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Paramount Pictures' "Hot Rod" is an uproarious comedy
starring "Saturday Night Live" regular Andy Samberg.

Rod Kimble (Samberg), a self-proclaimed stuntman, is
convinced he has bravery in his blood. He's grown up
believing he's the son of Evel Knievel's test-rider, a
courageous stuntman who died in his prime. Rod is committed
to fulfilling his father's legacy. Only problem is...he sucks!

Rod lives at home with his loving mom Marie (Sissy
Spacek), jerk of a stepfather Frank (Ian McShane) and nerdy
stepbrother Kevin (Jorma Taccone.) He doesn't have a job,
and can usually be found doing stunts on his moped,
attempting to jump over everything from milk trucks to public
swimming pools. Rod and his team -- Dave (Bill Hader), the
mechanic; Rico (Danny McBride), the ramp builder and Kevin,
the team manager/videographer -- are inseparable. It's almost
like they share a brain. When Rod's neighbor Denise (Isla
Fisher) joins the team, the group's IQ virtually doubles.

Rod remains optimistic in spite of the abuse he suffers
from his stepfather. Frank has a penchant for beating the
tar out of Rod, who just keeps coming back for more in the
hopes of earning Frank's respect by besting him in one of
their regular knock-down brawls. When Frank gets sick and
needs a $50,000 operation, Rod attempts to raise the money by
undertaking his biggest stunt ever -- jumping 15 buses, one
more than Evel Knievel himself ever dared. After all, he's
got to get Frank all better so he can kick his ass!

Paramount Pictures Presents A Michaels/Goldwyn
Production "Hot Rod" starring Andy Samberg, Isla Fisher,
Jorma Taccone, Bill Hader, with Sissy Spacek and Ian McShane.
The film is directed by Akiva Schaffer from an original
screenplay written by Pam Brady. The producers are Lorne
Michaels and John Goldwyn. The executive producers are Will

Ferrell, Jimmy Miller and Jill Messick. The co-producer is
Louise Rosner. The director of photography is Andrew Dunn,
BSC. The production designer is Stephen Altman. The film is
edited by Malcolm Campbell. The costume designer is Patricia
Monaghan. The music supervisor is Steven Baker. The music
is by Trevor Rabin. The film is not yet rated.

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

"The whole reason for making this kind of movie is to
have some fun," says producer Lorne Michaels, who likens "Hot
Rod" to a good Road Runner cartoon. "It's a sort of uniquely
American kind of comedy, because most other cultures would
try to sneak something worthwhile into the mix.

"I'm a big fan of physical comedy," he adds. "As a
writer you spend forever getting the exact word, the perfect
humorous dialogue, and then somebody runs into a wall and
you're laughing twice as hard."

The reason physical comedy is so universal, according
to "Hot Rod" director Akiva Schaffer, is that "everybody
carries an awkward 12-year-old around inside of them. When
it peeks out every now and then, we're ashamed and
embarrassed. This movie celebrates that lameness...that
awkwardness. The characters are locked into it. In fact,
Rod doesn't even know enough to be ashamed," he quips.

This unique vision of prolonged adolescence came to
movie theaters via "Saturday Night Live" with a detour
through "South Park," explains producer John Goldwyn. "When
I was still an executive at Paramount, Jimmy Miller (the
noted comedy talent manager) brought this project to Lorne
Michaels for Will Ferrell. He actually brought in Will and
Pam Brady (writer-producer of "South Park," "South Park:
Bigger, Longer & Uncut" and "Team America: World Police"),
who wrote the script, to pitch this idea. We bought it,
because we immediately saw its potential as a great comedy
vehicle."

While Brady was working on the script, Ferrell's star
quickly rose and, by the time "Hot Rod" was ready, the actor
was so booked up that he graciously stepped aside to allow
the project to move forward, Goldwyn continues. "We
considered a number of actors and directors, but when Andy
Samberg, who was in his first season on `Saturday Night
Live,' read it, he went to Lorne and said, `I love this
script and I really want to do it.'"

Michaels seized the opportunity, got the studio
onboard, and he and Goldwyn (who was by now partnered with
Michaels) offered Samberg his first starring role. "It was
in 2005, just before the `SNL' video `Lazy Sunday' exploded
on the Internet. So, Lorne and I went to Paramount and said,
`How about Andy Samberg for `Hot Rod?' They were all for it.
They already knew all about Andy and Akiva Schaffer (one of
Samberg's partners in The Lonely Island comedy trio along
with Jorma Taccone) and the phenomenon of how their video, a
rap pastiche, became a viral phenomenon. Everyone was
intrigued about how something that came from `SNL' then took
off on the Internet. Hollywood suddenly had to have Andy
Samberg.

"Andy came back and said, `I really want to make it but
if I'm going to do it, I want Akiva to direct and Jorma to be
in it with me,'" Goldwyn continues. He said, `If I'm
gonna put myself out there, I want put to myself out there
with these guys."

Samberg, Schaffer and Taccone have been friends since
junior high school in Berkeley, California. After graduating
high school, they attended different universities -- Samberg
went to NYU, Schaffer to UCSC to study filmmaking and Taccone
to UCLA. Degrees in hand, the trio reconvened in Berkeley,
screened each others' student films and found that they were
still very much in sync. So they decided to throw in their
lot together, to move to L.A. and pursue their dream of
creating their own particular style of comedy. Their moniker

derived from the apartment they shared, which they called
"The Lonely Island."

"Jorma once brought home a DVD of Tennessee Williams'
`Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,'" Samberg recalls. "Akiva and I
thought that was the funniest thing Jorma's much more a
theater type than we are." Schaffer was so amused by the
film's plot that he wrote a faux Tennessee Williams play
called "The Lonely Island." When the three young men sat on
their balcony they developed a theatrical catchphrase: "Just
sitting here at the Lonely Island, watching the sea of
traffic roll by."

"We said it in that Paul Newman, `Cat-on-a-Hot-Tin--
Roof'-way," Samberg points out. "Later, when we had to
choose what we were going to call our Website, we were like,
hey...The Lonely Island."

Soon thereafter, one of the gigs the trio landed was as
part of the writing team for MTV's music awards show. It was
here that they met and worked with Jimmy Fallon and senior
"SNL" producers Mike Schoemaker and Steve Higgins. The trio
wrote the "Batman" and "Star Wars" spoofs that Fallon
performed in the show.

"I got a call from Jimmy," producer Lorne Michaels
recalls. "He said that these three guys he was working with
were really funny and that I should look at them for `SNL'...
so I did."

Samberg and Taccone went to New York to audition.
(Schaffer, who doesn't consider himself an actor, chose to
have a meeting with Michaels instead). "I actually
auditioned twice," Samberg says. "Most people who get hired
at `SNL' are from improv backgrounds, so they have characters
and impressions ready to go. I didn't, but Akiva and Jorma
helped me out. We wrote my audition in a couple of days. I
went in thinking, if they don't laugh they don't laugh. So I
just went in and goofed around. Supposedly I seemed very
relaxed in the audition and that worked to my advantage,

though it was a surprise to me, since I threw up before the
audition," Samberg admits.

Samberg joined the cast, while Schaffer and Taccone
became members of the "SNL" writing team. "Andy is obviously
funny, but he's also charming and has warmth," Michaels
notes. "And when a new voice happens in comedy, everybody
seems to know it all at once and there they were."

"What we like about Will Ferrell is exactly what I
think made Lorne and Paramount feel we could do this movie,"
says Schaffer. "And that is that Will comes from a very
positive place, it's fun and fun-loving. It doesn't come
from bitterness or mean spiritedness. The three of us come
from a similar place, and I think that's why it felt like a
good fit. Rod's character is relentlessly positive and
optimistic," he adds.

"John and I felt very strongly that Akiva had the sort
of guiding intelligence to be able to direct this movie,"
affirms Michaels.

Adds Goldwyn: "We felt that the guys have a very
specific voice and a very specific style, so if we were going
to bet on this generation's star, we wanted to have that
star's director. Akiva had already done several shorts for
`SNL' and before that he had done music videos. So we
thought it was a very good idea, and were glad he responded
so positively to the `Hot Rod' script."

In tailoring the script to Samberg's talents, Schaffer
and Taccone were respectful of Brady's original story. "All
we did," says Schaffer, "is take a really good script and
just kind of Samberg-ize it."

Brady says it was her good fortune that her script
wound up with the Lonely Island troupe. "I went to New York
to meet Andy and we wound up having hamburgers together - the
most important hamburger lunch I've ever had. It was the
greatest first meeting ever. I was already a huge fan of his
and the Lonely Island guys. Their stuff is great. Andy has
great balance - emotional and physical balance.

"It's a wonderful miracle that these guys got onboard
and that Lorne got behind them, because that tends to get
things done. I actually have a brass plaque at the entrance
of my house that says `With Lorne Michaels behind you there
is nothing you can't do,'" Brady laughs.

The Lonely Island trio decided to cast fellow "SNL" cast
member Bill Hader as Dave, one of Rod's stunt team. "I heard
him doing this crazy voice one day and knew immediately that
it would be awesome for the character," says Schaffer. "From
that moment we saw Bill in the part."

Another "SNL"-er, Chris Parnell, who co-starred with
Samberg in the "Lazy Sunday" video, was also cast in the
film. "I play Barry Pasternack, the owner and the lead DJ of
this AM radio station, KNER," says Parnell. "He's bet all of
the station's last bit of money on this event, the climactic
scene in which Rod performs his big jump to try and raise the
money for his stepdad's medical procedure. He's a real
believer in AM radio."

In this respect, says Goldwyn, "Hot Rod" is a first -
possibly the first all-"SNL" picture. "This was the first
time that exclusively `SNL' talent was hired to make a movie,
with a regular cast member as the star, a guy who is
exclusively an `SNL' director and a writer from the show.
So, we had to figure out a way to get the movie made within
the show's hiatus. The guys had to go back to the show in
September. Fortunately, they were working on the kind of
deadline they had become used to in the TV world. We were
all very focused. As soon as Paramount gave us the OK, we
were in Vancouver shooting. And we made sure Akiva had
experienced people around him who would, on the one hand,
make the film look as good as possible and on the other,
support his vision and get the best out of him and Andy and
Jorma. We're really happy with the results."

Academy Award® winner Sissy Spacek and Ian McShane were the trio's first choice to play Rod's mother and stepfather, Marie and Frank Powell. "We wanted someone to play Frank who
wasn't traditionally known as a comedian, someone with acting
chops who could be genuinely scary and intimidating in the
role," Schaffer explains. "We're huge fans of `Deadwood,'
particularly Ian's character Al Swearengen. So we sent the
script to him, he read it and immediately said yes. He
totally got it, and it was a pleasure to work with him."

"Sissy is an amazing actress and to get her to be in a
movie that's so silly, we just had to hope she was in the
mood for something different," says Samberg. "We got very
lucky. She was a joy and she was hilarious."

"Sissy and Ian played husband and wife in `Nine Lives'
but they weren't in the same scenes, so they never actually
met until this movie," Michaels notes. "They're just
incredible together. We didn't want the movie to be all of
one color, and I think that Ian and Sissy bring a real power
to the movie, in the same way that Brian Dennehy did in a
movie like `Tommy Boy.'"

Similarly, Isla Fisher was the first name that came up
for the role of Denise. "We had all liked her in `Wedding
Crashers,'" says Samberg. "She really brightened things up
on set, and it was nice to have a female presence on the
team."

After executive producer Jill Messick saw Danny
McBride's film "The Foot Fist Way" at Sundance, she brought a
copy of it for Andy, Akiva and Jorma to screen. "We just
loved the hell out of it," Samberg enthuses. "So we invited
Danny to a table-read and he was fantastic. We really hit it
off, and even though the character was originally written for
a much older actor, we refashioned it for Danny. He's the
kind of dude who makes you smile and giggle...he's just fun to
watch."

OUT-EVEL-ING KNIEVEL -- AND MAKING IT LOOK REAL

The mechanics of making a film that progresses on from
one stunt to another, raising the stakes and picking up speed

all the way to the climactic "big jump," required a top-notch
stunt coordinator -- and the filmmakers knew that Nick
Powell, award-winning stunt coordinator for "Gladiator," "The
Last Samurai" and "The Bourne Identity" was the right man for
the job.

Only in this case, Powell had a unique challenge. Since
Rod's stunts are largely failures, he was entrusted with
making all the screw-ups look realistic. "Sometimes it's
harder to make a stunt look bad than it is to make it work
successfully," says Powell. "We had several Rod doubles for
the approximately 20 stunts in the film," he continues.
"There was one double for the hand-to-hand fighting, another
for the motocross sequences and another for the big jump
sequence. We would have one double working on set, while
another was rehearsing an upcoming scene because the stunts
just kept on coming."

In addition, Samberg, despite his inexperience, did a
fair bit of his own stunt work. "Andy had never been on a
motorcycle; in fact he'd never even ridden a moped," Powell
explains. "We started him out with the basics and got him to
where he was comfortable riding the motocross bike."

For the big jump, Powell and his team spent seven days
rigging and testing the wires. Since Rod has to separate
from the bike in mid-air, after which both rider and bike
continue to travel, there was the possible danger of the bike
colliding with the rider. To help avoid any such mishap, he
brought in James Churchman, who, with his team, designed and
hand built what he has dubbed the "Superfly System." "The
system has four axes of motion, all controlled by a mainframe
computer," Churchman explains. "We use a laptop to tell the
mainframe what to do and it's accurate to within literally
thousandths of an inch every time. Our cable stretch is more
variable than the actual programmed move itself."

"Hot Rod" was the third outing for the "Superfly," which
was previously used on "Underworld Evolution" and "X-Men: The
Last Stand." "This rig allows us to control the relationship

between the motorcycle and the rider, so they're not locked
together," Churchman explains. "A two-axis rig would just be
traveling up and down, but with our system the motorcycle is
on its own elevation and so is the rider. When the two hit
the peak and separate, we can take the rider higher using the
third axis, and keep the bike moving forward below him."

The wire set-up for the big jump spanned 300 ft. and
consisted of a 150 ft. down-ramp, a 130 ft. jump over 15
buses and a rough-and-tumble landing onto another ramp. "We
had approximately seven days of rigging and testing on the
wires," Powell recalls. "Then on the day we shot, we had
eight cameras running to make sure we got the shot in as few
takes as possible."

"The biggest challenge for the stuntmen was to look more
amateur than they actually were...barely scraping by on stuff,
all uncoordinated and out of control," notes Samberg. "They
have to flail around like I do, when I'm doing the close-
ups."

A good deal of the hand-to-hand fighting between Rod and
his stepfather Frank (Ian McShane), however, was done by the
actors themselves. "Ian is, hands down, in much better shape
than I am," Samberg says. "That became apparent very quickly
when we were rehearsing the fight scenes. We'd go through a
few moves and I'd be like, okay, I'm done, but Ian was just
getting started. He was also very specific about how he
wanted to dress, you know like weird jumpsuits...very similar
to what we were imagining."

"Frank's more than a little crazy," McShane says of his
character. "The whole family is a bit mad. It's a very
heightened reality. When Rod asks his mother why he was
never told that Frank had a heart condition, she replies that
the rest of the family didn't think he could handle it.
Befuddled, Rod asks why they let him fight Frank, to which
she replies, "Frank didn't exert himself too much and the
doctor thought it would be okay if he beat the crap out of
you every week!"

ON LOCATION WITH SOME OF THE LOCALS

To visually accentuate Rod's off-kilter world and that
of his family and friends, production designer Stephen Altman
worked with Schaffer to craft a singular environment. "It's
a kind of enhanced mediocrity, an interesting blandness...a
stylized nothingness," Altman offers. "It does have a bit of
a '70s-'80s feel to it, a kind of stuck in the past-ness that
shows up in the décor."

The site for the big jump and most of the other small-
town exteriors were shot in the suburb of Cloverdale, 25
miles southeast of Vancouver. Surprisingly, Cloverdale's
main street needed little enhancement. On the street the
production used for a big crowd scene, only three stores
needed to have their signage changed. Others, like the H&H
Barber Shop and Ken's Café, were perfect as they were.

Costume designer Patricia Monaghan had a lot of fun
dressing the eccentric characters in Rod's world. "Kevin,
Rod's younger brother, although 20-ish, dresses and acts like
he's about 12. He has a serious case of arrested
development," Monaghan laughs. "I raided my personal stash
of kids' t-shirts from the `70s and '80s. Everything he
wears is too small, too tight, too faded... it's just perfect
on him. We got the tightest pants we could and stuffed him
into them. To top it off, we gave him a rabbit's foot, a
little pouch and bad shoes."

"Rod occasionally picks on Kevin as older brothers often
do. That's why Kevin has so many inner demons that come out
in different ways over the course of the film," Taccone
offers. "He was pretty much forced into being the team
manager/videographer, so he has to carry all the heavy things
like the video camera. He also has to make sure there's
enough juice at the jumps. And he has to make sure everyone
is wearing pants," he deadpans.

The chemistry and the unique vision that the Lonely
Island crew brings to "Hot Rod" is something of an "SNL"
tradition, Goldwyn notes. Their Internet phenomenon, "Lazy
Sunday," he says, is part of a repertoire of material that
sprang from the program and had an effect on the culture at
large. "`Lazy Sunday' exploded on the scene. It was totally
fresh - you hadn't seen that before. That's the good thing
about that show - every so often something comes out that
just rocks the world. It's part of the `SNL' tradition. It
happened with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. It happened with
Eddie Murphy and then Mike Myers. Andy and his partners are
in the long tradition of guys coming in and doing something
that just galvanizes the mass audience.

"Hot Rod" wasn't originally a Lonely Island guys script
or even a Lonely Island movie," he continues. "It is a movie
produced by Lorne Michaels from a script he developed. That
being said, however, these guys have brought their tone to it
and their own unmistakable stamp. Their version is sweeter
than originally envisioned. It also has more emotion and the
music is more of their generation.

"The most thrilling thing for me about `Hot Rod' is to
have been included by Lorne. As the director, Akiva has
brought a kind of world view that is very fresh. There is
nothing about this movie that feels recycled. When you're
watching it, you feel like you're watching something you
haven't seen before. There is just the sense that something
has been created that you can let the audience discover.
That same thing was true of films like `Wayne's World' and
`Mean Girls' and I believe that is true of this movie.
give credit to Lorne for that. It`s not a movie that has been
created by Hollywood. It absolutely speaks to its generation,
because these guys are true originals."

Schaffer hopes that "Hot Rod" may one day be included in
the library of comedy classics that have inspired him
alongside "Ace Ventura," "Caddyshack," "Airplane!" and all
the Monty Python movies.

"Five or six years after it came out, Siskel and Ebert
apologized for panning `Ace Ventura.' They admitted they
were wrong - that at the time they just didn't get it,"
Schaffer recalls. "I'm hoping that our movie is funny to the
degree that it maintains its relevance way past the release
date and for years to come."

ABOUT THE CAST

ANDY SAMBERG (Rod Kimble) has, with a diverse range of
comedic talents, emerged as a captivating and hilarious
leading man on screens both big and small. This summer, he
stars in his feature debut in "Hot Rod," directed by Akiva
Schaffer and also starring Jorma Taccone, Ian McShane, Sissy
Spacek, Isla Fisher and Bill Hader. The highly anticipated
film follows the journey of amateur stuntman Rod Kimble
(Samberg), whose acerbic step-father Frank (McShane) gives
him no respect. When Frank falls ill, it's up to Rod to
stage the jump of his life in order to save him. The plan:
Jump fifteen buses on his motorcycle, raise the money for
Frank's heart operation, and then kick his ass. Paramount
Pictures will release the film August 3, 2007.

Currently, Samberg stars in his second season as a cast
member on "Saturday Night Live." Samberg and SNL writers
Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone are best known for their
innovative SNL Digital Shorts which have re-invigorated the
series and spurred many water-cooler moments over the past
two seasons.

The first significant breakthrough for Samberg was the
music video "Lazy Sunday," a performance collaboration with
SNL alum Chris Parnell. "Lazy Sunday" was an undeniable
online phenomenon that amassed over five million hits on
YouTube.com within a few days and sparked its own legion of
Internet imitations. The controversy surrounding the legal
ramifications of online video content thrust the clip into

the media spotlight, highlighting Samberg as the poster-child
for a new generation of DIY filmmakers and comics.

The following season, Samberg, Schaffer and Taccone
again made waves with the short video "D**k in a Box," an
early-90's R&B spoof, starring Samberg and Justin Timberlake.
As of April 2007, "D**k In a Box" was the all-time #4 video
on YouTube.com with over 20 million views. The song reached
unprecedented levels of popularity both online and in print,
culminating in Samberg joining Timberlake on-stage at Madison
Square Garden in February 2007 and performing the song live
for more than 18,000 fans.

Samberg, Schaffer and Taccone, collectively known as
"The Lonely Island," have been friends since junior high
school in Berkeley, CA. In 2000, the trio began writing,
directing, and producing their own brand of comedy and
showcasing it on their website www.thelonelyisland.com. Some
highlights include one of Channel101.com's longest running
primetime shows, "The 'BU", a parody of "The O.C.," and a
sketch comedy pilot created for Fox titled "Awesometown."

Thanks to their innovative contributions to "Saturday
Night Live" and their previous work as "The Lonely Island,"
WIRED Magazine honored Samberg, Schaffer and Taccone with a
WIRED Rave award for Television in 2006, alongside
geneticists and fellow online pioneers. Honoring the
mavericks, dreamers and innovators "changing your mind," the
WIRED Rave award recognizes leaders in a wide range of

categories including technology, business, television,
industrial design and blogs.
Prior to joining "Saturday Night Live," Samberg

performed stand-up comedy in both New York and Los Angeles
for seven years and was featured on Comedy Central's "Premium
Blend" in 2005.

Samberg attended college at UC Santa Cruz and graduated
from NYU's Tisch School for the Arts with a film degree in
2000.

ISLA FISHER (Denise) is most widely recognized for her
critically acclaimed performance as Vince Vaughn's off-kilter
love interest in the blockbuster "Wedding Crashers." Fisher
was recently seen in Miramax Films' "The Lookout" written and
directed by Scott Frank and also starring Joseph Gordon-
Levitt and Jeff Daniels. She will soon be in the independent
feature "Wedding Daze" co-starring Jason Biggs, directed by
Michael Ian Black. Later this year she will star alongside
Ryan Reynolds, Rachel Weisz and Kevin Kline in the Working
Title/Universal film "Definitely Maybe."

She first appeared stateside in the Warner Bros. live-
action feature "Scooby Doo" in 2002. Since then, she has
been seen in Fox Searchlight's "I Heart Huckabees" for
director David O. Russell.

Born in the Middle East country of Oman, Fisher moved
with her family to the small city of Perth in Western
Australia when she was a young girl. At the age of nine, she
was already appearing in commercials broadcast on Australian
television. She then became known for her role as Shannon
Reed in the popular soap "Home & Away," which also helped
launch the careers of Guy Pearce, Naomi Watts and Heath
Ledger. While working on the set of "Home & Away" she also
found the time to write and release two best-selling teenthemed novels.

JORMA TACCONE (Kevin Powell) is a versatile actor and
writer, who is making his feature debut in "Hot Rod," as Andy
Samberg's geeky and lovable half-brother Kevin. Directed by
Akiva Schaffer and starring Samberg, Ian McShane, Sissy
Spacek, Isla Fisher and Bill Hader, the highly anticipated
film follows the journey of amateur stuntman Rod Kimble
(Samberg), whose acerbic step-father Frank (McShane) gives
him no respect. When Frank falls ill, it's up to Rod to stage
the jump of his life in order to save him. The plan: Jump
fifteen buses on his motorcycle, raise the money for Frank's

heart operation, and then kick his ass. Paramount Pictures
will release the film August 3, 2007.

Currently, Taccone is a writer, composer and director
for "Saturday Night Live" and recently received a Writers
Guild Award for his work on the 2005/2006 season of the show.
Along with his writing partners Andy Samberg and Akiva
Schaffer, he is responsible for creating the popular SNL
Digital Shorts, which have re-invigorated the series and
spurred many water-cooler moments over the past two seasons.
Some of the most notable shorts include "D**k In A Box" (with
Justin Timberlake), "Lazy Sunday" (a rap about "The
Chronicles of Narnia") and "The Natalie Portman Rap," all of
which Taccone co-wrote and composed music for with the help
of his brother Asa. Many of the videos have garnered
unprecedented online interest and acclaim. As of April 2007,
"D**k In a Box" was the all-time # 4 video on YouTube.com
with over 20 million views. Additionally, Taccone has
directed several digital shorts including, "MacGruber" (with
Jeremy Piven), "Business Meeting" (with Rainn Wilson and
Arcade Fire), and "Sloths."

Taccone, Samberg and Schaffer, collectively known as
"The Lonely Island," have been friends since junior high
school in Berkeley, CA. In 2000, the trio began writing,
directing and producing their own brand of comedy and
showcasing it on their website www.thelonelyisland.com. Some
highlights include one of Channel101.com's longest running
primetime shows, "The 'BU," a parody of "The O.C." in which
Taccone starred alongside Sarah Chalke ("Scrubs") as a
misunderstood teenage ninja and a sketch comedy pilot created
for Fox titled "Awesometown."

Thanks to their innovative contributions to "Saturday
Night Live" and their previous work as "The Lonely Island,"
WIRED Magazine honored Taccone, Samberg and Schaffer with a
WIRED Rave Award for Television in 2006. Honoring the
mavericks, dreamers and innovators "changing your mind," the
WIRED Rave Award recognizes leaders in a wide range of

categories including technology, business, television,
industrial design and blogs.

Taccone is the son of accomplished theatre director
Anthony Taccone and a graduate of the UCLA Theater department
where he studied acting.

BILL HADER (Dave) is a cast member on "Saturday Night
Live," now in his second season with the show. Hader recently
played a lead role opposite Seth Rogen in "Super Bad" for
Columbia Pictures. His other feature credits include
"Knocked Up," directed by Judd Apatow and "The Brothers
Solomon" directed by Bob Odenkirk.

He'll next appear in the upcoming features
"Tropic Thunder" with Ben Stiller and "Pineapple Express"
directed by David Gordon Green.

Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hader made an early
splash on the show, debuting his uncanny impressions
including, most notably, Al Pacino and Vincent Price (hosting
macabre holiday specials). Prior to joining the cast of
"Saturday Night Live," Bill lived in Los Angeles and
supported himself as an assistant film and TV editor while
performing with the sketch comedy group Animals From the
Future.

A Second City Los Angeles alum, Hader also worked as
a "field agent" on MTV's "Punk'd." He currently lives in New
York with his wife, filmmaker Maggie Carey.

SISSY SPACEK (Marie Powell) is one of the industry's
most respected actresses. Her many honors include an Academy
Award®, five additional Oscar® nominations, three Golden
Globe Awards and numerous critics awards.

She first gained the attention of critics and audiences
with her performance in Terrence Malick's widely praised 1973
drama "Badlands," in which she starred opposite Martin Sheen.
In 1976, Spacek earned her first Academy Award® nomination
and won a National Society of Film Critics Award for her

chilling performance in the title role of Brian De Palma's

"Carrie," based on the Stephen King novel. The
following year, she won the New York Film Critics Circle
Award for her work in Robert Altman's "Three Women."

In 1980, Spacek starred as Loretta Lynn in the acclaimed
biopic "Coal Miner's Daughter," winning the Oscar® and Golden
Globe Award for her performance. Spacek also swept the New
York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics, National
Board of Review and National Society of Film Critics Awards
for her portrayal of the country music legend.

Spacek received another Golden Globe nomination the next
year for her work in "Raggedy Man," directed by her husband,
Jack Fisk. She earned her third Oscar® and Golden Globe
nominations for her role in Costa-Gavras' 1982 drama
"Missing," opposite Jack Lemmon, and her fourth Oscar® and
Golden Globe nominations for her work in 1984's "The River,"
in which she starred with Mel Gibson.

In 1987, Spacek gained her fifth Academy Award®
nomination and won another Golden Globe and the New York film
Critics Circle Award for her performance in the dark comedy
"Crimes of the Heart." Her most recent Oscar® nomination
came for her portrayal of a mother grieving for her murdered
son in the drama "In the Bedroom," for which she also won
a Golden Globe Award, an Independent Spirit Award and an AFI
Film Award for Best Actress. In addition, she garnered Best
Actress Awards from a number of critics organizations,
including the Los Angeles, New York and Broadcast Film
Critics. Her work in "In the Bedroom" also brought Spacek
two Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award nominations, one
for Outstanding Lead Actress and another for Outstanding
Cast, shared with the rest of the film's ensemble.

Spacek's other film credits include "A Home at the End
of the World," "The Straight Story," "Blast From the Past,"
"Affliction," "The Grass Harp," "JFK," "The Long Walk Home,"
"'night Mother," "Marie," "Nine Lives" and "North Country."
She will next appear in "Lake City."

Spacek has also been honored for her work on the small
screen, where she has starred in several highly praised
longform projects. She received Emmy Award nominations for
her portrayal of Zelda Fitzgerald in "Last Call" and for her
work in Tommy Lee Jones' Western "The Good Old Boys," as well
as SAG Award nominations for her performances in "Midwives"
and "A Place for Annie." Her additional television credits
include "If These Walls Could Talk," "Beyond the Call,"
"Streets of Laredo" and "A Private Matter."

IAN MCSHANE (Frank Powell) will next be seen in
Paramount's "Case 39," in which he plays a detective opposite
Renée Zellweger. McShane starred opposite Matthew
McConaughey in the Warner Bros. true-life drama "We Are
Marshall" and in Woody Allen's "Scoop" alongside Scarlett
Johansson and Hugh Jackman.

He is currently filming the adventure fantasy "The Dark
Is Rising," directed by David L. Cunningham, in which he
plays Merriman Lyon. Following production, Ian will relocate
to New York City to return to Broadway in Daniel Sullivan's
revival of Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming." It's a 40th
anniversary for both as Ian made his Broadway debut in a
production of "The Promise" in 1967, the same year "The
Homecoming" made its Broadway debut.

McShane's unique voice will be heard in two upcoming
DreamWorks Animation releases, first as Captain Hook in
"Shrek the Third," due out this year, as well as the voice of
the villainous snow leopard Tai Lung in "Kung Fu Panda,"
which will hit theaters in 2008.

He will be voicing the role of Mr. Bobinksy in Laika
Entertainment's first animated feature, "Coraline," an
adaptation of Neil Gaiman's international best-selling book
and directed by Henry Selick. In addition, he voiced the
role of Iorek Byrnison in "His Dark Materials: The Golden
Compass" alongside Nicole Kidman and directed by Chris Weitz.

Voted by People Magazine in 2006 as "TV's Sexiest

Villain," McShane is still capturing audiences as the
charismatic and alluring Al Swearengen in HBO's hit series
"Deadwood." In 2005, he carried home the coveted Golden
Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Drama, and also
received a 2005 Emmy and SAG nomination for Lead Actor for
his versatile Swearengen performance.

Having starred in over thirty films including the recent
critically acclaimed indie "Nine Lives," written and directed
by Rodrigo Garcia, McShane's impressive résumé also includes
roles in "The Battle of Britain," "The Last of Sheila,"
"Villain" (co-starring Richard Burton) and "Sexy Beast."

McShane's diverse career in both British and American
television includes the seminal 1970s miniseries "Roots" and
the BBC and BBC America's "Trust." He has played starring
roles in many superb miniseries, including "Whose Life Is It
Anyway?" for Granada TV; "Wuthering Heights" for the BBC; and
Harold Pinter's Emmy Award-winning "The Caretaker." McShane
played Judas in NBC's "Jesus of Nazareth" directed by Franco
Zeffirelli, and Prince Rainer in the network's "The Grace
Kelly Story." He also played the title role in Masterpiece
Theatre's exceptional miniseries "Disraeli."

In the late '80s McShane produced, directed and starred
in the much-adored series "Lovejoy" for the BBC and A&E,
which is currently enjoying a revival with audiences
worldwide.

CHRIS PARNELL (Barry Pasternack) was a key player on
"Saturday Night Live" from the '98-'99 season to 2006, best
known for his impressions of celebrities such as NBC News'
Tom Brokaw, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Tom Hanks,
Senator John McCain and Eminem. Parnell also appeared as a
member of "SNL's" resident boy band Seven Degrees Celsius.
But his biggest claim to fame on the show was performing an
unforgettable hardcore gangsta rap fantasy about a dream date
with Britney Spears on Weekend Update.

Parnell appeared in DreamWorks' "Anchorman: The Legend

of Ron Burgundy" and will soon be seen co-starring with Woody
Harrelson, Cheryl Hines and Ray Romano in the partially
improvised indie "The Grand."

Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Parnell attended
the North Carolina School of Arts in Winston-Salem, where he
received his BFA in Drama. He later performed with the
Berkshire Theatre in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and the
Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas. Parnell moved back to
Tennessee and taught acting, film and video at his hometown
high school. After becoming bored with teaching, he moved to
Los Angeles and began taking classes at The Groundlings Main
Company, where many "SNL" cast members have been discovered.
Talent scouts from "SNL" saw Parnell perform and asked him to
fly to New York for an audition. Soon thereafter he was
invited to join the cast of the show.

DANNY MCBRIDE (Rico) first gained industry awareness
with his starring role in David Gordon Green's "All the Real
Girls," which won the Jury Prize at the Sundance Film
Festival in 2003. McBride attended the North Carolina School
of the Arts alongside David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Ben
Best, where he received a BFA in filmmaking. McBride re-
teamed with Hill and Best in the 2006 Sundance smash hit
comedy "The Foot Fist Way, which he co-wrote with the
director, Jody Hill. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay will
release "The Foot Fist Way" under their banner, Gary Sanchez
Productions, through Paramount Vantage later this year.

McBride is currently in production with Seth Rogen and
James Franco shooting the action/comedy "Pineapple Express"
directed by his longtime collaborator David Gordon Green.
McBride will also have a starring role in "Drillbit Taylor"
for Paramount Pictures starring Owen Wilson. This summer, he
will write and star in the HBO Pilot Series "Physical
Education," which he will produce with Ferrell and McKay.
Also this summer, he will star opposite Ben Stiller, Jack
Black and Robert Downey Jr. in the DreamWorks' comedy "Tropic

Thunder." In addition, he is co-writing, with Jody Hill, a
comedy entitled "Loomis," in which he will star in opposite
Amy Poehler for producer Lorne Michaels at Paramount.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

AKIVA SCHAFFER (Director) is a gifted writer and
innovative force behind the camera, Schaffer is poised to
lead a new generation of directors with his fresh vision of
true comedy. This summer he makes his feature length
directorial debut with "Hot Rod," starring Andy Samberg,
Jorma Taccone, Ian McShane, Sissy Spacek, Isla Fisher and
Bill Hader. The highly anticipated film follows the journey
of amateur stuntman Rod Kimble (Samberg), whose acerbic stepfather Frank (McShane) gives him no respect. When Frank
falls ill, it's up to Rod to stage the jump of his life in
order to save him. The plan: Jump fifteen buses on his
motorcycle, raise the money for Frank's heart operation, and
then kick his ass. Paramount Pictures will release the film
August 3, 2007.

Schaffer is currently a writer/director for "Saturday
Night Live" and recently received a Writers Guild Award for
his work on the 2005/2006 season of the show. Along with his
writing partners Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone, he is
responsible for creating the popular SNL Digital Shorts,
which have re-invigorated the series and spurred many watercooler moments over the past two seasons. Some of the most
notable shorts include "D**k In A Box" (with Justin
Timberlake), "Lazy Sunday" (a rap about "The Chronicles of
Narnia"), "The Natalie Portman Rap" and "Peyton Manning's
United Way," all of which Schaffer co-wrote and directed.
Many of the videos have garnered unprecedented online
interest and acclaim. As of April 2007, "D**k In a Box" was
the all-time #4 video on YouTube.com with over 20 million
views.

Schaffer, Samberg and Taccone, collectively known as
"The Lonely Island," have been friends since junior high
school in Berkeley, CA. In 2000, the trio began writing,
directing, and producing their own brand of comedy and
showcasing it on their website www.thelonelyisland.com.

Under the Lonely Island banner, Schaffer directed one of
Channel101.com's longest running primetime shows, "The 'BU",
a parody of "The O.C.," and a sketch comedy pilot created for

Fox titled "Awesometown." Additionally, he has directed
music videos for the rock bands "We Are Scienti sts" and
"Eagles Of Death Metal."

Thanks to their innovative contributions to "Saturday
Night Live" and their previous work as "The Lonely Island,"
WIRED Magazine honored Schaffer, Samberg and Taccone with a
WIRED Rave Award for Television in 2006, alongside
geneticists and fellow online pioneers. Honoring the
mavericks, dreamers and innovators "changing your mind," the
WIRED Rave award recognizes leaders in a wide range of
categories including technology, business, television,
industrial design and blogs.

Schaffer is a graduate of the film department of UC
Santa Cruz.

PAM BRADY (Written By) began her writing career as a
staff writer for "The John Larroquette Show." She was a
writer, producer and voice on the cable series "South Park,"
and was one of the writers on the feature films "South Park:
Bigger, Longer & Uncut" and "Team America: World Police."
Her TV credits include the series "Just Shoot Me," "Go Fish"
and "The Loop."

LORNE MICHAELS (Producer) is the creator and executive
producer of "Saturday Night Live," the longest-running and
highest-rated weekly late night television program in
history.

Over the last 30 years, "SNL" has won numerous Emmy
Awards and was honored with the prestigious George Foster
Peabody Award and cited as "truly a national institution."
Michaels has personally won ten Emmys as a writer and
producer in television. In 2004, he received the Mark Twain
Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in Washington,

D.C.

Lorne Michaels has produced numerous motion pictures,
most recently the hit comedy "Mean Girls" starring Lindsay
Lohan and Tina Fey, who also wrote the film. Past film
credits include "Wayne's World," "Tommy Boy," "Enigma" and
"Three Amigos" (which he produced and co-wrote with Steve
Martin and Randy Newman).

In addition to his weekly duties on "SNL," Michaels is
executive producer of NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"
and the new comedy "30 Rock" with Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin and
Tracy Morgan.

Michaels' past television credits also include: "The
Kids in the Hall" and "Night Music," as well as specials with
Lily Tomlin, Steve Martin, Paul Simon, The Rutles, Flip
Wilson, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Randy Newman,
Neil Young and Simon and Garfunkel in Central Park.

On Broadway, he produced and directed "Gilda Radner Live
from New York" and produced the subsequent motion picture
"Gilda Live."

Michaels began his career in Toronto, where he attended
the University of Toronto and worked as a writer and producer
for the Canadian Broadcasting Company and starred in the
comedy series "The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour." In 1968, he
moved to Los Angeles and worked as a writer for NBC's "Rowan
and Martin's Laugh-In" and other television series until he
left in 1975 to begin "SNL" in New York.

In 1979, Michaels founded the New York-based production
company Broadway Video Inc.

JOHN GOLDWYN (Producer), grandson of the legendary

Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn, began his motion picture
career at The Ladd Company in 1981. During his tenure there,
Goldwyn brought to fruition the hugely successful "Police
Academy" franchise, the second installment of which he
executive produced in 1985.

In the fall of 1985, Goldwyn joined Alan Ladd, Jr. at
MGM/United Artists and was named senior vice president of
production. While at MGM he oversaw such hits as "Running
Scared" (1986), "Moonstruck" (1987) and "A Fish Called Wanda"
(1988). In 1988, Goldwyn became executive vice president of
worldwide production and was responsible for all aspects of
production and development for the studio.

In 1990, Goldwyn left MGM/UA to join Paramount Pictures
as executive vice president of production, and was promoted
to president of the Paramount Motion Picture Group one year
later. Chairwoman Sherry Lansing promoted Goldwyn to
president of Paramount Pictures in 1997 and, eventually, to
vice-chairman in 2002.

While Goldwyn was a senior executive at the studio,
Paramount Pictures took home three Best Picture Oscars® for
"Forrest Gump" "Braveheart" and "Titanic." Other notable
films released under his aegis include "Indecent Proposal,"
"Wayne's World" and its sequel, "The Firm," "The Truman
Show," "First Wives Club," the first two "Mission:
Impossible" movies, Tom Clancy's "Patriot Games," "A Clear
And Present Danger" and "Sum Of All Fears," "What Women
Want," "Saving Private Ryan," "Deep Impact" and "Mean Girls,"
just to mention a few.

In 2004, Goldwyn became an independent producer at the
studio. Currently in production is the hit Showtime series
"Dexter" starring Michael C. Hall, and the independent film
"I'm Not There," a biography of Bob Dylan produced by
Christine Vachon and directed by Todd Haynes. The film stars
Richard Gere, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger and Christian
Bale.

In 2005 Goldwyn merged with SNL producer Lorne Michaels

to form The Michaels/Goldwyn Company at Paramount.

WILL FERRELL (Executive Producer) has emerged as a
master comedian worthy of his "Saturday Night Live" legacy,
and as a behind-the-scenes force in movies as well.

Coming on the heels of his success as Chazz Michael
Michaels, the macho honcho of figure-skating in DreamWorks'
comedy hit "Blades of Glory," his executive tenure on "Hot
Rod" is yet another feather in his cap, another post-graduate
effort with the "SNL" community.

Recently, in demonstrating that his dramatic gifts are
equal to his comedic talents, Ferrell earned his second
Golden Globe nomination (Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical)
for his portrayal of IRS agent Harold Crick in "Stranger Than
Fiction" starring Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Queen
Latifah and Maggie Gyllenhaal for director Marc Forster.

Last summer, Ferrell starred in the hit comedy
"Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" with co-stars
John C. Reilly and Sacha Baron Cohen. Earning nearly $150
million at the U.S. box office, the film became the season's
#1 live-action comedy and continues to set records on DVD.

In summer 2004, Ferrell starred in the comedy
"Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" for DreamWorks
Pictures, which grossed over $85 million domestically.

Ferrell co-wrote the script with "SNL" writer Adam McKay.
Judd Apatow ("Freaks and Geeks") produced. Ferrell portrayed
Ron Burgundy, a 1970s anchorman with an inflated ego
threatened by the arrival of an ambitious female newscaster
who, unlike him, has mastered journalism.

Ferrell completed his seventh and final season on the
legendary NBC late-night hit "Saturday Night Live" in 2002,
having taken the nation by storm during "Indecision 2000" by
impersonating President George W. Bush. Some of his most
memorable "SNL" characters include Craig the Spartan
Cheerleader, musical middle school teacher Marty Culp and Tom
Wilkins, the hyperactive co-host of "Morning Latte." Among
his many impressions are Janet Reno, Alex Trebek, Neil
Diamond and the late, great Chicago Cubs sportscaster Harry
Caray. His work on "SNL" earned two Emmy nominations in 2001
(Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music
Program and Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or
Comedy Program).

Ferrell is currently in production for New Line Cinema
on the basketball comedy "Semi-Pro," which is set in the last
year of the now-defunct American Basketball Association.
Previous film credits include the blockbuster family film
"Elf," as well as "Zoolander," the Woody Allen feature
"Melinda and Melinda," the comedies "Bewitched" and "Old
School" and the screen adaptation of "The Producers," which
earned Ferrell his first Golden Globe nomination in 2006 for
Best Supporting Actor.

Raised in Irvine, California, Ferrell attended USC and
graduated with a degree in sports information. Upon
graduation, he worked as a sportscaster on a weekly show
broadcast over a local cable channel. Soon after, he
enrolled in acting classes and stand-up comedy workshops at a
nearby community college and was eventually asked to join the
esteemed comedy/improv group The Groundlings after just one
year of training. It was at The Groundlings that Ferrell was
discovered for "Saturday Night Live."

JIMMY MILLER (Executive Producer) manages some of the
most sought-after comedy talent in the industry, including
actors Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen
("Borat," "Da Ali G Show"). He has also helped shape the
careers of some of the most talented writers and directors in
the comedy genre, among them Jay Roach (the "Austin Powers"
trilogy, "Meet the Parents," "Meet the Fockers"), Judd Apatow
("The 40 Year-Old Virgin" and the forthcoming "Knocked Up"),
Adam McKay ("Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,"
"Anchorman"), Steve Rudnick and Leo Benvenuti (the "Santa
Clause" trilogy, "Kicking & Screaming").

Miller's film producing credits include "Talladega
Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" and "Elf" and the upcoming
comedies "Get Smart," starring Steve Carell and "Semi-Pro,"
starring Will Ferrell.

JILL MESSICK (Executive Producer) is currently president
of Michaels/Goldwyn Productions, supervising feature film
development and production at the Paramount-based production
company. Messick served as the executive producer of
Michaels' hit "Mean Girls," which starred Lindsay Lohan and
Rachel McAdams and was written by and co-starred Tina Fey.

Prior to joining Michaels/Goldwyn, Messick was a senior
vice president of production at Miramax Films where she
served as an executive producer on the Academy Award®-winning
film "Frida" directed by Julie Taymor and starring
Salma Hayek. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards®
and brought home two Oscars®. Messick's other projects at
Miramax included several youth comedies including the hit
"She's All That." Messick began her career in feature film
development at Miramax-based Woods Entertainment, where she
was involved in films such as "Scream," "Wide Awake,"
"Citizen Ruth" and "Kids."

LOUISE ROSNER (Co-Producer) most recently co-produced
"Fracture," the New Line Cinema thriller starring Anthony

Hopkins, Ryan Gosling and David Strathairn under the
direction of Gregory Hoblit. She also co-produced the hit
comedy "Beauty Shop" starring Queen Latifah, Alicia
Silverstone, Andie MacDowell and Kevin Bacon and "Mean Girls"
starring Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams and Tina Fey, directed
by Mark Waters. She executive-produced Mel Gibson's
"Paparazzi" with Cole Hauser and Dennis Farina.

Prior to this, Rosner co-produced a series of films for
Miramax, including "She's All That," "Get Over It," "Boys and
Girls" and "On the Line."

She was executive producer on "Firestorm" for 20th
Century Fox, and produced the independent films "Denial"
written and directed by Adam Rifkin and "The Last Time I
Committed Suicide," which appeared at the Sundance Film
Festival in 1996.

After producing a myriad of award-winning international
commercials in Europe, Rosner moved in 1992 to Los Angeles,
where she worked on films such as "The Chain," "Imaginary
Crimes," "Chasers," "The Crush," "Trial By Jury," "Major
League II," "Stay Tuned," "White Sands" and "Ace Ventura,"
before line producing her first U.S. project, Disney's "A Kid
In King Arthur's Court."

ANDREW DUNN, BSC (Director of Photography) has an
extensive list of credits as a director of photography on
feature films and in television. Over the past year he
photographed Nicholas Hytner's "The History Boys" and Chris
Noonan's "Miss Potter" with Ewan McGregor & Renée Zellweger.

Other recent credits include "Piccadilly Jim" with Sam
Rockwell, "Stage Beauty" for director Richard Eyre starring
Billy Crudup and Claire Danes, "The Company" and the Oscar®
and BAFTA-winning "Gosford Park" for director Robert Altman
and "The Madness of King George," for which Dunn won the
British Society of Cinematographers and the Evening Standard
awards for Outstanding Technical Achievement. He also
received a BAFTA nomination for his work on the film.

Dunn was also director of photography on Andy Tennant's
"Sweet Home Alabama" starring Reese Witherspoon, the
Cinderella story "Ever After" starring Drew Barrymore and
Anjelica Huston, "The Count of Monte Cristo" starring James
Caviezel and Guy Pearce,director Griffin Dunne's "Addicted to
Love" with Meg Ryan, "Practical Magic" with Sandra Bullock
and Nicole Kidman, "The Crucible" with Daniel Day-Lewis, the
Kevin Costner box office hit "The Bodyguard," Stephen Frears'
drama "Liam" and the Steve Martin comedy "L.A. Story."

Dunn has been awarded three BAFTA awards for "Edge of
Darkness," "Threads" and "Tumbledown."

STEPHEN ALTMAN's (Production Designer) design for the
critically acclaimed period drama "Gosford Park" garnered him
AFI, BAFTA and Oscar® nominations. Altman's design for the
stellar biopic "Ray" starring Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx, once
again showcased his flair for period design.

Altman designed Kathryn Bigelow's iconoclastic vampire
Western "Near Dark." His talents were again highlighted in
the retro-chic of Brian Gibson's Tina/Ike Turner biopic
"What's Love Got to Do With It?" Altman was responsible for
the cool, sleek look of the hit-man striving for normalcy
comedy, "Grosse Pointe Blank," as well as for the design of
Albert Brooks' "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World."

Altman's career began in 1985 with the feature "Fool for
Love" directed by and starring Sam Shepard. His other
feature credits, in collaboration with director Robert
Altman, include "The Player," "Short Cuts," "Pret-A-Porter,"
"Kansas City," "The Gingerbread Man," "Cookie's Fortune" and
"Dr T & the Women."

MALCOLM CAMPBELL (Editor) has edited some of the
funniest movies ever to grace the screen. His earlier
collaborations with Lorne Michaels include "Wayne's World"
and "Wayne's World 2," "Superstar" and "Three Amigos."
Campbell has edited numerous films for director John Landis,

including "An American Werewolf In London," "Trading Places,"
"Spies Like Us" and "Coming To America." He also worked with
Landis editing the groundbreaking music video Michael
Jackson's "Thriller."

In addition, Campbell edited the highly successful
sequels "Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls," "Home Alone 3"
and "Scary Movie 3."

Campbell's other feature film credits include, "Shanghai
Knights," "Stealing Stanford," "Double Take," "Keeping the
Faith," "My Favorite Martian," "Richie Rich" and "Nothing But
Trouble."

PATRICIA MONAGHAN (Costume Designer) has worked as a
costume designer on a wide range of projects, including
Christopher Nolan's "Insomnia" starring Al Pacino, Robin
Williams and Hilary Swank, "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" with
Laura Linney and Tom Wilkinson, and most recently "Catch and
Release" starring Jennifer Garner, Timothy Olyphant and
Juliette Lewis.

In 2004, Monaghan worked with director Lasse Hallström
on "An Unfinished Life" starring Robert Redford, Jennifer
Lopez and Morgan Freeman. Additional credits include "The
Invisible," "Chaos Theory," "The Underclassman" and "Cats &
Dogs."

Monaghan began working in the film industry in 1981,
after working as a cutter for several theatrical productions
in British Columbia. She initially worked as a costumer,
cutter, and supervisor until her first design job in 1983,
the miniseries "Brothers by Choice."

TREVOR RABIN (Music) is one of a new group of film
composers who hail from the world of rock music. A member of
the rock group YES since 1983, Rabin played guitar for the
group and wrote most of the material on their best-selling
album "90125," including the #1 single "Owner of a Lonely

Heart." He also penned a majority of the songs and served as
co-producer on YES' next album "Big Generator," which sold
over two million copies worldwide. Rabin also wrote or cowrote all the songs, played every instrument but drums,
produced, and engineered almost all of his solo work.

Since then, Rabin has forged a second career as a film
composer, demonstrating an unsurpassed ability to involve the
audience in the films he scores. He first broke into the
film-scoring business under the wing of producer Jerry
Bruckheimer with such scores as "Armageddon," "Enemy of the
State" and "The Deep Blue Sea." Rabin followed that initial
success with energetic scores for such blockbuster action
films as "Gone in Sixty Seconds," "The Sixth Day," "The One,"
"Bad Boys II" and "Torque."

Rabin was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he
studied classical piano and was trained as a conductor and
arranger. His first professional band performed original
anti-apartheid songs, and his family was heavily involved in
anti-apartheid activities (Sidney Kentridge, his father's
first cousin, is the lawyer who pressed charges against the
South African government on behalf of Steven Biko's family
after his death). Rabin later founded a band called Rabbit,
which became the most popular South African rock band in
history, rivaling the Beatles in the scale of their local
popularity.

Rabin has scored over two dozen films, including "Con
Air," "Homegrown," "Jack Frost," "Remember the Titans," "The
Banger Sisters," "Kangaroo Jack," "Bad Boys II," "The Great
Raid," "Exorcist: The Beginning," "National Treasure," "Coach
Carter" and, most recently, "Snakes on a Plane," "Flyboys,"
"Gridiron Gang" and "The Guardian."

Rabin has shown his diversity with his soulful score to
"Glory Road," for which he collaborated with Alicia Keys, and
his comedic scores to "Kangaroo Jack" and "The Banger
Sisters." He created a spectacularly epic score for
"Armageddon" and provided an intricate, unnerving electronic

score for the techno-thriller "Enemy of the State." At the
opposite end of the spectrum was a lyrical orchestral score
for the Michael Keaton family film "Jack Frost." For the
documentary "Whispers," he returned to his roots, drawing on
traditional African instrumentation, rhythms and vocal
performances. His work will next be heard on "National
Treasure: The Book of Secrets" and "Get Smart."

He won the BMI Film Music Award for his work on
"National Treasure," "Gone in Sixty Seconds," "Enemy of the
State," "Remember the Titans," "Armageddon" and "The Deep
Blue Sea."

STEVEN BAKER (Music Supervisor) was a record
executive for more than 30 years, serving as president of
Warner Bros. Records from 1995-2000 and heading DreamWorks
Records' marketing and creative services division from 20002005.

Over his illustrious career, he has signed such artists
and groups as Elvis Costello, R.E.M., Scritti Politti, Gang
of Four and Jane's Addiction.

As a music supervisor for Warner Bros. Pictures, he
worked on "Dukes of Hazzard," "Beerfest" and "Electroma," an
independent film. He also worked on the soundtracks to Dennis
Hopper's "Colors," Wim Wenders' "Until the End of the
World," "Twister" directed by Jan de Bon, "Almost Famous" by
Cameron Crowe and "Heat" directed by Michael Mann.

NICK POWELL (Stunt Coordinator) has been honored with
numerous World Stunt Awards. In 2004 alone he was nominated
for four of them, including Best Stunt Coordinator, Best
Specialty Stunt and Best Fire Sequence for "The Last Samurai"
and another Best Fire Sequence for "28 Days Later," winning
for the Fire Sequence on "The Last Samurai," which starred
Tom Cruise. In 2003, Powell's work took the World Stunt
Award for Best Car Sequence and the American Choreographic

Award for Best Fight Choreographer for "The Bourne
Identity." His spectacular work on "Gladiator" also received
two World Stunt Awards, including one for Best Fight
Sequence. He also choreographed the riveting fight sequences
for "Cinderella Man," the compelling story of boxer James
Braddock.

Powell started his career as a stunt performer at the
age of 22 in the UK, where he was a member of the British Wu
Shu team (winning silver in the European Championships) and
also a winner of the London Fencing Championship.

After a relatively short five years as a performer,
Powell began stunt coordinating, and, after putting together
the fight sequences for "Braveheart," was launched into the
arena of major motion pictures and an impressive career as
stunt coordinator, as well as second unit director, on over
40 feature films.