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Stephen Woolley

Lights, Camera Action! Number nine films 5th floor, 19-23 Wells Street, London W1T 3PQ

About Me

Stoned is my directorial debut but I have spent a lifetime steeped in movies and filmmaking. Over a twenty-year period I have produced over twenty films and has exec-produced an additional twenty films. Intermission, starring Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy, and Breakfast on Pluto, starring Cillian Murphy and Liam Neeson, has continued a long-term partnership with director Neil Jordan which began with The Company of Wolves in 1983. Collaborations with Jordan include The Actors, starring Sir Michael Caine and Dylan Moran, The Good Thief, the Oscar-nominated The End of the Affair, Michael Collins, Interview With The Vampire, and Oscar-winning The Crying Game. I also produced Jordan's Oscar nominated Mona Lisa which won numerous international awards. We worked together again on High Spirits, The Miracle and The Butcher Boy.After the Producer's Guild of America I was awarded the 1992 Producer of the Year for The Crying Game (for which I also received an Oscar nomination), I went on to produce Backbeat - the story of the fifth Beatle. Subsequently executive produced The Hollow Reed, Fever Pitch, Purely Belter and Little Voice starring Sir Michael Caine and Jane Horrocks.
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My Interests

Films, I have produced some the most successful british films including, Mona Lisa, Scandal, End of the affair, Backbeat, Conpamy of Wolves, The Crying Game and Directed Stone a movie about Brian Jones.


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Brian Jones, was he murdered?Milestones 1962 Worked as cinema usher at age 16 (dates approximate) 1981 Co-founded (with Nik Powell), Palace Productions, distribution company 1984 First feature as co-executive producer (with Nik Powell), "Chinese Boxes" (West Germany); film distributed by Palace 1985 Initial screen collaboration with Neil Jordan, "The Company of Wolves" 1986 Was one of the producers of Jordan's "Mona Lisa", starring Bob Hoskins and Michael Caine 1988 Produced first American feature, "Shag" 1989 Produced first film in long-term collaboration with Miramax films, "Scandal" 1990 Produced first TV show, "Red, Hot & Blue" 1992 Shared in Best Picture Oscar nomination as producer of Jordan's "The Crying Game" 1994 Reteamed with Neil Jordan for the big-budget "Interview With the Vampire" 1996 Produced Jordan's biopic of Irish revolutionary "Michael Collins" 1998 Produced "Little Voice", Mark Herman's screen adaptation of "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice" by Jim Cartwright 1998 Served as a producer on Shane Meadows' debut feature "TwentyFourSeven", starring Hoskins 1999 Reteamed with Jordan for the remake of "The End of the Affair" 2005 Produced Neil Jordan's "Breakfast on Pluto" 2006 Made directorial debut with "Stoned" a chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones Became manager, then proprietor of London's Scala Cinema (London's longest established repertory theater)

Music:

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Movies:

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2006) (announced) (producer) Stoned (2005) (producer) Breakfast on Pluto (2005) (producer) Return to Sender (2004) (executive producer) (producer) aka Convicted (USA: video title) Intermission (2003) (producer) The Actors (2003) (producer) The Good Thief (2002/I) (producer) aka Dernier coup de Monsieur Bob, Le (Canada: French title) aka Dernier coup de Mr Bob, Le (Canada: French title: DVD title) aka Homme de la riviera, L' (France) Purely Belter (2000) (executive producer) Not I (2000) (producer) The End of the Affair (1999) (producer) History Is Made at Night (1999) (executive producer) aka Historiaa tehdään öisin (Finland) aka History Is Made at Night (France) aka Spy Games (USA: DVD title) aka Spy Games - Agenten der Nacht (Germany) The Last September (1999) (executive producer) aka The Last September (France) The Lost Son (1999) (executive producer) In Dreams (1999) (producer) B. Monkey (1998) (producer) aka B. Monkey - una donna da salvare (Italy) Little Voice (1998) (executive producer) Divorcing Jack (1998) (executive producer) Downtime (1997) (executive producer) aka Downtime (France) 24 7: Twenty Four Seven (1997) (executive producer) aka TwentyFourSeven The Butcher Boy (1997) (producer) Welcome to Woop Woop (1997) (executive producer) Fever Pitch (1997) (executive producer: Scala Productions) Michael Collins (1996) (producer) Hollow Reed (1996) (executive producer) aka Believe Me (USA: festival title) aka Lautlose Schreie (Germany) aka Tras el silencio (Hollow Reed) (Spain) The Neon Bible (1995) (executive producer) Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) (producer) aka Interview with the Vampire (USA: short title) Backbeat (1994) (producer) Dark Blood (1993) (executive producer) The Crying Game (1992) (producer) Dust Devil (1992) (executive producer) Waterland (1992) (executive producer) The Pope Must Die (1991) (producer) aka The Pope Must Diet (USA) The Miracle (1991) (producer) A Rage in Harlem (1991) (producer) A Woman at War (1991) (TV) (executive producer) The Big Man (1990) (producer) aka Crossing the Line (USA) Hardware (1990) (executive producer) aka M.A.R.K. 13 Dancin' Thru the Dark (1990) (co-executive producer) Shag (1989) (producer) aka Shag: The Movie Scandal (1989) (producer) High Spirits (1988) (producer) The Courier (1988) (executive producer) Mona Lisa (1986) (producer) Absolute Beginners (1986) (producer) Chinese Boxes (1986) (executive producer) Letter to Brezhnev (1985) (executive producer) The Company of Wolves (1984) (executive producer) (producer) "The Worst of Hollywood" (exective producer)

Television:

Documenties. Football

Books:

Auotobiographies.

Heroes:

H.G. Wells Alfred Hichcock Mike Leigh Woody Allan Neil Jordan Mike Leigh

My Blog

interview

INTERVIEW with STEPHEN WOOLLEYStephen Woolley's STONEDWere you always a fan of the Rolling Stones?STEPHEN WOOLLEY: Yeah, well, I grew up with the Stones as a kid in the '60s. It was kind of like Stone...
Posted by Stephen Woolley on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:32:00 PST