- David Coleman has worked for over 20 years in Hollywood as a professional screenwriter. The talent roster he's been employed by reads like a Who's Who of the motion picture entertainment industry.
Amongst those by whom Coleman has been employed include actor/producer Michael Douglas, producer Dino De Laurentiis, director Phillip Noyce, producer Hal Lieberman, and cult director J.P. Simon, as well as studios and production companies as diverse as Universal, Columbia, London Films and many others.
Coleman is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where he majored in Filmic Writing. He has written extensively about films in such magazines as Cinefantastique, was the founder of the cult movie site BijouCafe.com, and has written "Ancient Lake," a horror fiction novel available from CryptoHaus Press.
An avid reader and watcher of horror novels and films, Coleman has spent a lifetime of sleepless nights casting hurried glances over his shoulder. He lives in a small town in Texas with his wife and three children.- IMDb Mini Biography By: David Coleman - Dave Coleman has written screenplays for such studios as Universal, Sony, and DEG,and Hollywood talent such as Michael Douglas, Phil Noyce, Dan Curtis, Dino De Laurentiis, Irv Kirschner, and many others. He has also previously worked as a story analyst for New World, London Films, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and The New Twilight Zone t.v. series.
Prior to the start of his professional career, Coleman attended the University of Southern California, where he received a BFA in Filmic Writing. His instructors and mentors included T.C. Boyle, Andre de Toth, Stewart Stern, and Abraham Polonsky. He also interned on the feature film At Close Range during this time with director James Foley.
As an early Internet enthusiast, Coleman created Kudzu New Media, a website design firm, designing and hosting some of the earliest Internet-supported studio movies such as Adrian Lyne's Lolita, Tim Roth's The War Room, Samuel Goldwyn's Desert Blue, and many others. He also created Bijou Cafe.com, one of the first independent video streaming websites, and wrote a majority of the site's in-depth cult film reviews. The critical success cited by Wired, ABC World News, RedFilter, US News & World Report, and many others lead to the successful creation of BijouFlix Releasing, which has released independent and classic cult movies worldwide since 1998.
Coleman's latest non-fiction work, The Bigfoot Filmography, was published in January 2012 by McFarland. An in-depth survey of Cine du Sasquatch, the book includes reviews of every Bigfoot t.v. and movie, rare photos and poster reproductions, and interviews with key filmmakers in the genre.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Arch Stanton
- SpouseLaura Coleman (3 children)
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