TOM SHADYAC (Directed by/Produced by)
STEVE OEDEKERK (Screenplay by/Story by)
JOEL COHEN and ALEC SOKOLOW (Story by)
STEVE KOREN (Based on Characters Created by)
MARK O’KEEFE (Based on Characters Created by)
ROGER BIRNBAUM (Produced by)
NEAL H. MORITZ (Produced by)
MICHAEL BOSTICK (Produced by)
ILONA HERZBERG (Executive Producer)
TOM HANKS (Executive Producer)
GARY GOETZMAN (Executive Producer)
IAN BAKER (Director of Photography)
LINDA DESCENNA (Production Designer)
SCOTT HILL (Film Editor)
JUDY RUSKIN HOWELL (Costume Designer)
JOHN DEBNEY (Music by)

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

TOM SHADYAC (Directed by/Produced by) has established himself as one of Hollywood’s most successful directors. Evan Almighty is the follow-up to his 2003 blockbuster comedy Bruce Almighty, starring Jim Carrey. He is currently producing I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James, and last summer produced the comedy Accepted, starring Justin Long, Jonah Hill and Lewis Black.

Shadyac began his directing career in 1994 with the breakout hit Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, starring Carrey. He then segued into the smash hit The Nutty Professor, starring Eddie Murphy. In 1997, he reteamed with Carrey for the box-office sensation Liar Liar. Shadyac also directed Robin Williams in the Golden Globe-nominated Patch Adams and directed Kevin Costner in the sci-fi thriller Dragonfly.

Shadyac’s multifaceted career includes producing through his Shady Acres Entertainment banner, based at Universal Pictures. In addition to directing and producing feature films, Shadyac found success in the world of primetime television, producing the comedy series 8 Simple Rules…for Dating My Teenage Daughter for Touchstone/ABC.

Shadyac attended UCLA film school, working toward his master’s degree. At age 23, he became the youngest staff joke writer for Bob Hope.

STEVE OEDEKERK (Screenplay by/Story by) has quickly established a multifaceted career that includes

producing, directing, writing, acting, stand-up comedy and animation. He has written and directed films that have grossed over $1 billion in worldwide box-office revenue.

Most recently, he wrote, produced, directed and voiced characters in the animated feature Barnyard and is currently at work on Kung Pow 2: Tongue of Fury, the highly anticipated sequel (which he wrote, directs and stars in), to the wild, retro martial-arts comedy Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. That film grossed its entire budget on the opening weekend.

Oedekerk received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Animated Film for Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. In addition, Oedekerk has appeared in the top comedy clubs in America and starred in and created television specials for NBC, ABC and UPN. In the world of animation, he has created original programming and supports them with groundbreaking technology.

In addition to Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty, Oedekerk’s wide array of projects include the expansion of the Jimmy Neutron franchise, which includes multiple episodes of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron for Nickelodeon and Paramount.

Oedekerk’s company, O Entertainment, led the way with the first IMAX 3-D animated film, Santa Vs. the Snowman 3-D, which was released in November 2002. Oedekerk also created “Thumbmation” technology, which marked its debut in a series of Thumb parody projects distributed worldwide on DVD and video by Image Entertainment. Kicking off the series was Thumb Wars, a send-up of the Star Wars trilogy. Five more films followed, including Thumbtanic, Bat Thumb and The Godthumb.

His writing credits include some of the most successful movies in recent history. While writing on the Fox series In Living Color, Oedekerk collaborated with Jim Carrey on the surprise hit comedy Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, contributing to the film as an unbilled writer. When that film became a breakout success, Oedekerk was asked to write and direct its sequel, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, which proved to be one of those rare sequels that surpassed the box-office gross of the original film.

Following the success of the Ace Ventura franchise, Oedekerk wrote The Nutty Professor, which became one of the highest-grossing films of 1996. He also wrote, directed and appeared (in a scene-stealing cameo) in Nothing to Lose, starring Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence. He then went on to write the box-office smash and Golden Globe-nominated Patch Adams, which starred Robin Williams. On the small screen, Oedekerk directed, wrote and starred in his own television special for NBC, and produced an animated Christmas special for ABC as well as the original Thumb Wars special for UPN.

Oedekerk resides in Southern California with his wife; two children; and a badger, pound for pound known to be the most vicious mammal on the planet.

JOEL COHEN and ALEC SOKOLOW (Story by) have written some of the most memorable family films of our times, including Toy Story, for which they were nominated for an Academy Award®. Their other films include Cheaper by the Dozen, both films in the Garfield franchise, Money Talks and Goodbye Lover. Cohen lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Michele, and daughter, Pietra.

STEVE KOREN (Based on Characters Created by) began his writing career by handing jokes to Dennis Miller, Kevin Nealon and David Letterman in the hallways of the Rockefeller Center in New York City, where he worked as a tour guide. This led to a writing position with Saturday Night Live, where he earned several Emmy nominations, working with comedic talents such as Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Molly Shannon and Will Ferrell.

Koren eventually left the late-night show for the primetime sitcom world, where he worked as a writer/producer on the award-winning Seinfeld. Among his well-known episodes are “The Serenity Now,” “The English Patient” and “The Abstinence.”

Following Seinfeld, Koren spent several years as a writer/producer creating television sitcoms for NBC Universal, working with such actors as Steve Carell, Valerie Harper, Ron Liebman and Tiffani Thiessen.

In the motion picture world, Koren’s screenplay credits include A Night at the Roxbury, starring Ferrell and Chris Kattan; Superstar, starring Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon; and the megahit Bruce Almighty, starring Jim Carrey. Most recently, Koren and his writing partner, Mark O’Keefe, teamed to write and produce Click, starring Adam Sandler and Kate Beckinsale. In addition, he has several screenplays in development at studios including Warner Bros., Paramount and Sony.

MARK O’KEEFE (Based on Characters Created by) grew up in the New York City suburb of Chappaqua. He started his career as a television writer for The Late Show With David Letterman. He has worked as a writer for such shows as Politically Incorrect and NewsRadio, and created and executive produced various pilots, as well as the short- lived series The O’Keefes.

O’Keefe teamed up with Koren to co-write and produce his first film, Bruce Almighty. The pair also teamed to write and produce Click, starring Adam Sandler and Kate Beckinsale.

With partner Roger Birnbaum, GARY BARBER (Produced by) founded the production, finance and distribution company Spyglass Entertainment, where he serves as co-chairman and CEO.

From the beginning, the company’s savvy production choices led to the phenomenal box-office success of The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis, which went on to gross more than $661 million and garnered six Academy Award® nominations. Further successes include The Count of Monte Cristo, with Jim Caviezel and Guy Pearce; Keeping the Faith, with Ben Stiller and Edward Norton; Shanghai Noon, with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, and its sequel, Shanghai Knights; and the dynamic teaming of Al Pacino and Colin Farrell for The Recruit.

Barber executive produced and co-financed two milestone movies: Bruce Almighty, starring Jim Carrey and Jennifer Aniston, which grossed more than $485 million at the worldwide box office and is considered one of the blockbuster comedies of all time, and the tale of a legendary racehorse, Seabiscuit, starring Tobey Maguire, Chris Cooper and Jeff Bridges. With its moving story of triumph over adversity, the film received seven Oscar® nominations.

Barber went on to produce The Pacifier and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The Pacifier, a family comedy starring Vin Diesel, earned approximately $200 million at the worldwide box office, while The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, an adaptation of the Douglas Adams best seller, crossed the $100 million mark globally.

Spyglass also co-financed and Barber executive produced: The Legend of Zorro, the sequel to the 1998 smash hit The Mask of Zorro, with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Antonio Banderas, directed by Martin Campbell, and Memoirs of a Geisha, based on the best-selling novel, starring Ziyi Zhang and Ken Watanabe, helmed by Rob Marshall. Memoirs of a Geisha earned Spyglass three Oscar® wins out of its six nominations and brought Spyglass’ nominations to a total of 26.

2006’s successful Eight Below, from Walt Disney Pictures, was co-financed by Spyglass and executive produced by Barber. In spring 2007, Spyglass produced and financed the releases of The Invisible and The Lookout, through Miramax Films and Touchstone Pictures, respectively.

Spyglass recently wrapped production on the live-action feature of the beloved classic cartoon series Underdog, slated for release in summer 2007. Currently, Spyglass is in production on 27 Dresses, a romantic comedy starring Katherine Heigl.

A seasoned veteran of the business, Barber has been directly responsible for operating companies in feature-film production and distribution, foreign theatrical, video and television distribution, exhibition, pre-recorded music and music publishing. He was responsible for building these companies from the ground up.

In managing these businesses, Barber was instrumental in making many landmark deals, identifying and breaking new talent and producing major worldwide hits. His international expertise—with extensive relationships in worldwide theatrical, video and television—is considered one of the best in the business. As an executive with unparalleled experience and financial savvy, Barber has also developed strong relationships in the commercial and investment banking community and earned the respect of this tightly knit group through constant and successful deal making.

Barber is the former vice chairman and chief operating officer of Morgan Creek Productions. During his eight and a half years at the company, he was in charge of all day-to-day operations for each of Morgan Creek’s business entities, including feature film production, foreign distribution, music, exhibition and interactive.

Barber has produced or executive produced more than 50 feature films and television shows, including the 1994 hit that rocketed Jim Carrey to stardom, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, its highly successful sequel, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, and the 1991 blockbuster Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, starring Kevin Costner.

With partner Gary Barber, ROGER BIRNBAUM (Produced by) founded the production and finance company Spyglass Entertainment, where they share the title of co-chairman and CEO. The company develops and finances all of its projects independently.

The company’s box-office successes range from The Sixth Sense, with Bruce Willis, which earned more than $661 million at the worldwide box office, to the smash hit Bruce Almighty, starring Jim Carrey, which earned more than $485 million. Also included in the Spyglass library are Oscar®-nominated favorites such as Seabiscuit, with Tobey Maguire, and The Insider, with Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. In total, Spyglass has garnered 26 Oscar® nominations, including three wins. Other company successes include The Count of Monte Cristo, with Jim Caviezel and Guy Pearce; Keeping the Faith, with Ben Stiller and Edward Norton; the dual hits Shanghai Noon and its sequel, Shanghai Knights, with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson; The Recruit, with Al Pacino and Colin Farrell; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, starring Sam Rockwell and Mos Def; and the smash-hit family film The Pacifier, with Vin Diesel.

Spyglass also co-financed and executive produced The Legend of Zorro, the sequel to the 1998 smash hit The Mask of Zorro, with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Antonio Banderas, directed by Martin Campbell, and Memoirs of a Geisha, based on the bestselling novel, starring Ziyi Zhang and Ken Watanabe, helmed by Rob Marshall. Both films were released internationally by Spyglass and have grossed more than $150 million each at the worldwide box office to date. Memoirs of a Geisha drew numerous kudos and awards throughout the season, culminating in a win of three Academy Awards®.

In 2006, Birnbaum co-financed and produced the action adventure Eight Below, based on the true survival story about a group of sled dogs in Antarctica. The film had strong legs at the box office, with earnings of more than $120 million worldwide. Spyglass also produced and financed the crime thriller The Lookout, helmed by acclaimed writer-turned-director Scott Frank. Ramping up for a 2007 release, production recently wrapped on Underdog—the live-action feature with Walt Disney Pictures— based upon the beloved cartoon series, as well as the Ping-Pong comedy Balls of Fury.

Prior to founding Spyglass Entertainment, Birnbaum, co-founded Caravan Pictures, where he was responsible for such box-office hits as Rush Hour, Six Days Seven Nights, Inspector Gadget, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Three Musketeers, Angels in the Outfield and While You Were Sleeping.

Before joining Caravan, Birnbaum held the title of president of worldwide production and executive vice president of 20th Century Fox, where he developed such films as Home Alone, Sleeping With the Enemy, Edward Scissorhands, Hot Shots!, My Cousin Vinny, The Last of the Mohicans, Die Hard 2 and Mrs. Doubtfire, among others. Prior to that, Birnbaum was president of production for United Artists, where he developed the Oscar®-winning, all-time cinema favorite Rain Man.

Earlier in his career, he produced The Sure Thing, directed by Rob Reiner, and Young Sherlock Holmes, which were both presented in association with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. For television, he was executive producer of the telefilms Scandal Sheet, Happily Ever After, When Your Lover Leaves and the award- winning All the Kids Do It.

Born in Teaneck, New Jersey, and educated at the University of Denver, Birnbaum built a successful career as vice president of A&M Records and Arista Records before entering the film business to produce motion pictures.

He is currently co-artistic director of the AFI conservatory, and serves on the Advisory Board for the Center for Film, Television and New Media at UC Santa Barbara. He is also a mentor to the USC Peter Stark Motion Picture Producing Program, as well as the UCLA graduate film program.

NEAL H. MORITZ (Produced by) is one of the most prolific producers working in Hollywood today. Founder of Original Film, a feature film and television company established in 1997, Moritz most recently produced this past summer’s successful comedy Click, starring Adam Sandler; Columbia Pictures’ football drama Gridiron Gang, starring The Rock; and the action-packed The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

The busy producer is currently in production on Made of Honor, starring Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan, and in post-production on I Am Legend, starring Will Smith; Vantage Point, starring Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, Matthew Fox and Forest Whitaker; and the horror remake Prom Night, all due for release in 2007-08.

With 34 movies to his credit, Moritz’s earlier successes include Sweet Home Alabama, starring Reese Witherspoon; The Fast and the Furious series; and S.W.A.T., starring Samuel L. Jackson and Colin Farrell. He also produced the popular I Know What You Did Last Summer, which spurred the successful sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Comfortable in any genre, whether comedy, horror, action or drama, Moritz is also responsible for Columbia’s Urban Legend and xXx, both of which went on to spawn successful sequels.

In addition to Volcano; Blue Streak, with Martin Lawrence; and Saving Silverman, with Jack Black, some of Moritz’s other credits include the college comedy Slackers, starring Jason Schwartzman; The Glass House; and Not Another Teen Movie,a spoof of the very teen film genre he helped create.

Moritz has produced five movies with director Rob Cohen, including the aforementioned blockbusters The Fast and the Furious and xXx, as well as The Skulls, Stealth and the HBO film The Rat Pack, which earned 11 Emmy nominations. Other features he has produced include the Denzel Washington thriller Out of Time, directed by Carl Franklin, and Torque, a motorcycle action movie starring Ice Cube. The first major feature film he produced was Juice in 1992, starring Omar Epps and the late Tupac Shakur.

When Moritz started Original Film, the company’s first self-financed feature became the youth drama Cruel Intentions, starring Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe. The film grossed more than $75 million in box-office sales in 1999, and today it is considered a cult classic among teens who came of age at the time of its release.

A graduate of UCLA with a degree in economics, Moritz went on to earn a graduate degree from the Peter Stark Motion Picture Producing Program at USC.

MICHAEL BOSTICK (Produced by) is currently producing I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James, and recently produced the comedy Accepted, starring Justin Long, Jonah Hill and Lewis Black.

Bostick was a producer of Bruce Almighty, 2003’s summer blockbuster comedy starring Jim Carrey, which grossed more than $485 million worldwide. Bostick also served as executive producer on the feature film Dragonfly, directed by Shadyac. In television, Bostick was an executive producer on the ABC series 8 Simple Rules…for Dating My Teenage Daughter, starring John Ritter and winner of a People’s Choice Award for “Favorite Television New Comedy Series.”

Prior to joining Shady Acres, Bostick was an executive with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment for nearly 10 years, ultimately serving as president of production of Imagine Films. Helping manage the slate of feature film projects creatively through development and production, he most notably was responsible for bringing in and supervising two of the most successful films in the company’s history: Apollo 13 (as associate producer), which was nominated for nine Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, and Liar Liar (as executive producer). Both movies were awarded People’s Choice Awards.

In 1999, Bostick won an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a Producers Guild Award for producing the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, with Tom Hanks as executive producer. The show also was honored with awards from both the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Television Critics Association.

Bostick started his film career at Walt Disney and Touchstone Pictures, working as a creative executive for nearly two years. In addition to developing a number of films at Disney, he was instrumental in the creation of the New Writers Fellowship Program, aimed at discovering and developing minority talent.

Bostick received a master’s degree from the Peter Stark Motion Picture Producing Program at the USC School of Cinema and Television. Prior to entering the film industry, Bostick worked in advertising and magazine publishing in San Antonio. He is a cum laude graduate of Trinity University, with majors in journalism and business administration.

ILONA HERZBERG (Executive Producer) served as producer of Jonathan Demme’s films Neil Young: Heart of Gold and The Manchurian Candidate and as executive producer of The Truth About Charlie.

She has also acted as executive producer of such feature films as the acclaimed drama Thirteen Days, starring Kevin Costner; the disaster epic Dante’s Peak, starring Pierce Brosnan; the sci-fi saga Waterworld; and the thriller The River Wild, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon.

Herzberg has served as creative executive for the CTV network in Canada and as a line producer for more than 250 hours of television concert specials and variety shows.

Former William Morris agent DAVE PHILLIPS (Executive Producer) is president and CEO of Corner of the Sky Entertainment, a multifaceted film and television production company based in Hollywood whose mission is to produce entertainment “that touches and teaches.”

Another film of Phillips’ arriving in theaters this summer is the irreverent Lionsgate comedy Good Luck Chuck, starring Dane Cook, Jessica Alba and Tony Award winner Dan Fogler.

Phillips was named to The Hollywood Reporter’s inaugural “Next Generation” issue, which featured 35 of the hottest Hollywood executives under the age of 35 to watch. Some of the feature films and documentaries Phillips has packaged over years working with filmmakers including While You Were Sleeping, Hoop Dreams, 50 First Dates, Sleepless in Seattle, Peaceful Warrior, Brown Sugar, Like Mike, Stevie, Reel Paradise, Genghis Blues, Beyond the Call and Shottas.

A well-known face for years at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Phillips partnered with Canyons Ski owner Kenny Griswold to create several major events at the festival: Where Music Meets Film: Live From the Sundance Film Festival,a televised music special starring Babyface, Joss Stone, Lindsey Buckingham, Joan Osborne, Sean Lennon and Shawn Colvin; Chefdance, 10 days of fine dining for filmmakers by James Beard chefs from around the country; and The Airborne Lounge, a great hangout next to Harry O’s where “industry-ites” and up-and-coming influencers can de-thaw and get introduced to the nation’s number-one cold medicine.

Corner of the Sky is currently developing a remake of the critically acclaimed 1975 telefilm Something for Joey, which is about the inspirational connection between out-of-the-blue Heisman Trophy winner John Cappelletti and his younger brother, Joey, who had leukemia. Also in the works is a feature franchise that Phillips and Tracey Edmonds are producing, based on the ever-popular Knott’s Scary Farm’s “Halloween Haunt.” Corner of the Sky recently closed a deal with Our Stories Films, the first fully urban entertainment film studio, to produce the studio’s first motion picture comedy.

Phillips lectures about breaking into Hollywood on college campuses around the country. He remains very fond of his days at Duke University, where he received an AB in English and psychology. He also received an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management before joining the ICM talent agency. Phillips currently lives in Los Angeles with his two Labradors, Goose and Maverick, and his Almighty daughter, Jillian.

A young, talented and successful manager/producer, MATT LUBER (Executive Producer) has gained a reputation for cultivating and representing some of the hottest emerging actors and writers, while at the same time maintaining a focus on producing intriguing projects.

His talent roster includes clients such as Paul Walker, Neal McDonough, Adam Goldberg, Malik Yoba, Lauren Holly, Jacob Vargas and Billy Zane. He represents Walt Becker, who just directed the box-office smash hit Wild Hogs. His thriving writers have set up numerous projects around town. Art Marcum and Matt Holloway have written Iron Man and sold Convoy and The Authority to Paramount. Marty Scott and Toni Kotite wrote Brigg’s Ballet for New Line. Tiffany Paulsen wrote Nancy Drew for Warner Bros. Jeremy Haft and Eddie Gonzalez recently sold Cookie Queen, with Isla Fisher attached to star.

Luber just wrapped production on Love Lies Bleeding. He has also acted as executive producer of New Line’s Running Scared and Into the Blue, an underwater thriller directed by John Stockwell for MGM. Additionally, he was a co-producer of Noel, a drama starring Paul Walker, Penélope Cruz, Susan Sarandon and Robin Williams.

Luber’s interest in the entertainment business began early. After graduating in 1993 from the University of Arizona with a degree in media arts, Luber moved to Los Angeles and learned the inside workings of production as a production assistant on Beverly Hills Cop III and A Little Princess and through work on the Paramount scoring stage.

Luber quickly rose from producer’s assistant to respected manager. After catching the eye of producer Gary Lucchesi and assisting him on Primal Fear, Virtuosity, Gotti and Three Wishes, Luber moved over to management and worked with John Carrabino at Gallin Morey Management. After only one year in the company’s talent department, Luber was recognized for his work and offered a job in development at Leslie Morgan’s Diamond Heart Productions. After working on One True Thing and setting up Trim, The Last Day and My Ivy Walls, Luber realized his heart was in management and returned to the management game and joined Evolution Entertainment. Using his strong development skills, Luber built a solid literary talent list. After a year, Luber expanded into a talent business that complemented his literary clients. A true entrepreneur, he then decided to start his own company, Rubicon Entertainment. Currently, he is partnered with Larry Schapiro and Lena Roklin at Nine Yards Entertainment.

One of the world’s most admired and respected actors today, TOM HANKS (Executive Producer) also holds the distinction of being the first actor in 50 years to be awarded back-to-back Academy Awards® for Best Actor. In 1993, he was rewarded for his compelling performance as an AIDS-stricken lawyer in Philadelphia, and the following year he won the Oscar® for his outstanding performance in Forrest Gump. He also won Golden Globes for both of these performances. For Forrest Gump, Hanks won a Peoples Choice Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Chicago Film Critics Award, a National Association of Theater Owners Male Star of the Year Award and the Hollywood Women’s Press Club Award. In addition to the many honors Hanks has received, he was named Man of the Year by the nation’s oldest undergraduate dramatic group, Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, for his performance as astronaut Jim Lovell in Ron Howard’s Apollo 13.

In 1996, Hanks made his feature film writing and directing debut with That Thing You Do!, which followed the meteoric rise to fame of a local rock band named The Wonders in the summer of 1964. The film’s title song not only reached the top 10 in many contemporary music charts, but it was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Original Song. Hanks also appeared in the film in a supporting role.

Born and raised in Oakland, CA, Hanks first became interested in acting during high school. He attended California State University, Sacramento, where he appeared in a production of The Cherry Orchard and met director Vincent Dowling, the resident director of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Cleveland. Dowling invited Hanks to intern with the company, where he made his professional debut portraying Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew. Hanks appeared in other Great Lakes productions, including Two Gentleman of Verona, for which he received the Cleveland Critics Award for Best Actor. From Cleveland, Hanks went on to New York, where he appeared in his first feature film, He Knows You’re Alone, and onstage in The Taming of the Shrew.

Hanks got his first big break when he was cast as the lead in the ABC television comedy series Bosom Buddies. This led to starring roles in Bachelor Party and Ron Howard’s Splash—a box-office hit that started him on his path to becoming one of Hollywood’s busiest and most sought-after leading men. Hanks’ many film credits include Volunteers, Nothing in Common and A League of Their Own. In 1988, with his box-office success established, Hanks found himself a critical success with acclaimed performances in Punchline and Big (for which he earned his first Academy Award® nomination and his first Golden Globe Award). The same year, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association recognized both performances, bestowing on Hanks its Best Actor Award.

Constantly challenging himself, Hanks served as executive producer for HBO’s From the Earth to the Moon—an ambitious, 12-hour dramatic film anthology that explored the Apollo space program. Not only did Hanks personally help make this show a reality, he directed the first episode and wrote and appeared in the final episode.

In 1998, Hanks starred in Steven Spielberg’s war drama Saving Private Ryan, in which he played a soldier who went deep behind enemy lines to save a trapped private during the Allied invasion. He received another Oscar® nomination for his work. The following year he starred in The Green Mile, which was written and directed by Frank Darabont and was based on the six-part serialized novel by Stephen King.

In 2000, Hanks starred in Cast Away, for which he received yet another Oscar® nomination for his portrayal of the sole survivor of a plane crash who is marooned on a deserted island. Cast Away was directed by Robert Zemeckis, with a screenplay by William Broyles, Jr.

In 2000, he served as executive producer for another epic HBO miniseries, Band of Brothers, based on Stephen Ambrose’s book. He also directed one of the episodes. The miniseries aired in spring 2001 to wide-scale critical acclaim, leading to a Golden Globe win for Best Miniseries in 2002.

In 2002, Hanks starred in the Depression-era drama Road to Perdition, opposite Paul Newman and Jude Law and under Sam Mendes’ direction. It was followed by Spielberg’s stylish caper Catch Me If You Can, in which he played opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. The film was based on the true-life exploits of international confidence man Frank Abagnale, Jr.

Hanks teamed again with Spielberg in The Terminal, opposite Catherine Zeta- Jones, and followed it with the Coen brothers’ dark comedy The Ladykillers, the story of an eccentric Southern professor who assembles a band of inept thieves to rob the Bandit Queen, a Mississippi riverboat casino.

In November 2004, Hanks starred in the film adaptation of the Caldecott Medal- winning children’s book The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg. Hanks portrayed The Conductor of this beloved children’s book, in a film that reunited him with Cast Away director Robert Zemeckis.

Hanks was recently seen playing Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code, the film adaptation of Dan Brown’s best-selling novel, which has broken box-office records around the world. The film is helmed by Ron Howard and also stars Audrey Tautou, Paul Bettany, Ian McKellen and Jean Reno. He is currently in post-production on Charlie Wilson’s War and The Great Buck Howard.

Hanks resides in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Rita Wilson, and their family.

Producing credits for GARY GOETZMAN (Executive Producer) include The Ant Bully, The Polar Express, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Beloved, That Thing You Do!, The Silence of the Lambs (winner of five Academy Awards®, including Best Picture), Philadelphia, Devil in a Blue Dress, Miami Blues, Modern Girls, Amos & Andrew, Storefront Hitchcock, Neil Young: Heart of Gold, the IMAX short Magnificent Desolation, the HBO series Big Love and the Emmy-and Golden Globe-winning miniseries Band of Brothers.

At age 20, Goetzman production managed Jonathan Demme’s directorial debut, Caged Heat. He also produced the Talking Heads’ concert film Stop Making Sense; Neil Young’s long-form video The Complex Sessions; and music videos for Bruce Springsteen, Suzanne Vega, David Byrne and Jane Child’s number one music video Don’t Wanna Fall in Love, which he also directed. Goetzman is producing the upcoming HBO miniseries John Adam; Spike Jonze’s feature adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s beloved book Where the Wild Things Are; The Great Buck Howard, starring John Malkovich and Colin Hanks; City of Ember, directed by Gil Kenan; and Charlie Wilson’s War, starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman and directed by Mike Nichols.

A native of Los Angeles, Goetzman has a rich musical background and has written and produced songs for many recording artists, including Smokey Robinson, Natalie Cole, Chaka Khan, The Staple Singers, Thelma Houston, The Manhattans, David Ruffin and Robert John.

He has contributed his talents to many motion picture soundtracks, including Something Wild, Married to the Mob, Colors, That Thing You Do!, Devil in a Blue Dress, Wim Wenders’ Until the End of the World and Philadelphia, which included Bruce Springsteen’s Grammy and Academy Award® winner for Best Original Song, “Streets of Philadelphia.” He produced the socially provocative and star-studded music DVD What’s Going On? for the Artists Against AIDS Fund. In 1998, Goetzman teamed up with Tom Hanks to form Playtone, a film, television and recording company.

IAN BAKER (Director of Photography) has earned a reputation as a talented cinematographer in both his native Australia and in the U.S. His most recent theatrical film credit is the visually stunning drama Japanese Story, starring Toni Collette. For the film, he won an Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award and Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Cinematography.

Baker’s additional feature credits include the HBO telefilm Empire Falls, directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Paul Newman and Ed Harris. Baker has a longstanding collaboration, which spans decades, with fellow Australian Schepisi. Baker began his career working at Schepisi’s Film House production house soon after graduating from the prestigious Swineburne Film and Television School in Melbourne.

They previously worked together on It Runs in the Family, Six Degrees of Separation, Fierce Creatures, The Chamber, I.Q., Mr. Baseball, The Russia House, A Cry in the Dark, Roxanne, Plenty and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.

Other motion picture credits include Queen of the Damned and Everybody Wins.

LINDA DESCENNA (Production Designer) began her career as a set decorator and was one of the first three women to join the set decorators union as a set dresser. She received her first Academy Award® nomination in 1980 for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Four nominations for set decoration followed for her work on Blade Runner, The Color Purple, Rain Man and Toys.

DeScenna became a production designer on Barry Levinson’s Jimmy Hollywood and went on to design A Family Thing, Father of the Bride Part II, Mousehunt and Galaxy Quest. Evan Almighty marks DeScenna’s fifth collaboration with director Tom Shadyac. They have also worked together on Bruce Almighty, Patch Adams, Liar Liar and Dragonfly. Other recent motion-picture credits include Yours, Mine and Ours, The Pacifier and Bringing Down the House.

SCOTT HILL (Film Editor) is a talented editor whose most recent motion- picture credits include the comedies Accepted, Monster-in-Law, Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! and Just Married.

Hill previously collaborated with director Tom Shadyac as an editor on Bruce Almighty.

JUDY RUSKIN HOWELL (Costume Designer) was born in Philadelphia and attended the Tyler School of Fine Arts there and in Rome. She designed costumes for four previous Tom Shadyac films: Patch Adams, Liar Liar, Dragonfly and Bruce Almighty. Her career includes a diverse collection of films including the period drama Remember the Titans, Robert Redford’s The Horse Whisperer and Albert Brooks’ Mother.

She designed for Alfonso Arau on A Walk in the Clouds and for three films in which Billy Crystal starred—Forget Paris, City Slickers and City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold. Her costume designs were featured in Forest Whitaker’s Waiting to Exhale and Nora Ephron’s Sleepless in Seattle. Howell made her debut on Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July. Her other credits include Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story, Guess Who, Melinda and Melinda, My Life, Jennifer Eight, Man Trouble and Young Guns II.

JOHN DEBNEY (Music by) earned an Academy Award® nomination for his score in Mel Gibson’s film phenomenon The Passion of the Christ. Debney’s music was recently heard in 2006’s Barnyard, The Ant Bully, Idlewild, Everyone’s Hero and 2007’s Georgia Rule; and soon it will be heard in the video game Lair and Sin City 2.

Debney has worked repeatedly with several noted directors, including Garry Marshall on his other films from The Princess Diaries, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement and Raising Helen; Robert Rodriguez on Spy Kids, Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams, Sin City and The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D; Jon Favreau on Elf and Zathura; and Tom Shadyac on Liar Liar, Dragonfly and Bruce Almighty.

His extensive film credits include The Pacifier, Swimfan, The Scorpion King, Snow Dogs, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Scary Movie 2, Cats & Dogs, Heartbreakers, The Emperor’s New Groove, End of Days, Inspector Gadget, Paulie, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Relic, Little Giants and Hocus Pocus, to name but a few.

Debney’s classical training as a composer has led him to emphasize live performance. He has conducted some of the world’s greatest orchestras (performing his original works) and recently enlisted master violinist Joshua Bell to perform on his score for Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story and trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval for the score to Idlewild. Following the success of The Passion of the Christ film, he premiered “The Passion of the Christ Symphony” in Rome, featuring an 83-person choir and 96-piece orchestra.

In recognition of his many accomplishments, Debney, only in his 40s, received ASCAP’s prestigious Henry Mancini Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.