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Industry Standard 25: Best of 2013 Dec 30, 2013

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THE “BEST OF INDUSTRY STANDARD 2013” FEATURES A COMPILATION OF ALL OF THIS YEAR’S EPISODES OF “INDUSTRY STANDARD,” FEATURING SAGE WISDOM AND ADVICE ABOUT BUSINESS AND LIFE FROM 24 OF THE MOST DIVERSE AND EXTRAORDINARY EXECUTIVES IN HOLLYWOOD. IN THIS POWER PACKED INSPIRATIONAL YEAR END EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR FROM DOUG HERZOG (PRES OF COMEDY CENTRAL), MIKE FARAH (PRES OF PROD OF “FUNNY OR DIE”), REGGIE HUDLIN (PROD OF “DJANGO UNCHAINED”), PETER ENGEL (CREATOR—“SAVED BY THE BELL”), BRANT PINVIDIC (PRES OF EYEWORKS), MATT WILLIAMS (CREATOR—“ROSEANNE”/”HOME IMPROVEMENT”), JULIE ASHTON (CASTING DIRECTOR—“MADtv”/”2 BROKE GIRLS”/”INTERNSHIP”), ERIC TANNENBAUM (EXEC PROD OF “2 ½ MEN”), ANDY ACKERMAN (DIRECTOR—“SEINFELD”/”CURB”), DJ NASH (WRITER/CREATOR OF NBC SERIES “GROWING UP FISHER”), MARC HIRSCHFELD (CASTING DIRECTOR—“SEINFELD”), CHRIS ALBRECHT (CEO & PRES OF HBO AND STARZ), ROBERT MORTON (EXEC PROD OF “LETTERMAN”), STEVE KOONIN (PRES OF TNT, TBS, TCM, & TRUtv), TODD GARNER (PROD OF “ANGER MANAGEMENT”/”KNIGHT & DAY”/”ZOOKEEPER”), DAVID HILL (# 2 MAN TO RUPERT MURDOCH AT 21ST CENTURY FOX), LARRY LYTTLE (PRES OF BIG TICKET TV/CREATOR OF “JUDGE JUDY”), JOE WEINSTOCK (EXEC PROD OF “DUCK DYNASTY”), BUDD FRIEDMAN (OWNER OF THE ORIGINAL IMPROVISATION), TOM WERNER (PROD—“COSBY”/”ROSEANNE”/”3RD ROCK”/”70’S SHOW”/”CYBIL”), DICK GLOVER (CEO OF “FUNNY OR DIE”), WILL KEENAN (PRES OF ENDEMOL BEYOND USA), LARRY MOSS (ACTING COACH OF HUNT, SWANK, & DICAPRIO), AND PATTY JENKINS (WRITER/DIRECTOR OF “MONSTER”). THIS EPISODE IS INVALUABLE AND WILL SERVE AS YOUR BLUEPRINT TO A VERY SUCCESSFUL YEAR IN 2014. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Industry Standard 24: Patty Jenkins Dec 23, 2013

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PATTY JENKINS IS AN AWARD WINNING WRITER/DIRECTOR, BEST KNOWN FOR HER DEBUT FEATURE “MONSTER,” BASED ON THE LIFE OF CONVICTED SERIAL KILLER AILEEN WUORNOS. PATTY BEGAN HER CAREER AS A PAINTER AT THE COOPER UNION IN NEW YORK CITY. AFTER TRANSITIONSING TO FILMMAKING, SHE SPENT EIGHT YEARS AS A FIRST ASSISTANT CAMERA PERSON/FOCUS PULLER. AFTER ATTENDING THE AFI IN LOS ANGELES, SHE WROTE AND DIRECTED “MONSTER” AND IT WAS NAMED BEST FIRST FEATURE BY THE 2004 INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS, ONE OF THE TEN BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR BY THE AFI, BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR, AND # 3 FILM OF THE DECADE BY CRITIC ROGER EBERT. THE MOVIE ALSO EARNED STAR CHARLIZE THERON AN OSCAR, GOLDEN GLOBE, SAG AWARD, AND NUMBEROUS CRITICS AWARDS IN THE BEST ACTRESS CATEGORY FOR HER STUNNING PERFORMANCE. JENKINS HAS DIRECTED A PLETHORA OF COMMERCIALS AND TV PROGRAMS INCLUDING THE EMMY AWARD WINNING FOX SERIES “ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT” AND HBO’S ENTOURAGE.” SHE WAS NOMINATED FOR A PRIMETIME EMMY AND WON THE DGA AWARD FOR HELMING THE TV PILOT OF “THE KILLING.” SHE WAS ALSO NOMINATED FOR THE DGA AWARD FOR THE FINAL SEGMENT OF A SERIES OF FIVE SHORT FILMS ABOUT BREAST CANCER FOR LIFETIME—A PROJECT SHE SHARED WITH FELLOW DIRECTORS JENNIFER ANISTON, ALICIA KEYS, DEMI MOORE AND PENELOPE SPHEERIS. SHE RECENTLY DIRECTED THE PILOT EPISODE OF “BETRAYAL” FOR ABC, AND IS CURRENTLY SCHEDULED TO BEGIN PRODUCTION ON “I AM SUPERMAN,” A FEATURE FILM THAT SHE ALSO WROTE, IN THE SPRING OF 2014. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Industry Standard 22: Will Keenan Dec 09, 2013

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WILL KEENAN is the President of ENDEMOL BEYOND USA, the digital division within the world's largest production company. Prior to that, he was a VP at top online MCN (Multi-Channel Network) MAKER STUDIOS where he developed and launched YouTube’s first entertainment & politics network (PoliPop/ 33 channels), partnered and optimized YouTube’s #1 Mom’s Network (TheMomsViewNetwork/25 channels), led vertical optimization for their ThePlatform lifestyle network launch (60 channels), their animation network (27 channels), and led their social account profiles, as well as their, initial network-wide social strategy. Before his entry into the digital world, Will had garnered recognition as an indie & "cult" film star & stunt legend for his starring roles & producing efforts in over 30 independent movies in America, France, Germany, and India's "Bollywood." Among his unique historical achievements, Will is the “World's First Digital Star” (Lead role in the first fully-digital feature film LOVE G-D), star of the last black and white widescreen musical feature film (THE GHASTLY LOVE OF JOHNNY X), named the “21st Century's Buster Keaton” (by Trevor Groth at The Sundance Film Festival), the “Cinema's First Hermaphrodite Serial Killer" (TERROR FIRMER), photographer of one of the "Most Legendary Pictures Ever Taken" (BUZZFEED '13 with Snoop Dogg & Phillip Seymour Hoffman), the only person ever to have publicly "Punk'd" legendary comedian/filmmaker Jerry Lewis, credited with single-handedly bringing Twitter to mainstream India, and as a "death-defying stuntman whose trademark was getting hit by cars" (Filmthreat Magazine). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Industry Standard 21: Dick Glover Dec 02, 2013

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Dick Glover is President and CEO of Funny Or Die, and a former top level executive at NASCAR, WWE, and espn (where he developed and launched espn.com). Under Glover’s leadership at Funny Or Die, it has grown into a vertically integrated 21st century digital studio that produces high quality content over numerous platforms, operates a social media and marketing division with 7.6 million Twitter followers (#1 Comedy Brand), and over 3.4 million devoted followers on a plethora of social networking sites. Funny Or Die’s website continues to be the leader in original online comedy video production and distribution with over 16 million unique visitors each month and 60 million monthly video streams. Funny Or Die’s slate of off-net production includes tv (“@midnight” on Comedy Central/HBO’s “Funny Or Die Presents”), film (“Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie”), merchandising (Hasbro just launched the Funny Or Die board game), and personal appearance tours (“The Oddball Comedy Festival” 14-city tour starring Dave Chappelle and Flight of the Conchords). Glover is one of the few CEO’s who continues to demonstrate that Hollywood and Silicon Valley can thrive together. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Industry Standard 19: Budd Friedman Nov 18, 2013

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BUDD FRIEDMAN is universally known as the Father of the Comedy Clubs. Since he founded the Original Improvisation in New York City in 1963, for half a century, his brand has remained the premiere stage for live comedy in the United States. Over the decades, the talent who performed on its stages, represent the Who’s Who of American Comedy, including Richard Pryor, Billy Crystal, Lily Tomlin, Freddie Prinz, Andy Kaufman, Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld, Tim Allen, Jay Leno, Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres, Jamie Foxx, Adam Sandler, and Dave Chappelle. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Industry Standard 18: Joe Weinstock Nov 11, 2013

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JOE WEINSTOCK is one of the executive producers of DUCK DYNASTY, which is arguably one of the most popular reality shows of all time. He joined Discovery Channel as the Senior Director of Development in 2012, after previously being VP of production for Gurney Productions while serving as an executive producer for Auction Hunters, American Digger, Monster Man, Haunted Collector, Hollywood Treasure, American Guns, and Duck Dynasty. Prior to Gurney Productions, Weinstock was Senior Director of Original Series for Spike TV for five years working on high-profile projects such as Jesse James is a Dead Man, Deadliest Warrior, Manswers, Pros vs. Joes, DEA, and 1000 Ways to Die. Weinstock started his entertainment career at MTV Networks in 2005 in the business and legal affairs department at Comedy Central in Los Angeles. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Industry Standard 17: Larry Lyttle Nov 04, 2013

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LARRRY LYTTLE is an Emmy Award winning TV executive with over 30 years experience. He was the founder and president of Big Ticket Television that created such hits as Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown, Moesha, The Parkers, Jamie Kennedy Experiment, and the acclaimed comedy satire Nightstand with Dick Dietrick. He also served as president of Spelling Television and was a senior VP at Warner Brothers overseeing such blockbusters as Night Court, Growing Pains, Head of the Class, Spencer for Hire, China Beach, Life Goes On, and Murphy Brown. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Industry Standard 16: David Hill Oct 28, 2013

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DAVID HILL, has been hailed as a visionary, credited with launching US sports television into the modern age. Presently he is the Executive VP of 21st Century Fox & is the number 2 man under Rupert Murdoch. He joined FOX in 1993 when News Corp wrested the rights to the NFL from CBS and he was charged with building a network quality sports division, literally from the ground up. His innovative unique style brought a plethora of groundbreaking new technologies and concepts to the sports world, including the FOXbox constant score and time graphic, the NHL FOXtrax glowing puck, and the creation of the yellow first down line graphic in the NFL. Later he became Chairman and CEO of the FOX Sports Media Group, which included FOX Sports, FOX Sports Networks, SPEED, FUEL TV, FOX Soccer, FOX Deportes, the Big Ten Network, and the hugely popular FOXsports.com, which has set records for monthly traffic totaling 46 million unique users. Through the years, Hill helped FOX expand to the MLB, Nascar, Super Bowls, Stanley Cup Finals, World Series and was legitimately been crowned America’s # 1 sports network for 14 consecutive years. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Industry Standard 15: Todd Garner Oct 21, 2013

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Todd Garner is an extraordinary veteran film producer and Hollywood creative executive. Throughout his career at Disney, Revolution Studios, and as the head of his own company--Broken Road Productions, Garner has developed, overseen, executive produced or produced well over 170 movies that have grossed billions of dollars worldwide, including BLACK HAWK DOWN, DADDY DAY CARE, CON AIR, ARE WE THERE YET?, HELLBOY, XXX, 13 GOING ON 30, PAUL BLART MALL COP, HERE COMES THE BOOM, ZOOKEEPER, KNIGHT AND DAY, and ANGER MANAGEMENT. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Industry Standard 14: Steve Koonin Oct 14, 2013

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Steve Koonin is the president of Turner Entertainment Networks, where he oversees the programming, marketing, scheduling, strategy and operations for 4 of cable's strongest brands: TNT, TBS, truTV & Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Koonin came to Turner from The Coca-Cola Company in 2000 to head up TNT and recast the network as television's home for great drama, while launching one of the most popular cable series of all time, The Closer. His duties expanded to include TBS in 2003, paving the way for that station to become basic cable's #1 network with young adults and in 2010 he surprised the country when he closed the deal to bring Conan O'Brien to TBS late night. Along the way, TV Guide featured him in its "Power List" and Entertainment Weekly named Koonin one of the "Smartest People in Television." See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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