The Secret of Anastasia (1997 - Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Family Entertainment, Warner Bros. Feature Animation, Rysher Entertainment, Dino De Laurentiis Communications, Silver Pictures, UAV Entertainment and Turner Feature Animation)

Mark Dindal is an American animation film director, writer and voice actor from Columbus, Ohio who is known for directing the comedy classic Disney film The Emperor's New Groove. He is also known for directing Warner Brothers' musical Cats Don't Dance and Disney's Chicken Little. He provided animation for The Rocketeer. He voiced a few minor characters in his films.

Rob Minkoff was born on 11 August 1962 in Palo Alto, California, USA. He is a producer and director, known for The Lion King (1994), Stuart Little 2 (2002) and The Forbidden Kingdom (2008). He has been married to Crystal Kung Minkoff since 29 September 2007. They have two children.

Lee Lan is known for The Secret of Anastasia (1997) and Clifford the Big Red Dog (2000).

Timothy Campbell is known for Cats Don't Dance (1997).

Paul Gertz brings a unique combination of business acumen, legal training, and creative experience to his role as Chief Operations Officer and President of Network Entertainment.

Paul holds a B.A. in Economics from UCLA and both a law degree and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. He began his film career as the Associate Director of Business Affairs at leading animation studio Ruby-Spears Productions, was then recruited by George Lucas to become the Director of Business Affairs for Lucasfilm Ltd. at Skywalker Ranch, and ultimately returned to Los Angeles when he was named Senior Vice-President of Production at famed animation house Hanna-Barbera. Paul then moved over to the creative side and became the showrunner and executive producer of Gene Roddenberry's live-action television series Earth: Final Conflict for five seasons and 110 episodes.

Upon his move from Los Angeles to Vancouver, Paul was appointed Executive Vice President of internationally acclaimed studio Rainmaker Animation. Since joining forces with Network over a decade ago, Paul has produced or executive produced the company's entire output of premium, award-winning unscripted productions for international television and theatrical distribution.

Dino De Laurentiis left home at age 17 to enrol in film school, supporting himself as an actor, extra, propman, or any other job he could get in the film industry. His persistence paid off, and by the time he reached his 20th birthday he already had one produced film under his belt. After serving in the Italian army during World War II, De Laurentiis went back into film production, and in 1946 scored a critical and commercial international hit with Bitter Rice (1949) ("Bitter Rice"). He later married its star, Silvana Mangano. De Laurentiis eventually formed a partnership with producer Carlo Ponti, and the team had a string of hits, including several by director Federico Fellini. After the partnership dissolved, De Laurentiis embarked on a plan to build his own studio facilities, which would enable him to make the kind of massive spectacles he wanted to make. The studio complex, called Dinocitta', eventually was forced to close down due to a combination of hard times in the Italian film industry and a string of flops by De Laurentiis himself. De Laurentiis eventually sold the property to the Italian government and moved his base of production to the United States. He again opened up a film production complex in Wilmington, North Carolina, called DEG Studios, but was eventually forced by economic conditions to sell that, too. De Laurentiis has had some critical successes since his move to the U.S. (Ragtime (1981)), but most of his U.S. productions have been critically lambasted, although several have been commercial successes.

Martha De Laurentiis formed the Dino De Laurentiis Company (DDLC) in 1980 with her partner and husband, Dino De Laurentiis. Over the past 33 years, Martha produced, executive produced, and co-produced over 40 films and miniseries. Now known as the De Laurentiis Company, the enterprise has overseen the construction and management of three major international film studios: the Screen Gem Studios in Wilmington, NC; the Warner Bros. / Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast of Australia; and the CLA-De Laurentiis studios in Ouarzazate, Morocco.

DLC is based on the Universal Pictures lot, where it holds a long-standing first-look deal. In addition to producing the smash hit Hannibal for NBC, DLC is developing a diverse slate of projects for both film and television, including a Barbarella series with Nicolas Winding Refn for Gaumont International TV and Canal Plus, a series based on the novel Gateway by Frederik Pohl, a feature film entitled The Seventh Day (2021), and a new project based on the Sandman Slim series by Richard Kadrey.

As flamboyant as any character in his movies, Joel Silver can be credited along with Jerry Bruckheimer as practically reinventing the action film genre in the 1980s. Born in New Jersey, he attended the New York University Film School. After college, he worked at Lawrence Gordon Pictures, earning his first onscreen credit as associate producer of The Warriors (1979). He eventually became president of the motion picture division of Gordon Pictures. Together with Gordon, Silver produced 48 Hrs. (1982) and Streets of Fire (1984). In 1983 he formed Silver Pictures and initially set up shop at Universal Pictures to produce Brewster's Millions (1985) before going to Fox and continued producing hit action films such as Commando (1985), the "Lethal Weapon" franchise, the first two films of the "Die Hard" franchise and the three films of "Matrix" franchise of action films. He had then subsequently joined Warner Bros. in 1987 after leaving Fox. Despite these successes, he has hit some rough spots and has been banned from working on several studio lots. He was unable to produce the "48 Hrs" sequel Another 48 Hrs. (1990), the third "Die Hard" film, Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) and the fourth "Matrix" installment The Matrix Resurrections (2021) because of past run-ins with studio executives. Because of his habit of wearing sport shirts and talking loudly and quickly, he has been parodied in several films, even spoofing himself in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) by playing the frustrated cartoon director in the film's opening sequence. In order to perform in that role, he had to use an alias to get onto the Walt Disney lot, and his onscreen credit was not revealed to Disney executives until the very last minute. He had worked in television, setting up his own television branch with his first project Parker Kane (1990), a project that would eventually never made to series, and then worked at HBO for many years, until he found a home at Warner Bros. Television in 1998, where he had developed two UPN shows The Strip (1999) and Freedom (2000) before finding commercial success with the hit Veronica Mars (2004). In 1999, Silver Pictures had teamed up with film director/producer Robert Zemeckis to set up Dark Castle Entertainment to produce genre and horror films with the first film under Dark Castle being House on Haunted Hill (1999). Joel Silver pioneered the practice of shooting action movies in Australia with the "Matrix" films, and has been credited with either inventing or reinventing the careers of Eddie Murphy, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Steven Seagal. He was mentioned in Halle Berry's Academy Award acceptance speech. Other credits include non-action pictures, ranging from Xanadu (1980), Weird Science (1985) and Fred Claus (2007) to HBO's long-running TV series, Tales from the Crypt (1989). He had resigned from his founding production company in 2019.

Keith Samples was born on 22 December 1955. He is a director and producer, known for Election (1999), Big Night (1996) and Oz (1997). He has been married to Meggan Kimberley since 6 July 2002.

Terry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, the son of Dilys Louisa (Newnes), a homemaker, and Alick George Parry Jones, a bank clerk. His older brother is production designer Nigel Jones. His grandparents were involved in the entertainment business, having managed the local Amateur Operatic Society and staged Gilbert and Sullivan concerts. Jones studied at St. Edmund Hall College, Oxford University, read English but graduated with a degree in History. He was variously captain of boxing, captain of the Rugby Team and School Captain. At about this time, he befriended Michael Palin. Both performed comedy together as part of the Oxford Revue. In 1965, he again partnered Palin in The Late Show (1966) and worked in the dual capacity of writer/actor on Do Not Adjust Your Set (1967) with Palin, Eric Idle and David Jason. Another noteworthy television credit was Complete and Utter History of Britain (1969) (again with Palin) in which fun was poked at famous historical personae, Jones essaying Oliver Cromwell, Sir Walter Raleigh and Henry VIII (among others).

Needless to say that Jones found his greatest success as a founding member of the anarchic and irreverent Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969), along with Palin, Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Terry Gilliam. Jones not only provided much of the written comic input, but also portrayed many of the classic characters: the implausibly obese Mr. Creosote in Monty Python's the Meaning of Life (1983) (who explodes after one more little wafer), the inept Detective Superintendent Harry "Snapper" Organs in the Piranha Brothers sketch (a take on the Kray Twins), the tobacconist in the Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook sketch and numerous assorted shrill-voiced, slovenly 'rat-bag women' (Mrs. Equator comes to mind).

The Pythons were unconventional, controversial, certainly groundbreaking and invariably inspired, at their best in their unrelenting satirical attacks on established British institutions, ruling hierarchies and the class structure. Jones later said "The thing is we never thought Python was a success when it was actually happening, it was only with the benefit of hindsight". In addition to writing and acting, Jones also co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) (with Terry Gilliam) and took solo directing credit for Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life. Post-Python, he rejoined Palin as co-writer for some of the very best episodes of Ripping Yarns (1976), including Whinfrey's Last Case, Tompkinson's Schooldays, Murder at Moorstone Manor, The Curse of the Claw and The Testing of Eric Oldthwaite. Jones later scripted Labyrinth (1986) from a story by Jim Henson and Dennis Lee and wrote, as well as directed, Erik the Viking (1989) and Absolutely Anything (2015), a science fiction comedy with Simon Pegg and Kate Beckinsale.

On a more serious note, Jones sidelined as a newspaper columnist and was an outspoken social and political commentator (a staunch critic of the Iraq War). His lifelong fascination with medieval and ancient history (and Geoffrey Chaucer in particular) led to presenting a series of television documentaries (Medieval Lives (2004) and Barbarians (2006))) as well as publishing several well researched, if sometimes controversial, books including Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary and Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery.

Jones died at the age of 77 on 21 January 2020 from complications of dementia, at his home in Highgate, North London.

Charles Leland Richardson is known for The Brave Little Toaster (1987), FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) and Ice Age (2002).

David J. Steinberg is known for 9 (2009), Meet the Robinsons (2007) and Hercules (1997).

Sandy Russell Gartin is known for Billions for Boris (1984), Hot (2000) and Cats Don't Dance (1997).

Jerry Pettus Jr. is known for Pirate Kids II: The Search for the Silver Skull (2006), Snow White and the Magic Mirror: Interactive Storybook (1995) and The Secret of Anastasia (1997).

Eleanor Kearney is known for The Secret of Seagull Island (1982), The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (1986) and Seagull Island (1981).

David Womersley is known for Frozen (2013), Chicken Little (2005) and Frozen II (2019).

Bill Schwartz is known for Operation Dalmatian: The Big Adventure (1997), Christmas in Cartoontown (1996) and Howard Hughes: The Real Aviator (2004).

Tamara Lusher is a story artist, writer, and director. She attended CCAD in Columbus, Ohio and was part of a 1990 Walt Disney Animation Studios animation internship in Orlando, Florida. In 1994, she was part of a Disney story internship in Los Angeles, California lead by Vance Gerry. She has since worked as a story artist, development artist, writer, director, and head of story for animation projects.

Mark Kennedy is known for Chicken Little (2005), Hercules (1997) and Home on the Range (2004).

Randy Cartwright was born on 31 October 1951 in Newport News, Virginia, USA. He is known for Hercules (1997), Chicken Run (2000) and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). He has been married to Junko Fujii since 1985. They have two children.

Born in Los Angeles, California, he grew up playing sports, looking through telescopes, and being a professional magician (third-youngest member of the Magic Castle in 1976-77, as part of Dick and Diana Zimmerman's Young Magicians Program). He attended U.C. Berkeley to study astrophysics but left the program after two years, lingering in the Bay Area for two more years while writing his first novel, "Travail."

Returning to Santa Monica in 1981, Mark worked as a trainer at an upscale fitness center while trying his hand at short fiction and screenplays, some of which were optioned. He joined LFP, Inc. in 1983 writing short fiction, and rose to the rank of Senior Editor on several of their magazines. The job lasted seven months, until his first television work on the animated show "Challenge of the GoBots," which led to the rest of IMDb.

Robert Lence has been a major contributor on some of the most successful films in the history of animated features. In his thirty-year animation career, he has worked as a Director, Screenwriter, Head of Story, Storyboard Artist, Visual Development Artist, Story Consultant, Lecturer and Teacher, helping create original characters, writing dialogue, and shaping the story on over a dozen major-release animated features.

Robert has worked at Walt Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks. His film work includes such all-time hits as "Beauty and the Beast," "The Lion King," "Toy Story," "A Bug's Life" and "Shrek." Robert served as Co-Head of Story on Pixar's 1995 "Toy Story," the first ever computer animated feature film.

A graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Robert holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature. Robert attended the California Institute of the Arts' highly regarded Character Animation program for two years. He has also served for years as a member of the CalArts faculty, as a story teacher and story consultant.

A native of New York City, Robert has worked overseas in eight different countries, developing the stories and screenplays for studios, as well as teaching and guest lecturing, in China, Czech Republic, England, Italy, Mexico, Russia, South Korea and Uruguay.

Robert co-wrote and co-directed the Russian animated feature "The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands" which was released internationally in 2018.

Robert is a member of the Writers Guild of America West.

He has served on the judging committee for the screenwriting awards at the animation industry's Annie Awards.

Brian McEntee is known for Ice Age (2002), The Brave Little Toaster (1987) and Brave (2012).

Donald McEnery is an American screenwriter who had written an episode of the iconic 1990s sitcom Seinfeld, Pixar's second film A Bug's Life, Disney's 1997 Greek mythology film Hercules and Columbia Pictures' Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild. He collaborated with Julia-Louis Dreyfus in both Seinfeld and A Bug's Life.