Bid on a producing advice meeting with leading producer Marty Bowen (Twighlight series, and A Fault in Our Stars) at his office in West Hollywood!
Bowen will answer any questions ranging from how to put together a film to how to manage a world-class creative team.
Producer Marty Bowen is a partner at Temple Hill Entertainment, a Los Angeles–based film and television production company established in February 2006, with co-founder Wyck Godfrey. During its first decade in business, the company triumphed with a number of successful film franchises, notably the Twilight Saga quinary (based on Stephenie Meyer’s popular novels) and The Maze Runner trilogy, with the third installment, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, set to be released in January 2018.
A Texas native, Bowen began his career in the United Talent Agency (UTA) trainee program and worked his way up to agent and ultimately partner. In spring 2006, Bowen left his post at UTA and partnered with veteran producer Wyck Godfrey to create the production company Temple Hill Entertainment. Their first project was The Nativity Story, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, a modestly budgeted, Christmas-themed movie that would lead to the company’s big break 2 years later when Hardwicke would direct the first feature in the Twilight Saga franchise. Twilight claimed an opening weekend box office record of $69.6 million on its way to a $400 million global take. The pair continued in the same role on the franchise’s four sequels (New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn–Part 1, Breaking Dawn–Part 2), with the series having now surpassed $3 billion in worldwide theatrical ticket sales.
The Twilight franchise established Bowen and Godfrey in the key young adult moviegoing demographic, where they continued as producers of hit romantic dramas adapted from the novels of John Green and Nicholas Sparks—The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns from Greenʼs books and Dear John and Safe Haven from director Lasse Hallström and The Longest Ride directed by George Tillman, Jr., from Sparksʼs work.
Following The Fault in Our Stars, which grossed more than $300 million worldwide, Bowen and Godfrey launched another popular film franchise in the big screen adaptation of Utopian science-fictiom thriller The Maze Runner, which earned $350 million dollars worldwide. Directed by Wes Ball, the original filmʼs success spawned two sequels: Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials and the upcoming Maze Runner: The Death Cure.
Currently, the company is in production on the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man, based on Jim Hansen’s biography about the historic 1969 mission on Apollo 11, with Academy Award–winning director Damien Chazelle and Golden Globe–winning star Ryan Gosling.
The company’s upcoming films include Love, Simon directed by Greg Berlanti and starring Nick Robinson as the titular role; Life Itself, written and directed by Dan Fogelman (This is Us) and starring Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening, and Samuel L. Jackson; The Hate U Give, based on the critically acclaimed best-selling young adult novel by Angie Thomas, with Amandla Stenberg starring in the lead role of Starr; Uncle Drew, a feature adaptation of the online Pepsi spots that have become a viral phenomenon yielding more than 100 million views, with Kyrie Irving reprising his role of Uncle Drew; and The Kill Team, a tense character-driven thriller about modern warfare directed by Dan Krauss and based on his award-winning documentary, with a cast including Alexander Skarsgard and Nat Wolff.
Apart from the pair’s successful film franchises, Temple Hill Entertainment has also ventured into television, with Bowen and Godfrey executive producing the recent Fox-TV crime drama Rosewood, the long-running ABC drama Revenge, and David E. Kelly’s adaptation of Mr. Mercedes, the first novel in Stephen King’s trilogy, with Brendan Gleeson playing the lead role of Detective Bill Hodges. Mr. Mercedes was renewed for a second season, which will go into production in spring 2018. Bowen resides in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.
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