Stu Levy |
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About Stu Levy
Levy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics/Business from UCLA and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. He studied at Tokyo University and Keio University in Japan and is a California attorney. Currently, Levy chairs the Producer Guild of America's International Committee and was previously a Board Member of its New Media Council.
Executive producer, feature film and TV
From 2000 to 2004, Stu Levy served as executive producer for multiple film, television and DVD projects. His TV credits include Street Fury, which he created, GTO (English version for Showtime TV), Rave Master (English version for Cartoon Network's Toonami), and Reign: The Conqueror (English version for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.) His DVD credits include the English versions of: Initial D, Marmalade Boy, Saint Tail, Samurai Girl: Real Bout High School, Vampire Princess Miyu, Brigadoon, Spring & Chaos, FMW, High School Ghostbusters, and Anime: Concept to Reality.
Levy is an executive producer on the 2011 film Priest, based on the Tokyopop manga series and produced by Screen Gems, a Sony Pictures company.
Producer, feature film
In 2007, Levy began to serve as Producer on a number of live-action and animated film and television adaptations of Tokyopop manga, including Battle Vixens, by Yugi Shiozaki;Gyakushu, by Dan Hipp; Love Like Blood (based on Lament of the Lamb by Kei Toume); Mail Order Ninja by Josh Elder; My Dead Girlfriend, by Eric Wight; Poison Candy, by David Hine and Hans Steinbach; Princess Ai, by D.J. Milky, Misaho Kujiradou and Courtney Love; Riding Shotgun, by Nate Bowden and Tracy Yardley and Van Von Hunter, by Mike Schwarkand Ron Kaulfersch. According to Nielsen BookScan sales reports, "Princess Ai" was the #1 selling the Adult Fiction Graphic Novels.
Writer and director, feature film
Levy is currently prepping as co-writer (with Greg Lemkin) and co-director (with Takahiko Akiyama) for Love Like Blood—a live-action adaptation of the Tokyopop manga series Lament of the Lamb. Levy directed the anime music video Broken Leash for Princess Ai and is working on an upcoming animated feature film for the series. Also, he is co-writing and co-directing (with Steven Calcote) the upcoming mockumentary about Van Von Hunter, the evil-vanquisher from Mike Schwark and Ron Kaulfersch's manga series by the same name.
Author
Under the pen-name D.J. Milky, Levy has written both manga graphic novels and children's books. His writings include: Princess Ai, Juror 13, Karma Club, Kung Fu Klutz & Karate Cool, the novel adaptation of Sailor Moon, Stray Sheep and CD-ROM Best Selection '96. Current projects include Fright Elevator, Street Fury, Treasure Chess, and the upcoming sequel to Princess Ai, Prism of the Midnight Dawn.
Music composer
Levy composed lyrics and songs for Tokyopop projects, including the theme songs for Initial D, Reign the Conqueror, Rave Master, GTO, and the soundtrack for Tokyopop's Princess Aifranchise.
Producer, broadband and mobile programming
Levy has produced a number of Web- and Mobile-based shows, distributed through MySpace, YouTube and Verizon's VCast. Web shows include I Luv Halloween, Riding Shotgun, A Midnight Opera, and Bizenghast. Two new shows—Gyakushu and Sokora Refugees—will launch in Spring 2008. A series of Princess Ai-based music videos will launch later in 2008.
Producer, Internet
In 1995, Levy launched Japan Online for which he won the New Media Invision Award for "Best Design on the Web." In 2007, Levy produced and launched a comprehensive social networking and UGC manga lifestyle website at www.Tokyopop.com.
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