Eric Bress is an American screenwriter, film director and producer, probably best known for his work on the Final Destination series and The Butterfly Effect. He frequently collaborates with J. Mackye Gruber.His most recent project, The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, is in development. Since 2012 when the rights were optioned by AMPCO Films, he is no longer the screenwriter. He also has another project in development Blindsighted with his writing partner J. Mackye Gruber. Bress went to school at Hackley, an independent school in Tarrytown, and is a graduate of Syracuse University, where he studied film. He is originally from New York. He worked as a sound engineer before becoming a screenwriter.