Steven P Wegner

Steven P.
Wegner is the former Executive Vice President of Development/Production for Alcon Entertainment, where he oversaw the company’s entire slate for over 16 years, which included a wide range of film projects in a variety of genres, before moving into a five-year “first-look” producing deal with the company.
Current projects in development and pre-production that Mr. Wegner is producing include Garfield, the fully animated reboot of the classic comic strip character, and Hong Kong Phooey, the live action/hybrid family comedy based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series.
His first project that went into production during his tenure at Alcon was the Christopher Nolan-directed film Insomnia, starring Oscar winners Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hilary Swank, on which Mr. Wegner was an associate producer, marking his producing debut.
He later served as executive producer on the family film Racing Stripes, which merged live action and computer animation; he also received “story by” credit on the film.
In recent years, Mr. Wegner was a producer on the critically acclaimed Dolphin Tale and its sequel, Dolphin Tale 2, directed by Charles Martin Smith and starring Harry Connick, Jr., Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman.
He has also co-produced or executive produced such Alcon releases as the Oscar winning Blade Runner 2049 with Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling; the critical favorite Prisoners, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal; The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and its sequel; the romantic drama P.S.
I Love You, starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler; the breakout hit The Blind Side, starring Sandra Bullock, which was Oscar-nominated for Best Picture; and The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington.
Prior to Alcon, Mr. Wegner worked as a freelance script reader for such production companies as New Line Cinema, Largo and Summit Entertainment.
He is a graduate of the Critical Studies Film Program at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.