Enjoy a 1-hour meeting with William Horberg currently producing Sean Penn's Flag Day and Scott Frank's The Queen's Gambit and tour the post production studio in New York City.
William Horberg is an independent film and television producer who is currently producing the Sean Penn directed and starring Flag Day as well as The Queen’s Gambit adapted by Scott Frank from the novel by Walter Tevis for Netflix. His recent production, The Burnt Orange Heresy, starring Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Mick Jagger, and Donald Sutherland, based on the novel by Charles Willeford is the closing night film at the 2019 Venice Film Festival. Other recent films include Terry George's Armenian genocide drama The Promise starring Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac and Crash Pad a romantic comedy starring Thomas Haden Church and Domhnall Gleeson and directed by Kevin Tent for Sony.
He is currently the Chair of the Producers Guild of America, East.
He is the founder of Wonderful Films, and produced the Gospel-themed musical Black Nativity for Fox Searchlight and Disconnect and Therese Raquin for Liddell Entertainment. Horberg was also a producer on The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman starring Shia LaBeouf for Voltage Pictures, and Death At A Funeral starring Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence and Tracy Morgan for Columbia Screen Gems.
Previously, Horberg was the President of Production at Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. During Horberg's tenure there, SKE, in association with Universal Pictures, financed Academy Award nominee Paul Greengrass' critically acclaimed United 93, as well as executive-produced Billy Ray's Breach. The company's other productions, which Horberg executive-produced, include Kasi Lemmons' Talk to Me, starring Don Cheadle and Independent Spirit Award winner Chiwetel Ejiofor; Frank Oz' HBO Comedy Arts Festival Audience Award-winning Death at a Funeral; Jon Poll's Charlie Bartlett, starring Anton Yeltsin and Robert Downey, Jr.; Ira Sachs' Married Life, starring Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, and Rachel McAdams; Craig Gillespie's Lars and the Real Girl, starring Ryan Gosling, and written by Academy Award nominee Nancy Oliver; and Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York, starring Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams and Samantha Morton.
Additionally, Horberg served as an executive producer on Greg Mottola's Adventureland (a Miramax co-production), starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, and Ryan Reynolds; and Stephen Belber's Management, starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, and Woody Harrelson. Horberg was also an executive producer on Focus Features' Milk, starring Academy Award winner Sean Penn and directed by Gus Van Sant. He was also the producer of Marc Forster's The Kite Runner based on the international best-selling novel by Khaled Hosseini, for Dreamworks and Paramount Vantage. Prior to forming Wonderful, he was partnered for 11 years with Academy Award-winning filmmakers Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella in their film and television production company, Mirage Enterprises. During Horberg's tenure at Mirage, he produced such films as Mr. Minghella's Cold Mountain, for which Renée Zellweger won an Academy Award and The Talented Mr. Ripley, starring Matt Damon and Academy Award nominee Jude Law; Phillip Noyce's The Quiet American, starring Academy Award nominee Michael Caine; Tom Tykwer's Heaven, starring Cate Blanchett; Peter Howitt's Sliding Doors, starring Gwyneth Paltrow; and Steven Zaillian's Searching for Bobby Fischer.
Horberg was formerly a Senior Vice President of Production at Paramount Pictures. He is also a musician and artist, currently living in Woodstock, NY.