Who Are the Producers Getting Movies Made?

Roy Lee

A 25-year veteran and a clutch hitter who had a massive 2025 and produced or executive produced an eye-popping 11 titles, including “Minecraft” which garnered almost $1 billion at the box office, Roy Lee is everywhere. He was involved with Zach Cregger’s “Weapons,” which became a smash hit that banked almost $300 million worldwide on a budget of $38 million and bagged a Best Supporting Actress trophy for Amy Madigan. Lee also produced Lionsgate’s Stephen King adaptation of “The Long Walk” as well as New Line’s “Companion.”

Up next, Lee produced Cregger’s “Resident Evil” at Sony, the “Minecraft” sequel at Warner Bros. and has a “Battlefield” package out to buyers with “Mission: Impossible” director Christopher McQuarrie and Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan attached to star. He’s also producing Margot Robbie’s adaptation of “The Sims,” Lionsgate’s “Blair Witch” reboot and Curry Barker’s “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” redo at A24.

Jason Blum

Over the past 15 years, Jason Blum has turned Blumhouse from a threadbare horror start-up into one of the pillars of the entire industry. Keeping budgets low and focusing on up-and-coming talent, Blum has generated franchises like “Paranormal Activity,” “The Purge” and “Happy Death Day” and killer one-offs like the Oscar-winning “Get Out” and cult favorites like “Sweetheart” and “Freaky.” He also put the unique Blumhouse stamp on stalwart series like “Halloween,” “The Exorcist” and, soon, “The Blair Witch Project” (out next year). He even attached his name to “Obsession,” this year’s breakout horror hit, after it was completed to help market the film.

The Blumhouse name means something – to fans and studios alike (Few producers have had their own haunted house at Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights for multiple years). His portfolio is also more diverse than you’d imagine; Paul Greengrass’ “The Lost Bus” and this fall’s “The Uprising” are Blum joints, as was Spike Lee’s “BlackkKklansman” and Richard Linklater’s upcoming “Merrily We Roll Along.” On TV he’s been responsible for everything from the true crime doc “The Jinx” to HBO’s “Sharp Objects” to Prime Video’s “Scarpetta.”

Only Blum can produce Damien Chazelle’s debut feature “Whiplash” and get a Tony nomination for the “Death Becomes Her” Broadway musical. Upcoming projects include Curry Barker’s “Obsession” follow-up “Anything but Ghosts” and a new “Exorcist” from Mike Flanagan starring Scarlett Johansson. And when Blumhouse joined forces with James Wan’s Atomic Monster, the companies became a unified genre powerhouse with even greater reach and influence. Speaking of which …

James Wan

James Wan is perhaps best known as a director. He made the first “Saw” movie, the first two “Insidious” films and the first two “Conjuring” movies (all huge hits). And when he expanded outside of horror, he made an even bigger impact, directing the seemingly impossible “Furious 7” (Paul Walker tragically died during production) and turning an also-ran comic book hero like “Aquaman” into the biggest movie of the modern DC era. (It’s still the highest grossing of the bunch.)

But he’s done even more as a producer with his Atomic Monster shingle – he turned “The Conjuring” into the rare, non-MCU cinematic universe, with a prequel (“The Conjuring: First Communion”) coming next year; and championed more up-and-coming talent like Osgood Perkins (“The Monkey”) and Kane Parsons (“Backrooms”). And while Wan had worked closely with Jason Blum on several projects, including the “Insidious” and “M3GAN” franchises, the formal union between the two companies means that they can still operate independently but can also tackle bigger projects together, like the upcoming resurrection of “Paranormal Activity” and “Saw.” Talk about a killer line-up.

Amy Pascal

An industry veteran with several monumental hits under her belt, Amy Pascal produced “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” which garnered over $2 billion worldwide at the box office this year, breaking numerous records in the process. She has produced the Tom Holland-led “Spider-Man” franchise via her Pascal Pictures banner since 2017’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” having previously shepherded the franchise as Sony’s studio head. She also produced the hit animated “Spider-Verse” movies, with highly anticipated “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse” hitting theaters in 2027.

Along with producing another 2026 box office hit in “Project Hail Mary,” she is also steering “James Bond” into the new era with Heyman at Amazon MGM Studios, is a producer on Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia” movie at Netflix and is producing the Jamie Lee Curtis-led “Murder She Wrote” for Universal.

David Heyman

As the producer of the “Harry Potter” franchise, David Heyman was one of the key architects of one of the century’s defining film series. He is now executive producing the “Harry Potter” TV series at HBO Max, which premieres at Christmas and has already landed a second season renewal. And when Quentin Tarantino went searching for a new producer for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Heyman became his man. Heyman’s other credits include Academy Award-nominated hits like “Gravity,” “Marriage Story” “Paddington” and “Barbie.”

Up next, Heyman and fellow producer Amy Pascal are shepherding the “James Bond” franchise reboot for Amazon MGM Studios, while he also produced Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie “Artificial” (also for Amazon) and the Taylor Sheridan-scripted “F.A.S.T.” for Warner Bros.

Will Packer

One of most prolific producers working today, Will Packer has produced or executive produced a wide range of movies, including “The Photograph,” “Little,” “What Men Want,” “Night School,” “Breaking In,” “Girls Trip,” “Ride Along 2,” “Straight Outta Compton,” “No Good Deed,” “Think Like a Man Too,” “Ride Along,” “Think Like a Man,” “Takers,” “Obsessed” and “Stomp the Yard.” 

He is the founder and CEO of film production company Will Packer Productions and Will Packer Media, a television, digital and branded content company. Most recently, Universal released the Packer-produced romantic comedy “You, Me and Tuscany,” which starred Halle Baily and Regé-Jean Page. Next up, sequels “Ride Along 3” and “Girls Trip 2” are in the works.

Sev Ohanian

The first Armenian American to be nominated by the Academy for Best Picture, Ohanian produced “Sinners” with Ryan Coogler and Zinzi Coogler, a project that bagged an all-time 16 nominations, winning four. Ohanian co-wrote and produced 2018’s screen-life thriller “Searching” with his wife and producing partner Natalie Qasabian and director Aneesh Chaganty. He also co-wrote and produced “Run” and “Missing,” the standalone sequel to “Searching.”

Ohanian is also one of the co-founders of Proximity Media, the multi-platform media company he co-founded with Ryan and Zinzi Coogler. He was also an executive producer on Marvel Studios’ “Ironheart” on Disney+, “Eyes on Wakanda” for Disney+, “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Space Jam: A New Legacy,” and “Creed III.”

The epitome of “immigrant hustle,” Ohanian got his start directing the micro-budgeted 2008 indie “My Big Fat Armenian Family” for just $800. Over the summer, Proximity Media signed a multi-year creative partnership with Netflix, and next up, Ohanian executive produces a reboot of “The X-Files” for Hulu.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Jerry Bruckheimer is still one of the hardest working men in the business. The producer behind “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Armageddon” (to name a few) has entered perhaps the most exciting period of his career. Both 2022’s “Top Gun: Maverick” and last year’s “F1” were blockbusters that earned Bruckheimer Best Picture nominations – a rare feat and one that acknowledged his larger impact on both the industry and the art form. And he shows no signs of slowing down.

Among the projects currently in the hopper include another “Pirates of the Caribbean” film for Disney, a fifth “Bad Boys” film for Sony and a UFO movie that would reunite him with his “F1” and “Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski and Apple Films. He also has a third “National Treasure” movie and is set to re-team with Michael Mann for the first time in more than 40 years (Bruckheimer produced Mann’s first theatrical film “Thief”) for the hugely anticipated “Heat 2,” which, after a fumbled attempt by Paramount and Sony, is now at Amazon MGM Studios, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale in the starring roles. To quote a song from another one of Bruckheimer’s films, The heat is on.

Emma Thomas

Emma Thomas has produced every film directed by her husband, Christopher Nolan, dating back to 1998’s “Following” and including “The Odyssey,” which just became the third film to crack a billion at the box office for the pair. She is also a co-founder of the duo’s Syncopy banner and won her first Best Picture Oscar producing “Oppenheimer,” with Charles Roven.

Her movies have grossed north of $7 billion worldwide as she navigates the increasingly vast and labyrinthian tales that Nolan dreams up, making such complex productions as “Inception,” “Interstellar,” “Dunkirk” and “Tenet” a reality. For “The Odyssey,” Thomas spearheaded production across seven different countries.

Kevin Feige

Since becoming president of Marvel Studios in 2007, Kevin Feige pioneered the Marvel Cinematic Universe and ushered in the golden era of superhero movies through The Infinity Saga. He’s hands down the most successful Hollywood producer of all time. Feige’s movies are approaching an unheard-of $35 billion in worldwide box office receipts over 38 movies.

Along with producing “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” with Amy Pascal, Feige has the next two “Avengers” movies — “Doomsday” and “Secret Wars” — coming to theaters along with “Ghost Rider” and “Black Panther 3.” During the first 11 movies of the MCU, Feige pulled off a magic trick no other Hollywood creative has managed, telling an interconnected 23-movie saga with critical acclaim and commercial success.

When it came time to do it again with The Multiverse Saga, Feige’s track record became a bit more uneven as he began producing a vast slate of MCU television series. There were still some heavy hitters at the box office during this era, like “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Deadpool & Wolverine” and a pair of Spider-Man movies, though the MCU also faced some of its first and most significant failures.

Still, it is undeniable that Feige has shepherded the dominant Hollywood franchise for nearly two decades, with plans to reboot the franchise once more with films like 2028’s “X-Men.”

Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon, the Oscar-winning star of blockbuster movies like “Legally Blonde,” “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Your Place or Mine,” is also a media mogul who founded her Hello Sunshine banner in 2016 to put women centered-stories front and center. She produced “Big Little Lies” and “The Morning Show,” which will air its fifth and final season on Apple TV in 2027.

In 2021, she sold a majority stake in her company for $900 million to the Blackstone-backed company Candle Media. Other credits include “Daisy Jones & the Six” and “Where the Crawdads Sing.” On the feature side, she is producing “The Nightingale” at TriStar Pictures, which will star Dakota and Elle Fanning and mark the first time that the two sisters have acted in a film together.

Margot Robbie

On top of being one of Hollywood’s busiest actresses, Margot Robbie is also the co-founder of one of the busiest production banners in town, LuckyChap Entertainment, with Tom Ackerly and Josey McNamara. LuckyChap produced the smash hit “Barbie,” which grossed over $1.4 billion at the box office and garnered eight Academy Award nominations. It also produced the critically acclaimed and award-winning films “I, Tonya,” “Promising Young Woman,” and “Saltburn.” On the television side, it produced the hit limited series “Maid” and the comedy “Dollface.”

LuckyChap’s most recent film, “Wuthering Heights” grossed a respectable $242 million worldwide against a budget of $80 million. With talks currently underway for “Barbie 2,” next up, Robbie is both starring in and producing the untitled “Ocean’s Eleven” prequel at Warner Bros. Pictures with Bradley Cooper directing and co-starring. On the television side, Robbie will executive produce “The Retrievals” at Netflix, the latest series from “Sirens” creator Molly Smith Metzler.

Emma Stone

Two-time Oscar winner Emma Stone is also a busy producer. In 2024, Universal signed a first look deal with Fruit Tree, the production banner from Stone, Emmy-nominated writer-director Dave McCary and Ali Herting. Founded by married couple Stone and McCary in 2020, with Herting joining shortly thereafter, Fruit Tree co-produced Yorgos Lanthimos’ Oscar-winning “Poor Things,” which earned Stone her second Academy Award for Best Actress.

Fruit Tree has also produced several acclaimed independent films including Julio Torres’ “Problemista,” Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow,” and Jesse Eisenberg’s Sundance hit “A Real Pain.” Fruit Tree also signed a first look and TV development deal with Fremantle last year.

Next up, Stone and Chris Pine are set to star in the original romantic comedy “The Catch” at Universal with Fruit Tree producing alongside Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps banner, and Stone produced Eisenberg’s second directorial effort, the A24 film “The Debut.”

Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner

Dede Gardner is the first woman to win two Best Picture Academy Awards for producing “12 Years a Slave” and “Moonlight.” She has served as co-president of Plan B Entertainment, the production banner co-founded by Brad Pitt, alongside Jeremy Kleiner since 2013. Kleiner first joined the banner in 2003, working his way up from creative executive to producer, ultimately becoming co-president in 2013. They recently produced “F1” for Apple, which became the highest-grossing sports movie of all time at $634.1 million and also scored a Best Picture nomination. On the television side, they execuitve produced the Netflix miniseries “Adolescence,” which won eight Emmy Awards.

They recently produced Jane Schoenbrun’s Mubi release “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” and the David Fincher-directed, Quentin Tarantino-written, Brad Pitt-starring “The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth” at Netflix.

Next up, they will produce the film adaptation of Richard Powers’ AI novel “Playground” at Warner Bros., which has Timothée Chalamet attached to star. And they’re producing Edward Berger’s “The Riders,” starring Pitt.

Todd Lieberman

Todd Lieberman is having one hell of a year. Back in December, the film adaptation of Freida McFadden’s “The Housemaid” starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried opened to No. 1 at $19 million and legged out to nearly $400 million worldwide, against a budget of $35 million. A sequel “The Housemaid’s Secret” was immediately greenlit and commences production this year. Liebermann also produced “War Machine” starring Alan Ritchson at Netflix, which was the most-watched film for the first half of the year with 146.9 million views. That film is also getting a sequel.

In total, he has had nine movies open at No. 1 at the box office, and they have been nominated for 11 Academy Awards, winning three. His credits also include “Wonder,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Aeronauts,” “Stronger,” “The Fighter,” “The Muppets,” “Warm Bodies” and “The Proposal,” among others. Up next, Lieberman is producing a live-action “Voltron” adaptation at Prime Video and the Jane Fonda-led bestseller adaptation “The Correspondent” at Lionsgate.

Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler

Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler have long been tastemakers of Hollywood’s indie scene. By the time they launched their independent production company Killer Films in 1995, Vachon had already produced “Poison,” the debut feature by her college buddy (and now prolific filmmaker) Todd Haynes. The duo has continued to produce Haynes’ work while also backing early features from such directors as Celine Song, John Cameron Mitchell, Janicza Bravo, Brady Corbet and Aaron Schimberg.

In November, Koffler and Vachon will receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, an honorary Oscar given to producers whose bodies of work reflect “a consistently high quality of motion picture production.” The award, which had only been given out on five prior occasions this century, previously went to such names as Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Francis Ford Coppola.

To underline Vachon’s tenacity, she recently produced Todd Haynes’ gay romance “De Noche,” which fell apart weeks before filming when Joaquin Phoenix backed out. She didn’t give up, put the pieces back together and the film is now in the can with Pedro Pascal in the lead role.

Nina Jacobson

Nina Jacobson is the producer of “The Hunger Games” franchise through her company Color Force, which she runs with producer Brad Simpson. They produced the groundbreaking film “Crazy Rich Asians,” based on Kevin Kwan’s international bestseller for Warner Bros., and “Ben Is Back,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim.

Jacobson began Color Force in 2007; Simpson joined in 2012, with the pair’s first collaboration together being “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” (2010), which spawned three beloved sequels. Under their Color Force banner, Jacobson and Simpson produced all the films in the “The Hunger Games” franchise, which has grossed $2.9 billion worldwide, including the prequel film, “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” which premiered in November 2023 and earned almost $340 million globally.

Prior to starting Color Force, Jacobson was president of the Walt Disney Motion Picture Group, where 15 of her projects grossed over $100 million domestically, including “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and “The Princess Diaries.”

While vacillating between film and TV (she produced the Ryan Murphy shows “The Shards” and “American Sports Story”), next up she has the latest “Hunger Games” movie, “Sunrise on the Reaping,” opening in November.

Basil Iwanyk

Basil Iwanyk knows action. He founded Thunder Road Pictures in the mid-2000s and produced a mixture of projects both high (Ben Affleck’s Oscar-nominated “The Town”) and low (two barely remembered direct-to-video “Lost Boys” sequels). He has unimpeachable taste, producing a pair of Taylor Sheridan projects (“Sicario” in 2015 and “Wind River” in 2017) before he became the hottest screenwriter on television and seeing the value in the first feature by a couple of legendary stuntmen that would become the “John Wick” franchise (and profoundly rewrite Hollywood’s approach to action cinema).

In recent years, too, he has diversified the Thunder Road portfolio, with Bryan Fuller’s heartfelt “Dust Bunny” and Dev Patel’s gritty “Monkey Man” – both were directorial debuts and both colored outside the lines of what you’d expect from a Thunder Road project, while still delivering all the thrills you’ve come to expect.

Up next is a Mark Wahlberg/ Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s based-on-a-true-story thriller “By Any Means” (for Paramount), potential Johnny Depp comeback vehicle “Day Drinker” and more from the world of “John Wick” – a Donnie Yen-led “Caine” spinoff and an animated feature from Emmy-winning director Shannon Tindle that will fill in a key part of “Wick” lore.

There’s also “Highlander,” from “John Wick” co-creator Chad Stahelski, that might be the biggest movie Thunder Road has ever been a part of. But hey, if there can be only one, it might as well be “Highlander.”

Chris Meledandri

Chris Meledandri might not be talked about in the same hushed tones as Pete Docter or Jared Bush, the creative leads of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, respectively. But Meledandri, through his Illumination shingle, is a singular powerhouse in the medium, every bit as successful and influential as his peers. Meledandri got his start in live-action before heading Fox’s ill-fated animation division and then Blue Sky, the Greenwich, Conn.-based shingle behind the “Ice Age” movies. When he left to found Illumination, it could have gone either way. But since 2010, with their first film “Despicable Me,” they have reliably released hit after hit, with a huge success rate and a much lower spend thanks to the Illumination animation studio being in France.

The “Sing” and “Secret Life of Pets” franchises have been similarly lucrative and the partnership with Nintendo, resulting in two $1 billion-grossing “Super Mario” movies, proves that the studio can work well with others. This summer saw the release of “Minions & Monsters,” which might have slightly underperformed commercially (bringing in a respectable $500 million worldwide) but is an undeniable highlight of the entire catalog – a movie that proves what Illumination is capable of.

Up next is an original film, “Not Alone,” with Timothée Chalamet and Selena Gomez, and Meledandri is producing the next “Shrek” movie for DreamWorks Animation. That’s how essential he is to Universal’s overall animated output – he’ll cross the aisle … and into the swamp.

Michelle Wong

Michelle Wong is one of the most exciting names in feature animation. She came from Sony Pictures Animation, working on Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” in 2009 as a coordinator, before becoming a production manager and later a full-on producer on a “Surf’s Up” direct-to-video sequel and Kirk DeMicco’s “Vivo,” which features some truly killer Lin-Manuel Miranda songs. (It was originally developed at DreamWorks Animation, who let it go once it was absorbed by Universal. It was released during the pandemic on Netflix.)

Her life has taken a decidedly different turn in the past few years. She was the producer on “KPop Demon Hunters,” a film that Sony let slip to Netflix and which became one of the largest pop cultural events of the past few years, inspiring a theatrical sing-along exhibition, upcoming tour and countless pieces of tie-in merchandise. It was also the first non-Disney or -Pixar animated feature to win two Academy Awards and Wong is one of the few non-Disney producers to successfully tackle animated musicals. Talk about golden.

It was proof that Wong’s tireless work and belief in the filmmakers paid off, big time. Up next for Wong is a re-team with DeMicco for Warner Bros. Pictures Animation’s yuletide adventure “Margie Claus” (out in 2027) and, presumably, a re-team with the “KPop Demon Hunters” crew (including directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, Sony Pictures Animation and Netflix) for a sequel tentatively penciled in for 2029. We love a reunion tour, after all.

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck

Oscar-winning duo Matt Damon and Ben Affleck launched their Artists Equity banner in 2022 with $100 million in backing from Gerry Cardinale’s RedBird Capital and released “Air,” the biopic about the Air Jordan sneaker. What sets the Artists Equity apart from other production banners is the performance-based bonus structure, offering backend participation to not only the project’s stars, directors, writers and other above the line talent, but to below the line crew members as well. In success, they all win.

Last year, Artists Equity produced “The Accountant 2” for Amazon MGM Studios. Damon and Affleck scored a hit starring and producing “The Rip.” The film opened at No. 1 and charted in 93 countries on Netflix, garnering more than 41 million views in its first three days on the streamer in January, delivering its biggest film opening since “Happy Gilmore 2.”

Upcoming on the Artists Equity slate is the Netflix thriller “Animals,” directed by and starring Affleck, and “Sing Sing” filmmaker Greg Kwedar’s next film “Free Byrd.”

Neal H. Moritz

Another prolific player best known for launching and steering the “Fast & Furious” franchise since the first film in 2001, Moritz currently sits at fifth in the highest-grossing producers of all time, having produced over 70 movies that grossed more than $13 billion worldwide. Moritz’s recent credits include executive producing “Scary Movie,” the “Jump Street” movies and the billion-dollar “Sonic the Hedgehog” franchise, based on the very popular Sega video game.

Using the successful “Sonic” franchise that he produced as an example, Moritz will also produce the next live-action “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” at Paramount Pictures, which will blend live-action with CG animation. Next up, Moritz is producing the franchise finale “Fast Forever,” the Henry Cavill-fronted “Highlander” and the “Cliffhanger” redo.

Charles Roven

Charles Roven co-founded Atlas Entertainment back in 1994 and produced a ton of tentpole films, including Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Trilogy.” Roven’s films have collectively grossed over $10.6 billion at the global box office, placing him number seven among the top ten highest-grossing producers of all time. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” which garnered seven Oscars total.

Up next, Roven is producing fellow Academy Award winner Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut, “The Thomas Crown Affair,” at Amazon MGM Studios and has “Road House 2,” also for Amazon. Roven also recently produced the Netflix doc ”AKA Charlie Sheen,”  and “Mercy,” starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson for Amazon MGM Studios.

Lynette Howell Taylor

British producer Lynette Howell Taylor was recently re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Board of Governors first elected Howell Taylor in 2025. She is the fifth woman to hold the position of president and the third in the last 12 years, after Cheryl Boone Isaacs (2013-2017) and Janet Yang (2022-2025). Howell Taylor has produced more than 25 films via her 51 Entertainment banner, including “Roofman,” “Big Eyes,” “The Place Beyond the Pines,” “Blue Valentine” and “Half Nelson.” She earned her first Best Picture nomination in 2019 for “A Star Is Born,” and in 2020, produced the 92nd Academy Awards telecast with Stephanie Allain. For that, she was nominated for an Emmy.

Zainab Azizi

Raimi Productions president Zainab Azizi spent five years developing “Send Help,” Sam Raimi’s return to R-rated horror following 2022’s “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness.” The film opened domestically at No. 1 at $20 million and garnered a respectable $94 million worldwide. Her other credits include genre fare like “Umma,” “65,” “Boy Kills World,” and “Don’t Move.” Next up, Azizi is exec producing the “Crawl” sequel for Paramount. She is also reuniting with Raimi and producing “Magic,” a modern adaptation of William Goldman’s novel of the same name, at Lionsgate with Raimi tapped to direct and Roy Lee also producing.

Ken Kao

Veteran film producer Ken Kao moved to Hawaii during the pandemic and for the past five years has been running a Los Angeles-based team remotely while producing films with the likes of Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick and Yorgos Lanthimos. His company Waypoint just expanded its partnership with Neon in a multi-picture slate deal that includes awards contenders like “Sentimental Value” and “No Other Choice.” The deal came after collaborating on films like Tilman Singer’s “Cuckoo” and Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs,” which became a surprise box office hit and grossed $127.9 million at the box office.

He co-founded Waypoint in 2010 and has since produced a dozen features, including “The Favourite,” which won Olivia Colman an Oscar in 2018. 

Marc Toberoff

Chances are you have no idea who Marc Toberoff is but have seen his name on countless hit movies. There’s a reason for this. Toberoff is a gifted and extremely litigious copyright and entertainment lawyer, fighting primarily for writers whose creations have been spun into successful franchises over the years. His most famous suit is undoubtedly when he represented “Friday the 13th” screenwriter Victor Miller in a case that has tangled the series in an impassable morass of litigation. (Things seem to have been at least been partially solved; Toberoff is a producer of the upcoming “Crystal Lake” series for Peacock and A24.) He has also been involved in a high-profile tech case, representing Elon Musk in his ongoing battle with Open AI and Sam Altman.

When he wins one of these intellectual property cases or represents one of the stakeholders, he becomes a producer. In the past few years his name has been attached to “Predator: Badlands,” “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” “Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” “Play Dirty,” “Hellraiser” and has Michael B. Jordan’s “The Thomas Crown Affair” remake, a new “Bloodsport” movie for A24 and a TV version of the Mickey Rourke neo-noir “Angel Heart” in the works. When it comes to maintaining intellectual property and preparing said property for the next generation of filmmakers and audiences, there’s hardly anybody as cannily tapped-in as Toberoff.