Steven Krone
- Producer
- Writer
Steve Krone is a film and television producer, entertainment lawyer and former President of Village Roadshow Pictures.
During his nine-year tenure at Village Roadshow, the company amassed an impressive library of nearly 50 titles - with production budgets totaling almost $3 billion and worldwide box office receipts of nearly $7 billion - including The Matrix trilogy, Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve, Analyze This, Three Kings, Training Day, Mystic River, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Happy Feet. Steve was responsible for all day-to-day operations of VRP, including physical production; business and legal affairs; finance; marketing and distribution; strategic planning; and human resources and administration. While at Village Roadshow, Steve also taught entertainment law at the University of Chicago and the University of Southern California. He has also taught Entertainment Business, Law and Finance to MBA students at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Entertainment Law at UC Irvine.
After leaving Village Roadshow, Steve was a full-time film professor and law professor for a decade, beginning with a dual appointment at Chapman University as Associate Professor at the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and Visiting Associate Professor of Law. Steve left Chapman to become Director of the Donald E. Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute and Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School, a position he held for six years before returning to film producing.
Steve is a graduate of USC's School of Cinematic Arts and the Law School of the University of Chicago. Following law school, Steve was a law clerk to Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. and David H. Souter of the Supreme Court of the United States. After his judicial clerkships, Steve practiced entertainment law with Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, where he represented producers, directors, writers, actors and executives - including firm clients Steven Spielberg, George Miller, Ben Stiller, and Janet Jackson - before becoming an industry executive himself. He is an avid soccer fan, player and referee.
During his nine-year tenure at Village Roadshow, the company amassed an impressive library of nearly 50 titles - with production budgets totaling almost $3 billion and worldwide box office receipts of nearly $7 billion - including The Matrix trilogy, Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve, Analyze This, Three Kings, Training Day, Mystic River, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Happy Feet. Steve was responsible for all day-to-day operations of VRP, including physical production; business and legal affairs; finance; marketing and distribution; strategic planning; and human resources and administration. While at Village Roadshow, Steve also taught entertainment law at the University of Chicago and the University of Southern California. He has also taught Entertainment Business, Law and Finance to MBA students at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Entertainment Law at UC Irvine.
After leaving Village Roadshow, Steve was a full-time film professor and law professor for a decade, beginning with a dual appointment at Chapman University as Associate Professor at the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and Visiting Associate Professor of Law. Steve left Chapman to become Director of the Donald E. Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute and Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School, a position he held for six years before returning to film producing.
Steve is a graduate of USC's School of Cinematic Arts and the Law School of the University of Chicago. Following law school, Steve was a law clerk to Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. and David H. Souter of the Supreme Court of the United States. After his judicial clerkships, Steve practiced entertainment law with Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, where he represented producers, directors, writers, actors and executives - including firm clients Steven Spielberg, George Miller, Ben Stiller, and Janet Jackson - before becoming an industry executive himself. He is an avid soccer fan, player and referee.
