ANDREW MASON (Executive Producer)
ANDREW MASON (Executive Producer) executive produced the Warner Bros./Village Roadshow 1999 smash hit The Matrix, and is currently executive producing the two sequels, also starring Keanu Reeves.
Mason produced (for New Line Cinema) the 1998 Science fiction thriller Dark City, and is currently producing an Australian romantic comedy Danny Deckchair starring Rhys Ifans and Miranda Otto, to be distributed in North America by Crusader Entertainment.
Beginning his career in the early 1970's, Mason has been a film editor for documentaries and commercials, headed a highly successful commercial production company, run a film laboratory and formed Australia's first visual-effects company. In 1990, Mason joined forces with Alex Proyas to produce music videos and commercials and in 1993 Mason served as visual-effects supervisor and second-unit director on Proyas' The Crow.
Mason's Sydney-based company, City Productions, is developing and producing Australian and international pictures. Mason recently executive produced the vampire thriller Queen of the Damned, the upcoming Down and Under, starring Jerry O'Connell and Estella Warren (which Mason executive produced in partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment) and for Crusader Entertainment the Australian drama Swimming Upstream, starring Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis.