Lawrence Guterman
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Hired after Steven Spielberg saw his USC Thesis Film "Headless!" (which
won Grand Jury Prize for best short at the Houston Int'l Film Festival)
to direct Dreamworks Interactive's "Goosebumps: Escape from
Horrorland", Guterman was then hired to direct sequences on "Antz", the
company's first C.G.I. feature starring the voices of Woody Allen,
Sharon Stone, and Christopher Walken. Next, he developed and prepped a
live-action/CGI version of "Curious George" for producer Ron Howard,
Imagine Entertainment, and Universal Studios. When that project was put
on hold by the studio, Guterman went on to direct "Cats and Dogs" for
Warner Bros., which earned more than $200 Million in worldwide box
office revenue. (source: Variety, BoxOfficeMojo.com) The BBC said about
the film that it "succeeds both as a parody of the spy genre, and in
stretching the boundaries of what you believe is possible," and A.O.
Scott of the New York Times called it "exuberant fun." Guterman
received an undergraduate degree in physics from Harvard University
after attending M.I.T. his freshman year.
