Stephen Joel Brown

Stephen Joel Brown is a motion picture and television producer and executive. He has spent the thrust of his career in the Media Industry as a senior executive and board member of an internationally based and publicly owned motion picture finance, distribution and marketing/licensing company and as a producer of motion pictures for one of Hollywood's leading production companies. Stephen is a Producer and Executive for Darren Star Productions on the hit Netflix television series "Emily In Paris" created by Darren Star and starring Lily Collins. The show has been picked up for a second season and will begin filming an additional 10 episodes in Paris in 2021. Stephen produced "The Ottoman Lieutenant" starring Josh Hartnett, Michiel Huisman, Sir Ben Kingsley and Hera Hilmar. The movie was financed by Y Production, an Istanbul, Turkey based motion picture and finance company where Stephen served as its Chief Executive Officer and oversaw the Company's U.S. operations. It was released in 2017 theatrically in the U.S. by Paladin; and internationally by Universal Pictures. Previously, Stephen served as President of Production for Kopelson Entertainment. The motion pictures created during his nearly 12-year tenure have garnered over $2 billion in receipts to date. Stephen oversaw the productions of such seminal movies as "Se7en," the Academy Award nominated "The Fugitive," "A Perfect Murder," "Devil's Advocate," "Outbreak" as well as many others. At Kopelson Stephen managed the Company's corporate affairs; the negotiation, acquisition and development of all literary properties; and, in coordination with studio executives, all development, production, worldwide distribution and marketing activities (including budget, talent contract negotiations, and release plans) of major studio motion pictures. Additionally, he oversaw the international sales activities for the company's earlier slate of independently financed films. Stephen also served as President and CEO of USA-Intertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Intertainment AG, a publicly held media company based in Munich, Germany. In 2000, Stephen formed USA-Intertainment, a motion picture development, financing and production company in Los Angeles and was responsible for the co-financing of several movies with Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox. He also served as Deputy Chairman of Intertainment AG from 2001 through 2003 and as a member of its Executive Board through 2008. Additionally, Stephen has mentored and continues to mentor aspiring filmmakers. This includes having served as Executive Producer on Wyatt Rockefeller's acclaimed short movie, "Groomed," which premiered on television nationally on September 11, 2017 through PBS' member channel KQED; and as Producer of the 6 Episode original web series, "Llama Cop" for Starz Digital Media. Stephen's twenty five years of film production, management, operations and sales and marketing experience in Hollywood and internationally are supported by a decade of private and commercial capital formation enterprise, corporate communications and marketing in New York City as Vice President of John De Nigris Associates. A Los Angeles, California native, Stephen graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in economics and history from the University of California, Los Angeles. He currently maintains residences in New York and Los Angeles, and for many years lived between Rome, Italy and Los Angeles.