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Teddy Zee is an American producer and entertainment executive in Hollywood. Perhaps the most visible and vocal champion of Asians in Hollywood, Zee has over twenty years of experience as President of Overbrook Films and Davis Entertainment, as a studio executive for Columbia Pictures and Paramount Pictures, and as an independent producer. Most recently, he has focused on doing co-productions that bridge Hollywood with China and Asia.
Zee is producing Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey, a computer animated, 3D, large format movie that Zee is producing for Taiwan’s Digimax. The film is being made in cooperation with NASA and Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL). Zee was also the Executive Producer of The Pursuit of Happyness, a Columbia Pictures film starring Will Smith. The film has earned $300 million in worldwide ticket sales. Zee produced West 32nd, a CJ Entertainment film starring John Cho, Grace Park and Jeong Jun-Ho. It was one of 18 films selected for World Narrative Competition at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2005, Zee produced Hitch, a Columbia Pictures release starring Will Smith, Eva Mendes and Kevin James that earned over $365 million in worldwide ticket sales. He also produced Saving Face starring Joan Chen, official selections of the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals. It won the 2005 Golden Horse Audience Award, Taiwan's Oscar equivalent. Previously, as President of Davis Entertainment, Zee was the Executive Producer of Life or Something Like It, a New Regency release starring Angelina Jolie.
Zee is the Executive Producer of the annual Asian Excellence Awards broadcast on E! and AZN-TV to 100 million homes in the US. He also was the Executive Producer of the talk show DIM SUM WITH TEDDY ZEE and IVY DREAMS, a documentary that follows four Asian-American high school seniors pursuing Ivy League college admissions. Both were for AZN-TV.
As Executive Vice President of Production at Columbia Pictures, Zee oversaw such films as Charlie's Angels, The Replacement Killers, Anaconda, Fools Rush In, The Devil's Own, The Cable Guy, First Knight, My Girl, Mo' Money, Hero, and Sleepwalkers. He championed Chow Yun Fat’s Hollywood debut. His project Charlie's Angels was a feature film springboard for Lucy Liu. He worked with Hong Kong filmmakers John Woo, Stephen Chow and Ringo Lam. As Senior VP of Productions at Paramount Pictures, he shepherded such films as Indecent Proposal, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Cousins and The Presidio. Zee continues to work with new and established talent producing scripts that that are national and international box office hits.
Zee has an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.S. from Cornell University. He is a longtime member of AMPAS (the Executive branch of the Academy Awards), a former member of the Executive Board of the Asian American Policy Review at Harvard's JFK School of Government, a board member of Coalition for Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE), a member of the Producers Guild of America and a trustee of the Marc Goodman Foundation for Cancer Research.
The Asian Professional Exchange (APEX) honored Zee with the 2007 Award for Excellence in the Arts and Entertainment and KCET, PBS’ Los Angeles affiliate named him “Local Hero” in 2005 for his contributions to the Asian American community. Goldsea, the Asian American Supersite, recognized his efforts in creating positive film roles for Asian actors in Hollywood by placing him No. 54 on "The 120 Most Inspiring Asian Americans of All Time".
In 2010, under the Teddy Zee Productions banner, Zee produced a series of charity PSA videos alongside Don Le, George Wang, Adrian Zaw, and APEX founder Stephen Liu. He executive produced the 20+ clips that featured Asian American celebrities like John Cho, Sandra Oh, Kaba Modern Legacy, Justin Chon, David Choi, and 100+ talents in a campaign to win $1 million for the Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF). The charity ended up in the top 20 out of 100 charities competing for the top prize, and ended up creating awareness for the widespread but generally unspoken issues of sexual assault and domestic violence. | | | In September 2010, he also served as Executive Producer for the video coverage on the first ever AAPI Rock the Vote 2010 campaign with doctor Paul Song, Roy Choi, George Wang, Don Le, and Adrian Zaw.
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Zee is producing Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey, a computer animated, 3D, large format movie that Zee is producing for Taiwan’s Digimax. The film is being made in cooperation with NASA and Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL). Zee was also the Executive Producer of The Pursuit of Happyness, a Columbia Pictures film starring Will Smith. The film has earned $300 million in worldwide ticket sales. Zee produced West 32nd, a CJ Entertainment film starring John Cho, Grace Park and Jeong Jun-Ho. It was one of 18 films selected for World Narrative Competition at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2005, Zee produced Hitch, a Columbia Pictures release starring Will Smith, Eva Mendes and Kevin James that earned over $365 million in worldwide ticket sales. He also produced Saving Face starring Joan Chen, official selections of the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals. It won the 2005 Golden Horse Audience Award, Taiwan's Oscar equivalent. Previously, as President of Davis Entertainment, Zee was the Executive Producer of Life or Something Like It, a New Regency release starring Angelina Jolie.
Zee is the Executive Producer of the annual Asian Excellence Awards broadcast on E! and AZN-TV to 100 million homes in the US. He also was the Executive Producer of the talk show DIM SUM WITH TEDDY ZEE and IVY DREAMS, a documentary that follows four Asian-American high school seniors pursuing Ivy League college admissions. Both were for AZN-TV.
As Executive Vice President of Production at Columbia Pictures, Zee oversaw such films as Charlie's Angels, The Replacement Killers, Anaconda, Fools Rush In, The Devil's Own, The Cable Guy, First Knight, My Girl, Mo' Money, Hero, and Sleepwalkers. He championed Chow Yun Fat’s Hollywood debut. His project Charlie's Angels was a feature film springboard for Lucy Liu. He worked with Hong Kong filmmakers John Woo, Stephen Chow and Ringo Lam. As Senior VP of Productions at Paramount Pictures, he shepherded such films as Indecent Proposal, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Cousins and The Presidio. Zee continues to work with new and established talent producing scripts that that are national and international box office hits.
Zee has an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.S. from Cornell University. He is a longtime member of AMPAS (the Executive branch of the Academy Awards), a former member of the Executive Board of the Asian American Policy Review at Harvard's JFK School of Government, a board member of Coalition for Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE), a member of the Producers Guild of America and a trustee of the Marc Goodman Foundation for Cancer Research.
The Asian Professional Exchange (APEX) honored Zee with the 2007 Award for Excellence in the Arts and Entertainment and KCET, PBS’ Los Angeles affiliate named him “Local Hero” in 2005 for his contributions to the Asian American community. Goldsea, the Asian American Supersite, recognized his efforts in creating positive film roles for Asian actors in Hollywood by placing him No. 54 on "The 120 Most Inspiring Asian Americans of All Time".
In 2010, under the Teddy Zee Productions banner, Zee produced a series of charity PSA videos alongside Don Le, George Wang, Adrian Zaw, and APEX founder Stephen Liu. He executive produced the 20+ clips that featured Asian American celebrities like John Cho, Sandra Oh, Kaba Modern Legacy, Justin Chon, David Choi, and 100+ talents in a campaign to win $1 million for the Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF). The charity ended up in the top 20 out of 100 charities competing for the top prize, and ended up creating awareness for the widespread but generally unspoken issues of sexual assault and domestic violence. | | | In September 2010, he also served as Executive Producer for the video coverage on the first ever AAPI Rock the Vote 2010 campaign with doctor Paul Song, Roy Choi, George Wang, Don Le, and Adrian Zaw.
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, 45minutesDirected by Harry Kloor
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Animation
Actors Chris Pine, Amanda Peet, Samuel L. Jackson, Hayden Christensen, James Earl Jones, Sandra Oh
Roles Executive producer
Rating51%
The story begins with the Cassini Saturn spacecraft releasing the Huygens Titan probe. We then transition to Earth, where a 12-year-old girl, Jeana (Voiced by Abigail Breslin), places a sun filter over a telescope to view sun spots. She asks her mentor, a Professor "Why is the Sun so bright?" This leads the professor to launch into a scientific explanation about fusion. The little girl laughs, having played this trick on her mentor many times, she says "No I meant bright, bright like happy. In most drawings the sun has a big smile. Is he good, like the man in the moon." Knowing this means she wants a story, the mentor begins to spin a tale, but as a mentor, this one, while entertaining, is also educational.
West 32nd (2007)
, 1h26Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors John Cho, Jun-seong Kim, Grace Park, Jung Joon-ho, Chil Kong
Roles Producer
Rating60%
The film starts by showing the city streets of K-Town in New York, then goes straight into one of the most common places in Korean Culture. A Room salon (RS) where Korean Mobster Jin Ho Chun (Jun-ho Jeong) is running the place as a money launderer for the Korean mafia. As Chun is making his usual errands, such as making sure the Room salon is running smoothly and greeting customers. Chun goes and checks on the VIP members, where also his mistress Sook Hee (Jane Kim) is at. Chun then grabs the bag full of cash and makes his way into his car. While Chun's driving off, another car blocks his way and he gets shot to death in the back.
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
, 1h57Directed by Gabriele Muccino
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about children, La précarité
Actors Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, Dan Castellaneta, Kurt Fuller
Roles Executive producer
Rating79%
In 1981, San Francisco salesman Chris Gardner (Will Smith) invests his entire life savings in portable bone-density scanners, which he demonstrates to doctors and pitches as a handy quantum leap over standard X-rays. The scanners play a vital role in Chris' life. While he is able to sell most of them, the time lag between the sales and his growing financial demands enrage his already bitter and alienated wife Linda (Thandie Newton), who works as a hotel maid. The financial instability increasingly erodes their marriage, in spite of them caring for their five-year-old son, Christopher (Jaden Smith).
Saving Face (2005)
, 1h31Directed by Alice Wu
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Michelle Krusiec, Joan Chen, Lynn Chen, Jessica Hecht, Ato Essandoh, Wang Luoyong
Roles Producer
Rating73%
Saving Face follows Wilhelmina ("Wil"), a young Chinese American surgeon living in New York. The main plot revolves around her mother spontaneously coming to live with her for being pregnant out of wedlock (and thus kicked out of her father's house) while overcoming the difficulties of being closet while dating her lover, Vivian. Wil struggles with allocating time between her mother (Gao) who is shunned by the rest of the Chinese American community of Flushing for being pregnant and unwed and thus has come to live with Wil.
Hitch (2005)
, 1h58Directed by Andy Tennant
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Amber Valletta, Kevin James, Robinne Lee, Julie Ann Emery
Roles Producer
Rating65%
Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Will Smith) is a professional "date doctor" who coaches other men in the art of wooing women, with a focus on long-term relationships.
Life or Something Like It (2002)
, 1h43Directed by Stephen Herek
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Stockard Channing, Christian Kane, Tony Shalhoub, Lisa Thornhill
Roles Executive producer
Rating57%
Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie), a successful reporter for a Seattle television station interviews a self-proclaimed prophet, Jack (Tony Shalhoub), to find out if he really can predict football scores. Instead, Prophet Jack not only predicts the football score, and that it would hail the next day, but also that she would die in seven days, meaning the following Thursday. When his first two prophecies turn out to be correct, Kerrigan panics and again meets with Jack, asking him for another prophecy so that she can prove it wrong, which would imply uncertainty of her death. Jack tells her that there will be a relatively significant earthquake in San Francisco at 9:06 am; she hopes that it will be wrong but again it also becomes reality. Now Lanie becomes sure of her upcoming death and is forced to reevaluate her life.