Armyan Bernstein | |
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 Bernstein in 2007 | |
| Born | August 12, 1947 |
| Occupation(s) | Film producer, screenwriter, film director |
| Spouse | Christine Meleo |
Barry "Armyan" Bernstein (born August 12, 1947) is an American film/television producer, director and screenwriter. [1] He is the co-founder and chairman of the film/television company Beacon Pictures. [2]
Bernstein has produced, executive produced, written or directed more than 40 films, including Air Force One , The Hurricane (which he also co-wrote), Spy Game , The Family Man , The Guardian , Children of Men , the Dawn of the Dead remake, Bring It On , Open Range , Thirteen Days , A Lot Like Love , Firewall and End of Days . Films he has produced via Beacon Pictures include Ladder 49 , Raising Helen , For Love of the Game and The Water Horse .
In television, Bernstein was the Executive Producer of the TNT series Agent X and the ABC series Castle , created by Andrew Marlowe, who wrote Air Force One and End of Days for Beacon.
Bernstein also produced the Broadway musical Bring It On , which was nominated for a Tony for Best Musical.
Bernstein has received many awards including being honored as Showest Producer of the Year, and winning the USC Scripter Award for his screenplay for The Hurricane.[ citation needed ]
He is also the founder and chairman of the upcoming sports league, The People's Games.
Bernstein founded Beacon Communications in 1990 [3] with his college fraternity brother, Tom Rosenberg, who now has his own successful film company, Lakeshore Entertainment, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture for Million Dollar Baby . [4]
Bernstein was also a partner with Charlie Lyons and the Ascent Entertainment Group which owned the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, On-Command and Spectravision.
Other films produced by Bernstein and Beacon Pictures include The Commitments , A Midnight Clear , A Thousand Acres , Sugar Hill , Playing God , Princess Caraboo , The Road to Wellville and A Life in the Theatre , which won a cable ACE Award for Best Drama.[ citation needed ]
Armyan was born and raised in Chicago, and attended the University of Wisconsin. He was a broadcast journalist with PBS and then with ABC. He wrote the disco film Thank God It's Friday . He then wrote and co-produced Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart . Bernstein made his directing debut with Windy City , from his screenplay, which starred John Shea and Kate Capshaw. He also co-wrote and directed Cross My Heart , starring Martin Short and Annette O'Toole. He also wrote and produced ABC's Emmy Award–winning The Earth Day Special .[ citation needed ]
Armyan Bernstein was born into a Jewish family, the youngest of Lynne and Armand Bernstein's two children. [5] [6] [7] He is married to Christine Meleo. [7] [5]
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
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| 1978 | Thank God It's Friday | Yes | |||
| 1982 | One from the Heart | Yes | Co-producer | ||
| 1984 | Windy City | Yes | Yes | Directorial debut | |
| 1987 | Cross My Heart | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1999 | The Hurricane | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2015 | Grey Lady | Story | Yes |
Producer only
| Title | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The Road to Wellville | 1994 | |
| 364 Girls a Year | 1996 | |
| Air Force One | 1997 | |
| Disturbing Behavior | 1998 | |
| For Love of the Game | 1999 | |
| End of Days | 1999 | |
| Thirteen Days | 2000 | |
| A Lot Like Love | 2005 | |
| Firewall | 2006 | |
| Mardi Gras: Spring Break | 2011 | Limited release |
Executive producer only
| Title | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Satisfaction | 1988 | |
| The Commitments | 1991 | |
| A Midnight Clear | 1992 | |
| Sugar Hill | 1993 | |
| Princess Caraboo | 1994 | |
| The Baby-Sitters Club | 1995 | |
| A Thousand Acres | 1997 | |
| Playing God | 1997 | |
| Bring It On | 2000 | |
| The Family Man | 2000 | |
| Spy Game | 2001 | |
| Tuck Everlasting | 2002 | |
| The Emperor's Club | 2002 | |
| Open Range | 2003 | |
| Bring It On: Again | 2004 | Direct-to-video film |
| Dawn of the Dead | 2004 | |
| Ladder 49 | 2004 | |
| Bring It On: All or Nothing | 2006 | Direct-to-video film |
| Children of Men | 2006 | |
| Pu-239 | 2006 | |
| The Guardian | 2006 | |
| Let's Go to Prison | 2006 | |
| Bring It On: In It to Win It | 2007 | Direct-to-video film |
| Ny-Lon | 2008 | Unsold television pilot |
| Bring It On: Fight to the Finish | 2009 | Direct-to-video film |
| Bring It On: Worldwide Cheersmack | 2017 | Direct-to-video film |
| Dreadspace | 2017 | Short film |
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Family | Yes | episode: "Monday Is Forever" | ||
| 1990 | The Earth Day Special | Yes | Executive | Television special | |
| 2003 | Naked Hotel | Yes | Yes | Television film | |
| 2009-16 | Castle | Executive | 171 episodes | ||
| 2015 | Agent X | Executive | 9 episodes | ||
The Hurricane is a 1999 American biographical sports drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison. The film stars Denzel Washington as Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter, a former middleweight boxer who was wrongly convicted for a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey. The script was adapted by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon from Carter's 1974 autobiography The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender To 45472 and the 1991 non-fiction work Lazarus and the Hurricane: The Freeing of Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton.
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