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MANAGEMENT BIOGRAPHIES
Brad Krevoy
Brad Krevoy Since founding Motion Picture Corporation
of America in 1986, Mr. Brad Krevoy has played a key role in the
finance, development, production, and distribution of over 100 motion picture
and television projects.
Mr. Krevoy’s producing credits include the Peabody
Award-winning television movie Annie; Academy Award-winner Kevin Spacey’s critically acclaimed directorial debut, Albino Alligator; and the smash-hit comedy Dumb
and Dumber starring Jim Carrey and directed
by Peter and Bobby Farrelly, which generated
over $250 million in worldwide box office. In total, Mr. Krevoy’s films
have reaped box office returns of over $650 million worldwide.
In 1996, MPCA was acquired by John Kluge’s Metromedia International Group and began operating under
Metromedia’s Orion Pictures Corporation where Krevoy served as Co-President.
At Orion, Krevoy headed up the production, acquisition, and distribution of
motion pictures and television programming. He also produced films for Academy
Award-winner Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society); and released
films such as Victor Nunez’s critically acclaimed Ulee’s
Gold, presented by Jonathan Demme, and starring
Academy Award-winner Peter Fonda; as well as Sergei
Bodrov’s Prisoner of the Mountains,
the Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
It was with success stories like these that Krevoy revitalized Orion Pictures,
quickly positioning the company for sale to Kirk Kerkorian’s
MGM/UA in 1997.
In 1998, Mr. Krevoy reorganized Motion Picture Corporation
of America. Since then, he has produced over 20 motion pictures including
STARZ! / Encore Pictures’ boxing drama Joe and Max directed by Hoop Dreams’ Steve James which
collected both ESPN and ACE award nominations; the Miramax action film Undisputed,
starring Wesley Snipes and Ving Rhames; and the 2002 Sundance
premiere Bookies for director Mark Illsley (Happy, Texas),
distributed by MGM/UA and Blockbuster.
Recently, Mr. Krevoy produced for USA Network and Lionsgate
Films the supernatural thriller Stephen King’s Riding
the Bullet, starring Jonathan Jackson, Erika
Christensen, David Arquette, and Barbara
Hershey; for Sci Fi Channel and Lionsgate the sci-fi
action film Slipstream starring Sean Astin;
and the Anthony Hickox-directed action comedy Blast
starring Eddie Griffin, and Breckin Meyer
for Blockbuster and MGM/UA. Mr. Krevoy also recently produced Second
in Command and The Hard Corps, both
action films starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Brad Krevoy’s films have been produced worldwide, with
shooting locations ranging from the U.S. to South Africa, Canada, Germany,
the Philippines, the Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe. In addition, MPCA
has built a worldwide sales organization attending film festivals and markets
around the world, from Cannes, France, to Park City, Utah, and Los Angeles,
California.
Mr. Krevoy is a graduate of Stanford University and Hastings
College of Law. He served as a Legislative Fellow in the California State
Legislature and worked as an entertainment attorney at a prominent Los Angeles
law firm. Prior to founding MPCA, Mr. Krevoy served as Executive Vice President
of Roger Corman’s Concorde Pictures.
A former member of the executive branch and admissions committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Mr. Krevoy serves on the board of directors of D.A.R.E. America, and the California State Summer School of the Arts, recently completed a six-year post on the Board of the American Film Market Association, and has spoken at film festivals and universities around the world.
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