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Dean Devlin
Dean Devlin is an American screenwriter, producer, television director and former actor. He is the founder of the production company Electric Entertainment.-Personal life:...
(Independence Day
Independence Day (film)
Independence Day is a 1996 science fiction film about an alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they converge in the Nevada desert and, along with the rest of the human population, participate in a last-chance counterattack on July 4 – the same...
, Stargate
Stargate (film)
Stargate is a 1994 American adventure-military science fiction film released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Carolco Pictures. Created by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, the film is the first release in the Stargate franchise...
, The Patriot), and led by Devlin along with partners Kearie Peak, Marc Roskin and Rachel Olschan.
Company Biography
On December 7, 2008, TNT debuted “LeverageLeverage (TV series)
Leverage is an American television drama series on TNT that premiered in December 2008. The series is produced by director/executive producer Dean Devlin's production company Electric Television...
,” a new action-packed series from Electric Entertainment executive produced by Devlin, who made his directorial debut on the pilot. The series, starring Oscar winner Timothy Hutton, spotlights a team of five high-tech thieves who circle the globe and utilize their talents to fight underworld mobsters, unethical global corporations and corrupt politicians. The premiere ranked as TNT’s best original series telecast ever in delivery of the key 18-49 demographic during a regular broadcast season. The series currently airs in its regular timeslot Tuesday nights at 10pm on TNT. December 7 also marked TNT’s debut of “The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice,” the third installment of the company’s popular “Librarian” franchise, starring Noah Wyle (“ER”), which was seen by over 5.4 million viewers. Electric is in pre-production on the science-fiction action film Isobar, with MGM to distribute domestically, as well as the feature film Ghosting, a supernatural thriller which Devlin will produce and direct.
Electric’s previous films include the World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
action/adventure Flyboys; the politically charged documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary film that explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the mid 1990s...
(nominated by the Broadcast Film Critics Association for Best Documentary Feature); Cellular, starring Kim Basinger and Jessica Biel; and Eight Legged Freaks, with David Arquette and Scarlett Johansson.
The company’s television credits include “The Librarian: Quest for the Spear,” starring Noah Wyle, which aired on TNT in December 2004 and was the highest-rated movie on cable that year; its sequel, “The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines”; and The Sci Fi Channel’s “The Triangle,” which won a Visual Effects Emmy and was the highest-rated miniseries on the cable channel since “Steven Spielberg Presents Taken.” Electric Entertainment recently teamed with TNT for the crime thriller “Blank Slate,” starring Eric Stoltz, a microseries which will debut this fall on the network as well as TNT.tv and which will also be re-packaged and distributed on mobile devices, home video and broadcast television.
Along with Electric Interactive, a division of the company which developed the multi-player online game Flyboys Squadron in conjunction with its feature film Flyboys, Electric Entertainment also benefits from an in-house digital effects and post production division, Electric FX (EFX). Its team draws from industry veterans Devlin previously collaborated with on Independence Day, Godzilla, The Patriot and Eight Legged Freaks. EFX is headed by seasoned visual effects producer Mark Franco, whose career spans more than a quarter-century and includes Titanic, Batman & Robin, Armageddon and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, among many others. In March 2005, Devlin, along with business partner Nicolas Chartier, founded Voltage Pictures, which is a sales and financing operation.
Additionally, Electric Entertainment owns and operates the online independent film magazine IF (www.IFmagazine.com), which reports the entertainment industry’s daily news.
Electric Visual Effects (EFX)
EFX is the in-house division of Electric Entertainment. The company is made up of the film industry veterans who had previously collaborated on projects produced by Dean Devlin. EFX is headed by Mark Franco whose previous film credits include TitanicTitanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...
, Batman & Robin, Armageddon, How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
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- Electric Entertainment Official Website
- List of film production companies