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Producer STEPHEN WOOLLEY continues his long association with Neil Jordan on "Interview with The Vampire." The two first partnered more than 10 years ago on "The Company of Wolves, " followed by "Mona Lisa, " "High Spirits, " "The Miracle, " and, most recently, "The Crying Game." Woolley earned a 1992 Oscar nomination for producing "The Crying Game." Woolley also received the Producers Guild of America award for Producer of the Year (1993) and the British Academy Award for Best British Film of 1992 for "The Crying Game. "
In 1982, Woolley and Nik Powell founded Palace Pictures and Palace Video in London, a distribution company whose releases in various territories over the next 10 years included "Eraserhead," "Stop Making Sense," "Wild at Heart," "Hairspray," "La Femme Nikita," "Angel (Neil Jordan's directorial debut)," "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and "The Evil Dead" series, "Diva," "Blood Simple," "Paris, Texas," "Wish You Were Here," "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover," "Kiss of the Spiderwoman" and "When Harry Met Sally...... as well as more than 200 other titles.
Woolley also produced the Palace features "Absolute Beginners," "Shag," "Scandal," "The Big Man," "The Pope Must Die" and "A Rage in Harlem," as well as serving as executive producer on a variety of other Palace productions, including "Letter to Brezhnev," "The Courier," "Hardware" and "Waterland."
In January, 1993,
Woolley and Powell formed a new production company, Scala Productions,
which continues to produce films in the United Kingdom and abroad. The
first Scala Production was "Backbeat," produced by Woolley, a film based
on the Beatles' early days in Hamburg.
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