Lucchesi, Gary 1955-

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Lucchesi, Gary 1955-

PERSONAL

Born 1955, in San Francisco, CA.

Addresses:

Office—Lakeshore Entertainment, 9268 West Third St., Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

Career:

Producer and executive. William Morris Agency, trainee, 1977; TriStar Pictures, vice president of production, 1983-85, senior vice president of production, 1985-87; Paramount Pictures, executive vice president, 1987, president of Motion Pictures Production Division, 1987-92; Really Useful Film Company, Beverly Hills, CA, president, beginning 1994; Lakeshore Entertainment, Beverly Hills, president and cochair, c. 2000—.

Awards, Honors:

Emmy Award nomination (with others), outstanding made for television movie, 1997, for Gotti; Independent Spirit Award nomination (with others), best feature, Independent Features Project West, 2007, for The Dead Girl.

CREDITS

Film Producer:

(With David Wimbury) Jennifer Eight (also known as Jennifer 8),Paramount, 1992.

(With Clifford Green and Ellen Green) Three Wishes, Savoy Pictures, 1995.

Virtuosity, Paramount, 1995.

Primal Fear, Paramount, 1996.

Just the Ticket (also known as Gary & Linda), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1999.

Autumn in New York, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2000.

The Gift, Paramount, 2000.

The Mothman Prophecies, Screen Gems, 2002.

The Human Stain (also known as La couleur du mensonge and Der menschliche makel), Miramax, 2003.

Underworld, Screen Gems, 2003.

Wicker Park, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2004.

The Cave, Screen Gems, 2005.

(Some sources cite function as executive producer) Undiscovered (also known as Newcomer—Tausche ruhm gegen liebe), Lions Gate Films, 2005.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Screen Gems, 2005.

Aeon Flux, Paramount, 2005.

Underworld: Evolution, Screen Gems, 2006.

Crank, Lions Gate Films, 2006.

The Covenant, Screen Gems, 2006.

The Last Kiss, Paramount/DreamWorks, 2006.

The Dead Girl, First Look International, 2006.

Blood and Chocolate (also known as Blood & Chocolate—Die nacht der werewoelfe), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2007.

Feast of Love, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2007.

Henry Poole Is Here, Overture Films, 2008.

Untraceable, Screen Gems, 2008.

Elegy, Samuel Goldwyn Company, 2008.

Pathology, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2008.

The Midnight Meat Train (also known as Clive Barker's "Midnight Meat Train"), Lionsgate, 2008.

Game, Lionsgate, 2008.

Film Executive Producer:

Runaway Bride, Buena Vista, 1999.

Passion of Mind, Paramount, 2000.

The Next Best Thing, Paramount, 2000.

Television Executive Producer; Movies:

Gotti (also known as John Gotti: The Rise and Fall and King of the Volcano), HBO, 1996.

Breast Men, HBO, 1997.

Vendetta, HBO, 1999.

Wild Iris, Showtime, 2001.

Madhouse, Lions Gate Films, 2004.

Suspect Zero (also known as Suspect 0), Paramount, 2004.

Million Dollar Baby, Warner Bros., 2004.

She's the Man, DreamWorks, 2006.

Television Executive Producer; Specials:

"Cats" (also known as "Andrew Lloyd Webber's ‘Cats’"), Great Performances, PBS, 1998.

Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration, 1998.

Andrew Lloyd Webber: 50th Birthday Celebration, PBS, 1999.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

Day by Day: A Director's Journey Part I (also known as Day by Day: A Director's Journey—The Road In), 2003.

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