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The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000) Kids/Family and Comedy. 1 hr. 31 min. Release Date: April 28, 2000 Nationwide Fred Flintstone and his best friend Barney Rubble are on top of the world. They have just graduated from the Bronto Crane Academy and secured jobs at the rock quarry in Bedrock, and life couldn't be better. Wilma Slaghoople, the beautiful young heiress and daughter to Colonel and Pearl Slaghoople, is miserable. Her mother, resplendent in the latest Isaac Mizraki gown as she dines on caveiar, has Wilma's life mapped out for her, including a marriage to the suave and debonair Chip Rockefeller. He does drive a Cadirock and he was first in his class at Princestone, but to Wilma he's a total bore, so she runs away from home. In Bedrock, Wilma meets Betty O'Shale, and the two become fast friends, residing at Melrock Place and working at the local Bronto King. Following a disastrous first date, Fred ends up falling head over heels in live with Wilma, while Barney and Betty become inseparable. So, leaving puppy Dino behind, Fred and Barney- along with a green alien from outer space, The Great Gazoo-whisk the girls away on a BC-10 for a romantic weekend in Rock Vegas. But Chip has other plans in mind, and with the help of Roxie, a Rock Vegas showgirl, Rockefeller devises a plan to get Fred out of the picture once and for all, leaving Wilma and her family's fortune all to himself. ABOUT THE CAST MARK ADDY (Fred Flintstone) received wide acclaim for his portrayal of Dave, the ex-steelworker, in the OscarÒ -nominated Best Picture The Full Monty. Addy was born and currently resides in the city of York in Northern England. He started working at the age of 15, as a stagehand at the York Theatre Royal. Addy trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and has worked extensively in theatres throughout England including the Hull Truck Theatre Company and Royal National Theatre with such directors as Richard Eyre, Howard Davies, Nick Hytner, Alan Ayckbourn, John Godber and Jude Kelly. His television credits include a number of British television series, including: The Rita, A Very Peculiar Practice, Between the Lines, Band of Gold, The Heart Surgeon, Heart beat, Peak Practice, Sunnyside Farm and the BBC comedy The Thin Blue Line with Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) and the forthcoming sitcom Too Much Sun. Other feature credits include Jack Frost with Michael Keaton and the independent films The Last Yellow and The Announcement. Addy recently completed production on the Weitz brothers new movie I Was Made To Love Her, and looks forward to starting work on A Knight’s Tale, which will shoot in the Czech Republic. STEPHEN BALDWIN (Barney Rubble) has displayed his talents in a wide range of big and small screen projects. The youngest of four brothers, all actors, Baldwin started his acting career by enrolling in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in his late teens. He made his feature debut in Last Exit to Brooklyn and followed with a diverse range of roles in such films as the Academy AwardÒ -winning The Usual Suspects, Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July, One Tough Cop, The Beast, Fled, Threesome, 8 Seconds, Posse and Crossing the Bridge. He recently starred in Friends and Lovers with Robert Downey, Jr., Claudia Schiffer and Danny Nucci. His television credits include the ABC mini-sreies Mr. Murder and the psychological thriller Absence of the Good for HBO. Early credits include the American Playhouse/Disney mini-series The Lawrenceville Stories and Jury Duty. In addition to an array of guest starring roles, Baldwin went on to star in the ABC Emmy Award and Western Heritage Award-winning series Young Riders, portraying the legendary William "Buffalo Bill" Cody as a young man. In between film projects, Baldwin devotes a great deal of his spare time to philanthropic endeavors including support of a number of a number of AIDS-related charities and the creation of The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund, named for his mother who is a survivor of breast cancer. KRISTEN JOHNSTON (Wilma Slaghoople) garnered Emmy Awards in 1997 and 1999, as well as numerous Golden Globe, SAG and American Comedy Award nominations, for her portrayal of Sally Solomon on the hit NBC series 3rd Rock from the Sun. Johnston also received an Emmy Award nomination in 1998. Johnston recently branched into feature films with a co-starring role as a villainous ex-KGB agent, Russian supermodel in the box-office hit Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me. She made her feature film debut in The Debt, winner of the Best Short Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993. Born in Washington D.C. and raised in Milwaukee, Johnston earned her BFA degree at New York University and appeared in college stage productions before making her professional stage debut with the Atlantic Theater Company, founded by playwright David Mamet. During her long association with the theater company, she was featured in such productions as Overruled, As you Like It, Portrait of a Woman and Rosemary for Remembrance. While living in New York, Johnston found non-stop work in theater, sometimes performing three different plays at three different theaters in a single evening. Some of her more memorable roles included a New Jersey serial killer in the year-long Naked Angels production of Hot Keys. Johnston also received a Drama Desk Award nomination for the Lincoln Center production of The Lights, which brought her to the attention of a Carsey-Warner executive who recommended her for the role of Sally. Johnston was most recently seen on the stage in Central Park in the New York Shakespeare Festival’s production of Skin of Our Teeth, opposite John Goodman. She has also performed in The Naked Angels Theater production of The Stand In, the New York Stage and Film production of Kim’s Sister and the Playwrights Horizon production of Baby Anger. JANE KRAKOWSKI (Betty O’Shale) currently stars in the Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning television series Ally McBeal. Krakowski also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a television series, mini-series or motion picture made for television for her work on the show. She recently appeared in the critically-acclaimed feature Go. Other feature credits include Dance with Me, Mrs. Winterbourne, Stepping Out, Fatal Attraction and National Lampoon’s Vacation. A Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominee for Grand Hotel, Krakowski has also starred in the Broadway productions of Once Upon A Mattress, Company, Tartuffe and Starlight Express. In Los Angeles, she starred at the Mark Taper Forum in Henceforward, winning the Los Angeles Drama Critics and the Drama-Logue Award. (She also appeared at New York City Center in Encores! and One Touch of Venus, as well as many productions at the Willamstown Theatre Festival). Krakowski’s additional television work includes HBO’s The High Life and Men and Women II, Alex Haley’s Queen, the film When We Were Young and the recent Great Performances Rodgers and Hart. She received two Emmy Award nominations for her work on Search for Tomorrow. In addition to singing on several original Broadway cast recordings of shows in which she has appeared, she can be heard on Verese Saraband records Lost in Boston IV, The Burt Bacharach Album, Sondheim at the Movies and The Paul Simon Album. THOMAS GIBSON (Chip Rockefeller) recently co-starred opposite Tom Cruise, in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. He also stars in the hit ABC television series Dharma & Greg and will star this fall in the NBCmini-series A Will of Their Own opposite Lea Thompson and Ellen Burstyn. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Thomas made his stage debut in 1973 in a childrens theater production of The Enchanted Circus. Gibson later attended the College of Charleston and subsequently won a scholarship to the prestigious Julliard School in New York where he earned a B.F.A. Gibson made his professional stage debut in David Hare’s A Map of the World at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater. He appeared in many other productions including Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Macbeth and Henry IV. His Broadway credits include a revival of Noel Coward’s Hay Fever and Moliere’s The Miser. He made his film debut in Far and Away. Other credits include The Age of Innocence, Love and Human Remains, Barcelona, Sleep With Me and Men of War. On television, he has appeared in Gore Vidal’s Lincoln, The Kennedys of Massachusetts, The Inheritance, PBS’s Tales of the City and spent three seasons starring in the medical drama Chicago Hope. Gibson will next be seen in the independent films Psycho Beach Party, which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival and 15 Moments. He is currently filming the NBC mini-series The Monkey King on location in Singapore. ALAN CUMMING (The Great Gazoo/Mick Jagged) won a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for his performance as the emcee in the Broadway revival of Cabaret. On the big screen he was most recently seen in Julie Taymor’s Titus, oppoisite Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange. His additional film credits include: Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, Prague, Emma, Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion, Spice Wold, Goldeneye, Circle of Friends and the upcoming feature Company Men. He made his feature film debut in Passing Glory while in his final year at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. After three years of television and theatre work in Scotland, Cumming made his West End debut in 1989 at the Royal Court in The Conquest of the South Pole and was nominated Most Promising Newcomer in that year’s Olivier Awards. He was Olivier nominated for his performance in La Bete at the Lyric Hammersmith and went on to win an Olivier Award for the Royal National Theatre production of Accidental Death of an Anarchist. He garnered an Olivier Award nomination for his work in the London production of Cabaret and also received wide critical acclaim for his performance of Hamlet at the Donmar Warehouse Mixing his film and theatre success with a diversity of other work, Cumming is also known on the stand-up cabaret circuit as the latter half of the comedy duo Victor and Barry. He has adapted a number of plays for the Royal National Theatre and has directed Bonjour La Bonjour at the Royal National Theatre Studio. He also was the co-writer and star of the cult BBC sitcom The High Life. Other TV credits include the films Bernard and the Genie, for which he was named the Top Television Newcomer at the 1992 British Comedy Awards, The Last Romantics, Mickey Love and the upcoming made-for-TV movie Annie. He also wrote and directed the award-winning short film Butter and stars in the animated series God, the Devil and Bob. HARVEY KORMAN (Colonel Slaghoople), a four time Emmy winner, was the second head funny man on The Carol Burnett Show for ten years before leaving to bomb in his own series. He subsequently reunited with Burnett for her acclaimed 25th Anniversary special. The veteran comic was also the voice of The Great Gazoo in the original Flintstones TV series and the voice of the dictabird in the film The Flintstones. A native of Chicago and an alumnus of the Goodman School of Drama, Korman appeared in no Broadway shows before landing the role of "second banana" on The Danny Kaye Show. His film credits include three Mel Brooks classics – Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety and History of the Wold, Part I. Other film credits include Radioland Murders, Lord Love a Duck, Last of the Secret Agents, The April Fools and Huckleberry Finn. Recently, he partnered with Tim Conway in a two man stage show. JOAN COLLINS (Pearl Slaghoople)J is an award winning actress, best-selling author, accomplished producer, successful entrepreneur and devoted humanitarian. Prior to beginning work on The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas she produced and starred in the film The Clandestine Marriage with Sir Nigel Hawthorne. Her latest book, My Friends’ Secrets, is on the best seller list in the U.K. and will be published in America in April 2000. She will co-star with George Hamilton and Stacy Keach on stage in a limited engagement of Love Letters, starting April 11. She first appeared on the London stage at the age of nine in a production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the Arts Theatre. She went on to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and after just 18 months was signed to an exclusive contract by the Rank Organization where she made such films such as Our Girl Friday, I Believe in You and The Good Die Young. The Golden Globe and People’s Choice Award-winning actress has starred in more than 55 films, including: Girl in a Red Velvet Swing, Rally ‘Round the Flag Boys, Sea Wife, The Bravados, The Road to Hong Kong and Virgin Queen. Recent credits include Decadence and Kenneth Branagh’s In the Bleak Mid-Winter. With more than 30 televisions shows to her credit, her most memorable role was that of Alexis Carrington Colby on Dynasty , which became the top-rated drama throughout the world. She produced and starred in the mini-series Sins, and also produced the mini-series Monte Carlo. Recent TV credits include a Hart to Hart movie-of-the-week, ABC’s family film Annie: A Royal Adventure, a guest appearance on the hit TV series The Nanny and guest starring roles in six special episodes of Pacific Palisades. She has joined the cast of Will & Grace and will make her first appearance in the May sweeps. Her first major stage role was in Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth; other notable roles included the lead in The Seventh Veil, Claudia & David and The Praying Mantis. Joan returned to the British stage in 1980 to play the title role in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney at the Chichester Festival Theatre and later in the West End. Her most recent stage appearance was in Noel Coward’s Private Lives, which earned her outstanding reviews in the West End and on Broadway. In addition to her acting career, Joan is a prolific author. Her books include her autobiography Past Imperfect, a second autobiography Second Act, three novels Prime Time, Love, Desire & Hate, Too Damn Famous, and a non-fiction work Health, Youth and Happiness: My Secrets. Her entrepreneurial skills have resulted in the Joan Collins Eyewear Fashion Line Collection, which is the number one celebrity eyewear endorsement. Collins has been honored with the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) for her lifetime contributions to the arts and her continuing charity work which includes such organizations as the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the International Foundation for Children with Learning Disabilities, the Joan Collins Wing of the Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Variety clubs International and the Association of Breast Cancer Studies. Born and raised in Chicago, ALEX MENESES (Roxie) grew up taking dance lessons in her aunt’s studio. By her early teens she was ready to become a professional ballerina, but at 5'8", she realized that the height that would hold her back as a dancer would serve her well as an actress and turned her talents to the theater. After high school she studied at the famous Second City Theatre, working her way through as a make-up artist for a local photographer. She sent her book to an agency to try to get more work doing make-up, and instead was signed as a model. She spent the next several years enjoying success in Europe, as well as in New York and Miami. Eventually she moved to Los Angeles to finally begin her career as an actress. She auditioned and was immediately accepted into the prestigious Lee Strasberg acting program, and she did a few commercials before getting her first television job as a guest star on The John Larroquete Show. That was followed by steady work as a guest star on television series including Friends, Martial Law, Early Edition, Family Law and Suddenly Susan. On Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, she landed a year-long recurring role as schoolteacher Teresa Morales. Her film work includes Selena; a co-starring role opposite Rob Lowe in Living in Peril; and Stealth Fighter, which debuted on HBO this past October. Meneses has also done extensive theater work, her favorite being Latinologues, a comedy troupe with which she maintains an ongoing relationship. With this troupe, Alex has portrayed such outlandish characters as Manic Hispanic, the crazy studio executive, and Oversexed Latina, which requires no explanation. ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS For two decades, BRIAN LEVANT (Director) has kept audiences laughing, first as a writer/producer of such popular television series as Happy Days and Mork & Mindy and more recently as the director of the motion pictures Beethoven, The Flintstones and Jingle All The Way. Born and raised in Chicago, Levant began his career in 1977 as a story editor on Happy Days. After moving on to produce The Bad News Bears and Mork & Mindy, he returned to Happy Days as supervising producer in 1982 for the series final two seasons. In 1982 Levant wrote the teleplay for the movie-of-the-week Still The Beaver, which was CB’s highest rated MOW of the year, paving the way for the 1984-1989 New Leave it to Beaver series, for which he served as executive producer. In 1989 he won the CableACE Award for Best Director of a Comedy Series. During the past six years, Levant has turned his attention to writing and directing feature films. In addition to directing The Flintstones, Beethoven and Problem Child 2, he has written a number of motion picture screenplays, including Friday Night Lights, Leave it to Beaver, I Raised a Teenager and the upcoming Bad Haircut from Propaganda Films. A graduate from the University of New Mexico, Levant currently resides outside Los Angeles with his wife Allison and their three children. BRUCE COHEN (Producer), along with his partner Dan Jinks, produced one of 1999’s most critically-acclaimed hits, American Beauty, starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening, which won five Academy AwardsÒ , including Best Film. The film is the first project from The Jinks/Cohen Company. His additional credits include: producing 1997’s hit The Flintstones for Amblin Entertainment; producing DreamWorks’ hit comedy Mouse Hunt; executive producing To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar; and co-producing Alive, directed by Frank Marshall. Born and raised in Falls Church, Virginia, Cohen studied film at Yale University. He started in the entertainment business as a college intern at Warner Bros. He was a DGA trainee on Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple, and then served as the second assistant director on Batteries Not Included and Spielberg's Always. He moved up to first assistant director on Arachnophobia, and was the associate producer and first assistant director of Hook. DEBORAH KAPLAN and HARRY ELFONT (Co-Screenwriters) most recently wrote and directed the teen comedy Can’t Hardly Wait, starring Jennifer Love-Hewitt. Their additional credits include the story for A Very Brady Sequel. Next, Kaplan and Elfont will direct Josie and the Pussycats for Universal Pictures, based on a screenplay they co-authored.
Writing partners JIM CASH and JACK EPPS, JR. (Co-Screenwriters) have co-authored numerous box office hits over the past decade. Their credits include: Legal Eagles, starring Robert Redford and Debra Winger; Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise and Meg Ryan; The Secret of My Success, with Michael J. Fox; Turner & Hooch, starring Tom Hanks; Dick Tracy, starring Warren Beatty and Madonna; and Anaconda, starring Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz and Jon Voight. Probably one of the most unique writing relationships in the history of Hollywood, Cash lives in East Lansing, Michigan, while Epps lives in Santa Monica, California. For the last 20 years they have been collaborating by computer across country and have only seen each other face to face a handful of times. They originally met while Epps was an undergraduate at Michigan State and Cash was his screenwriting professor. Epps moved out to Califorina and began a career in television and then later starting writing screenplays with Cash. They sold their first screenplay and have been working together ever since. Cash continues to teach a History of Motion Pictures course at Michigan State University, while Epps enjoys coaching competitive soccer and football in Santa Monica. WILLIAM HANNA and JOSEPH BARBERA (Executive Producers) first met in 1937 at MGM’s animation studios. Both had been working as animators, Hanna for Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies and Barbera for Terrytoons. Hanna began his career in animation in 1929 at Harmon-Ising Studios where he worked for 8 years directing and writing cartoons. It was his cartoon "To Spring" which caught the eye of MGM in 1936, and he was hired to start their animation department from scratch on the #2 lot. By 1938, the two realized that they should be a team—Hanna had the comedic sense and organizational skills of a great director, and Barbera the excellent drawing skills and comic inventiveness of a great animator. They proved they were a winning combination from their very first Tom & Jerry episode and went on to win seven Academy AwardsÒ for their work at MGM. In 1957, Hanna and Barbera formed their own production company with the idea of developing original animation for television. During its history, Hanna-Barbera Productions has been the birthplace of more than 3,500 half-hours of animated programming and more than 350 different series, specials, television motion pictures and theatrical films. Hanna-Barbera’s first production was a six-minute animated title Ruff & Reddy. In 1958, they produced television’s first all-animated series, The Huckleberry Hound Show which earned Hanna-Barbera their first Emmy Award and the first Emmy ever awarded for a cartoon. They followed with Quick Draw McGraw. Yogi Bear got his owns series in 1961 as a spin-off of The Huckleberry Hound Show and Quick Draw McGraw series. The ground-breaking 1960 debut of The Flintstones set the stage for their space-age counterparts, The Jetsons. Other prime-time series were Top Cat and The Adventures of Johnny Quest. Hanna-Barbera also created television’s longest running animated series, Scooby-Doo, which ran for 17 seasons. In 1981, they created Smurfs, which ran for nine years and won two Emmy Awards. And in 1984, Hanna and Barbera executive produced The Flintstones for Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, which was an international hit at the box office. In honor of 50 years of outstanding achievement, Hanna and Barbera were presented with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Governor’s Award.
In addition to The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, DENNIS E. JONES (Executive Producer) has served as producer, co-producer and unit production manager on numerous other films, including: Dark Summer, Eraser, Virus, Outbreak, Exquisite Tenderness, Honey I Blew Up The Kids, Pacific Heights, Moonwalker, Short Circuit, Back to the Future, Mrs. Soffel, Buckaroo Banzai, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Poltergeist and Rich and Famous. Born in Grimsby, England, Jones moved to Toronto, where he graduated from the University of Toronto with a bachelor’s degree in economics, and attended Ryerson Polytechnic Institute where he studied radio and television arts. He entered the entertainment field through Toronto-based Hobel-Leiterman Productions, where he served as the associate producer for two seasons on the popular Canadian television series Towards The Year 2000. Jones moved to Hollywood in the ‘70s, working on several independent films, including Roger Corman’s Death Race 2000, Invasion of the Bee Girls and Outlaw Blues. The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas marks BART BROWN’s (Co-Producer) fourth collaboration with Amblin, dating back to 1990 when he served as an assistant production coordinator on Arachnaphobia, which was directed by Frank Marshall. He most recently served as associate producer on the DreamWorks hit comedy Mouse Hunt, starring Nathan Lane. He also served as associate producer on the HBO movie Mistrial and as a production associate on To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar. Raised on Long Island, Brown graduated from S.U.N.Y. Fredonia with a BS degree in television production and broadcast management. Upon graduation, he was hired by KLCS-TV (Los Angeles) to produce and direct educational television programs. While at KLCS, Brown produced and directed "Homework Hotline," which received an Emmy Award for Best Instructional Series, as well as the Emmy nominated special "Signs of Teenage Suicide." Other credits include The Flintstones, Basic Instinct, Fearless, Falling Down and Steven Spielberg’s Director’s Chair (CD ROM). As a cinematographer, JAMIE ANDERSON’s (Director of Photography) feature film credits include: Small Soldiers, Grosse Point Blank, The Juror, What’s Love Got To Do With It, The Odd Couple II, Unlawful Entry and Piranha. He recently completed production on The Gift for director Sam Raimi. Prior to working as a cinematographer, Anderson amassed numerous camera operator credits, including: Everybody’s All American, Tequila Sunrise, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, One From The Heart and Six Weeks. For television, Anderson has shot the television series Snoops and the telefilm The Temptations. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas marks CHRISTOPHER BURIAN-MOHR’s (Production Designer) first credit as a production designer. As an art director, his credits include: On The Sixth Day, The Story of Us, My Favorite Martian, Amistad, Tin Cup, Ghosts of Mississippi, Batman Forever, The Flintstones, Fearless, The Rocketeer, Always and Arachnophobia. KENT BEYDA, A.C.E. (Editor) has edited the films The Flintstones, The Out-of-Towners, George of the Jungle, Mr. Saturday Night, True Identity, Gremlins 2, Jingle All The Way, Fear, Innerspace, Out of Bounds, Fright Night and This is Spinal Tap. He has also cut some music videos as Bette Midler and Mick Jagger’s "Beast of Burden," Elvis Costello’s "You’re Not The Only Flame," Rod Stewart’s "Infatuation" and "Some Guys Have All The Luck" and Barbra Streisand’s "Emotion" and "Left in the Dark." ROBERT TURTURICE (Costume Designer) is an award-winning designer who has created the costumes for numerous film, television and stage projects. For the big screen, he most recently designed the costumes for Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin. His additional credits include such diverse films as Big Top Pee-Wee, Say Anything, Turbulence, Clean and Sober and Like Father, Like Son. Turturice won an Emmy Award for his work on the series Moonlighting, and has been honored with nine additional nominations, including three more for Moonlighting. His most recent nomination came for his designs on the critically-acclaimed Gia, starring Angelina Jolie. He also earned nods for The Gamble Returns: Luck of the Draw, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse and The Shooting. DAVID NEWMAN (Composer) created and conducted the original musical scores for such recent films as Bowfinger, Never Been Kissed, Anastasia and Out To Sea. Additional composer credits include Matilda, The Nutty Professor, The Phantom, Boys on the Side, The Cowboy Way, I Love Trouble, The Flintstones, The Freshman, The War of the Roses, The Marrying Man and Mr. Destiny. Newman springs from an eminent musical family—his father, the late Alfred Newman, was nominated for 60 Academy AwardsÒ and received a record nine Oscars as head of 20th Century Fox's music department. His uncle Lionel was a conductor and music director, his sister Maria is a classical violinist, his brother Tom is also a film composer, and cousin Randy is a well-known singer, songwriter and film composer as well. After 10 years as a successful studio musician, Newman made his professional composing debut with the original score for Roger Corman's Vendetta, which was soon followed by Critters. He created music for the computer-animated short The Brave Little Toaster, as well as Amazing Stories, My Demon Lover, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Heathers and Throw Momma from the Train. JIM HENSON’S CREATURE SHOP (Creature Effects), now with locations in London and Los Angeles, was established in 1979. The shop is recognized around the world for its quality work in the areas of animatronics, robotics, puppet making, model-making, art direction and costume design, as well as prosthetic make-up, on a myriad of projects for the feature film, television and commercial industries, and is now building a further reputation as creator of high-end 3-D computer graphics. Famous for its characters and creatures who inhabit such productions as The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dinosaurs, Babe, Pinocchio, 101 Dalmations, George of the Jungle, Dr. Dolittle, Jack Frost and Animal Farm, the Creature Shop is a pioneer in the field of animatronics, and on its staff are some of the most experienced designers and crafts people in the industry today. The Creature Shop has always had a special reputation for its performance-centered approach, and, in 1992 received a Technical Academy AwardÒ for its computer-based Henson Performance Control System, but many people have unwittingly become familiar with their work in a wider arena in such films as The Bear, The Phantom, The English Patient, The Odyssey, Lost in Space, Merlin and the current TV hit sci-fi show Farscape. Founded in 1987, RHYTHM & HUES STUDIOS (Visual Effects) is a leading producer of characater animation and visual effects for the entertainment industry. In 1995, the studio was honored with the Academy AwardÒ for Best Visual Effects for its work on the film Babe, which was also named one of the top 10 films of the decade by the Associated Press. In 1999, the studio crossed a major threshold by announcing it would produce and develop its own theatrical films and television projects. The company’s 70,000 square-foot studio is a creative home for more than 300 artist and staff, including directors of both live action and animation, paint-box artists, modelers, computer animators, producers, programmers, writers and production support. The founders are experienced hands-on creatives, familiar with the complexities of production. Their technical and creative guidances provides an invaluable resource to clients. The Motion Picture Division has provided effects and character animation for such recent films as: Fantasia 2000, Anna and the King, Stuart Little, End of Days and Mystery Men. R&H prides itself on its rich tradition of cinematic excellence, having played a major role in the success of ground-breaking animation and visual effects, including: Titanic, Babe and Terminator 2: Judgment Day the official site:
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