Filmmaker Louis Leterrier, whose latest feature was Clash of the Titans starring Sam Worthington and Liam Neeson, has joined Saville Productions for exclusive North American representation in commercials.
Leterrier’s filmography as a director also includes The Incredible Hulk, Transporter 2 and martial arts film Unleashed, which starred Jet Li and Morgan Freeman. Leterrier also shares a directorial credit with Cory Yuen on the movie The Transporter.
In the spotmaking arena, Leterrier has experience as reflected in spots he helmed for BNP and the Asian Games.
Born in Paris, Leterrier was guided artistically from an early age by his mother, the Academy Award-nominated costume designer Catherine Leterrier. At the age of 18, after some training in advertising and publicity, he left France to study cinema at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Leterrier’s first break came when he was chosen to assist Jean-Pierre Jeunet on the set of Alien: Resurrection. On returning to France, he secured a position working with Luc Besson on commercial projects as well as on the film Joan of Arc.
In 2002 Leterrier directed The Transporter, a Luc Besson produced action movie starring Jason Statham–although the U.S. release lists him as artistic director and Yuen as director, the opening credits of the European release grant him directorial credit and list Yuen as action director. The success of The Transporter persuaded Besson to entrust him to direct Unleashed, and later Transporter 2.
Two years later Leterrier directed his first big-budget American film, The Incredible Hulk. The film gained favorable reviews, earned $134 million in the U.S. boxoffice and was nominated for Best Superhero Film at the 2008 National Movie Awards and for Best Science Fiction Film at the Saturn Awards.
Mindy Kaling and Kate Hudson Take On Pro Basketball In Netflix Series “Running Point”
In Mindy Kaling's new Netflix series, "Running Point, " Kate Hudson stars as Isla Gordon, the new president of the Los Angeles Waves, a pro basketball team that's been run by her family for years. Hudson's character has to prove herself as a woman in a man's world not only to her passed-over brothers, but also to players whose egos need checking and other executives who don't take her seriously.
If Isla's story rings a bell, take a look at the list of executive producers on the 10-episode season dropping Thursday: Among them is Jeanie Buss, the president of the Los Angeles Lakers, who was embroiled in similar turmoil over control of the storied NBA franchise after the death of her father, Jerry Buss.
Buss not only has given the show her blessing, it was her idea said Kaling. Buss was a big fan of "The Office" and approached Kaling with the premise about five years ago. Kaling ended up as the co-creator, writer and executive producer alongside Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen.
"She's in a very serious, stressful job but she loves comedy. She does not take herself seriously," Kaling says of Buss. "That's really rare when someone has that much power and that much to lose."
Jeanie Buss' blessing
In fact, Kaling said, Buss wanted the show to be funny and had "no ego" about using her real life as inspiration.
"She's had some extremely interesting things happen to her as the president of the Lakers. Some of it is she literally dated the coach for many years and she's like, 'Do whatever you want,'" Kaling says, referring to Buss' former relationship with Phil Jackson. "To get that kind of carte blanche, I'd never heard that from someone who is so famous and, you know, pretty private."
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