Businessman, Film Producer and donor to progressive causes. He is the founder of Shangri-La Entertainment. At age 18, he inherited a fortune from his grandfather Leo S. Bing, a New York real estate developer for whom a theater at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is named. He attended Harvard Westlake school in Los Angeles, and co-wrote his first screenplay, "Missing in Action," before graduating. The script eventually turned into a film starring Chuck Norris. He has also enrolled at Stanford University but dropped out before graduating to pursue a career in entertainment, later starting his production company, Shangri-La Entertainment, and co-writing the screenplay to the 2003 comedy "Kangaroo Jack," produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Helped finance "The Polar Express," a motion-capture animated film based on a children's book of the same name, that starred Tom Hanks, and produced "Shine a Light," Martin Scorsese's 2008 documentary about the Rolling Stones. More recently, he partnered with several other Hollywood financiers to finance "Rules Don't Apply," a 2016 film written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty, who also starred in it as Howard Hughes. In 2009, he helped in the return of two American journalists from North Korea. He owned the plane that flew the journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, back to the United States with Mr. Clinton, who had traveled to Pyongyang to win their release.
Businessman, Film Producer and donor to progressive causes. He is the founder of Shangri-La Entertainment. At age 18, he inherited a fortune from his grandfather Leo S. Bing, a New York real estate developer for whom a theater at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is named. He attended Harvard Westlake school in Los Angeles, and co-wrote his first screenplay, "Missing in Action," before graduating. The script eventually turned into a film starring Chuck Norris. He has also enrolled at Stanford University but dropped out before graduating to pursue a career in entertainment, later starting his production company, Shangri-La Entertainment, and co-writing the screenplay to the 2003 comedy "Kangaroo Jack," produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Helped finance "The Polar Express," a motion-capture animated film based on a children's book of the same name, that starred Tom Hanks, and produced "Shine a Light," Martin Scorsese's 2008 documentary about the Rolling Stones. More recently, he partnered with several other Hollywood financiers to finance "Rules Don't Apply," a 2016 film written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty, who also starred in it as Howard Hughes. In 2009, he helped in the return of two American journalists from North Korea. He owned the plane that flew the journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, back to the United States with Mr. Clinton, who had traveled to Pyongyang to win their release.
Bio by: Colleen Liles Perry
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