Harvard Undergraduate Television

Check out this awesome HUTV Event from 6:30-7:30pm on Friday, April 30 in the Winthrop Tonkens Room (C-Entryway)

Are you a fan of Entourage? Intrigued by the world of Hollywood agents and their clients? Interested in the Film Industry? Come to HUTV's "A Conversation with John Lesher" and hear from or ask ANY question of former HOLLYWOOD AGENT and STUDIO FILM HEAD at PARAMOUNT, John Lesher '88!

John Lesher is a graduate of Harvard University and began his career as an agent at the Bauer-Benedek Agency. He then went on to be a partner at United Talent Agency, followed by the Endeavor Agency. He worked with such diverse talent as Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Walter Salles, Fernando Meirelles, Sydney Pollock, Bennett Miller, Judd Apatow, Adam McKay, Harrison Ford, and Ben Stiller.

In 2005, Lesher left Endeavor to form Paramount Vantage, where he was responsible for such films as An Inconvenient Truth, Babel, There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men. In 2008, he was appointed President of the Paramount Pictures, working on studio titles such as Star Trek, Up In the Air, Benjamin Button, Transformers and Shutter Island, among others. During that time, he guided the studio to 49 Academy Award nominations, 13 wins, and 1 Best Picture.

In 2009, he started his own production company, Le Grisbi Productions. He is developing feature projects at numerous studios, and his first will be Paul Thomas Anderson's next film, starring Phllip Seymour Hoffman and Jeremy Renner. He also signed a first look deal with HBO, and has quickly set three promising projects into development. Most recently, he acquired the rights with HBO to develop The Three Weissmann’s of Westport, based on Cathleen Schine’s bestselling book of the same name, as a series.

He's also set up an original pitch from Ghost World scribe Dan Clowes, and is developing a series based on Joel Kostman’s collection of New York stories, Keys to The City, which Academy Award winner Bill Monahan is developing for James Gandolfini to star.

Be sure to take advantage of this amazing opportunity to meet with a great media & entertainment mind!

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