Credits

DIRECTOR Marc Webb
WRITERS Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
PRODUCERS Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, Mason Novick, Steven J. Wolfe

Biography

Jessica Tuchinsky (producer)

After fifteen years as an agent at Creative Artists Agency, Jessica Tuchinsky partnered with her director client Mark Waters (Mean Girls, Freaky Friday) to form Watermark Pictures in 2005.

She serves as the executive producer on Mark’s film Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, which stars Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Michael Douglas. (500) Days of Summer marks Watermark Pictures first film.

While at CAA, Tuchinsky represented Uma Thurman, Bill Murray, Scott Silver, Steve Kloves, and many others.  She attended George Washington University and moved to Los Angeles the day after graduation.  She began her career as an assistant to Jay Moloney.

Mark Waters (producer)

A graduate of the directing program at the American Film Institute, Mark Waters made his feature film directorial debut on the dark comedy indie hit The House of Yes.  The film premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, where Parker Posey won a Special Jury Prize for her performance.

Waters’ next film was the romantic comedy HEAD OVER HEELS, and he also directed the VH1 original movie Warning: Parental Advisory.   Then Waters directed the back-to-back hit comedies Freaky Friday and Mean Girls.

In 2003 Waters directed Freaky Friday, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, the successful remake of the comedy fantasy in which an uptight mother and her teenage daughter switch bodies, much to their horror. The film earned a Critic's Choice Award nomination for Best Family Film and brought a Golden Globe nomination to Jamie Lee Curtis.

The following year, Waters directed Mean Girls, written by Tina Fey. The film became one of the most talked-about films of the year and won three MTV Movie Awards™ including one for
Lindsay Lohan as Best Actress.

Waters followed that up in 2005 with Just Like Heaven, starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo, and then directed the acclaimed The Spiderwick Chronicles, adapted from the
popular children’s book series. He recently finished post production onGhosts of Girlfriends Past, starring Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Michael Douglas.   The film was  released in the spring of 2009.

In addition to directing, he also executive produced Sorry, Haters, which was nominated for two Film Independent Spirit Awards.

Mason Novick (producer)

Mason Novick is an independent producer based in Los Angeles.  His credits include Juno, Red Eye, and Jennifer's Body released in Fall 2009.

Novick’s film Juno garnered multiple awards including being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. It also won the Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Picture and The Critics Choice award for Best Comedy.  Juno grossed over $200 million dollars worldwide and is the second highest grossing platform release of all time.  Juno was also selected as one of AFI Top Ten outstanding feature films of 2007 as well as being nominated for a Golden Globe® in the Best Picture: Musical or Comedy category. Novick was also nominated for the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures by the Producers Guild of America.

Novick is recenlty completed Jennifer's Body for Fox Atomic starring Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried. The film is directed by Karyn Kusama.

Novick graduated from the University of Arizona in 1997 and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry.  Starting out as an assistant at the agency ICM, he was eventually promoted to an agent in the motion picture literary department. As an agent, some of the films Novick help put together include Snakes on a Plane and the Underworld franchise. He has several producing projects set up at various studios including Diablo Cody’s next project Girly Style  at Universal and an adaptation of the comic book Y: The Last Man and Dan Mitner: Badass for Hire both at New Line.

Steven J. Wolfe (producer)

Steven J. Wolfe is Chairman and CEO of Sneak Preview Entertainment, the production and talent management company he founded in 1993.  He recently completed Miss March for Fox Atomic, A Dennis the Menace Christmas for Warner Brothers and Sneak Preview’s Beautiful Loser.  He produced the Fox Searchlight comedy, Phat Girlz with Mo’Nique, When Do We Eat? with Lesley Ann Warren and Jack Klugman, and the multi-award winning, The Civilization of Maxwell Bright starring Patrick Warburton and Eric Roberts.

He also produced Hellbent by newcomer writer-director Paul Etheredge-Ouzts; Fast Sofa tarring Crispin Glover and Natasha Lyonne and Dirk Shafer’s Circut.

Wolfe had two films premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Twin Falls Idaho and Relax, It's Just Sex.  Twin Falls Idaho was the debut feature of award winning writers Mark and Michael Polish, real life identical twin brothers who play the roles of conjoined twins. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Deauville Film Festival and was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards. Relax, It's Just Sex; starring Jennifer Tilly was the opening night film of Outfest ’98 played over 100 festivals around the world.

Other credits include the off-beat romance Tollbooth with Fairuza Balk and Seymour Cassel; the romantic comedy Only You, director Betty Thomas' first feature, starring Andrew McCarthy, Kelly Preston and Helen Hunt; Scorchers, starring Faye Dunaway and James Earl Jones; The Clean & Narrow starring Jack Noseworthy and Laura Leighton. Wolfe Executive Produced Bird of Prey, the stylish European thriller starring Jennifer Tilly, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Carradine and Lesley Ann Warren and produced the highly successful, My Mom's A Werewolf, during his seven year tenure at Crown International Pictures.