Mark Morgan (producer)

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Mark Morgan
NationalityAmerican
Education University of California, Los Angeles
OccupationFilm producer
Years active1995–present
Notable work The Twilight Saga
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Agent Cody Banks

Mark Paul Morgan is an American film producer. He has been a producer and executive producer on films including The Twilight Saga film series, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief , and the Agent Cody Banks films.

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Career

Morgan began his producing career at New Regency and Warner Brothers as a story editor on such films as L.A. Confidential , Heat , A Time to Kill , and Murder at 1600'. He moved on to be Director of Development and later Vice President of Production at Orion/MPCA, where he was involved in the development and production of film projects such as Ringmaster . [1] When Orion/ MPCA split off to form Destination Films, Morgan served as Executive Vice President of the company and produced films including Beautiful , [2] [3] Slackers , [4] and The Wedding Planner . [5]

Morgan moved on to become the CEO of Maverick Films, [6] founded by Guy Oseary and Madonna. He optioned the manuscript Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. [7] It later became The New York Times bestselling novel and The Twilight Saga . He also produced Agent Cody Banks , [8] Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London , [9] Sam's Lake , The Gravedancers , [10] Frostbite, [11] Cruel World , [12] My Sassy Girl , Material Girls , [13] and Hit and Run . Morgan executive produced the TV series The Riches , starring Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver for Fox Television Studios and FX. [14]

In 2008, Morgan co-founded Imprint Entertainment [15] and produced Twilight , [16] directed by Katherine Hardwick, for Summit Entertainment. He also produced the Twilight Saga sequels The Twilight Saga: New Moon , [17] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse , [18] and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 [19] and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 . [20]

Morgan continued his successful book-to-film adaptations by executive producing Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief [21] and the sequel Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters . [22]

Morgan was head of the film and television production company Outlier [23] from 2012–2014; in 2013 he signed on to produce the film Savage, based on an acclaimed graphic novel. [24]

Morgan founded Mount Diablo Entertainment in August 2014.[ citation needed ]

Awards

In 2009, Morgan won the Vision Award for "A Producer of Vision" [25] and the 2009 MTV Movie Award's Golden Popcorn for Best Movie of the Year for Twilight. [26] [27] He received the MTV Award again the following year for New Moon. [28]

Filmography

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