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DON CARMODY (Executive Producer)
Don Carmody has been producing films for more than 30 years. He was
vice-president of production for Canada’s Cinepix (now Lions Gate
Films), where he co-produced David Cronenberg’s early shockers
THEY CAME FROM WITHIN and RABID as well as the popular comedy MEATBALLS.
Starting his own production company in 1980, Carmody went on to produce
the smash hits PORKY’S and PORKY’S II, also the perennially
popular A CHRISTMAS STORY as well as SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE
FORBIDDEN ZONE, WHISPERS, THE BIG TOWN, PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, SWITCHING
CHANNELS and several Chuck Norris films, including THE HITMAN and SIDEKICKS.
He returned to comedy successfully with the WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S
series, and “The Late Shift” for H.B.O., which was nominated
for seven Emmy Awards, three Cable Ace awards and the Producers’
Guild of America Golden Laurel. “The Late Shift” also won
a Golden Globe for actress Kathy Bates and a Directors’ Guild
Award for Betty Thomas.
His credits include some 75 films thus far, including JOHNNY MNEMONIC
with Keanu Reeves, THE MIGHTY with Sharon Stone, STUDIO 54 with Mike
Myers, the Academy Award nominated GOOD WILL HUNTING with Matt Damon,
Ben Affleck and Robin Williams, IN TOO DEEP with L.L. Kool J, the cult
hit THE BOONDOCK SAINTS with Willem Dafoe, THE THIRD MIRACLE with Ed
Harris and Anne Heche, GET CARTER with Sylvester Stallone, THE WHOLE
NINE YARDS with Bruce Willis and Mathew Perry, THE PLEDGE directed by
Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson, 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND with
Kevin Costner and Courtney Cox, CAVEMAN’S VALENTINE with Samuel
Jackson, ANGEL EYES with Jennifer Lopez, David Mamet’s THE HEIST
with Gene Hackman, and Danny DeVito, CITY BY THE SEA with Robert De
Niro and Frances McDormand, WRONG TURN with Eliza Dushku , GOTHIKA starring
Halle Berry, Penelope Cruz and Robert Downey Jr., RESIDENT EVIL based
on the all time bestselling video game and RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE
starring Milla Jovovich, ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 with Ethan Hawke, Laurence
Fishburne, Gabriel Byrne and Maria Bello, LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN with Bruce
Willis, Josh Hartnett and Morgan Freeman, and SILENT HILL starring Radha
Mitchell and Sean Bean. SKINWALKERS starring Jason Behr, Elias Koteas,
Rhona Mitra, and Sarah Carter will be released in theatres end of July,
he has completed production on OUTLANDER, starring Jim Caviezel, Sophia
Myles, Jack Huston, John Hurt and Ron Perlman, is presently in production
on WHITEOUT, starring Kate Beckinsale and is in pre-production on the
thriller DRIVER.
In 2002 he was Co-Producer of the hit film musical of CHICAGO starring
Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere, which
won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, three Golden Globe
Awards, Including Best Musical or Comedy and the Producers’ Guild
of America Golden Laurel Award for Best Picture as well as many, many
other awards and citations around the world.
Following his genre instincts, Carmody recently branched out into the
theatre world and was part of the production team for the Off Broadway
play “Evil Dead: The Musical”, a campy send-up of Sam Raimi’s
cult classic horror films EVIL DEAD 1 AND II, which opened in New York
to rave reviews.
Don Carmody was born in New England and emigrated to Canada with his
parents as a boy. He graduated from film school in Montreal and has
gone on to produce films all over the world. He currently lives in Toronto
and Los Angeles.
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