Dan Halsted
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Dan Halsted is a film producer.
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On July 1, 2005 Dan Halsted started a new company, Manage-ment, the culmination of over twenty years experience in the film industry. The new company is a production company, a management company, and financing entity.
Halsted is currently in production on four films: Gangs of LA, a Stacy Peralta documentary on the Bloods and the Crips; Ravenwood, an Australian thriller starring Stephen Moyer, Travis Fimmel and Teresa Palmer to star under David Denneen’s direction; Learning To Drive, starring Naveen Andrews; and Kenny Longergan’s new film Margaret which he is producing with Scott Rudin, Sydney Pollack and Fox Searchlight, starring Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Matthew Broderick, & Mark Ruffalo.
Halsted recently produced the award winning Garden State starring Zach Braff and Natalie Portman.
Other feature films Dan Halsted has produced are: S.W.A.T.; Beyond Borders; The Virgin Suicides; Any Given Sunday; Nixon; Art of War; The Corruptor; Serving Sara; U-Turn; Freeway and Cold Around the Heart.
Television produced by Dan Halsted includes: The Day Reagan Was Shot; Assassinated: The Last Days of Kennedy and King; Witchblade, and Platinum.
Dan Halsted started his career working with Scott Rudin, then president of 20th Century Fox. He was an agent at the Bauer-Benedek Agency, which later became United Talent Agency, packaging such films as There’s Something About Mary; K-9; The Fabulous Baker Boys; New Jack City; Robocop; and The Untouchables. As an executive VP at Hollywood Pictures (Disney), he oversaw such films as: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle; Mr. Holland’s Opus; Encino Man; Son In Law; Tombstone; Evita and While You Were Sleeping.