Stephen Woolley
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Biography
A prominent figure of the beleaguered British film industry. Woolley, a former journalist, and entrepreneur Nik Powell co-founded Palace Pictures in 1981. This successful distribution company brought to England such films as "Diva" (1982) and "Blood Simple" (1984). He then moved into production with Powell and Chris Brown and enjoyed critical and commercial success with features including Neil Jordan's "A Company of Wolves" (1985) and "Mona Lisa" (1986) and Chris Bernard's "A Letter to Brezhnev" (1985). Largely due to the steadily worsening economic environment for British filmmakers, Palace went bankrupt in 1992. With partial funding from corporate giant Polygram, Woolley and Powell went on to form Scala Productions, named after London's Scala cinema, where Woolley had begun his film career as programmer and manager.
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1962
Worked as cinema usher at age 16 (dates approximate)
1981
Co-founded (with Nik Powell), Palace Productions, distribution company
1984
First feature as co-executive producer (with Nik Powell), "Chinese Boxes" (West Germany), film distributed by Palace
1985
Initial screen collaboration with Neil Jordan, "The Company of Wolves"
1986
Was one of the producers of Jordan's "Mona Lisa", starring Bob Hoskins and Michael Caine
1988
Produced first American feature, "Shag"
1989
Produced first film in long-term collaboration with Miramax films, "Scandal"
1990
Produced first TV show, "Red, Hot & Blue"
1992
Shared in Best Picture Oscar nomination as producer of Jordan's "The Crying Game"
1994
Reteamed with Neil Jordan for the big-budget "Interview With the Vampire"
1996
Produced Jordan's biopic of Irish revolutionary "Michael Collins"
1998
Served as a producer on Shane Meadows' debut feature "TwentyFourSeven", starring Hoskins
1998
Produced "Little Voice", Mark Herman's screen adaptation of "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice" by Jim Cartwright
1999
Reteamed with Jordan for the remake of "The End of the Affair"
2005
Produced Neil Jordan's "Breakfast on Pluto"
2006
Made directorial debut with "Stoned" a chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones
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