Mike Finnell
Jeremiah Fact:
According to Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Scott and Ervin Rustemagic, along with Executive producers Joe Dante and Jeremiah partner Mike Finnell, co-producers Gregory Noveck and Stephanie Germaine, Lions Gate Television president Kevin Beggs, and writer Jeffrey Boam started developing Jeremiah for television in 2000.
BIOGRAPHY:
Michael Finnell has an on-going filmmaking partnership with Joe Dante through their company Renfield Prod-uctions, and has been the producer of almost all of Dante's cinema films since The Howling in 1980, excepting only The Second Civil War and television work. But Finnell's early break in movies came from Roger Corman. A graduate in film from New York University, he set out for Hollywood in 1975 having heard that Corman's New World pictures was willing to hire inexperienced young hopefuls. He was lucky enough to contact fellow ex-NYU alumnus Jon Davison, already working for Corman, at just the right time: Finnell became assistant property master on Hollywood Boulevard at $50 a week. Working his way up to assistant director and production manager, he finally became associate producer on Avalanche, Corman's biggest movie to date.