Mark Protosevich was born in Chicago, Illinois and studied Film at Columbia College Chicago. After graduating with honors, he spent four years teaching beginning film production courses at Columbia College and then moved to Los Angeles, where he began his motion picture career as a story analyst for producer Scott Rudin.
Mark Protosevich is a screenwriter whose films have earned over 1.3 billion dollars worldwide, combined lifetime gross. The Cell starred Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, and Vincent D'Onofrio, and was the feature film debut of director Tarsem Singh. Roger Ebert listed The Cell as one of the ten best films of 2000, and Protosevich's screenplay was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. Poseidon starred Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, and Josh Lucas, and was directed by acclaimed filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen.
I Am Legend starred Will Smith and was directed by Francis Lawrence. The film had the second best December opening box-office of all time, and remains one of Will Smith's most commercially successful motion pictures. Thor (2011) starred Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, and Anthony Hopkins and was directed by Kenneth Branagh.
He worked as a development executive for Orion Pictures, producer Dawn Steel, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and then made his first spec screenplay sale for The Cell. Protosevich happily left the world of the "suits" behind and has since been doing what he always dreamed of doing for a living: writing screenplays.
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