Andrew Stevens, President/CEO of Andrew Stevens Entertainment and Stevens Entertainment Group, has produced and/or financed over two hundred films through his various production and distribution companies. Unique in the motion picture industry, Stevens has functioned in almost every capacity in the entertainment business. He is an accomplished screenwriter, director, as well as having been named "One of the most prolific producer's in Hollywood," by the Hollywood Reporter.. Stevens is also an author of several academic books, an educator and public speaker, and was a successful actor for more than 20 years.
Active since January 2003, his company has developed, produced and/or arranged the financing for more than fifty motion pictures, including the newly completed, The Deputy, starring William H. Macy and Tiffany Haddish, The Girl in the River, Starring Maggie Grace and Ralph Macchio, The Neglected and Off the Grid, both starring Josh Duhamel, The Ritual, starring Al Pacino and Dan Stevens, and The Minute you Wake up Dead, starring Morgan Freeman and Cole Hauser, and the documentary feature, Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet, which stevens wrote, produced and directed. to name a few.
including 7 Sekunden (2005) and
The Marksman - Zielgenau (2005), both
starring Wesley Snipes,
Foreigner 2: Black Dawn (2005) starring
Steven Seagal,
Pursued - Du entkommst mir nicht (2004) starring
Christian Slater,
Blessed - Kinder des Teufels (2004) starring
Heather Graham,
Method (2004), starring
Elizabeth Hurley, and
Silent Partner (2005), starring
Tara Reid.
From 1997 through 2002, Stevens co-founded, and served as President and
Chief Operating Officer of Franchise Pictures, an independent film
production and distribution company with a domestic theatrical output
deal with Warner Bros. During his five-and-a-half tenure at Franchise,
Stevens produced or executive produced and provided the finance or
co-finance for more than 60 feature films including the enormously
successful
Keine halben Sachen (2000),
and its sequel
Keine halben Sachen 2 - Jetzt erst recht! (2004),
both starring Bruce Willis and
Matthew Perry,
Ein ungleiches Paar (2003), starring
Michael Douglas and
Albert Brooks,
Angel Eyes (2001) starring
Jennifer Lopez and
Jim Caviezel,
City by the Sea (2002) starring
Robert De Niro,
Das Versprechen (2001) starring
Jack Nicholson,
Crime is King (2001),
starring Kevin Costner and
Kurt Russell,
Halb tot (2002) starring
Steven Seagal.
Stevens was also responsible for creating Franchise Classics, a
division which produced and distributed many films which appeared in
such major film festivals as Cannes, Sundance Film Festival and Toronto
Film Festival including
The Big Kahuna - Ein dicker Fisch (1999), starring
Kevin Spacey,
Gefühle, die man sieht... - Things you can tell (2000),
starring Cameron Diaz and
Glenn Close,
Green Dragon (2001), starring
Forest Whitaker and
Patrick Swayze, and
Caveman's Valentine - Tod eines Engels (2001),
starring Samuel L. Jackson. Concurrent
with the formation of Franchise, Stevens co-founded and served as
president of a sister company, Phoenician Entertainment which produced
such films as
Das dritte Wunder (1999),
starring Ed Harris and
Anne Heche,
Entropy (1999), starring
Stephen Dorff and U2,
Woman Wanted (1999), starring
Kiefer Sutherland and
Holly Hunter, and many genre
action/adventure films.
Prior to Franchise and Phoenician, Stevens was an owner and president
of Royal Oaks Entertainment, which produced and/or distributed seventy
pictures over a three-year period including many HBO, Showtime and
Sci-Fi Channel world premieres. Prior to Royal Oaks, Stevens' initial venturing
into foreign sales and production company ownership was with Sunset
Films International, which amassed a library of nineteen titles,
(including seven in-house productions) during his first year as
president of the company.
Stevens serves on the board of directors of the International Film and
Television Alliance, (the former American Film Marketing Association)
and until recently served as Chairman of the Independent Producers
Association (IPA), which is, among other things, active in collective
bargaining for independent producers and film companies. Stevens has
been involved in many guild negotiations with both the Screen Actors
Guild (SAG) and the Directors Guild of America (DGA) on behalf of the
constituency of independent producers and was a key architect of the
current DGA/IPA multi-tiered low-budget agreement.
Stevens was a award-winning actor, including a Golden Globe
nomination and the Star of Tomorrow award from the National Association
of Theatre Owners (NATO) starring in over 80 feature films and/or
television series.
Stevens authored a fully accredited Associate of Applied Arts college degree program in Motion
Picture Production, which he later distilled into an online certificate program, (2015) DVD and Vimeo series. "Foolproof Film School. Dallas: Stevens Entertainment Group. ISBN 978-0-6924374-9-0, which teaches Stevens' unique practical perspective of the business side of making movies, based on his academic texts, (2014) Book: "Foolproof Filmmaking". Westport: Prospecta Press. ISBN 978-1-935212-27-0; (2016) Book: "Producing for Profit". New York and London" Focal Press/Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN 978-1-138-12104-1; and (2017) Book "Screenwriting for Profit". New York and London" Focal Press/Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN 978-1-138-95060-3
