Production

The American Movie Company was established in 1995 as a feature film and television company. Some of our credits include "Lucky Number Slevin", "54", "The Late Shift", "Senseless", "Mad About You", "Friends", "Will & Grace", and "How I Met Your Mother". Presently the company is producing high quality content for the iAxsis interactive broadband channels.

Board of Directors

BURTON MARCUS:   CHAIRMAN

Burton Marcus represented Seven Arts in the acquisition of Warner Bros. Pictures and that company’s acquisition of Atlantic Records.

In the seventies, he was one of three executives brought in to turn around Columbia Pictures Industries, which had been experiencing severe financial difficulties.  As Vice President and General Counsel, Burt was responsible for financing the film production program, the disposition and acquisition of business segments, and directing all legal affairs of the corporation, which included managing a forty lawyer legal department on both coasts and law firms in New York, Los Angeles, and London.  The turnaround was successful. 

Subsequently, he served as Managing Director and Executive Vice President of Veronis Suhler & Associates, Inc., an investment banking firm specializing in the media segments of the communications industry, and then as an owner, Director, and Executive Vice President of John Blair Communications, which sold the national advertising time inventory of approximately 150 broadcast television stations in the United States (approximately $750 million annually in advertising sales), and produced and distributed syndicated television programming.  Mr. Marcus was also co-owner of Miracle Factory with Mr. Lieberman.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Brown University, and J.D. and LL.M. degrees from the law schools of Harvard, and New York University respectively.

 

FRANK LIEBERMAN: PRESIDENT

For 20 years Frank ran his own communications business and for fifteen years was a marketing consultant and innovative marketing strategist specializing in creating awareness for companies such as AT&T, IBM, Hoffmann LaRoche, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Warner Lambert, as well as other major corporations. 

Working with three divisions of the IBM Corporation, Mr. Lieberman created the launch campaign for its extraordinarily successful MRP (Material Requirements Planning Services) inventory control software product. 

 Frank created and implemented the promotional and sales programs for the launch of the prescription drug Valium, at that time the most successful product introduction in the history of the pharmaceutical industry.

His marketing company, Entmark Group Ltd., was the forerunner for the blueprints for today’s multi-faceted entertainment companies entering the emerging media superhighways (cable, Internet, new publishing, etc.) His understanding of future entertainment delivery systems put his company in a unique position to benefit firsthand from these profitable areas.

Executive Producer of feature films for Warner Bros. and a producer of TV shows for NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS, and special music industry projects for A & M Records.

 

BILL MILLING:   PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

CEO of The American Movie Company, Emmy Award^® winning producer of the NBC series “Unicorn Tales” (winner of 18 Emmy Awards, and the prestigious Action For Children’s Television Award^®).  Bill is the writer/director of over twenty feature films and former professor of Film & TV at the Tisch School of Arts, New York University.

He has directed a host of star performers including James Earl Jones, Raven Simone, Charlton Heston, et al.

He was the New York production executive/production supervisor on a host of major motion pictures including "Lucky Number Slevin", "Third Miracle", "Senseless", "54", and "The Late Shift".

Bill produced content for virtually every major TV series including "30 Rock", "Gossip Girl", "CSI NY", "Dexter", "The West Wing", "Mad About You", "Friends", "Will & Grace", "Everybody Loves Raymond", "Conviction", "The X Files", "How I Met Your Mother", "Smallville", and "Without A Trace".

Bill is a former president of Sigmax, inc. a Japanese/American film and TV production company.

Bill has undergraduate degrees in English, philosophy and classical languages, an MA in English Literature, and MA and PhD ABD in Cinema Studies from NYU Tisch.  He taught Film Production and feature screen writing at the NYU School of Film & Television.