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TODD WILLIAMS Executive Producer FEATURE FILMS Partial List DIRECTORS PRODUCERS/STUDIOS NAPPILY EVER AFTER Haifaa Al-Mansour Netflix Line Producer – Additional Photography ALEX & ME Eric Champnella Matt Bierman, Bill Bindley, Mike Karz Executive Producer Warner Bros. THE NUN Corin Hardy Peter Safran, James Wan Executive Producer New Line Cinema PURE COUNTRY 3: PURE HEART Damon Santostefano Hunt Lowry Executive Producer Warner Bros. AMITYVILLE: THE AWAKENING Franck Khalfoun Jason Blum, Jeanette Brill Line Producer – Additional Photography Blumhouse Prods. / The Weinstein Company THE CRUCIFIXION Xavier Gens Peter Safran Executive Producer Lotus Entertainment DYING OF THE LIGHT Producer Paul Schrader Over Under Media / Lionsgate DEMONIC Will Canon Dimension Films / Icon Entertainment Executive Producer, Line Producer, UPM REACH ME John Herzfeld Seraphim Films CATCH HELL Production Consultant Ryan Phillippe PalmStar Entertainment AZTEC WARRIOR Scott Sanders Lionsgate Executive Producer, Line Producer, UPM JENNY’S WEDDING Co-Exec Producer Mary Agnes Donoghue MM Productions RETURN TO SENDER Production Consultant Fouad Mikati Boo Pictures / Lagniappe Films SUBMERGED Steven C. Miller Twisted Pictures BOULEVARD Executive Producer Dito Montiel Camellia Entertainment FAMILY WEEKEND Production Consultant Benjamin Epps Footprint Features / ARC Entertainment SHADOW PEOPLE Executive Producer, UPM Matthew Arnold Infinity Media / Anchor Bay Films TICKING CLOCK Ernie Barbarash Motion Picture Corporation of America BEAUTIFUL BOY Associate Producer Shawn Ku First Point Entertainment / Anchor Bay Films NINE DEAD Co-Exec Producer Chris Shadley Hartbreak Films / Image Entertainment TRANCE Producer Hans Rodionoff Louisiana Media Productions THE WAY OF WAR Co-Exec Producer John Carter Capital City Entertainment DROOL Producer Nancy Kissman Slamdance PRINT Producer Ashley Beyer Upload Films THE COVERUP Co-Exec Producer Brian Jun Roberts/David Films THE BABYSITTERS David Ross Forensic Films SHOTGUN STORIES Jeff Nichols A Lucky Old Sun Productions RESURRECTING THE CHAMP Rod Lurie Phoenix Pictures Production Executive FIRST SNOW Mark Fergus El Camino Pictures Production Executive, Co-Producer GRAY MATTERS Sue Kramer Archer Entertainment Group Production Executive, Co-Producer THE ILLUSIONIST Production Executive Neil Burger Bull’s Eye Entertainment FIND ME GUILTY Production Executive Sidney Lumet Yari Film Group BLOCK PARTY Production Executive Michel Gondry Yari Film Group, Rogue Pictures THE CHUMSCRUBBER Arie Posin El Camino Pictures Production Executive, Co-Producer TELEVISION GHOUL TV Movie Gregory Wilson Chiller Films / Marvista Entertainment MOTHMAN TV Movie Sheldon Wilson Upload Films / Syfy PRODUCTION SERVICES Dermaphoria, Chronic, Camp X-Ray, Behaving Badly, In the Blood, Pawn Shop Chronicles, The Last Exorcism Part II, Seven Psychopaths. Mr. Williams has worked all over the world including Louisiana, Utah, New Mexico, Tennessee, Romania, Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Mexico, and Thailand. .

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Filed 1/31/14 Paul Haggis, Inc. v. Persik Productions CA2/1 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115. IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT DIVISION ONE PAUL HAGGIS, INC., et al., B240556 Plaintiffs and Respondents, (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. BC381582) v. PERSIK PRODUCTIONS, INC., et al., Defendants and Appellants. APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. Daniel J. Buckley, Judge. Affirmed. Nahai Law Group, Behzad Nahai, and Edward Wei for Defendants and Appellants. Deadline.com Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley, Terry Anastassiou; Arent Fox and Richard L. Charnley for Plaintiffs and Respondents. ____________________________________ This is an action by writer-director Paul Haggis and others involved in the Oscar- winning film Crash for compensation they claim is due them under their contract with the film’s principal backer, Persik Productions, Inc. In a bench trial the court found for the plaintiffs and awarded them over $12,000,000 in damages and prejudgment interest. We conclude that appellants have not carried their burden of showing prejudicial error, and we therefore affirm. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW In summarizing the facts we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the judgment. (Roby v. McKesson Corp. (2009) 47 Cal.4th 686, 693-694.) The plaintiffs in this action are Paul Haggis, who directed and co-wrote Crash, Bobby Moresco who co-wrote and co-produced the film, Mark Harris, a co-producer, and Brendan Fraser, an actor in the film.
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Complicated Views: Mainstream Cinema's Representation of Non

University of Southampton Research Repository Copyright © and Moral Rights for this thesis and, where applicable, any accompanying data are retained by the author and/or other copyright owners. A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge. This thesis and the accompanying data cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder/s. The content of the thesis and accompanying research data (where applicable) must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holder/s. When referring to this thesis and any accompanying data, full bibliographic details must be given, e.g. Thesis: Author (Year of Submission) "Full thesis title", University of Southampton, name of the University Faculty or School or Department, PhD Thesis, pagination. Data: Author (Year) Title. URI [dataset] University of Southampton Faculty of Arts and Humanities Film Studies Complicated Views: Mainstream Cinema’s Representation of Non-Cinematic Audio/Visual Technologies after Television. DOI: by Eliot W. Blades Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy May 2020 University of Southampton Abstract Faculty of Arts and Humanities Department of Film Studies Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Complicated Views: Mainstream Cinema’s Representation of Non-Cinematic Audio/Visual Technologies after Television. by Eliot W. Blades This thesis examines a number of mainstream fiction feature films which incorporate imagery from non-cinematic moving image technologies. The period examined ranges from the era of the widespread success of television (i.e.
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Jigsaw: Torture Porn Rebooted? Steve Jones After a Seven-Year Hiatus

Originally published in: Bacon, S. (ed.) Horror: A Companion. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. This version © Steve Jones 2018 Jigsaw: Torture Porn Rebooted? Steve Jones After a seven-year hiatus, ‘just when you thought it was safe to go back to the cinema for Halloween’ (Croot 2017), the Saw franchise returned. Critics overwhelming disapproved of franchise’s reinvigoration, and much of that dissention centred around a label that is synonymous with Saw: ‘torture porn’. Numerous critics pegged the original Saw (2004) as torture porn’s prototype (see Lidz 2009, Canberra Times 2008). Accordingly, critics such as Lee (2017) characterised Jigsaw’s release as heralding an unwelcome ‘torture porn comeback’. This chapter will investigate the legitimacy of this concern in order to determine what ‘torture porn’ is and means in the Jigsaw era. ‘Torture porn’ originates in press discourse. The term was coined by David Edelstein (2006), but its implied meanings were entrenched by its proliferation within journalistic film criticism (for a detailed discussion of the label’s development and its implied meanings, see Jones 2013). On examining the films brought together within the press discourse, it becomes apparent that ‘torture porn’ is applied to narratives made after 2003 that centralise abduction, imprisonment, and torture. These films focus on protagonists’ fear and/or pain, encoding the latter in a manner that seeks to ‘inspire trepidation, tension, or revulsion for the audience’ (Jones 2013, 8). The press discourse was not principally designed to delineate a subgenre however. Rather, it allowed critics to disparage popular horror movies. Torture porn films – according to their detractors – are comprised of violence without sufficient narrative or character development (see McCartney 2007, Slotek 2009).