Walter F. Parkes

Walter F Parkes born April 15 1951 is an American producer screenwriter and media executive The producer of more than 50 films including the Men in Black series and Minority Report he is the cofounder and cochairman of Dreamscape Immersive Parkes and his wife and business partner producer Laurie MacDonald helped to build DreamWorks with Parkes the head of its motion picture division and the two later moved to Amblin Entertainment where Parkes served as president He has been nominated for three Academy Awards receiving his first nomination as the director producer of the 1975 documentary The California Reich his second for cowriting the original screenplay for WarGames and his third as a producer of Awakenings Parkes and MacDonald created the Parkes Macdonald production company PM PM Image Nation in 2010 collaborating on the productions of a number of films including films that Amblin has released Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter F Parkes licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia