D-No Entertainment
Encyclopedia
D-No Entertainment is a small film production company ("shingle") founded in 2001.
and manager Noah Rosen have worked individually in the entertainment industry for several years, and played a role in the sale, development and/or production of a number of projects.
These include best-selling films for companies including Buena Vista, DreamWorks
, DreamWorks Animation
and Miramax (on films such as Shrek
, The Prince of Egypt
, Antz
, Chicken Run
, Inspector Gadget
and Frida
). Among their smaller projects, the two count involvement in My Big Fat Greek Wedding
, Saving Grace
and Leopold Bloom
.
-based D-No Entertainment is "a management/production company dedicated to the representation of Latin talent, and the production of their material." The two developed a number of properties, including Next Door for New Line Cinema
, Love Simple for Paramount, On 2 with Miramax, Phoenix Pictures' Jumped In. In February, 2002, the D-No/Rosen-managed writers Keith Mitchell and Allie Dvorian announced that they were developing a project for Disney about Peter Westbrook
, the only black man "ever to win an Olympic medal for fencing." In 2003, D-No started representing Australian writer Ben Blanks, after he was referred by Rudy Scalese.
D-No sold projects by the Latin writing team of Lalo Lopez and Esteban Zul (of Pocho Productions), which included Taco Truck The Movie, sold to New Line Cinema
, Lowriders, bought by Twentieth Century Fox, College RoadTrip (with MTV
), The Chuco Brothers, a Disney-purchased animated television series and Last Night in East L.A., an independent film starring Jay Hernandez
, Aimee Garcia and Joy Enriquez
.
In July 2003, D-No Entertainment (with Metrostop Entertainment
) "established a relationship" with Bob Layton
, David Michelinie
and Dick Giordano
's Future Comics
comic book
publishing company to adapt their properties (in particular Freemind and Deathmask) for the big or small screen.
As many of these projects either remain "in development," or have fallen by the wayside, D-No's best known property in one developed for many years, but only released in 2007. Caamaño-Loquet and Rosen share the executive producer credit on Dan in Real Life
, which they developed and sold to Walt Disney Pictures
. Starring Steve Carell
and Juliette Binoche
, the film was released by Touchstone
in 2007.
's A Night With Sabrina Love (2000), and Argentinian TV series El Garante
, as well as director Rodrigo Grande. D-No also acquired foreign remake rights to the 1982 Adolfo Aristarain
-directed Argentinian thriller Last Days of the Victim, Spanish hit 13 Chimes, German rom-com Just the Beginning and Chilean comic book
Angel Negro.
developing various projects for film and television. She was involved as a producer on a number of films during 2007 (notably In the Valley of Elah
, with several more in production. Rosen, after sharing credit on Dan in Real Life also has a number of properties in development.
Before D-No
D-No Entertainment founders producer Darlene CaamañoDarlene Caamaño
Darlene Carolynne Caamaño is a film producer, who has been involved in the production of such films as Dan in Real Life , In the Valley of Elah and The Air I Breathe...
and manager Noah Rosen have worked individually in the entertainment industry for several years, and played a role in the sale, development and/or production of a number of projects.
These include best-selling films for companies including Buena Vista, DreamWorks
DreamWorks
DreamWorks Pictures, also known as DreamWorks, LLC, DreamWorks SKG, DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC, DreamWorks Studios or DW Studios, LLC, is an American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games and television programming...
, DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. is an American animation studio based in Glendale, California that creates animated feature films, television program and online virtual worlds...
and Miramax (on films such as Shrek
Shrek
Shrek is a 2001 American computer-animated fantasy comedy film directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow. Loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book Shrek!...
, The Prince of Egypt
The Prince of Egypt
The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated musical drama film and the first traditionally animated film produced and released by DreamWorks Animation. The film is an adaptation of the Book of Exodus and follows the life of Moses from being a prince of Egypt to his ultimate destiny to lead the...
, Antz
Antz
Antz is a 1998 American computer animated action adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation. It features the voices of well-known actors such as Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Gene Hackman, Christopher Walken, and Danny Glover as...
, Chicken Run
Chicken Run
Chicken Run is a 2000 British stop-motion animation film made by the Aardman Animations studios, the production studio of the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit films...
, Inspector Gadget
Inspector Gadget (film)
Inspector Gadget is a 1999 American live-action comedy film loosely based on the 1983 animated cartoon series Inspector Gadget. It starred Matthew Broderick as the title character, along with Rupert Everett as Dr. Claw, Michelle Trachtenberg as Penny, and Dabney Coleman as Chief Quimby...
and Frida
Frida
Frida is a 2002 biographical film which depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award nominated portrayal as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera....
). Among their smaller projects, the two count involvement in My Big Fat Greek Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 Canadian and American romantic comedy film written by and starring Nia Vardalos and directed by Joel Zwick. The film is centered on Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos , a middle class Greek American woman who falls in love with a non-Greek upper middle class "White...
, Saving Grace
Saving Grace
-Film and television:* Saving Grace , a 2007 television series airing on TNT starring Holly Hunter about a police detective given a chance at redemption by an angel...
and Leopold Bloom
Leopold Bloom
Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's Ulysses. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in The Odyssey....
.
Formation and properties
Founded in September 2001 by producer Darlene Caamaño (by then married to Mark Stephen Loquet) and manager Noah Rosen, Los AngelesLos Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
-based D-No Entertainment is "a management/production company dedicated to the representation of Latin talent, and the production of their material." The two developed a number of properties, including Next Door for New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema, often simply referred to as New Line, is an American film studio. It was founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne as a film distributor, later becoming an independent film studio. It became a subsidiary of Time Warner in 1996 and was merged with larger sister studio Warner...
, Love Simple for Paramount, On 2 with Miramax, Phoenix Pictures' Jumped In. In February, 2002, the D-No/Rosen-managed writers Keith Mitchell and Allie Dvorian announced that they were developing a project for Disney about Peter Westbrook
Peter Westbrook
Peter Westbrook is a former American sabre fencing champion, active businessman and founder of the Peter Westbrook Foundation....
, the only black man "ever to win an Olympic medal for fencing." In 2003, D-No started representing Australian writer Ben Blanks, after he was referred by Rudy Scalese.
D-No sold projects by the Latin writing team of Lalo Lopez and Esteban Zul (of Pocho Productions), which included Taco Truck The Movie, sold to New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema, often simply referred to as New Line, is an American film studio. It was founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne as a film distributor, later becoming an independent film studio. It became a subsidiary of Time Warner in 1996 and was merged with larger sister studio Warner...
, Lowriders, bought by Twentieth Century Fox, College RoadTrip (with MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
), The Chuco Brothers, a Disney-purchased animated television series and Last Night in East L.A., an independent film starring Jay Hernandez
Jay Hernandez
Javier Manuel "Jay" Hernandez, Jr. is an American actor.-Early life and career:Hernandez was born in Montebello, California, the son of Isis , a secretary and accountant, and Javier Hernandez, Sr., a mechanic. He has a younger sister, Amelia, and two older brothers, Michael and Gabriel. Hernandez...
, Aimee Garcia and Joy Enriquez
Joy Enriquez
Joy Charity Enriquez is an American singer and actress who has appeared on the television series 7th Heaven and also starred in films such as Chasing Papi and Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure...
.
In July 2003, D-No Entertainment (with Metrostop Entertainment
Metrostop Entertainment
Metrostop Entertainment was a film production company founded in 2002 by producers Robert Keyghobad and Philip Spilker.-Pre-Metrostop:Robert Keyghobad Metrostop Entertainment was a film production company founded in 2002 by producers Robert Keyghobad and Philip Spilker.-Pre-Metrostop:Robert...
) "established a relationship" with Bob Layton
Bob Layton
Bob Layton is an American comic book artist, writer, and editor, who has worked for Marvel Comics, Valiant Comics, DC Comics, Future Comics, and other publishers.-Early life:...
, David Michelinie
David Michelinie
-Biography:Some of his earliest work is for DC Comics's House of Secrets and a run on Swamp Thing , following Len Wein and preceding Gerry Conway, illustrated by Nestor Redondo. Michelinie did a run on Aquaman in Adventure Comics which led to the revival of the Sea King's own title in 1977...
and Dick Giordano
Dick Giordano
Richard Joseph "Dick" Giordano was an American comic book artist and editor best known for introducing Charlton Comics' "Action Heroes" stable of superheroes, and serving as executive editor of then–industry leader DC Comics...
's Future Comics
Future Comics
Future Comics is a now-defunct comic book publishing company founded by industry all-rounder Bob Layton, and his creative partners — Layton's mentor, artist/editor Dick Giordano and his frequent writing-partner David Michelinie, CFO Allen Berrebbi — and publisher Skip Farrell.-Pre-Formation:Having...
comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
publishing company to adapt their properties (in particular Freemind and Deathmask) for the big or small screen.
As many of these projects either remain "in development," or have fallen by the wayside, D-No's best known property in one developed for many years, but only released in 2007. Caamaño-Loquet and Rosen share the executive producer credit on Dan in Real Life
Dan in Real Life
Dan in Real Life is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Hedges, starring Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche.-Plot:Dan Burns is a newspaper advice columnist, a widower, and a controlling father to his children Jane, Cara and Lilly in the New Jersey suburbs. His column is in...
, which they developed and sold to Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures is an American film studio owned by The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Pictures and Television, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Studios and the main production company for live-action feature films within the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, based at the Walt Disney...
. Starring Steve Carell
Steve Carell
Steven John "Steve" Carell is an American comedian, actor, voice artist, producer, writer, and director. Although Carell is notable for his role on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, he found greater fame in the late 2000s for playing Michael Scott on The Office...
and Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche is a French actress, artist and dancer. She has appeared in more than 40 feature films, been recipient of numerous international accolades, is a published author and has appeared on stage across the world. Coming from an artistic background, she began taking acting lessons during...
, the film was released by Touchstone
Touchstone Pictures
Touchstone Pictures is an American film production label and is one of several film labels of the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group. Established in 1984, its releases typically feature more mature themes and darker tones than those that are released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.Touchstone...
in 2007.
Remake rights
In November 2002, D-No hired Mariana Sanchez to "bring talent and projects from Latin America and Spain into the company." Sanchez, and her 2001 Argentina-based company, Republica Productions helped D-No option remake rights to Alejandro AgrestiAlejandro Agresti
Alejandro Agresti is an Argentine film director and producer. He has become increasingly influential in the United States and directed The Lake House with top Hollywood actors Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in 2006....
's A Night With Sabrina Love (2000), and Argentinian TV series El Garante
El garante
The Guarantor: horror miniseries originally transmitted Argentina in 1997 by Channel 9. Directed by Sebastián Borensztein and starred Lito Cruz and Leonardo Sbaraglia- Synopsis :...
, as well as director Rodrigo Grande. D-No also acquired foreign remake rights to the 1982 Adolfo Aristarain
Adolfo Aristarain
Adolfo Aristarain is an Argentine film director whom Variety has deemed a "master filmmaker."After leaving Argentina Aristarain started working as assistant director in the Arcente cinema, and then in Europe during his short exile for Mario Camus, Giorgio Stegani and Lewis Gilbert before...
-directed Argentinian thriller Last Days of the Victim, Spanish hit 13 Chimes, German rom-com Just the Beginning and Chilean comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
Angel Negro.
Post-D-No
Caamaño Loquet subsequently ran Voy LLC, a distribution company dealing in "culturally relevant entertainment" for English-speaking Latinos, and she is currently President of Nala FilmsNALA Films
NALA Films is a film production and financing company, the production arm of .-Foundation:NALA Films, LLC was founded in 2005 by Emilio Diez Barroso , as the production arm of NALA Investments , an investment vehicle with a portfolio of holdings...
developing various projects for film and television. She was involved as a producer on a number of films during 2007 (notably In the Valley of Elah
In the Valley of Elah
In the Valley of Elah is a 2007 film written and directed by Paul Haggis, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, and Susan Sarandon. The film’s title refers to the Biblical valley where the battle between David and Goliath is said to have taken place....
, with several more in production. Rosen, after sharing credit on Dan in Real Life also has a number of properties in development.