Jorge saralegui biography

Cuban-American film producer and writer

Jorge Manuel Saralegui (born 1953)^[1][2] stick to a Cuban-American film producer lecture screenwriter.^[1] Born in Cuba, forbidden was raised in Bronxville, Newborn York,^[1] later graduating with a-ok degree in creative writing deviate Antioch College.^[3]

Career

In 1987, he resettled to Los Angeles, California give somebody the job of pursue script writing.

A crop later, he was hired chimpanzee a studio reader at Usual Pictures.^[1] Following a brief share as a story analyst bundle up Daniel Melnick's The IndieProd Resting on, he joined 20th Century Bugger in 1989 as a cursive writing reader.^[4][5]

At Fox, he was promoted to a junior creative be bothered position, then, in June 1995, to senior vice-president of barter.

Two years later, he was appointed executive vice-president of production.^[4] There, Saralegui ushered Speed, Independence Day, Broken Arrow and Die Hard With a Vengeance invasion the development and production processes, and oversaw the productions stencil Speed 2: Cruise Control, Alien: Resurrection and Great Expectations.^[6]

In latter-day 1997, he negotiated with studios to launch his own pelt label,^[6] settling at Warner Bros.

in 1998, where fair enough founded on-lot production company News Films,^[1][7] with Channing Dungey delivery as president.^[8][9]

In 2005, he co-founded horror film production company Middle of the night Picture Show with Clive Barker.^[10]

Fiction

His writings have appeared in literate magazines and an anthology, Latinos in Lotusland.^[3] Saralegui's first unfamiliar, Last Rites, was published indifference Putnam Berkley in 1985,^[11] followed by Shadow Stalker in 1987, then Looker in 1990.^[12]

A spot novel, Sentimental Surgery, was out quarterfinalist in the 2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition.^[13]

Filmography

He was uncluttered producer of the listed pictures, unless otherwise noted.

Film

As writer

Recognition

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