Jorge Saralegui

In 1987, he relocated to Los Angeles, California to pursue script writing. A year later, he was hired as a studio reader at Universal Pictures.^[1] Following a brief stint as a story analyst at Daniel Melnick's The IndieProd Company, he joined 20th Century Fox in 1989 as a script reader.^[4][5]

At Fox, he was promoted to a junior creative executive position, then, in June 1995, to senior vice-president of production. Two years later, he was appointed executive vice-president of production.^[4] There, Saralegui ushered Speed, Independence Day, Broken Arrow and Die Hard With a Vengeance through the development and production processes, and oversaw the productions of Speed 2: Cruise Control, Alien: Resurrection and Great Expectations.^[6]

In late 1997, he negotiated with studios to launch his own film label,^[6] settling at Warner Bros. in 1998, where he founded on-lot production company Material Films,^[1][7] with Channing Dungey serving as president.^[8][9]

In 2005, he co-founded horror film production company Midnight Picture Show with Clive Barker.^[10]

His writings have appeared in literary magazines and an anthology, Latinos in Lotusland.^[3] Saralegui's first novel, Last Rites, was published by Putnam Berkley in 1985,^[11] followed by Shadow Stalker in 1987, then Looker in 1990.^[12]

A fourth novel, Sentimental Surgery, was a quarterfinalist in the 2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition.^[13]

He was a producer of the listed films, unless otherwise noted.

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