Kroopf, Scott

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KROOPF, Scott

PERSONAL

Education: Graduated from University of California, Irvine.

Addresses: Agent Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Office Intermedia Films, 9350 Civic Center Dr., Suite 100, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

Career: Producer, director, and screenwriter. Interscope Communications, producer, 1985?; Intermedia Films, head of production, 2004; Embassy Pictures, executive in charge of production; also worked in production at RobeAckerman.

CREDITS

Film Producer:

(With others) Outrageous Fortune, Buena Vista, 1987.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, 1989.

Paradise, Buena Vista, 1991.

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (also known as Bill and Ted Go to Hell ), Orion, 1991.

Class Action, 1991.

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag, Buena Vista, 1992.

A Gnome Named Gnorm (also known as The Adventures of a Gnome Named Gnorm and Upworld ), 1994.

Terminal Velocity, Buena Vista, 1994.

Roommates, Buena Vista, 1995.

Jumanji, Columbia/TriStar, 1995.

Kazaam, Buena Vista, 1996.

Earl Watt, 1998.

The Proposition (also known as Shakespeare's Sister and Tempting Fate ), PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, 1998.

Runaway Bride, Paramount, 1999.

The Last Samurai (also known as The Last Samurai: Bushidou ), Warner Bros., 2003.

The Chronicles of Riddick, Universal, 2004.

Film Executive Producer:

An Innocent Man, 1989.

Out on a Limb (also known as Welcome to Buzzsaw ), Universal, 1992.

The Air Up There, Buena Vista, 1994.

Mr. Holland's Opus, Buena Vista, 1995.

Boys, Buena Vista, 1996.

The Associate, Buena Vista, 1996.

Gridlock'd, Gramercy/PolyGram, 1997.

What Dreams May Come, PolyGram, 1998.

Very Bad Things, PolyGram, 1998.

The 59Story Crisis, 1998.

Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Miramax, 1999.

Pitch Black, USA Films, 2000.

They (also known as Wes Craven Presents: They ), Dimension Films, 2002.

How to Deal, New Line Cinema, 2003.

Le Divorce, Twentieth CenturyFox, 2003.

Film Senior Production Executive:

The Tie That Binds, Buena Vista, 1995.

Television Executive Producer; Movies:

Dead Silence (also known as Silence de mort ), HBO, 1996.

Snow White (also known as The Grimm Brothers' Snow White, Snow White in the Black Forest, Snow White in the Dark Forest, and Snow White: A Tale of Terror ), Showtime, 1997.

The Three Stooges, ABC, 2000.

Television Work; Specials:

Coexecutive producer, Into Pitch Black, SciFi Channel, 2000.

Stage Director:

Directed The Don Juan and the Non Don Juan, Groundlings Theater, Los Angeles.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

Paradise, 1991.

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