Mark Huffam

Producer Mark Huffam, p.g.a. has been active in the film industry since 1983 and has been working as a producer from the early 2000's. Huffam's first major producing credit was earned on Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan starring Tom Hanks, which went on to win five Oscars at the 1999 Academy Awards. In recognition of his own contribution to the film, Huffam was presented with the Directors Guild of America (DGA) award for Best Production Team that year.

In 2000 Huffam co-produced the highly acclaimed Quills, starring Geoffrey Rush and Kate Winslet, which was nominated for three Oscars and five BAFTA Awards. After this he produced Captain Corelli's Mandolin for Working Title Films. Directed by John Madden, it starred Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz.

In 2002 Huffam teamed up with Scott Rudin to produce The Hours, directed by Stephen Daldry, starring Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep. The film received eight Academy Award nominations and Kidman went on to win Best Actress for her role as Virginia Woolf.

Huffam then produced the highly successful Johnny English in 2003 – again for Working Title. The film, starring Rowan Atkinson, grossed $147 million at the box-office worldwide, and picked up a number of nominations including Best Film, British Comedy Awards 2003, and Best British Film (Empire Awards 2004). He joined forces with Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner again to produce the film version of the popular 60s television series Thunderbirds in 2004.

Also in 2004, and with Stephen Daldry on board as executive producer, Huffam produced Mickybo and Me, a project he developed with the writer-director Terry Loane. Filmed in Northern Ireland and starring Julie Walters, it won awards and acclaim at the Irish Film Festival in 2005 and at other festivals around the world.

In 2005 and 2006, Huffam was involved in the highly successful GOAL! series set in the world of international soccer, producing the first two films of the trilogy for Milkshake Films and Buena Vista Pictures.

Huffam then produced Mamma Mia,! the film version of the popular stage musical, for Universal Pictures, starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth. It was a worldwide smash hit, accumulating more than $600 million at the box office to become one of Universal's top-grossing and most profitable films ever.

In 2008 Huffam established Generator Entertainment with Simon Bosanquet to develop and produce a cutting edge slate of genre films. Generator's films to date include the horror thriller Red Mist, coming-of-age drama Cherrybomb, with Rupert Grint, and the supernatural thriller Ghost Machine.

In 2009 Huffam produced the feature film Your Highness for Universal Pictures, starring Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel. In the same year, he produced the acclaimed HBO television pilot and series one of Games of Thrones, based on the first volume of the fantasy book series' A Song Of Fire And Ice, by George RR Martin.

At the start of 2010 Huffam produced Nick Hamm's Killing Bono under the Generator slate in conjunction with Salt Company and Greenroom Entertainment. It starred Ben Barnes, upcoming Irish actor Robert Sheehan, and the late Pete Postlethwaite.

The next year Huffam collaborated with Ridley Scott for the first time, serving as executive producer on Scott's science fiction epic Prometheus, reprising this role for the director on The Counselor starring Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Michael Fassbender. In the same year he co-produced the Cardiff sequence of the Brad Pitt blockbuster World War Z.

In 2014 Huffam produced with Ridley Scott again on biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings, starring Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton and John Turturro, shot on location in Spain. He was also executive producer of Robot Overlords, directed by John Wright and starring Gillian Anderson and Ben Kingsley.

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