Stephen Brown (film producer)

Stephen is a Producer and Executive for Darren Star Productions on the Emmy Award nominated and 2020's most viewed Netflix comedy series "Emily In Paris" created by Darren Star and starring Lily Collins. The show's second season will premiere on Netflix on December 22, 2021.[1] Stephen is also a Producer and in production on Darren Star's upcoming Netflix series "Uncoupled" starring Neil Patrick Harris.

Previously, Stephen served as President of Production for Kopelson Entertainment, and oversaw the productions of such seminal movies as "Seven" Co-Producer New Line Cinema, the Academy Award nominated "The Fugitive" Co-Producer Warner Bros., "A Perfect Murder" Executive Producer Warner Bros., "Devil's Advocate" Co-Producer Warner Bros., "Outbreak" Co-Producer Warner Bros., "Eraser" Co-Producer Warner Bros., "Twisted" Executive Producer Paramount Pictures as well as many others. The motion pictures created during his nearly 12-year tenure at Kopelson have garnered over $2 billion in receipts to date. At Kopelson, Stephen managed corporate affairs; the negotiation, acquisition and development of all literary properties; and, in coordination with studio executives, all development, production, worldwide distribution and marketing activities (including budget, talent contract negotiations, and release plans) of major motion pictures. Additionally, he headed the international sales activities for the company's earlier slate of independently financed films.

Stephen also served as President and CEO of USA-Intertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Intertainment AG, a publicly held media company based in Munich, Germany. In 2000, Stephen formed USA-Intertainment, a motion picture development, financing and production company in Los Angeles and was responsible for the co-financing of several movies with Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox. He also served as Deputy Chairman of Intertainment AG from 2001 through 2003 and as a member of its Executive Board through 2008.

Additionally, Stephen produced "The Ottoman Lieutenant" starring Josh Hartnett, Michiel Huisman, Sir Ben Kingsley and Hera Hilmar. The movie was financed by Y Production, an Istanbul, Turkey based motion picture and finance company where Stephen served as its Chief Executive Officer and oversaw the Company's U.S. operations. It was released in 2017 theatrically in the U.S. by Paladin; and internationally by Universal Pictures.

Projects in development where Brown will serve as a producer include a motion picture about Rumi, the 13th-century mystic and poet, which is being developed with the Academy Award-winning writer David Franzoni (Gladiator, Amistad, King Arthur).

Stephen's film production, management, operations and sales and marketing experience in Hollywood and internationally are supported by a decade of private and commercial capital formation enterprise, investor relations, corporate communications and marketing in New York City as vice president of John De Nigris Associates.

Since 2008 he has served as a consultant to Vahid & Associates Brand Futurists in Bahrain, advising companies and individuals looking to launch businesses in the Gulf Region as well as local media companies with brand redevelopment and extension activities.[2][3][4]

Stephen has mentored and continues to mentor aspiring filmmakers. This includes having served as Executive Producer on Wyatt Rockefeller's acclaimed short movie, "Groomed," which premiered on television nationally on September 11, 2017 through PBS' member channel KQED; and as Producer of the 6 Episode original web series, "Llama Cop" for Starz Digital Media.

A Los Angeles, California native, Stephen graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in economics and history from the University of California, Los Angeles. He currently maintains residences in New York and Los Angeles, and for many years lived between Rome, Italy and Los Angeles.

• Stephen Brown at IMDb