Dan Halsted

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Dan Halsted
Born (1962-07-12) July 12, 1962 (age 61)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma mater UCLA
Occupation Film producer

Dan Halsted (born 1962) is an American film producer and talent manager, best known for producing such films as Garden State , Any Given Sunday and The Virgin Suicides .

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Early life

Daniel Halsted was born in New York on July 12, 1962, and moved to Beverly Hills, California in 1976. He graduated from the UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science. His Hollywood career started in 1984 as an assistant to Scott Rudin at 20th Century Fox before later becoming an agent at United Talent Agency (formerly Bauer Benedek Agency). [1] [2]

Career

UTA

While at 20th Century Fox and UTA, Halsted packaged and sold films such as: There's Something About Mary , New Jack City , The Fabulous Baker Boys , K-9 , RoboCop , Casualties of War , Jumpin' Jack Flash , Alien , Predator , and The Untouchables . [3] [4]

Hollywood Pictures

Halsted left the representation business in 1990 to work at Hollywood Pictures, a division of The Walt Disney Company. While there he oversaw projects such as: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle , [2] Tombstone , Evita , Mr. Holland's Opus , Encino Man , Son in Law , The Joy Luck Club , and While You Were Sleeping .

Illusion Entertainment

Halsted partnered with filmmaker Oliver Stone in 1995 to create Illusion Entertainment, a joint production company. [5] Together, they produced films such as: Nixon , U Turn , The Art of War , The Corruptor , Beyond Borders , Freeway , Any Given Sunday , and the documentary The Last Days of Kennedy and King for TBS.

Halsted Pictures

In 1999, Halsted ventured out on his own with Halsted Pictures [6] a multi-year, first-look production deal with Mandalay Pictures. [5] That same year he produced The Virgin Suicides and the action film S.W.A.T. Halsted also executive produced both the TNT television pilot [6] and series Witchblade, and the movie Serving Sara during that time.

One of Halsted's final projects as a full-time producer was the award-winning Garden State . [2] Halsted helped find buyers for the film, which started as a relatively unknown independent and eventually sold for $5 million to Miramax Films and Fox Searchlight Pictures at Sundance 2004. [7] [8]

Manage-Ment

In 2004, Halsted formed his own company, Manage-ment, representing various film, and television writers and directors. On the film side, Manage-ment clients are known for writing and directing such films as Academy Award-winning Moonlight and Jojo Rabbit , Thor: Ragnarok , Watchmen , The Amazing Spider-Man , Beasts of the Southern Wild , Always Be My Maybe , Beautiful Boy , Twilight , What We Do in the Shadows , Sundance breakout Hunt for the Wilderpeople , and Golden Globe-nominated Neruda . At the end of 2013, Halsted signed a first-look, two-year producing deal with Fox Television Studios. His clients have written, directed and produced for numerous critically acclaimed shows including House of Cards , Breaking Bad , The X-Files , The Americans , Mad Men , The Twilight Zone , Shameless , Narcos , Fear the Walking Dead , The Sopranos , Umbrella Academy , The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel , The Office , This Is Us , Dead to Me , Good Girls Revolt , NCIS , Law & Order: SVU , Sons of Anarchy , 13 Reasons Why , The Leftovers , BoJack Horseman , and Bates Motel .

Manage-ment's roster additionally includes the writers of a number of Pulitzer, Tony and Obie-winning Playwrights including Lynn Nottage, Jon Robin Baitz, Lucy Thurber, and Suzan-Lori Parks. Halsted and Manage-ment also provide equity consulting and investment banking services to financiers, with services provided on such films as Michael Clayton , The Namesake , Garden State , the 2010 Best Documentary Emmy nominee Crips and Bloods: Made in America , and Samsara , the sequel to Baraka . In 2018, managers Nathan Miller and Corinne Hayoun were promoted to partners of Manage-ment.

Nathan Miller has been with the company since 2009 acquiring a roster of clients who have been staffed on shows including The Chi , American Gods , Hannibal , Circe, Homecoming , Swagger , GLOW , Tokyo Vice , Y: The Last Man and Seven Seconds and set up projects at Showtime, AMC, FX, Netflix, Amazon and Hulu. While at Mange-ment, Miller has optioned IP to major networks and studios such as Legendary, Sony, CBS, Big Beach, MRC, Lionsgate, FX, NBC, Paramount TV, and Netflix.

Corinne Hayoun, a former CAA theater agent, joined the company five years ago as head of the New York office. Hayoun has clients with film and TV projects set up at Warner Brothers, Searchlight, HBO, Apple, FX, Amazon, AMC, HBO Max, and BET. Her clients have worked on shows such as the Peabody Award-winning David Makes Man , Emmy-nominated When They See Us , Little America , American Crime Story: Impeachment, Black Lightning , The Chi , and NOS4A2 , as well as the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary Reversing Roe .  Hayoun also served as a co-producer on the Broadway play  An Act of God starring Jim Parsons, and is a former board member of the Lilly Awards Foundation, which celebrates and advocates for women in the American theatre. 

Filmography

YearFilmPosition
2016 The Rendezvous Producer
People of Earth Executive Producer
2015 Bleeding Heart Executive Producer
Stockholm, Pennsylvania Producer
Eye Candy Consulting Producer
2014 Learning to Drive Executive Producer
2013 Over/Under Executive Producer
2011 Samsara Consulting Producer
2008 Crips and Bloods: Made in America Producer
Restraint Executive Producer
Comedy GumboExecutive Producer
2004 Garden State Producer
Home of Phobia Producer
2003 Beyond Borders Producer
S.W.A.T. Producer
Platinum Producer
2002 Serving Sara Producer
2001 The Day Reagan Was Shot Executive Producer
Witchblade Executive Producer
2000 The Art of War Executive Producer
1999 Any Given Sunday Producer
The Corruptor Producer
The Virgin Suicides Producer
1998The Last Days of Kennedy and KingExecutive Producer
1997 Cold Around the Heart Producer
U Turn Producer
1996 Freeway Executive Producer
1995 Nixon Co-Producer

Accolades

YearAwardCategoryNominee(s)ResultRef.
2022 Peabody Awards Entertainment Our Flag Means Death Nominated [9]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 Rose, Lacey (November 29, 2011). "Producer Dan Halsted Inks First-Look Development Deal With Fox TV Studios". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved November 29, 2011.
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  5. 1 2 Hindes, Andrew; Petrikin, Chris (May 18, 1999). "Halsted homestead: Producer inks 1st-look deal with Mandalay". Variety. Retrieved November 7, 2009.
  6. 1 2 Bernstein, Paula (February 9, 2000). "'Witchblade' swings without Stone at TNT". Variety. Retrieved November 29, 2011.
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