SAM RAIMI (Producer) is the director of the box office blockbusters Spider-Man™ starring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and Willem Dafoe and Spider-Man™ 2, which was released this past summer.

Raimi previously directed the supernatural thriller The Gift starring Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Keanu Reeves, Greg Kinnear and Giovanni Ribisi. Raimi also directed the acclaimed suspense thriller A Simple Plan, which starred Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton and Bridget Fonda, and earned Thornton an Academy AwardÆ nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Additional directorial credits include the baseball homage For Love of the Game starring Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston.

Known for his imaginative filmmaking style, richly drawn characters and offbeat humor, Raimi wrote and directed the cult classic The Evil Dead, which became an immediate favorite when it debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and spawned the equally impressive The Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn.

Raimi has directed Darkman, starring Liam Neeson and Frances McDormand, which he followed up with Army of Darkness, a comic sword-and-sorcery fantasy starring Bruce Campbell. Raimi served as executive producer for John Woo’s Hard Target, and co-wrote (with Joel and Ethan Coen) The Hudsucker Proxy, starring Tim Robbins, Paul Newman and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Raimi also directed the western The Quick and the Dead, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe and Gene Hackman.

Raimi’s extensive television work includes the hit syndicated series Xena: Warrior Princess, which he executive produced with Rob Tapert. The highly successful series starring Lucy Lawless ran for six seasons. Raimi and Tapert also executive produced the enormously popular Hercules: Legendary Journeys and served as executive producers for the CBS series American Gothic.

Raimi’s interest in filmmaking began as a youngster in Michigan, where he directed his own Super 8 films. Later, he left Michigan State University to form Renaissance Pictures with Tapert and longtime friend and actor Bruce Campbell.

ROB TAPERT (Producer) is Sam Raimi’s longstanding producing partner.

Tapert and Raimi have worked together since they met at Michigan State University, where they formed the Society for Creative Film Making. After producing the hit horror cult film The Evil Dead, Tapert collaborated with friend and partner Raimi on The Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn, Darkman and Army of Darkness.

Tapert went on to become an executive producer of the action features Hard Target and Timecop starring Jean Claude Van Damme, as well as two direct-to-video Darkman sequels.

He was also executive producer of Raimi's theatrical film The Gift, starring Cate Blanchett and Keanu Reeves and executive producer of Raimi's high-action The Quick and the Dead, starring Leonardo Di Caprio, Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman.

Together, Tapert and Raimi executive produced the two-hour series pilot of Fox's M.A.N.T.I.S., the CBS series American Gothic, the ABC series Spy Game, the Fox Kids Network series Young Hercules, Hercules and Xena: The Animated Movie, the telemovie Young Hercules and four Hercules telemovies. In addition, they executive produced the syndicated TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, Cleopatra 2525 and Jack of All Trades.

JOE DRAKE (Executive Producer) is President of Senator International, which is committed to the financing, production and distribution of A-list theatrical feature films, as well as specialized niche features for the worldwide theatrically driven marketplace. He is responsible for the evaluation, acquisition, sales and distribution of the company’s entire film slate. Drake oversees partnerships with the Hollywood film studios on split-rights deals as well as manages Senator International’s joint production and financing ventures.

While at Senator International, Drake has executive produced the box office phenomenon The Grudge for Ghost House Pictures (the company’s joint venture with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert), Danny Leiner’s outrageous comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, and Catherine Hardwicke’s upcoming Lords of Dogtown.

Formerly President of Lions Gate Films International, Drake established the division as a premiere supplier of theatrical feature films to the independent world. He oversaw worldwide sales and distribution of Lions Gate’s international programming and championed such projects as Nicolas Cage’s Shadow of the Vampire, the highly controversial American Psycho, and the Academy Award and Golden Globe Nominee Amores Perros. Before joining Lions Gate, Drake served as Senior Vice President of International Theatrical at Rysher Entertainment and also held positions at Moviestore Entertainment.

While at Senator, Kahane has produced or overseen the productions of Trapped, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, and the $100 million box office hit The Grudge. Currently, he is overseeing the projects Stranger than Fiction, starring Will Ferrell, and Scarecrow, which is to be directed by Daniel & Oxide Pang, among others.

Kahane started his career at ICM in their agent-training program after graduating from the Hass School of Business at The University of California, Berkeley. Following that, he worked for four and a half years as the Canton Company’s Executive Vice President of Motion Pictures.

In 2002 QFE closed a multifaceted deal with Doug Liman’s (Swingers, Go, The Bourne Identity) Hypnotic. The two companies will work to develop feature and television projects with their filmmakers. The deal also includes Hypnotic representing Quality's available library and Hypnotic will have a first-look deal to co-produce short film and web content with Quality.

Quality works with all levels of filmmakers. Through their partnerships with companies like Hypnotic, Quality is able to create some of the best short form entertainment found and are able to insure that the writers and directors behind those films go on to productive careers in the entertainment industry.

Quality Filmed Entertainment has won over 50 film awards with short films such as Peepshow, Battle of the Sexes, George Lucas in Love, Billy Jones, Da' Sixth Sense, The Sharktank Redemption, Go Sick and Inside. Hein and Bryman served as producers on the 2003 Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival and won a Golden Lion at Cannes 2003 for the hit short film and commercial series for Reebok entitled Terry Tate: Office Line-Backer, which premiered on Super Bowl XXXVII.

Hein and Bryman are currently developing, with Imagine Television (24, Arrested Development) and Twentieth Television, a television pilot based on the short film they produced entitled Save Virgil. They have a number of other feature film and television projects in development, including the feature film Animal Control at Twentieth Century Fox.

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