Holly Bario, Mark Sourian to head DreamWorks

October 16, 2008 Bario joined DW at the beginning of the year after serving as an executive vp production at Universal; Sourian has been at DW since 1997. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci of K/O Prods., writers on the "Transformers" movies and producers of "Eagle Eye," are represented on the new DW's development list by "Deep Sea Cowboys," "Atlantis Rising" and "Cowboys and Aliens," a big-budget graphic novel adaptation that "Iron Man" writers Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus have penned, with Robert Downey Jr. attached to star and Imagine co-producing. Producers Walter Parks and Laurie MacDonald, longtime Spielberg collaborators, are involved in usch projects as the comedy "Dinner for Schmucks," with Jay Roach attached as director; the '60s study "The Trial of the Chicago 7"; the thriller "Motorcade"; the graphic novel adaptation "The Damned"; and the Western "St. Agnes' Stand."

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