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	Conversations with Jon Turteltaub (2000) (V) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As the title suggests, "Conversations with Jon Turteltaub" is about director Jon Turteltaub and related information, such as his approach to directing, making films, working with actors, all that sort of stuff.
		We see brief clips of Jon directing and hear testimonials from those he has worked with – mainly actors – about how great he is (as though they would say they didn't like him, even if they didn't!).
		Jon talks a lot, as you can guess from the title, and discusses his job.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0302429 (286 words)

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		Turteltaub directed his latest film, National Treasure, straight to number one, a position befitting the auteur behind The Kid, While You Were Sleeping, Cool Runnings, and 3 Ninjas, perhaps the Citizen Kane of triplicate ninja films.
		Hence, Jon Turteltaub is exactly the right kind of hack for this kind of harmless popcorn thriller.
		What Turteltaub does so smoothly is inject absolutely none of his personality into a film like National Treasure, so as not to detract from the quirkiness of a Nicolas Cage or the penchant for the blank, blockbuster-ability of a Jerry Bruckheimer.
	www.erasingclouds.com /1214national.html (546 words)

	The Kid -- Jon Turteltaub: Boxoffice Sneak Preview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		THE LINES OF Director Jon Turteltaub Reveals the Child Within in "The Kid"
		Jon Turteltaub may be one of the few people actually fulfilling his childhood fantasies by directing blockbusters such as "Phenomenon," but even he was inherently drawn to screenwriter Audrey Wells' pitch for "The Kid."
		Produced by Jon Turteltaub, Christina Steinberg and Hunt Lowry.
	www.boxoff.com /issues/jun00/turteltaub.html (862 words)

	Jon Turteltaub
		Jon Turteltaub is a somewhat successful director of popcorn movies, including the Jamaican bobsled comedy Cool Runnings, the romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping, and the John Travolta-gets-smart daydream Phenomenon.
		Turteltaub has a lightly schmaltzy touch, with what one critic called "anti-panache", but given a good script he delivers the movie studios and audiences expect.
		His father, Saul Turteltaub, produced hit TV shows from That Girl in the 60s to Sanford and Son in the 70s to Kate & Allie in the 80s.
	www.nndb.com /people/263/000044131 (130 words)

	wsbradio.com: Event Guide Movie reviews, production notes, and more! - "National Treasure" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		JON VOIGHT is still remembered for the classic "Midnight Cowboy" which brought his first Academy Award® nomination, as well as his Oscar ®-winning turn as Luke Martin in "Coming Home." Since then, Voight has forged a career in which he successfully transitioned from leading man to one of America's most versatile character actors.
		JON TURTELTAUB (Director/Producer) is a director known for his intelligent treatment of comedy, drama and action in a wide range of powerful and memorable films.
		Turteltaub was nominated by the DGA for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television for his efforts and the series received ten Emmy® Awards and the Golden Globe® Award for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.
	wsbradio.com /common/movies/notes/37302-1-full.html (13647 words)

	Jon Turteltaub Developing Suspect Behavior, Clubhouse & Jericho
		According to The Hollywood Reporter, National Treasure director Jon Turteltaub is venturing into television with a three-for-one deal at CBS.
		Under the pact, Turteltaub is developing three scripts, all set up at Paramount Network Television, one of which is guaranteed to go to pilot.
		Turteltaub, who is involved in the development of the projects, will executive produce through his Junction Prods.
	www.movieweb.com /tv/news/42/10242.php (321 words)

	THE KID - Production Notes...CinemaReview.com....Movie Reviews, Movie Contents, Moviegoer Opinions and Much More!
		Director Jon Turteltaub first met screenwriter Audrey Wells in 1997 after his agent, David Lonner, who also represents Audrey, suggested that they meet regarding an idea she had for an original screenplay about what it would be like for an adult to meet himself as a young child.
		During this time, Turteltaub asked Hunt Lowry, one of the producers of "Instinct," who also produced several high profile films including "The Last of the Mohicans," "A Time to Kill" and "My Life," to come aboard to produce the film along with himself and Christina Steinberg.
		I have been reading scripts for ten years and this is certainly one of the best I have ever read." She called Turteltaub for his reaction who immediately said, "I must direct this movie.
	www.cinemareview.com /production.asp?prodid=1031 (1336 words)

	British Elle/Vince Vaughn & Jon Favreau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cage, along with co-stars Diane Kruger, Sean Bean, Jon Voight, Justin Bartha and miscellaneous B-players ripe for sacrifice, are filming a scene that purports to be taking place in the secret catacombs that lie under modern-day New York City.
		Our assembled cast - along with director Jon Turteltaub, camera and lighting crew and various assistants, gaffers and grips - is currently suspended loftily above ground zero on wobbly ledges and even wobblier cranes, and looking more than a little unsettled over the experience.
		First, director Jon Turteltaub had a stab at producing the film himself before raising his hands in defeat and admitting he needed a little help.
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	Jon Voight News
		The sequel to Disney's 2004 Nicolas Cage hit, 'National Treasure,' will be before the cameras the first of the year, reports Jon Turteltaub, who directed and co-produced the film with Jerry Bruckheimer.
		Jon Voight is thrilled with his Emmy Award nomination but insists any celebration won't be complete until he's reunited with his estranged daughter Angelina Jolie and met his new granddaughter.
		Actor JON VOIGHT, the estranged father of ANGELINA JOLIE, is enjoying the "wonderful feeling" of passers-by congratulating him on the birth of his granddaughter SHILOH NOUVEL.
	www.topix.net /who/jon-voight (769 words)

	Phenomenon . Tucson Weekly . 07-04-96
		One person's name was Tracy, and she was excited to see the movie because she admired the work of John Travolta.
		Tracy was also excited because the movie was directed by Jon Turtletaub, a man whom Tracy believed may have gone to the same grade school as she had.
		She did, however, feel angry at Jon Turtletaub, as well as John Travolta and the entire state of California, whose purpose it was to produce such empty entertainments salted with simplistic spiritual messages.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/tw/p/phenomenon_f.html (902 words)

	National Treasure
		Jon Turteltaub ("While You Were Sleeping," "Phenomenon") is the director and producer.
		Another enticement for Cage was a chance to work with director Jon Turteltaub, with whom he also has a very different past association: as teenagers, the two attended Beverly Hills High School together and even took the same drama class.
		Jon Turteltaub came to believe there couldn't have been a better choice to portray the playful yet daring hero.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/national_treasure/about.php (7647 words)

	BoxOffice.com box office ratings, movie business "TREASURE" TROVE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The intrepid Ben, whom Cage describes as "Sherlock Holmes on steroids," stumbles upon evidence that the Founding Fathers came to be entrusted with the treasure by its guards, the Knights Templar, and drew a map to the spectacular stockpile in invisible ink on the back of the Declaration of Independence.
		The approach Turteltaub and scripters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (of "Shrek" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" fame) took was based to a certain degree in facts.
		Turteltaub cites Cage's "quirkiness with a sense of humor and a masculine strength" as being integral to the role of Ben Gates.
	www.boxoffice.com /scripts/content.asp?terms=2095 (1642 words)

	Jon Turteltaub - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Turteltaub is also slated to direct National Treasure 2 for a 2007 release.
		Turteltaub also directed the first two episodes of the CBS television series, Jericho - "Pilot" and "Fallout".
		This page was last modified 19:22, 27 October 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jon_Turteltaub (124 words)

	End of the world produces breakout hit - CNN.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- With world attention focused on the nuclear ambitions of rogue states like North Korea, one might assume that the producers of CBS' promising new drama "Jericho," which deals with the aftermath of a nuclear attack, are merely playing on Americans' fears.
		Turteltaub's intention isn't to prey on that fear in the name of easy scares.
		It's those choices -- many of which have arisen as a result of "societal conventions being stripped away" -- that intrigue Turteltaub, a feature film director who shot the Nicolas Cage hit "National Treasure" and next directs its sequel, as he gets deeper into his first foray into television.
	cnn.com /2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/31/television.jericho.reut/index.html (507 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "National Treasure" movie review (2004) "National Treasure" review, Jon Turteltaub, Nicolas Cage, Diane ...
		Instead let's marvel at how a trio of hack writers (collectively responsible for "Snow Dogs," "The 6th Day" and "I-Spy"), coupled with a director whose best work is mediocre and pedestrian (Jon Turteltaub of "Phenomenon" and "Instinct"), can take this dumb idea and make it even worse in every conceivable way.
		First they contrived to have a series of barely coherent clues to the treasure's location appear in laughably cryptic little poems and in the design of the $1 and $100 bills.
		Turteltaub's next order of business was bad casting.
	www.splicedonline.com /04reviews/natltreasure.html (648 words)

	Jon Turteltaub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jon Turteltaub has 1 in-development credit available on IMDbPro.com.
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	Movie Stills \| National Treasure \| cagefactor.com
		The german-born actress Diane Kruger, the film's Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Jon Turteltaub also attended the press conference last night and their smiles are splashed across most of the Chinese media.
		Turteltaub, who is known less for action films than for strong character portrayals in films like Disney's "Kid," with Bruce Willis.
		Directed by Jon Turteltaub and starring Nicolas Cage, "Treasure" is produced by Bruckheimer (whose "Pirates of the Caribbean" grossed over $305 million domestically via Buena Vista/Disney) and Turteltaub.
	cagefactor.com /photos/nationaltreasure.html (6737 words)

	The Kid Premiere - Jon Turteltaub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Not the best of pictures (you might want to try the Spencer set for better pictures).
		Jon Turteltaub, the director, is in the middle of the frame turned around waving to someone.
		Spencer is in front of director Jon talking to one of the owners of Disney.
	www.movielocity.com /m/p/kid/jon.htm (61 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "The Kid" review (2000)
		Welles is a cagey and facile screenwriter who draws outside the lines on her characters and sprinkles the movie with moments of '30s-style screwball comedy and poignant sincerity, like the scene in which young Rusty proposes to Amy because he figures Russ doesn't have the courage to do it himself.
		While Turteltaub is pretty shameless with the movie's saccharine level and sentimental lessons-learned finale, he's also most directly responsible for keeping "The Kid's" IQ quotient respectably high.
		There are definitely remnants of old school Disney flicks here, but like the studio's update of its own "The Parent Trap" in 1998, this movie knows how to play sweet without insulting the intelligence of toady's more worldly family audiences -- thanks in large part to the Welles clever writing.
	www.splicedonline.com /00reviews/kid.html (888 words)

	National Treasure (2004)
		Until Ben’s father Patrick (Jon Voight), as he believes it’s a fool’s errand that’s harmed the family.
		This two-minute and 49-second segment starts with a short intro from Turteltaub as he tells us what an animatic is, and then we see the animatic.
		More Turteltaub commentary lets us know more about the clip’s problems, though he repeats some of what he says in the intro.
	www.dvdmg.com /nationaltreasure.shtml (2459 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Jon Turteltaub - 1993 - Cool Runnings Movies Review
		With Disney producing the movie, the humor could have been trite and childish, thereby diminishing the athletes and sport the film portrays.
		Surprisingly, however, Jon Turteltaub resisted for the most part the natural Disney inclination to dumb down a story; instead he gives us a tale which, while perhaps cleaner and cheerier than it really lived, still conveys the drive and courage of Olympic athletes pushing hard to be the best.
		Turteltaub has transferred Richard Lester's excellent screenplay from the Beatles' 1964 hit to the Jamaican bobsled team, creating of the mix an excellent group of characters who, even more than the absurdity of the story itself, drive the movie.
	www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10002409 (1515 words)

	national treasure
		Restlessly directed by Jon Turteltaub, who showed no particular flair for adventure filmmaking in his wet Phenomenon and Instinct, the movie goes like a rocket, from one ornate clue to the next; National Treasure is more a detective story than a two-fisted adventure like the Indiana Jones movies.
		The vast treasure promised by a family document has haunted Ben's life, much to the dismay of his hard-headed dad (Jon Voight), who thinks the treasure's a myth.
		Regardless, Ben has managed to convince some people, including his computer-nerd helper Riley (a scene-stealing Justin Bartha) and a shady character, Ian Howe, who funds Ben's missions; Ian is played by Sean Bean, who specializes in duplicity, so we know he's bad news the second we lay eyes on him.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/nationaltreasure.html (637 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: National Treasure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Nicolas Cage stars as Ben Gates, a member of a Freemason sect known as the Knights of the Templar who has spent his life searching for a legendary bounty hidden during the Revolutionary War by the founding fathers (most of whom were also Freemasons).
		Amidst such thumb-twiddling tediousness, Jon Voigt pops up as Ben's cranky dad and Harvey Keitel cameos as an FBI agent (and Freemason sympathizer) hot on Ben's trail, neither actor putting any effort into their embarrassingly undemanding roles.
		But I guess some small consolation can be derived from the fact that, at the preview I attended, Keitel's initial appearance was greeted with a burst of spontaneous laughter from the crowd—an encouraging sign that the once-daring actor's selling-out in this lazy, dunderheaded debacle hadn't gone completely unnoticed.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1346 (472 words)

	Jon Turteltaub - Moviefone
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	Amazon.com: Driving Me Crazy: Video: Jon Turteltaub,Thomas Gottschalk,Billy Dee Williams,Milton Berle,George ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		Posted May 1, 2005, 8:01 AM ET Jon Turteltaub’s career has been about big hits and big stars.
		He’s the man whose vision brought us the tale of the 1988 Jamaican bobsled team in Cool Runnings and jarred some forgotten memories with Bruce Willis in The Kid.
		Jon Voight’s and Harvey Keitel’s contributions to the film...
	www.razormagazine.com /2005/05/01/director-s-chair-with-jon-turteltaub (333 words)

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