Pitch your story to actor/producer/director, Noah Wyle, and producer Jim Katz of WYLE / KATZ PRODUCTIONS over lunch at "The Lot" -- the former Hollywood Warner Studio Lot. After lunch, enjoy a tour of the famed and historic studio lot; you never know who you'll bump into!
Noah Wyle is best known for his award-winning work as Dr. John Carter on ER, which aired for 15 seasons on NBC. He received five Emmy® and three Golden Globe® nominations for his performance on the show.
Wyle can currently be seen starring on the hit TNT drama Falling Skies. He is also a producer on the series, which is executive produced by Steven Spielberg. The show will premiere its fifth and final season in the Summer of 2015.
Wyle previously worked with TNT on "The Librarian" series of movies, which became a 10 episode TV series for the network that aired this past winter. He had a recurring role on the series, which he also executive produced. Prior to that, he played Steve Jobs in TNT's Emmy-nominated movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley."
Wyle's feature film credits include "White Oleander", "Enough", "Donnie Darko", "The Myth of Fingerprints", "Swing Kids" and "A Few Good Men."
Wyle is involved in numerous issue-oriented initiatives, including serving as national spokesperson for Cover the Uninsured Week, an unprecedented effort to bring awareness to the 44 million Americans who have no health coverage. His other philanthropic involvement includes work with Doctors of the World, Human Rights Watch and Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Wyle is also very involved and devoted to the theatre, serving as creative producer of the award-winning Blank Theatre Company.
He is partnered with producer, Jim Katz in his television and film production company, Wyle/Katz Productions. Jim has built a career equally focused on preserving the old and creating the new in cinema. Along with Bob Harris, he was responsible for the restorations of "Rear Window", "Vertigo", "Spartacus" and "My Fair Lady." On the new side, he has produced such features as Paul Bartel’s "Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills", written by Bruce Wagner, executive produced "Lust in the Dust", starring Divine and Tab Hunter and was producer of "Nobody’s Fool", written by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Beth Henley.
As President and founder of the Universal Pictures Classics Division in the early 1980s, Katz was responsible for the reissue of five Hitchcock films -- "Rear Window", "Vertigo", "Rope", "The Trouble With Harry", and "The Man Who Knew Too Much" -- as well as the reissue of the Beatles’ "A Hard Day’s Night", the reissue of the Preston Sturges package and the theatrical distribution of Abel Gance’s "Napoleon", during which he cemented his partnership with Bob Harris.
At the same time, under Katz’s aegis, Universal Pictures Classics became the first classics division to be involved in film production, with John Huston’s "Under the Volcano." Katz was also involved in bringing such films as Jerszy Skolimowski’s "Moonlighting", Merchant Ivory’s "Heat and Dust", Nagisa Oshima’s "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" and Franco Zeffirelli’s "La Traviata" to U.S. audiences.
Katz also served several years as a production VP for Universal Pictures. Katz served on the 2000 and 2001 AFI Awards selection juries, and has been a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. He is also a charter member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Los Angeles. Their most recent acquisition was Lynn Olson’s books, "The Murrow Boys" and "Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh and Americas’ Fight Over World War II" which is being adapted for the screen.