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RICHARD P. RUBINSTEIN
Executive Producer
In 1995, executive producer Richard P. Rubinstein acquired the rights to adapt the six novels of Frank Herbert's Dune saga for television. Continuing a saga of his own and based on the extraordinary ratings and critical success of Frank Herbert's Dune, Rubinstein once again assumes the role of executive producer, for the SCI FI Original miniseries Frank Herbert's Children of Dune.
Rubinstein is an established producer of feature films, network miniseries, TV movies, and syndicated TV series. Formerly chairman/CEO of Viacom / Blockbuster / Spelling Entertainment subsidiary Laurel Entertainment, Rubinstein lives in New York City and is now CEO of New Amsterdam Entertainment Inc., the leading corporate producer of Children of Dune.
Rubinstein's feature-film credits include his 1989 production of Stephen King's Pet Sematary, which ranked as the third-highest-grossing thriller of the 1980s. Other Stephen King-based features produced by Rubinstein include The Night Flier, Thinner and Creepshow. Rubinstein was also the producer of three George A. Romero features: Martin, Dawn of the Dead and Knightriders, which starred Ed Harris in his first feature-film leading role.
Rubinstein's executive producer credits for broadcast television include the CBS miniseries A Season in Purgatory, based on the Dominick Dunne best-seller; Kiss & Tell, starring Cheryl Ladd; the highly rated TV movie Precious Victims; Stephen King's The Langoliers; and Stephen King's The Stand. The Langoliers and The Stand were both the highest-rated miniseries on any network in their respective broadcast years; The Stand also garnered Rubinstein an Emmy Nomination for Best Miniseries.
Rubinstein also executive produced (with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ) The Vernon Johns Story, a two-hour syndicated TV movie starring James Earl Jones that netted four Monte Carlo TV Festival Awards and a Christopher Award for a "TV Program Affirming the Highest Values of the Human Spirit." Rubinstein also has served as executive producer of two very successful syndicated TV series, Tales From the Darkside and Monsters.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1947, Rubinstein received an MBA from Columbia University in 1971. He began his film career as a production assistant for a producer of TV commercials, and in 1973 he received his first production credit as associate producer of A Night with Nicol Williamson, a made-for-pay-cable one-hour special produced by Dore Schary. In 1974, Rubinstein executive produced a one-hour ABC network documentary special profiling O.J. Simpson at the height of his football career. During 1975-76, he produced The Winners, a syndicated series of twelve one-hour biographical profiles of other well-known sports figures, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mario Andretti, Reggie Jackson and Franco Harris.
Rubinstein is a member of the Producers Branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He also is a regent of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, a former 20-year member of the National Advisory Board of the Sundance Film Festival and a member of the Third Decade Council of the American Film Institute. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of the New York founding chapter of The Independent Feature Project. Rubinstein is also an adjunct associate professor and co-teaches a course in entrepreneurial producing at New York University's prestigious Stern Graduate School of Business.
Currently, Rubinstein's other feature films in the works include Keller, which is slated to star Jeff Bridges, with a screenplay by Lawrence Block, Patrick McGrath and Maria Aitken based on Block's best selling novel Hit Man; and a remake of Dawn of the Dead, in association with Beacon Pictures.
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Photos by Zdenek Vavra
Blixa Film Produktion GmbH & Co. KG and Touchstone Television Productions, LLC
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