Interview With Sparkle Film Producer Debra Martin Chase
Chase
recently produced SPARKLE, a remake of the 1976 classic musical, for Sony Pictures
which will be released on August 17. It
stars Whitney Houston, Jordin Sparks in her movie debut, and Derek Luke, was adapted
by Mara Brock Akil and was directed by Salim Akil. She also recently completed LOVESTRUCK, the
first original musical for ABC Family, which stars Jane Seymour, Chelsea Kane
and Sara Paxton, was written by Terry Rossio (PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN) and
Jaylynn Bailey, was directed by Sanaa Hamri and will air on the network in
2013. She was also hired by the American Girl company to revive its movie
franchise. The first movie, MCKENNA SHOOTS FOR THE STARS, debuted on NBC
in July and was released that same month on DVD by Universal Studios Home
Entertainment. Additionally, she is developing a remake of the classic
megahit motion picture DIRTY DANCING for Lionsgate Entertainment with Kenny
Ortega directing and choreographing.
Chase's
filmography includes three hit movie franchises: THE PRINCESS DIARIES, THE
SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS and THE CHEETAH GIRLS. She has also come to
be known for having a keen eye for new talent having produced the first motion
pictures of Anne Hathaway, Blake Lively, Chris Pine, America Ferrera, Grey’s
Anatomy’s Jesse Williams and Pretty Little Liars’s Lucy Hale.
Chase
is the executive producer of the Disney Channel musical LEMONADE MOUTH which
debuted as the most watched cable movie of 2011. She also produced the feature film JUST WRIGHT
for Fox Searchlight, winner of the 2011 NAACP Image Award for Best Screenplay,
and was the executive producer of the Lifetime Television series, MISSING,
which ran for three seasons and starred Vivica A. Fox and Mark Consuelos. Her additional credits include: BYOU, BYOU 2,
the Emmy-winning RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA, the Oscar and
Emmy-nominated HANK AARON: CHASING THE DREAM, COURAGE UNDER FIRE and THE
PREACHER’S WIFE.
Chase began her career as an
attorney and worked at several major law firms and Fortune 500 corporations in
Houston and Manhattan. She received her
J.D. from the Harvard Law School and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude
from Mount Holyoke College.
She serves on the Board of
Trustees of Mount Holyoke College, the Board of Directors of the United Friends
of Children, the Women at NBCUniversal Advisory Board, the Advisory Board of
Columbia College of Chicago and the Producing Mentor Board of USC’s Peter Stark
Program.
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