Formation and Properties
Founded in September 2001 by producer Darlene Caamaño (by then married to Mark Stephen Loquet) and manager Noah Rosen, Los Angeles-based D-No Entertainment is "a management/production company dedicated to the representation of Latin talent, and the production of their material." The two developed a number of properties, including Next Door for New Line Cinema, Love Simple for Paramount, On 2 with Miramax, Phoenix Pictures' Jumped In. In February, 2002, the D-No/Rosen-managed writers Keith Mitchell and Allie Dvorian announced that they were developing a project for Disney about Peter Westbrook, the only black man "ever to win an Olympic medal for fencing." In 2003, D-No started representing Australian writer Ben Blanks, after he was referred by Rudy Scalese.
D-No sold projects by the Latin writing team of Lalo Lopez and Esteban Zul (of Pocho Productions), which included Taco Truck The Movie, sold to New Line Cinema, Lowriders, bought by Twentieth Century Fox, College RoadTrip (with MTV), The Chuco Brothers, a Disney-purchased animated television series and Last Night in East L.A., an independent film starring Jay Hernandez, Aimee Garcia and Joy Enriquez.
In July 2003, D-No Entertainment (with Metrostop Entertainment) "established a relationship" with Bob Layton, David Michelinie and Dick Giordano's Future Comics comic book publishing company to adapt their properties (in particular Freemind and Deathmask) for the big or small screen.
As many of these projects either remain "in development," or have fallen by the wayside, D-No's best known property in one developed for many years, but only released in 2007. Caamaño-Loquet and Rosen share the executive producer credit on Dan in Real Life, which they developed and sold to Walt Disney Pictures. Starring Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche, the film was released by Touchstone in 2007.
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