Hal Lieberman

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Hal Lieberman is an American producer and former president of production for Universal Pictures. Born and raised in the Bronx, New York, Lieberman has a B.A from SUNY at Stony Brook and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. Lieberman began his career as Warren Beatty's production assistant on Heaven Can Wait, and spent the next eight years as a screenwriter. Tony Ganz and Deborah Blum hired him in 1986 to oversee development for their Disney-based Blum/Ganz Productions; in 1987 he began his journey as a film executive at Universal Pictures, where he quickly worked his way up the ranks to president in 1994.

Some of the movies Lieberman oversaw through development and production were Apollo 13, The Nutty Professor,[1][not in citation given] Liar Liar, Fried Green Tomatoes, The River Wild, Death Becomes Her, Billy Madison, and Happy Gilmore, Problem Child, amongst many others.

Lieberman's most recent film production is Sony's Stage 6 film, Vacancy 2: The First Cut, to be released in 2009; this is a prequel to the original Sony Screen Gems thriller Vacancy, starring Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale, which Lieberman also produced.

Prior to that, Lieberman produced the critically acclaimed hit movie Bridge to Terabithia for Walt Disney Pictures; Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Claire Danes, for Warner Brothers and Sony Pictures; Around the World in Eighty Days, starring Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan and Arnold Schwarzenegger; and served as executive producer on the Universal U-571 starring Matthew McConaughey and The Jackal starring Bruce Willis and Richard Gere.

Lieberman has projects set up at multiple studios, including Big Man on Campus, for Columbia Pictures, to be directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan[2]; The Secret Lives of Road Crews, for Paramount; and The Umbra, with Roger Donaldson to direct, for Relativity Films.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ The Nutty Professor at the Internet Movie Database.
  2. ^ "Kaplan, Elfont crash Col's 'Campus'", Variety.

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