JASON E. SQUIRE, Lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing Program and also Instructor of Cinema Practice at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, helped establish “movie business” as a distinct area of academic study with his pioneering work as co-editor of The Movie Business: American Film Industry Practice (1972), the first textbook in the field. Years later, his first edition of The Movie Business Book (1983), was quickly adopted by colleges, industry professionals and movie buffs. The second edition (1992) was translated into Japanese, German and Korean. The third edition, required reading at universities around the world, emphasizes cutting-edge technology, the independent spirit, new revenue streams and globalization. In North America, it is published by Simon & Schuster/Fireside (2004). In the rest of the world, it is published by McGraw-Hill Education’s Open University Press (2006) as The Movie Business Book International Third Edition. A Spanish translation is published by T & B Editores, Madrid (2006), as El Juego de Hollywood (The Hollywood Game). He continues to negotiate his own publishing deals. After a career as a movie executive, Squire joined the USC faculty. In the MPW program he teaches screenwriting. In the School of Cinematic Arts, he teaches movie business, their internship program, the feature film case study class and screenwriting. As a media source on the movie business, Squire has written articles for The New York Times Sunday Money & Business section and The Los Angeles Times, and has appeared on NPR and the CBS Evening News in the U.S., on PSB (Pusan Broadcasting Corp.) in Korea and on NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.). As an industry consultant, his clients have included investors, the USA Film Festival in Dallas and Bain & Company in Chicago. He has appeared on conference panels for the AFI/Aspen Institute, Beverly Hills Bar Association, Billboard magazine, UCLA, and moderated a panel for the armed forces at USC’s Institute for Creative Technology. Squire began his career at age 21 as assistant to the Vice President of Production at Avco Embassy Pictures. Later, he worked at United Artists as assistant to the Senior Vice President of Production; as the key executive in America for Italian producer Alberto Grimaldi (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Last Tango in Paris) on both coasts; and in movies for television at Twentieth Century Fox. For Grimaldi, he worked on the development of Red Harvest (James Bridges, writer-director); Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, director); The Wanderers (Phil Kaufman, writer-director); and Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, director), among others. He served as Grimaldi’s representative on the American post-production of Bernardo Bertolucci’s epic 1900 (working with Robert DeNiro and Donald Sutherland); Fellini’s Casanova (with Sutherland); and as production executive on Burnt Offerings (with Bette Davis and Karen Black). In the recording industry, Squire was executive producer of the soundtrack albums for Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer for composer Basil Poledouris. His dramatic writings include a screenplay adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest, made as an Italian-Spanish co-production, and a stage play Waiting Room. Squire and his writing partner Joe Singer are developing original screenplays after their first thriller was optioned as a feature film. As an independent producer, he worked with Nicholas Meyer (director of Star Trek VI), Fred Schepisi (director of Six Degrees of Separation), and Stan Lee (creator of Marvel Comics characters including Spider-Man). A native of Brooklyn, Squire graduated with honors from Syracuse University (which later featured him in their Newhouse Network alumni publication) and earned a master’s degree from UCLA. He lives in West Los Angeles, California with his wife Tari and is active in community affairs. In 2004, he was elected to the first board of directors of the West Los Angeles Neighborhood Council and served as vice chairman, under the authority of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment of the City of Los Angeles.