Enjoy virtual lunch with Sean Furst, Co-President of Film and Television at Skybound Entertainment, the multiplatform entertainment company that is responsible for such television hits as The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, and Outcast.

As a Producer, Sean was responsible for such films as The Matador, a comedic thriller that earned Pierce Brosnan a Golden Globe® nomination for Best Actor; The Cooler, for which Alec Baldwin received an Oscar® nomination for Best Supporting Actor; the documentary I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale for HBO; Owning Mahowny, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman; The Girl In The Park, with Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth; Everything Put Together, the directing debut of Oscar nominated filmmaker Marc Forster; and First Snow, starring Guy Pearce.

Here is your chance to have lunch with Michael Connolly, producer at Mad Hatter Entertainment with STX Entertainment in Los Angeles! He is currently Executive Producing the drama series ONCE UPON A TIME IN AZTLAN starring George Lopez and the horror series THEM both at Amazon.

Mr. Connolly recently signed a multi year production deal for his production company Mad Hatter Entertainment with STX Entertainment (HUSTLERS, THE GENTLEMEN), where he will produce scripted television and film for the independent studio. Prior to that, Mr. Connolly created and lead Vertigo Entertainment's television operations in a TV deals at Warner Bros TV and Sony Pictures Television.

He is an Executive Producer on NBC’s “Sour Mash,” AMC’s “The Son,” Netflix’s “Hemlock Grove,” and FOX’s “The Exorcist,” as well as numerous other series in development. Upon graduating from UCLA, Mr. Connolly started in the film industry as an Executive Assistant to Oscar-winning Producer Scott Rudin. From there, he became a Creative Executive at DreamWorks Pictures and later formed his own production company, Mad Hatter Entertainment. Under that banner, Mr. Connolly produced the worldwide box office hits and Oscar-nominated films, “How To Train Your Dragon,” “How To Train Your Dragon 2” and “How To Train Your Dragon 3” for DreamWorks Animation, as well as “The Strangers” for Universal Pictures.

Artist: Andrew Douglas
Title: Athlete's Head, Islington
Medium: Photography
Height (inches): 24
Width (inches): 20
This piece is unframed.

Artist bio:
Back in the 1990s, The Douglas Brothers were in the top rank of celebrity portrait photographers. They were described by Howard Rombough in Creative Review as “two of the most desirable photographers of their generation”, and such was their success and notoriety that they had even slipped to the other side of the lens, appearing as the subjects in a campaign for GAP that was shot by Annie Liebowitz. They had been courted by art galleries in New York and Tokyo, London and LA, but had never organised themselves to follow through on it. It seems that they never really realised the value of what they had created. Tim Fennell offered to catalogue it , and soon realised how important it was: the brothers had spent the best part of a decade photographing the leading figures from the worlds of art, literature, film, music, sport and fashion. They were photographing the biggest celebrities of their age for some of the best publications. From Esquire and The Face to The New Times. They had become the subjects themselves, so great was their brand recognition.

When an Adidas commission came, for a series of 10-second adverts for MTV, the shift to the moving image must have seemed like a natural progression. The brothers progressed to shooting commercials with the same two-camera method, and with the same integrity and creative sign-off that they had insisted upon with their stills work. They closed the London studio and continued as The Douglas Brothers for a while, shooting for clients like Timberland and Carlsberg with great success. Eventually they parted ways, following separate careers in directing. Meanwhile, The Douglas Brothers’ stills work had been left behind, forgotten in a King’s Cross warehouse. Until now.