This is your chance to sit down for a meeting with two of the biggest managers/producers in Hollywood, Chris Bender and Jake Weiner.
Chris Bender and Jake Weiner just wrapped production on David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake for A24 with Academy Award Nominee Andrew Garfield. They are also working on the remake of the Venezuelan film, The House at The End of Time, at New Line Cinema; a live-action version of Mulan at Disney; Red Queen, with director Elizabeth Banks attached at Universal; and Agatha, an action adventure about the 11 days the international mystery novelist was missing which is set up at Paramount.
Prior to establishing Good Fear Film + Management Bender founded Benderspink with JC Spink in 1998 with American Pie in post-production and fourteen writer clients signed to their management company. Benderspink maintained a first look deal with New Line Cinema for over 17 years. Bender has produced or developed projects that have grown into six franchises in various genres: Final Destination, American Pie, The Ring, Cats & Dogs, The Butterfly Effect, and The Hangover. Eight of his movies have opened to number one, and Bender was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the David Cronenberg directed A History of Violence. He most recently served as producer on the hit comedies We’re the Millers; Horrible Bosses 2; and Vacation for New Line.
As a manager, Jake Weiner's diverse list of clients include writer/director David Robert Mitchell (It Follows, Myth of the American Sleepover); Humanitas winner and Oscar, WGA, and Bafta nominated writer Allison Schroeder (Hidden Figures); documentarian Clay Tweel (Gleason, Finders Keepers); and New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes). Prior to Good Fear, Weiner was a partner at Benderspink where he developed New Line’s Butterfly Effect and Monster-in-Law; Dreamworks’ Red Eye and I Am Number 4; and Universal’s American Wedding. He served as a Co-Producer on the critically acclaimed and Golden Globe nominated A History of Violence, and on New Line’s Just Friends. He served as a Producer on Spyglass/Universal’s Leap Year, New Line’s The Incredible Burt Wonderstone , and Millennium's Criminal.