Oren Koules
Oren Koules ( born January 31, 1961 in La Grange, Illinois ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player and current - functionary, and film producer. He is best known for its film series Saw, which is produced by his production company.
Career
As a hockey player
Oren Koules began his career as a hockey player in Canadian junior Western Hockey League, where he from 1979 to 1982 for the Portland Winter Hawks, Great Falls Americans, Medicine Hat Tigers, Spokane Flyers, Calgary Wranglers and Brandon Wheat Kings was active. In the Great Falls Americans who prematurely in their first season einstellten the operation of gambling, he holds the record with nine goals as top scorer in the franchise 's history. Towards the end of the 1981/82 season the winger also played a game for the Saginaw Gears in the International Hockey League. The 1982/83 season he finally spent in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League at the Virginia Raiders and Hampton Roads Gulls ( where he played with the late NHL coach John Tortorella together) to a long-term professional career in one of the great hockey leagues handed it but not, so he then ended his career.
As a film producer
In 1998, Oren Koules co-founded with Mark Burg, the company Evolution Entertainment, which produces TV movies and series. Six years later he founded with castle and Gregg Hoffman, the production company Twisted Pictures that eventually the production of the successful Saw film series took over in which he was in two parts as an extra front of the camera. In addition, Koules has worked as an executive producer for the Two and a Half Men comedy series. For the production of Saw Koules, in 2007, along with its corporate partner castle the ShoWest Award in the category Outstanding production. Other well-known films that have been produced by Koules are Good Advice - Good advice is expensive ( 2001) and Mrs. Winterbourne (1996).
For its participation in the film Dumb and Dumberer In 2004 he received along with the other producers of the film the negative price Razzie for the worst remake of the year.
NHL team owner
In summer 2008, he acquired along with former Canadian ice hockey player Len Barrie about the shareholder group OK Hockey, chaired he took over the rights to the NHL franchise the Tampa Bay Lightning for about 206 million U.S. dollars. 2010 sold the OK hockey franchise to the entrepreneur Jeff Vinnik.