LEWIS
KLEINBERG has written and developed motion picture and television
projects for ten years. Through his production company, Midnight
Oil Productions, Mr. Kleinberg (with Leslie Greif/The Greif Company)
produced Monday Night Mayhem, a film for Turner Network Television
based on the history of Monday Night Football. The project, scripted
by Bill Carter and directed by Ernest Dickerson, received multiple
commendations, including a Golden Globe nomination for star John
Turturro as Howard Cosell.
Kleinberg
will serve as executive producer on "Some Assembly Required",
a Christmas comedy for USA Network written by Deborah Frank
and Steve Hayes from Kleinberg’s original story. (Some
Assembly Required was recently acquired by New Regency and
is being developed as a feature film for Kleinberg to produce.)
He is also developing/exec-producing Inside Today: Battle for
the Morning, which he and co-writer/director Bob Balaban set-up
at Showtime.
Kleinberg’s
recent writing projects include a script about the lost city
of Atlantis purchased by Twentieth Century Fox and Arnold Kopelson
Entertainment. After graduating from the USC School of Cinema-TV,
he was hired by Tom Naud, president and C.E.O of Introvision
films to write Adventures on a Strange Planet, a futuristic
space thriller. He segued to The Smugglers, a half-hour television
show that he created with producer Joe Morita, son of the late
Akio Morita, the co-founder and chairman of Sony. The project,
which took Kleinberg to Tokyo, continues to be developed in
Asia. Kleinberg’s first motion picture script, a family
film entitled "Running For Cover", was purchased
preemptively by Walt Disney Pictures for producer Dawn Steel.
The project was developed and re-optioned in 1995 by Disney.
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