with a partnership at Producers Sales Organization. In 1986, he had set up a two-year, seven-picture agreement with low-budget B-movie studio Empire International in order to produce feature films by early 1987. In 1987, director Arthur Seidelman partnered a non-exclusive association with Yablans to produce feature films. In 2003, Yablans and partners Cindy Bond, Charlie Stuart Gay and Ron Booth founded Promenade Pictures, a production and marketing company committed to "family-friendly" entertainment, with its most ambitious project the "Epic Stories of the Bible" series of CGI-animated features, inaugurated with The Ten Commandments (2007) and Noah's Ark: The New Beginning (2012). Death Yablans died on Thanksgiving, November 27, 2014, from natural causes at the age of 79. He had three children–Robert Yablans (deceased), Sharon Abrams, and Edward Yablans–and his long-time companion was Nadia Pandolfo. References External links 1935 births 2014 deaths American male screenwriters Jewish American screenwriters American film studio executives Paramount Pictures executives Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives Warner Bros. people 21st-century American Jews Presidents of Paramount Pictures