Curtis Burch

Curtis Burch is the President of Latitude Productions, a motion picture production company operating in Los Angeles. Curtis created Latitude after having spent 25 years learning and mastering the crafts of movie development, screenwriting, packaging and production. He worked as a senior development executive for producer Keith Barish at Taft-Barish Entertainment, at Largo Entertainment for producers Larry and Charles Gordon, for Rob Reiner's Castle Rock Entertainment, and for director James Cameron at his Lightstorm Entertainment. As a creative executive, Burch participated in the development of many successful films.

His first accomplishment as a development executive was to originate the idea of adapting the T.V. series The Fugitive into a feature film, which became a huge success and an Oscar nominee for Best Picture. He was subsequently involved in the development of the following films, to name only a few: The Flintstones; The Running Man, with Arnold Schwarzenegger; Ironweed, with Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep; The Serpent and the Rainbow, directed by Wes Craven; Bird on a Wire, with Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn; The Hard Way, with Michael J. Fox; Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story; Unlawful Entry, with Ray Liotta and Kurt Russell; The American President, with Michael Douglas and Annette Bening; City Hall, with Al Pacino; Waiting For Guffman, by Christopher Guest; and Solaris, with George Clooney, directed by Steven Soderbergh.

Burch has also worked productively as a screenwriter. He wrote a speculative screenplay called Forever, Anna, which was sold to Castle Rock Entertainment. He wrote a script for Lightstorm called Ford, which is based on a Hugo Award-winning short story by Dale Bailey.

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