Producer Mike De Luca is responsible for some of the most groundbreaking films of the last 15 years. After enrolling in New York University's film studies program at 17, De Luca dropped out four credits shy of graduation to take an unpaid internship at New Line Cinema. He advanced quickly there under the tutelage of founder Robert Shaye and eventually became President of Production. The Mask (1994), Se7en (1995), Boogie Nights (1997), Dark City (1998), Pleasantville (1998), and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) were all released under his supervision.

In 2003, De Luca left New Line to become President of Production at DreamWorks. After a brief tenure there, De Luca left and signed a deal with Sony Pictures, where he produced Zathura (2005) and Ghost Rider (2006). A writer as well, De Luca wrote the screenplays for Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) and In the Mouth of Madness (1994).

Writer Jay A. Fernandez grew up outside of Philadelphia and studied politics and journalism at Wake Forest University and American University. After getting his start writing book reviews at The Washington Post, he moved to New York and worked in the editorial departments of Barnesandnoble.com and Premiere. In 2000, he moved to Los Angeles to take a job as managing editor of Code, a minority men's culture magazine.

As a freelance journalist, Fernandez has written cover stories, news items, profiles, set pieces, business stories, Q&As, crossword puzzles, and humor columns about music, TV, books, and film for Premiere, The Washington Post, Time Out New York, Entertainment Weekly, Savoy, Variety, USA Today, Los Angeles, LIFE, USA Weekend, ELLE, National Geographic KIDS, In Style, Seventeen, and Code. He currently writes the Scriptland column for The Los Angeles Times.