Born in Dodge City, Kansas, Curtis graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in Theater and Film. Curtis began his career in TV commercials where he produced and directed nearly 200 national and regional commercials and a number of award winning documentaries and corporate image films. In 1992 Curtis formed Prelude Pictures, a joint venture with Neufeld-Rheme Production in association with Paramount Pictures, where he developed a wide slate of feature films including New Line Cinema's "Lost In Space". Douglas Curtis' extensive career in the entertainment industry covers a wide variety of films from science fiction to horror to comedy to action pictures. He recently served as Line Producer and Production Manager overseeing extensive re-shoots on IM Global's "Fifty Shades of Black". Curtis also serves Executive Producer and Unit Production Manager on Relativity Media's "Shark Night". He was also Executive Producer on a number of New Line Cinema Feature Motion Pictures including "Shoot 'Em Up", "Cellular", "Freddy vs. Jason", "Friday After Next", "All About the Benjamins" and "Next Friday". Curtis was co-producer on Zide-Perry Entertainment's "Repli-Kate", MTV/Paramount Pictures' "The Wood" and HBO's "Shadow of Doubt". Curtis also worked as a co-producer/Line Producer on Paramount Picture's "Save the Last Dance". As a producer, Curtis' credits include MGM/Rysher Entertainment's "The Eighteenth Angel", "Gunfighters Moon" and "Judicial Consent". For Trimark Entertainment Curtis produced "The Philadelphia Experiment II". For New World Pictures Curtis produced "The Philadelphia Experiment", "Black Moon Rising" and "Nice Girls Don't Explode". He both produced and directed "The Sleeping Car" and "The Hazing". He has also worked as 2nd unit director on a number of his films including "Black Moon Rising" and "Judicial Consent". Among Curtis' other credits are "Madame Claude 2", "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" and "Take This Job and Shove It".Curtis currently serves as CEO-Founder of Quarter Town Films(QTF) a newly formed Los Angeles based development and production company where he is developing a number of film projects including "The Ending" which was written and will be directed by Kristin Ellingson. Show less «