DAVID HOBERMAN (Producer) is co-chairman and co-CEO of Hyde Park Entertainment and is one of today's leading producers in the entertainment industry, responsible for making well over 100 movies.
Formed in 1999, Hyde Park Entertainment signed a first look deal at MGM and a second look deal at Disney, as well as a long term European finance deal with the powerful European media consortium Epsilon. In its first year alone, Hyde Park Entertainment has produced four movies in the $30-90 million range.
Prior to Hyde Park, David was the founder and president of Mandeville Films, where he developed and produced The Negotiator, starring Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson, and signed an exclusive 5-year pact with The Walt Disney Studios. During this time, David produced George of the Jungle, Disney's most successful film that year, grossing well over $100,000,000 domestically. Other titles under his banner include I'll be Home for Christmas, Senseless, The Other Sister, Mr. Wrong, and The Sixth Man.
Currently Mandeville is producing a one-hour pilot for ABC: The Mechanic, written by Chris McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, The Way of the Gun). Mandeville also produced the James DeMonaco and Kevin Fox one-hour drama Ryan Caufield: Year One for Fox, as well as Toothless (starring Kirstie Alley) for ABC Sunday Night Movies and Brink for the Disney Channel.
Prior to forming Mandeville Films, Hoberman served as president of the Motion Picture Group of Walt Disney Studios, where he was responsible for overseeing development and production for all feature films for Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures. During Hoberman's tenure, Disney was the #1 studio, Pretty Woman was the #1 picture, and the studio released the #1 soundtrack of the year. Hoberman was also behind the release of major blockbusters including Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Father of the Bride, What About Bob?, Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, Crimson Tide, The Jungle Book, Ed Wood, Dangerous Minds, Ruthless People, Beaches, The Rocketeer, The Doctor, Sister Act, Alive, What's Love Got to Do with It, Cool Runnings, The Three Musketeers, Tin Men, Stakeout, When a Man Loves a Woman, Cocktail, and Three Men and a Baby. He broke through the Disney live-action ceiling with Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Disney's first live-action movie to gross over $100 million dollars, and championed the first ever stop-motion animated full-length feature, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Today Hoberman is also a professor with UCLA's Graduate School in the Producers Program teaching his vast and varied knowledge in television and film to hundreds of students. He's been a member of the board of the Starbright Foundation for well over ten years, is on the Collections and Acquisitions Committee at L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art, and sat on the board of the Los Angeles Free Clinic for six years.
Hoberman began his career in the mailroom at ABC and quickly ascended in the entertainment business, working for Norman Lear's Tandem/T.A.T. in television and film. He worked as a talent agent at ICM before joining Disney as a film executive in 1985.
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