PRODUCTION BIOS - DAVID HOBERMAN

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David Hoberman serves as Creator and Executive Producer of the USA Network Original Series Monk.

Hoberman is one of today's leading producers in the entertainment industry, responsible for making over 100 movies. In 2002, after three years at MGM, Hoberman re-formed Mandeville Films and Television at The Walt Disney Studios. Over the last two years, Mandeville released the box office hit Bringing Down the House, Raising Helen, and The Last Shot at Disney, as well as Walking Tall and Beauty Shop at MGM. This year, Mandeville is in production on The Shaggy Dog and in pre-production on Antarctica.

Hoberman began his career in the mailroom at ABC and quickly ascended in the entertainment business, working for Norman Lear's Tandem/T.A.T. in television and film. He worked as a talent agent at ICM before joining Disney as a film executive in 1985. As president of the Motion Picture Group of Walt Disney Studios, Hoberman was responsible for overseeing development and production for all feature films for Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone, and Hollywood Pictures. During his tenure, Disney was the #1 studio, Pretty Woman was the #1 picture, and the studio released the #1 soundtrack of the year.

Hoberman was also behind the releasing of major blockbusters including Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Father of the Bride, What About Bob, Good Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, Crimson Tide, The Jungle Book, Ed Wood, Dangerous Minds, Ruthless People, Beaches, The Rocketeer, The Doctor, Sister Act, Alive, What's Love Got to Do With It, Cool Runnings, The Three Musketeers, Tin Men, Stakeout, When A Man Loves A Woman, Cocktail, and Three Men and a Baby. He broke through the Disney live action ceiling with Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and championed the first ever stop-motion animated full-length feature, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.

As founder and president of Mandeville Films, Hoberman produced The Negotiator and signed an exclusive five-year pact with The Walt Disney Studios. During this time, Hoberman produced George of the Jungle, I'll Be Home for Christmas, Senseless, The Other Sister, Mr. Wrong, and The Sixth Man. Later at MGM, Hoberman co-financed and produced Antitrust, What's the Worst That Could Happen? and the critically-acclaimed Bandits.

Hoberman has been on the Board of the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation for over 10 years, and he recently joined the Board of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. He has been a professor with UCLA's Graduate School in the Producer's Program, has been on the Collections and Acquisitions Committee at LA's MOCA, and has sat on the Board of the Los Angeles Free Clinic.

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