October 2011 Contest

Producer Doug Davison made his first big mark in Hollywood with the wildly successful haunted house thriller The Grudge. The box office hit currently holds the record for the biggest horror opening weekend of all time. Doug also Executive Produced The Ring, which tallied a quarter billion dollars at the global box office. October 2006 saw the release of The Grudge 2, and The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese, which won 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture. That same year premiered Warner Bros.’ The Lake House, starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. Davison also co-produced the Dreamworks Animated hit How To Train Your Dragon.

His other films include The Strangers starring Liv Tyler, Dark Water, The Roommate, and Quarantine. His recent and upcoming projects include Abduction starring Taylor Lautner, How to Train Your Dragon 2, a new version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for Warner Bros, and a remake of the hit Korean thriller Old Boy, for Mandate Pictures.

Davison, a Washington, D.C. native, attended The Hotchkiss School and then Hamilton College in upstate New York. After graduating with a degree in English literature, he relocated to New York City, where he pursued work in the film industry, first as a set production assistant on Die Hard: With A Vengeance, then as a script reader at New Line Cinema. Upon relocating to Los Angeles, Davison landed at William Morris and then Mad Chance Productions where, under the tutelage of Andrew Lazar, he worked as the company’s director of development before rising to become their President of Production. He co-founded and ran Vertigo Entertainment from 2001-2010 and started his new venture, Quadrant Pictures, in 2010.

Marty Bowen left his post as UTA partner and agent to pursue a career in producing in 2006. Bowen partnered with Wyck Godfrey to create Temple Hill Entertainment. They secured a deal with New Line Cinema and entered into production on The Nativity Story, from director Catherine Hardwicke. The movie went on to gross almost $40 million domestically in 2006. Next, the two produced the romantic comedy Management, starring Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn, which premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival.

In 2008, they partnered with Summit Entertainment on The Twilight Saga films, based on the books by Stephenie Meyer. The Catherine Hardwicke-directed Twilight opened in 2008 to a $69.6 million opening weekend. Chris Weitz's The Twilight Saga: New Moon opened in 2009 and grossed over $700 million. David Slade's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse opened in 2010 and made almost $700 million. The company is producing both The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 and Part 2.

Temple Hill also recently produced the Lasse Hallstrom-directed adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' novel Dear John, starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried. Written and directed by Dan Rush and starring Will Ferrell, Everything Must Go was released in 2011 to critical acclaim. The Channing Tatum-starrer Ten Year, written and directed by Jamie Linden, was accepted into the Toronto Film Festival for 2011. Temple Hill’s first television pilot, Revenge, created by Mike Kelly, was picked up by ABC for Fall 2011.

Bowen was raised outside of Ft. Worth, Texas. He graduated Cum Laude from Harvard in 1991 with a B.A. in American History. He began his career in UTA's Agent Training Program. He resides in Los Angeles.