Kirk DeMicco

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Kirk DeMicco (2014)

Kirk DeMicco is an American journalist , writer , film director, and producer .

childhood

Kirk DeMicco grew up in the suburbs of Franklin Lakes , New Jersey .

journalism

After completing his master's degree in economics and political science at the University of Southern California in 1991 , he worked as a journalist in Italy for three years. He interviewed workers in the Italian film industry for an Italian film business magazine. After returning to the USA in 1994, he worked for the William Morris Agency in New York and Los Angeles .

Screenwriter, film producer and film director

The first script DeMicco sold was called A Day in November (bought from Warner Bros. and producer Arnold Kopelson for $ 1 million). Next he wrote Quest for Camelot . He later wrote the script for Racing Stripes and worked on its production (Director: Frederik Du Chau ). John Cleese and DeMicco wrote the film adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic The Twits . He wrote the script for "Splitting Adam". and Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie and then Casper's Scare School . In 2008 he wrote the screenplay for Space Chimps , which he also directed under producer John H. Williams for Vanguard Animation . This film was inspired by the first chimpanzee in space, Ham . While working for Warner Bros., he and Du Chau wrote the script for the film Hong Kong Phooey , which they sold to Alcon Entertainment . He also revised scripts for Disney, Warner Bros., DreamWorks and Spyglass. For television, he worked as an executive producer on the Discovery Channel documentary "HALO: Freefall Warriors." He eventually wrote the script for The Croods , directed by Chris Sanders and produced by DreamWorks Animation . Animated film The Croods was presented on March 22, 2013 at the 63rd Berlinale .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fox: Die Croods , 2013, p. 17.
  2. ↑ Allison Engel: Cinematic Simians on a Space Safari . In: USC Dornsife , July 1, 2008. Retrieved January 21, 2012. 
  3. ↑ Spelling, Ian. "Monkey Business" ( Memento of the original dated June 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (201) Magazine , July 2008, p. 70. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.201.net
  4. ^ Creating Camelot . Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 25, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.quest4camelot.com
  5. ↑ Claude Brodesser: 'Twits' pic pleases Cleese . In: Variety , February 4, 2003. Retrieved January 21, 2012. 
  6. ↑ Splitting Adam . ffwdweekly.com. Retrieved on June 20, 2013.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ffwdweekly.com  
  7. ↑ PGA & DREAMWORKS PRESENT: MASTER STORY-TELLING: WORLD CLASS FEATURE ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT . producers guild. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
  8. ↑ DreamWorks Animation Shifts 'The Croods' , Deadline. April 4, 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2011. 
personal data
SURNAME DeMicco, Kirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist, writer, film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century