• Walter F. Parkes (born April 15, 1951) is an American producer, screenwriter, and media executive. The producer of more than 50 films, including the Men...
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  • producer. She is married to Walter F. Parkes. MacDonald and Parkes helped build the original DreamWorks SKG, where Parkes served as the head of its motion...
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  • Deep Cover (upcoming film) (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    The film is produced by Trevorrow through Metronome Film Co. with Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, while Annys Hamilton will be co-producer. On...
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  • WarGames (category Films with screenplays by Walter F. Parkes)
    techno-thriller film directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally...
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  • Parkes may refer to: Sir Henry Parkes (1815–1896), Australian politician, one of the earliest and most prominent advocates for Australian federation Parkes...
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    Producers Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald optioned the rights to The Men in Black in 1992 and hired Ed Solomon to write a very faithful script. Parkes and...
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  • The Uninvited (2009 film) (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    David Wright Dean Paul Gibson as Dr. Silberling In 2002, producers Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald produced the hit horror film The Ring, a remake...
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  • Catch Me If You Can (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    Adams was eventually cast. Spielberg "loved" her tape, and producer Walter F. Parkes commented that she was "as fresh and honest as anyone we'd seen", which...
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  • Men in Black: International (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    14, 2019. Marred by significant production strife between producer Walter F. Parkes and director Gray, the film received generally negative reviews from...
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  • Sneakers (1992 film) (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    comedy drama film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, written by Robinson, Walter Parkes, and Lawrence Lasker, and starring Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben...
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    the direct the next installment of The Ring franchise, produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, for Paramount Pictures, that made him unavailable...
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  • Project X (1987 film) (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    Project X is a 1987 American science fiction drama film produced by Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, and starring Matthew...
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  • Birdland (TV series) (category Television series created by Walter F. Parkes)
    Birdland is an American medical drama series created by Walter F. Parkes and Scott Frank that aired on ABC from January 5 to April 21, 1994. A psychiatrist...
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  • Men in Black 3 (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    interest in 2008 in reprising their roles. The filmmakers also included Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald as producers, with Steven Spielberg as executive...
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  • The Ring (2002 film) (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    Gore Verbinski was initially inspired to do a remake of Ring after Walter F. Parkes sent him a VHS copy of the Japanese film, which he described as "intriguing"...
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    the Wind (2018). Lasker and Walter F. Parkes were nominated for an Academy Award in screenwriting in 1983 for WarGames. Parkes and he later were nominated...
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  • The Time Machine (2002 film) (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    Despite having never directed a live action movie before, producers Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald recognized that because of his animation background...
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  • The Island (2005 film) (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    Echo finding a butterfly. DreamWorks executives Steven Spielberg, Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald chose Michael Bay to direct the film, having been...
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  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    Mendes and producer Walter F. Parkes obtained his approval to use writer John Logan instead. Logan had previously collaborated with Parkes on Gladiator, and...
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  • and Cassius Dio, strangled Commodus to death. DreamWorks producers Walter F. Parkes and Douglas Wick felt that Scott would be the ideal director to bring...
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  • Keeping Up with the Joneses (film) (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    on Jon Hamm and Zach Galifianakis to star, Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald producing under their Parkes + MacDonald Image Nation banner, and Marc Resteghini...
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  • Men in Black (1997 film) (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    on Earth. Development for the film began in 1992, after producers Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald optioned the rights to the comic book series....
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  • The Slap (American TV series) (category Television series created by Walter F. Parkes)
    Cholodenko, and Ken Olin. The series was written by Jon Robin Baitz, Walter F. Parkes, and Christos Tsiolkas. Costumes were designed by Jennifer von Mayrhauser...
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  • The Terminal (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    The film is about an Eastern European man who is stuck in New York's John F. Kennedy Airport terminal when he is denied entry to the United States, but...
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  • Awakenings (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    and Max von Sydow also star in the cast. Awakenings was produced by Walter Parkes and Lawrence Lasker, who first encountered Sacks's book as undergraduates...
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  • The Legend of Zorro (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    Western swashbuckler film directed by Martin Campbell, produced by Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Lloyd Phillips, with music by James Horner, and...
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  • Flight (2012 film) (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by John Gatins and produced by Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Steve Starkey, Zemeckis, and Jack Rapke. The film...
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  • The California Reich (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    inherently interesting as a bit of American ethnography", but continued that Parkes and Crichlow have "a horrible ambivalence toward their subjects". The opening...
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  • by Eros Comix Birdland (TV series), an American series produced by Walter F. Parkes Gibson Byrdland, an electric guitar made by Gibson Music Birdland (Birdland...
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  • Men in Black II (category Films produced by Walter F. Parkes)
    Columbia Pictures and Amblin Entertainment in association with MacDonald Parkes Productions, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is the sequel...
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