For nearly fifteen years, BME has been a leader in family and kids’ entertainment, producing a wide variety of theatrical feature films, direct to video films, and television series for both cable and broadcast, and home video. BME continues to be the largest out-sourced vendor of production for the Disney Channel. BME also has a respected reputation for discovering several of today’s top stars, giving them their big break and grooming them for successful Hollywood careers.


 


BME is proud to have produced its 100th episode of the Disney channel’s highest rated TV series That’s So Raven starring Raven Symone.Prior to that, they produced 65 episodes and won an Emmy for the Disney Channel’s hit series Even Stevens starring Shia Labeouf and Christy Carlson Romano; and The Even Stevens Movie, which BME produced and partner Sean McNamara directed. Even Stevens has also been the proud recipient of the coveted BAFTA (British Academy of Television Arts and Sciences) Award in the category of Children’s International Programming. 







In addition to their success in television, BME has produced and Sean McNamara directed 10 family films for Lions Gate, 20th Century Fox, PorchLight and Colombia Pictures starring such notable names as James Woods, John Voight, Scott Bakula, Rita Wilson, Jim Varney, Fred Dryer and Daniel Baldwin.



 
 

BME has also become widely known as the producers who discover tomorrow’s stars.BME is proud to have discovered one of Hollywood’s biggest new rising star, Shia Labeouf, who starred opposite Harrison Ford in the latest installment of Indiana Jones. Shia was also the star of Michael Bay and Steven Speilberg’s Transformers and last summer Dreamwork’s sleeper hit Disturbia. BME also cast Hilary Duff in her first movie, Christy Carlson Romano and Raven Symone. BME continues to work and develop projects with these rising stars and in the future hopes to manage the careers of their next discoveries. 


In 2004/2005 BME raised its profile throughout the industry when
Sean McNamara directed and BME produced the New Line feature film,
Raise Your Voice
starring teen sensation Hilary Duff. They also sold and produced 13 episodes of Just for Kicks, a teen girl’s soccer show with Executive Producer Whoopi Goldberg for Nickelodeon.
         




                     
In 2005, BME created their first drama Beyond the Break,
which they arranged financing for and sold to The “N,” Viacom/Nickelodeon’s hot new channel targeted at the much desired “teen” audience. BME has just completedproduction of 14 additional half-hour episodes shot entirely in Hawaii, bringing the total to 34 completed episodes.





                              
In between these two series, Sean McNamara directed and BME produced The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold, for Sony/MGM. The film premiered on ABC Family Channel and was the channel’s highest rated movie in over two years. The film was released on DVD March 28, 2006 and has already gone into second orders in such major retailers as Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy. BME is also in discussions with ABC Family Channel about turning Cutting Edge into a series for the channel.


 In 2006, BME produced 39 combined episodes of Cake and Dance Revolution(based on the popular game) for DIC/CBS Saturday Morning 


In 2007, BME produced 20 half-hour episodes of the live action/animation hybrid,Out of Jimmy’s Head for Cartoon Network. 

 In 2008, BME produced a sequel to Legally Blonde for MGM/Fox, “Legally Blondes”. The company also produced a sequel to Into the Blue, shot entirely in Hawaii, for MGM/Fox.