Laurence Mark has worked in a variety of fields in the movie business, beginning in publicity, working his way up to the executive suite and eventually heading his own production company.

Mark entered showbiz as a trainee at United Artists and eventually became a publicist. He later joined the marketing department at Paramount Pictures, rising to the position of executive director of publicity for the motion picture division in NYC. After several promotions, Mark became vice president of production, overseeing such features as the James L Brooks' Oscar-winning "Terms of Endearment" and the