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Jimmy Cummings (born April 20, 1968, in South Boston, Massachusetts) is an American actor, writer and producer and is the founder and CEO of Broadview Entertainment. Cummmings is most recognized for his writing and acting in the movie Southie which won the American Independent Filmmaker Award at the 24th annual Seattle International Film Festival. He is also a co-founder of Journey Forward, a non-profit organization dedicated to bettering the lives of those who have suffered a Spinal Cord Injury. ==Career== Cummings began his career studying acting at the HB Studios in New York and at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York and Los Angeles. He established himself as an actor with roles in several theater productions including ''Dumb Waiter'', ''The Street Poet'' and Tom Topor's ''Answers'' (which he also produced). After taking leading roles in films such as ''Close Up'' and ''The Compulsion'', he began to produce his own project titled ''Southie''. He wrote the script and secured financing, then found a director (John Shea) and worked alongside young, rising talent: Donnie Wahlberg, Rose McGowan, Will Arnett and Amanda Peete. In 1998 ''Southie'' was screened at festivals including the Nantucket Film Festival, the AFI Film Festival, the Montreal Film Festival and the Dublin Film Festival. ''Southie'' went on to win the Best Picture at the 24th annual Seattle International Film Festival. Cummings owned and was head of development for Silent Partner Entertainment from 2003 to 2006. He produced six episodes of the TV series ''Hollywood OS'' and the documentary ''Dig Fenway''. He wrote and developed numerous film projects including ''Mad Cowboys'', ''The Tony Conigliaro Story'' and ''Golden: The Harry Agganis Story''. After every movie studio and film company passed on a film about the boxer Mickey Ward, Cummings developed and produced a sizzle reel that started a bidding war between all five major studios, eventually selling the Oscar nominated film ''The Fighter'' to Paramount Pictures. He also worked for 20th Century Fox as a staff writer and sold many screenplays to producers Gale Anne Hurd, Valhalla Motion Pictures, Joel Silver at Silver Pictures and to studios like Warner Brothers. He has also worked with Donnie Wahlberg as an acting coach for such films and TV shows as ''The Sixth Sense'', ''Band of Brothers'', ''Dreamcatcher'', ''The Practice'', ''Purgatory'', ''Boomtown'' and ''The Taking Of Pelham 1,2,3''. From 2007 to 2012, Cummings was head of development at Gigapix Studios, where he produced the award winning war documentary ''Baker Boys: Inside The Surge'' and also helped to guide Comedy Central's prime-time hit ''Workaholics''. Currently, Cummings is working with Jim Cardwell and John Bergeson at ET Pictures, a film distribution company. He is also producing a full length film titled ''SOS'', his follow up to ''Southie'', and is being directed by Andrzej Bartkovowiak, as well as developing a television series titles ''White Noose''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jimmy Cummings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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