Ethan Dettenmaier
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Ethan Dettenmaier is an American
United States
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 screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

, producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

, and director
Film director
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.

Early Career

After starting out in the mail room at Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
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, he landed a position with Bel-Air Productions and Producer Steven Reuther
Steven Reuther
Steven Reuther was a producer and executive producer.His feature film credits include Dirty Dancing , Pretty Woman , Sommersby , The Client , and Face/Off , The Rainmaker and Sweet November...

 (Face Off
Face Off
- Sports :* Face-off, the ice hockey event that puts a puck into play* Face Off!, a 1989 ice hockey game by GameStar- Music :* Face Off , a 2007 collaboration album starring Bow Wow and Omarion...

, Pretty Woman
Pretty Woman
Pretty Woman is a 1990 romantic comedy film set in Los Angeles, California. Written by J.F. Lawton and directed by Garry Marshall, this motion picture features Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, and also Hector Elizondo, Ralph Bellamy, and Jason Alexander in supporting roles. Roberts played the only...

) He went on to become a script doctor for Idiom Films and has since scripted work for Steven Seagal
Steven Seagal
Steven Frederic Seagal is an American action film star, producer, writer, martial artist, guitarist and reserve deputy sheriff. A 7th-dan black belt in Aikido, Seagal began his adult life as an Aikido instructor in Japan...

, Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics
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, producer Paul DeSouza and Jon Divens. Dettenmaier made his filmmaking debut with the horror film Sin-Jin Smyth, which began filming in 2006 and had guitarist
Guitarist
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 Billy Duffy
Billy Duffy
Billy Duffy is an English guitarist and songwriter, best known as the guitarist in The Cult.-Early days:He grew up in Manchester, where he began playing guitar at the age of fourteen...

 (The Cult) set to do some guitar work. His production company, Snap Kick Productions, also had a TV pilot titled Minxx in negotiations with Intuition Entertainment and was set to serve as producer on the films Job, "Little Iron Men", "Knight Fever" and the new Vietnam
Vietnam
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 film "Tet". He is said to be collaborating with Writer
Writer
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/Director Kenneth Johnson
Kenneth Johnson
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 (V, The Incredible Hulk) in the production effort for the Motion Picture "V" based on the original 1983 mini-series. In terms of writing, Dettenmaier is currently developing a novel under the title "Soldiers Of Destruction" along with a biography project involving former Simple Minds
Simple Minds
Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band who achieved worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s and best known for their #1 US, Canada and Netherlands hit single "Don't You ", from the soundtrack of the...

 bassist
Bassist
A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...

 Derek Forbes
Derek Forbes
Derek Forbes is a Scottish bassist and sometime guitarist, best known for his work with Simple Minds .His departure from the band was due to stylistic musical differences with the rest of the band during the...

 (who was voted Scotland
Scotland
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's Best Bass Player Ever) and drummer Brian Mcgee.

Radio

He is currently the voice of Combat Radio which can be heard through the LA Talk Radio Network. The radio show is the subject of both a book and film. He also produces NACA RADIO for the HUD Certified Naca Corp.(Neighborhood Assistance Corporation Of America)and he produces radio content with Derek Forbes the bass player who worked with Simple Minds, Propaganda, David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Peter Gabriel.

Filmography

  • Job (2007)... Producer
  • Sin-Jin Smyth (2006)...Writer/Producer/Director
  • The Hitman Chronicles (2006).... Producer
  • Clay Guida's Ultimate MMA Workout (2009)...Producer, Exec. Producer

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