to become a commercial artist.  He spent several years studying art and oil painting, eventually becoming interested in drawing Spider-Man for Marvel Comics.  Columbus eventually made the connection between comic books and movie storyboards.  In high school, he began making his own homegrown 8mm films and drawing his own storyboards, which he continues to this day.  After high school, he enrolled in the Directors Program at New York University’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts.
Columbus first attained success as a screenwriter.  While still in college, he sold his first script, Jocks, a semi-autobiographical comedy about a Catholic schoolboy who struggles with his religion and his inability to succeed on the high school football team.  After graduating from NYU, Columbus wrote a small town drama entitled Reckless (1984), based on his experiences as a factory worker in Ohio.  The film was directed by James Foley and starred Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah.
Columbus gained prominence in Hollywood writing several original scripts produced by Steven Spielberg.  The back-to-back hits of the Joe Dante-directed Gremlins (1984) and The Goonies (1985), helmed by Richard Donner, were decade-defining films that intertwined high notes of offbeat, edgy, often outrageous humor against more classic adventure-thriller backdrops.  He next wrote the fantasy adventure Young Sherlock Holmes, which was directed by Barry Levinson. 
 These screenwriting achievements led Columbus to directing his first feature, Adventures in Babysitting (1987), starring Elisabeth Shue.  A meeting with John Hughes brought Columbus to the helm of Home Alone (1990), the first of three collaborations.  Home Alone, and its hugely successful follow-up, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), were universal in appeal and launched the career of Macaulay Culkin.  Only the Lonely (1991), a bittersweet comedy-drama directed by Columbus from his own screenplay, was praised for featuring one of the late John Candy’s best performances, and for the return of legendary star Maureen O’Hara to the screen.
Columbus’ smash hit comedy Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), starring Robin Williams and Sally Field, bent genders as well as genres, to great critical and public success.  Columbus directed another comedy, Nine Months (1995), with Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore, before turning to drama with Stepmom (1998), starring Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon.
Columbus faced a daunting task when he was called upon to direct Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001), the first film based on J.K. Rowling’s monumentally successful series of books.  With millions of avid and sometimes fanatical readers — both young and old — in a high state of expectation and anticipation, Columbus cast newcomers Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in the leading roles as Harry Potter and his friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley.  Once again, he demonstrated his facility for nurturing and cultivating young talent and turning them into natural screen performers. 
The success of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was followed by Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), which once again met with huge box office success.  He served as producer on the blockbuster Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and directed the film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical, Rent (2005).  He was a producer on the hit Night at the Museum, with Ben Stiller and Robin Williams, in 2006, as well as this summer’s follow-up, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.
He is currently directing the fantasy-adventure Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lighting Thief for Fox 2000 Pictures, based on the best-selling novel.

LARRY DOYLE (Screenwriter (based on his novel) / Executive Producer) is a 1976 graduate of Buffalo Grove High School, the setting for his 2007 novel, I Love You, Beth Cooper.  He was not the valedictorian like the book’s protagonist, ranking only 13th out of 500, although several of the students above him took pretty easy classes.
Doyle has wandered through a writing life that has seen him reporting on the early AIDS epidemic and the Challenger explosion, doing comic strips and editing magazines, and writing for the best television show of all time. He currently makes his living writing screenplays while contributing to The New Yorker and other magazines.
Doyle began his career with a seven-year stint at United Press International, where he was a medical and science reporter.  For a short while thereafter, he was editorial director of First Comics, then the third largest comic book company in the country.  He left that to write the newly revived Pogo comic strip, which appeared in more than 300 papers.  He then became an editor at the National Lampoon, which, thanks largely to his efforts, folded a year later.
He was executive editor of SPY magazine during the last of the funny years, and went on to be an editor-writer for New York magazine for four years.  During that time, he also wrote several episodes of Beavis and Butt-Head.
Doyle was a writer and supervising producer of The Simpsons for four years, where he won two Emmys and an Annie® award.  He was the writer and executive producer of the film Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and produced eight new Looney Tunes shorts for Warner Bros.  He also wrote the movie Duplex, starring Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore.
Doyle has written for numerous magazines, including Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, Harpers and Time.  He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker’s “Shouts and Murmurs” section.  His second novel, Go Mutants!, will be released by Harper-Collins in 2009.
He lives outside Baltimore with his wife Becky, their three children and one dog, until it dies, and then no more dogs, according to the wife.  The wife’s sister is married to Campbell McGrath, the famous poet who won a MacArthur Super Genius Grant, and once hit his brother-in-law in the face with an oar and then wrote a poem about it.
In 2008, Doyle also won an award, which, while no ^#&*%$ genius grant, was a pretty darn good one.  He is the son of Irish immigrants, who only recently have accepted that he will probably not become a doctor.
More information and assorted amusements can be found at larrydoyle.com.

MARK RADCLIFFE (Producer) continues his long association with director Chris Columbus, which dates back to 1988, when he served as assistant director on Columbus’ second directorial effort, Heartbreak Hotel, his homage to Elvis Presley.
  Since the birth of their partnership, Radcliffe has served as producer or executive
producer on such Columbus-helmed films as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (serving as executive producer on both), and Mrs. Doubtfire, Stepmom, Rent, Bicentennial Man, Nine Months and his current project, the epic fantasy-adventure, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (all as producer).  He also produced the third installment in the Potter franchise, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, directed by Alfonso Cuarón (sharing a BAFTA Award as Best Children’s Film and a second nomination as Best British Film).
 Working together in their 1492 Pictures production entity, Radcliffe also produced Fantastic Four and the sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Christmas with the Kranks, Jingle All the Way, Night at the Museum and this summer’s sequel, Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian.  His producing duties began on three early Columbus triumphs—Home Alone (on which he doubled as assistant director and associate producer), Only the Lonely (as co-producer and assistant director), and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (executive producer).
  A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Radcliffe began his film career as assistant director on the Francis Ford Coppola production The Escape Artist, re-teaming with Coppola on Rumble Fish and Peggy Sue Got Married.  Other assistant director credits include John Hughes’ She’s Having a Baby and Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Jerry Zucker’s Oscar®-nominated 1990 hit, Ghost, Donald Petrie’s Mystic Pizza and Paul Schrader’s Light of Day.  He also served as production manager on the 1979 film Rock ‘n’ Roll High School.

MICHAEL BARNATHAN (Producer) is President of 1492 Pictures, in which he is a producing partner with Chris Columbus and Mark Radcliffe.  The company was formed in May 1994.  Barnathan served as producer on Nine Months, Jingle All the Way, Stepmom, Cheaper by the Dozen, Rent, Night at the Museum and Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian.  He was executive producer on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Currently, he is a producer on the fantasy-adventure Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, for Fox 2000 Pictures.
Prior to joining 1492 Pictures, Barnathan was Senior Vice President of Production at Largo Entertainment for four years.  His responsibilities included supervision of both development and production of Largo’s films.  Before joining Largo, Barnathan spent seven years working for Edgar J. Scherick Associates.  During his tenure, he produced and executive-produced numerous cable movies, movies of the week and mini-series, including The Kennedys of Massachusetts, which received nine Emmy nominations.  Barnathan is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

JENNY BLUM (Executive Producer) is Senior Vice President of Production for 1492 Pictures. Her career began in 1994, when she worked in set production of the HBO movie, Witch Hunt.  Since that time, she has amassed an impressive and varied resume, beginning as second assistant director on several projects, and graduating to first assistant director on multiple independent titles, working with a diverse group of multi-hyphenates.
Some of her more recent feature film credits include: writer/director/actress Nikhil Kamkolkar’s multi-racial romantic comedy, Indian Cowboy; producer/director/editor Dana Packard’s dramatic thriller, Mr. Barrington; the New York-set romantic comedy A Tale of Two Pizzas, from writer/director Vinnie Sassone; the thriller Beacon Hill, from writer/director Michael Connolly; USA Films’ Session 9, the horror film from writer/director/editor Brad Anderson; producer/director Lauren Himmel’s award-winning Treading Water; and Sam the Man, starring Fisher Stevens and Annabella Sciorra, helmed by producer/director Gary Winick.  Her additional credits as first assistant director are the indies I’ll Take You There, Saturn and Enough Already.  She also served as second assistant director on Next Stop Wonderland, starring Hope Davis and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, written and directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist).    

   MICHAEL FLYNN (Executive Producer) began his producing career under the tutorship of Edward R. Pressman.  While working for Pressman, he was fortunate to associate-produce films such as True Stories, Masters of the Universe, Wall Street, Talk Radio, Walker, To Sleep With Anger and Reversal of Fortune.  He subsequently produced Stacy Cochran’s My New Gun (showcased at the Cannes Director’s Fortnight) before beginning a career as a line producer.  His credits include Romeo Is Bleeding, Ed Wood, Pushing Tin, Remember the Titans, Hearts In Atlantis, Monster-In-Law, Because I Said So, Hamlet 2 and Extract.  He’s currently serving as the executive producer of Beastly for CBS Films.

PHIL ABRAHAM (Director of Photography) received four Emmy nominations for his filming of the HBO award-winning ratings juggernaut The Sopranos.  On his fifth nomination—for the pilot episode of the stylish, hit series from AMC, Mad Men—he took home the statue.  Abraham has been behind a camera since 1987, and has a prolific resume of feature film and television credits as first/second assistant camera, camera operator, cinematographer or director. 
His film credits as cinematographer include Annapolis, starring James Franco; Cherry, starring Shalom Harlow and Jake Weber (NBC’s The Medium); For the Love of the Game (second unit), starring Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston; and the Martin Scorsese documentary My Voyage to Italy.  His camera work may also be seen in the features Forever Mine, The Out-of-Towners, Gloria, Living Out Loud, Illuminata, Godzilla and Primary Colors; in the telefilms M.O.N.Y. and Our Town; and in the series Six Degrees, Spin City, Brooklyn South and Tales from the Darkside.  He has directed an episode each of the series Breaking Bad and Crash, and multiple episodes of Mad Men.      
 
HOWARD CUMMINGS (Production Designer) recently worked on David Koepp’s wry comedy Ghost Town, having also collaborated with Koepp on his directorial debut, the thriller Trigger Effect, and on his next film, Secret Window.
Cummings’ most recent credits include the film adaptation of the musical Rent, directed by fellow San Franciscan Chris Columbus and starring most of the original Broadway cast.
 Cummings has worked with two other San Francisco-based directors – Terry Zwigoff on Art School Confidential, based on the outsider comic book by Dan Clowes; and with Francis Ford Coppola on The Rainmaker, based on the John Grisham novel and starring Matt Damon, Claire Danes and Danny DeVito.  Cummings also worked with DeVito on What’s The Worst That Could Happen?, as well as DeVito’s Death to Smoochy, starring Edward Norton and Robin Williams.
Cummings provided the production design for Steven Soderbergh’s dark thriller The Underneath.  It was on this project that Cummings met Greg Jacobs, Soderbergh’s assistant director, and when Jacobs directed the genre film Wind Chill, Cummings executed the production design.  Cummings worked with John Schlesinger on his last film, the comedy/drama The Next Best Thing, and with Bruce Beresford on the thriller Double Jeopardy.
In the action/adventure world, Cummings provided the production design for Renny Harlin’s The Long Kiss Goodnight.  Cummings also designed Alan Rudolph’s dark thriller Mortal Thoughts, and Bryan Singer’s Oscar®-winning thriller The Usual Suspects, an ensemble drama for which Kevin Spacey won an Oscar.
 For the American Playhouse series on PBS, Cummings designed Lanford Wilson’s Lemon Sky, starring Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Casey Affleck and Lindsay Crouse, and Horton Foote’s On Valentine’s Day.  He also designed PBS’ A Shock to the System, starring Michael Caine, Signs of Life and The Spitfire Grill, which starred Alison Elliott.
Cummings’ other television work includes the telefilms Indictment: The McMartin Trial, A Dangerous Affair, Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker and HBO’s Strapped, an urban drama about illegal gun use, which was Forest Whitaker‘s directorial debut.

PETER HONESS, A.C.E. (Editor) recently edited Chris Weitz’s epic fantasy The Golden Compass.  Prior to that, he worked with Wolfgang Petersen on the thriller Poseidon and on his 2004 historical epic, Troy.  He began his motion picture career editing low-budget films and documentaries, earning an American Cinema Editors Eddie nomination in 1974 for his editing of the documentary Following the Tundra Wolf.   Honess briefly turned to feature film sound editing before becoming an assistant film editor on John Irvin’s Dogs of War in 1981.
 The list of films edited by Peter Honess suggests he is receptive to the collaborative nature of filmmaking, forming bonds with certain directors who seem to seek his services whenever possible.  He edited four films directed by John Schlesinger:  The Believers (1987); Madame Sousatzka (1988); Eye For an Eye (1996); and Schlesinger’s final picture, The Next Best Thing (2000).  Honess collaborated with director Fred Schepisi on four projects, starting with his feature film adaptation of David Hare’s stage hit Plenty (1985), followed by The Russia House (1990), Mr. Baseball (1992) and his film adaptation of John Guare’s acclaimed play, Six Degrees of Separation (1993). 
 Russell Mulcahy is another director for whom Honess edited four movies:  Highlander (1986); Ricochet (1991); The Real McCoy (1993); and The Shadow (1994).  Honess also worked on two more films with John Irvin, Champions (1984) and Next of Kin (1989).  Additionally, Honess edited two for director Harold Becker:  Mercury Rising (1998); and Domestic Disturbance (2001).
 Honess’ other credits include Curtis Hanson’s critically acclaimed L.A. Confidential in 1997, which garnered him an Academy Award nomination and a BAFTA for Best Editing.  More recently, he worked with director Jon Turteltaub on The Kid (2000), with Rob Cohen on The Fast and the Furious (2001), I Love You Beth Cooper’s Chris Columbus on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and director Karyn Kusama on Aeon Flux (2005).

KAREN MATTHEWS (Costume Designer) designed the wardrobe for Paramount/DreamWorks’ Things We Lost in the Fire and New Line Cinema’s The Last Mimzy.  Matthews was also responsible for costuming the surprise hit thriller Snakes on a Plane.   Other feature credits include White Noise, mem-(o)-re, Long Weekend and The Christmas Cottage, the latter starring Peter O’Toole.
For the small screen, Matthews designed costumes for numerous television movies, including Jack for Showtime, Return to Halloweentown for Disney Productions, Fishing With John for WTN, Harvey and Captains Courageous for Hallmark Entertainment and Stealing Sinatra, starring William H. Macy and David Arquette, for Showtime. 
Matthews also served as costume designer on the miniseries, Dragon Boys, Voyage of the Unicorn (Best Costumes Award winner, Canada’s The LEOS) and The Pictures of Hollis Woods, starring Sissy Spacek.  Her series television credits include The Mountain, starring Barbara Hershey and Oliver Hudson for Warner Bros., and Out of Order, starring Eric Stoltz, Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy for Showtime.  

CHRISTOPHE BECK (Composer) has composed scores for over 40 feature films and nearly 20 television shows.  With more than 15 years of experience, Beck has scored a wide array of projects, including such action films as The Sentinel and Elektra; the comedies Charlie Bartlett, The Pink Panther and Bring It On; and such dramas as Under the Tuscan Sun and Year of the Dog.
Beck recently composed the action adventure The Seeker: The Dark is Rising; the comedies The Hangover, Drillbit Taylor and What Happens in Vegas; the drama Phoebe in Wonderland; the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury nominee The Greatest; and the comedy sequel The Pink Panther 2.
His additional credits include School for Scoundrels, License to Wed, We Are Marshall, Yours, Mine and Ours, Taxi, A Cinderella Story, Saved!, Garfield, Cheaper by the Dozen, American Wedding and Just Married.
Beck’s upcoming projects include Post Grad and All About Steve, both feature comedies scheduled for release this year from Twentieth Century Fox.
He began his scoring career on the Canadian television series White Fang, and from there went on to score three seasons of the hit television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition.

PATRICK HOULIHAN (Music Supervisor) has been programming non-score music for motion pictures for more than 15 years, starting out as a music coordinator on The Sweetest Thing,  Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Ready to Rumble, Charlie’s Angels, Freddy Got Fingered and Bubble Boy.  He also had cuts on the soundtracks for Senior Trip, A Walk to Remember and the more recent Just Friends, starring Ryan Reynolds. 
He rose to the position of music supervisor for the features EuroTrip, Little Manhattan, Just Friends, The Wedding Weekend, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Deck the Halls, Firehouse Dog, The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising and The Rocker, headlined by Rainn Wilson from the hit series The Office.  His work will next be heard in Fox Atomic’s Post Grad, starring an ensemble cast that includes Alexis Bledel, Michael Keaton, Jane Lynch, Rodrigo Santoro and Carol Burnett. 

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