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COMPANY
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Cost Control - Uniquely, the Corporations film and television industry principals have many years of extensive experience and basic philosophy, specifically in cost controlled, continual flow of product, moderate budget, high quality production. Moderate Budget - The Corporations 20 years of market research and experience proves that moderate budget, cost controlled feature film and television productions created greater net profits for each dollar invested than the more customary high production budgets used by the major motion picture companies and studios. Continual Flow of Product - The Corporation believes that a continual income stream from reinvestment in new film and television projects is vital to generate the occasional blockbuster or breakout production. The Corporation also believes that the insatiable appetite of the public for marginally successful film and television product will last for many years to come. High Quality
- The Corporations integrity, commitment to its shareholders, and
its principal's credentials, reputation and philosophies allow no room
for anything but the highest quality motion picture and television production
of filmed and or videotaped entertainment for consumption by the general
public.
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Board
of Directors who comprise the Corporation's Executive Committee
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| Charles C. Bailey, Chairman of the Board of Directors | ||||||||||||
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Mr. Bailey has most recently been the producer of a variety of Broadway theatrical stage productions including the award winning musical "My One and Only" with Twiggy and Tommy Tune, "Stardust" with Sean Young, "Lucky Guy" with Faith Prince, and "Dream" with Lesley Ann Warren and Margaret Whiting. In addition, he is the Executive Producer of King Street Productions, a theatrical production company in New York City, which develops and produces Broadway and regional stage productions. Prior to his professional Broadway activities, Mr. Bailey was Senior Vice President of Thompson McKinnon Securities Inc. and previously Vice President of Prudential Bache Securities (now Prudential Securities), both in New York and two of Wall Street's leading investment banking firms. As a fully licensed investment banker with Prudential Bache and Thompson McKinnon, Mr. Bailey prepared a wide variety of multi-million dollar national municipal bond issues for the capital markets and was responsible for the underwriting of those and other issues. In conjunction with Mr. Bailey's investment banking responsibilities, he was the principal of O.B. Bailey Associates, a financial advisory service. He has been involved in international business and finance for more than 35 years, encompassing organizations and enterprises throughout the Orient, Europe, South America and the Middle East. He is a graduate of Hamilton College in New York and a member of several professional organizations including past National Director, Director of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce and Commission Chairman of the Junior Chamber International. |
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| Paul D. Hancock, President and Chief Executive Officer and Corporate Director | ||||||||||||
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Mr. Hancock is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation. He is the founder and developer of its film production concept and has served as President and Chief Executive Officer since its inception. He has been a production and business advisor to various film financing and production companies and has supervised the development/packaging and production of a wide variety of moderate budget/cost-controlled feature film and television productions. Mr. Hancock was responsible for leading one of the first exploratory film finance teams to the Wall Street capital markets in the late 1970's in order to develop and encourage motion picture financing by the investment banking community. He was instrumental in the formulation of entertainment industry relationships specifically in moderate budget feature film production financing with companies such as E.F. Hutton & Co.; Kidder, Peabody and Prudential-Bache Securities. Mr. Hancock has also been a lecturer on various aspects of the entertainment industry, entrepreneurship and finance at University Graduate Schools of Business, seminars and conferences, and is a frequent radio talk show guest discussing independent film financing, production and marketing. He has maintained a specialized expertise in and conducted diverse consulting in motion picture and television financial packaging. He was previously employed in a variety of management capacities in the theater and hotel businesses for Farber Enterprises and Ramada Incorporated. Mr. Hancock attended the Cranbrook Academies, Eastern Michigan University, and the University of California at Los Angeles. He belongs to several professional organizations including the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. |
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| A. Robert Sobolik, Executive Vice President, Treasurer and Corporate Director | ||||||||||||
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Mr. Sobolik is the Executive Vice President and Treasurer of the corporation. He has previously held senior corporate positions including Vice President of Operations for Stratavision Inc. in Southern California specializing in computer software development. Mr. Sobolik has been a financial consultant and advisor to various international and U.S. Fortune 500 corporations including HRT Industries; Senior Consultant/financial services, Saudi Airlines in Saudi Arabia and Senior Project Manager for Sierra Power Co. and the Texas Legislative Counsel. Prior to his consulting services, he was Project Manager and Director for computer systems in corporate development with the U.S. Borax Chemical Corporation and before that supervised computer operations, computer systems and corporate data processing. He has also been a Manager and Controller of computer operations for a major Los Angeles based public services corporation. Mr. Sobolik has served in corporate management for more than 30 years in business, finance and industry throughout the western U.S. and abroad. |
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MANAGEMENT
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| Larry Epstein, Esq., Secretary and Corporate Director | ||||||||||||
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Mr. Epstein is presently a practicing attorney in Southern California He has been a sole practitioner since 1987 specializing in business, family and entertainment law. He was previously involved for three years as Executive Vice President and in-house legal counsel to Cherrystone Pictures, Inc., an independent feature film production company based in Los Angeles, and in that capacity oversaw all corporate and administrative fiduciary responsibilities of the company and orchestrated all documentation for domestic and international co-ventures and related agreements. Prior to his production company involvement, Mr. Epstein was a Senior Partner in the Los Angeles-based law firm of Abouaf, Epstein, Meyers & Gronemeier, specializing in business, tax, and entertainment law. He is a member of the State Bar of California, San Fernando Valley Bar Association, Los Angeles County Bar Association and The American Bar Association. Mr. Epstein has sat for 7 years as special referee and judge for the State Bar of California and is also currently Judge Pro Tem for the Superior Court, State of California, County of Los Angeles. |
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| John R. Woodward, Vice President for Film Production and Corporate Director | ||||||||||||
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Mr. Woodward is responsible for the technical production procedures of the film and television projects the corporation produces or co-produces. His career has spanned more than 20 years of both independent and studio film and television production for companies such as Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Paramount Pictures, and Castle Rock Entertainment. Including his studio involvement, he was executive in charge of production for independent production company, Melco General, Incorporated in Los Angeles. He has been a senior member of the production team for a wide variety of film and television projects, including "Sweet Dreams", "Flashdance", "The Manitou", "Tales from the Crypt", "Young Guns II", "Universal Soldier", and the recent Academy Award nominated "Shawshank Redemption", among many others. Mr. Woodward has additionally been associated with and instrumental in productions at other major studios such as Warner Brothers, Columbia, Disney, the C.B.S. Studio Center, Samuel Goldwyn, and Bavaria-Atelier Studio in Germany. His television commercial background is varied having worked on commercials for the Sony Corporation, Lincoln-Mercury, and Pepsi. He has specialized training and expertise in pre-production through post production coordination and requirements, and film production budget control. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Arts, a Masters degree in Cinema Production, and is a member of the Director's Guild of America. |
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| George T. Lindsey, Vice President for Creative Development and Corporate Director | |
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Mr. Lindsey is responsible, with the production committee, for the selection and development of film projects for the Company. His film career spans over twenty-five years of literary and production film work. He has most recently completed writing feature film projects for New West Films Corp. He has been associated in the past with film production houses and television stations, including service as an executive producer and director on the staff of the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliate W.R.C.-T.V. and W.I.T.F. Formerly, as President of a motion picture production company, he produced documentaries and docudramas throughout Europe, Africa, and South America. He has worked with such talent as Eli Wallach, Henry Fonda, Raymond Massey, Leonard Nimoy, Brock Peters and Lorne Green. Mr. Lindsey has done in-depth work in the field of pre-production of motion picture projects and has earned over eighteen national film awards for film and television productions, including regional emmy awards, local emmy awards, the N.E.T. award for excellence in film production along with gold, silver and bronze medals in film production from the New York International Film Festival. He is a member of the Writer's Guild of America, West, Inc. and the Director's Guild of America. |
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| James J. Aitken, Vice President for Finance and Administration and Corporate Director | |
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Mr. Aitken is responsible for the overall business management and administrative systems of the Company. He is a Certified Public Accountant and was formerly the Senior Partner and Regional Manager for Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young), a national and international public accounting firm. His experience while engaged in public accounting encompassed a wide variety of clients including many companies in the entertainment industry including television, radio, cablevision and professional sports teams. Mr. Aitken has led many conferences and advanced workshops in professional management and accounting sponsored by Ernst & Whinney. He has also been an instructor and professor of business and finance and accounting courses at the University level. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and several other professional societies and organizations related to business management and finance. |
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| John Levingston, Vice President for Marketing and Distribution | |
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Mr. Levingston has been involved in the distribution, marketing, television syndication and packaging of motion picture projects both nationally and internationally for more than twenty years, working with such companies as A.B.C., Gotham-Rhodes Inc., Thompson International and has served as President of Cinema Systems Inc. His film industry background also includes authorship of original stories, one of which was for the feature film "Napoleon & Samantha" and an original musical composition/co- production for ERA Records. Prior to his work in the motion picture industry, he created and marketed internationally high technological industrial instruments while working as a Vice President with companies such as Setco, Dynalube Incorporated, British-American Tobacco Co. in London and Batco Corporation in East Africa. He is the founder of the consulting firm of Levingston-Lehman specializing in financing and marketing research. |
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CONTACT
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Executive
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2120 Main Street, Suite 180 Huntington Beach, CA 92648 (714) 960-7264 Fax: (714) 374-0452 E-Mail: wwmpc@ns1.wwmpc.com |
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