- Lawrence Guterman
Lawrence Guterman is a
Canadian film director.Personal life
Guterman studied at
M.I.T. his freshman year and transferred toHarvard University , where he received a Bachelor's degree inphysics . While at Harvard he illustrated and wrote for the "Harvard Lampoon ". He went back to school after working inanimation and received aMaster's degree in Film from theUniversity of Southern California in 1996.Career
Guterman's directing career began when
DreamWorks SKG partnerSteven Spielberg hired him to direct the live-action portion of Dreamworks Interactive's "Goosebumps: Escape From Horrorland" game in 1996, after seeing Guterman's University of Southern California Master'sthesis film "Headless!" The short had won the Grand Jury Prize for best Student Film at the 1996 Worldfest Houston International Film Festival. Based on his work on the "Goosebumps" game, Guterman was hired to direct sequences for DreamWorks' first computer-animated feature film, "Antz ", featuring the voices ofWoody Allen ,Sharon Stone andChristopher Walken . He subsequently spent a year inpre-production as director of the combined live-action/CGI feature "Curious George" forImagine Entertainment andUniversal Pictures . When that version of the movie did not move forward at Universal, Guterman was hired to direct the feature film "Cats & Dogs " forWarner Bros. The movie netted $200 million in worldwide theatrical box office receipts. [BoxOffice Mojo.com.] TheBBC review of the film said that it "succeeds both as a parody of the spy genre, and in stretching the boundaries of what you believe is possible", andA.O. Scott of the "New York Times " called it "exuberant fun".Fact|date=March 2008Guterman directed "
Son of the Mask " (also known as "Mask 2") withJamie Kennedy , which was released in 2005. Despite being poorly received initially, the film has since grossed nearly $100 million in worldwide theatrical and ancillary (video/dvd/network television sales) revenue. [DGA, Variety, BoxOfficeMojo.com.] Guterman is now directing the film version of the novelArtemis Fowl byEoin Colfer but the release date is still unannounced. [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/426871/Artemis-Fowl/details]Filmography
As lead director
* "
Cats & Dogs " (2001)
* "Son of the Mask " (2005)As director of sequences
* "
Antz " (1998)References
External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0349183/ IMDB entry]
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