- Don Carmody
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Don Carmody has been producing films for nearly 40 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 and 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 HBO, 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 actor Kathy Bates and a Directors’ Guild Award for Betty Thomas.
His credits include nearly 100 films thus far, including JOHNNY MNEMONIC with Keanu Reeves; THE MIGHTY with Sharon Stone; STUDIO 54 with Salma Hayek, Ryan Phillippe and 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 Matthew 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, Penélope Cruz and Robert Downey Jr.; RESIDENT EVIL, and RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE starring Milla Jovovich, based on the all time bestselling video games; ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 with Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Byrne and Maria Bello; LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN with Bruce Willis, Josh Hartnett, Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman; SILENT HILL starring Radha Mitchell and Sean Bean; OUTLANDER, starring Jim Caviezel and John Hurt; THE ECHO, directed by Yam Laranas; as well as WHITEOUT, a murder mystery set in Antarctica, starring Kate Beckinsale; ORPHAN with Vera Farmiga and Peter Saarsgard and THE FACTORY with John Cusack, all for Joel Silver’s Dark Castle Productions.
In 2002 he was Co-Producer of the hit film musical 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 honors around the world.
Additionally in 2009 Carmody produced Denis Villeneuve’s POLYTECHNIQUE;, which won nine Genie Awards including Best Picture from the Academy of Canadian Film and Television.
Recent releases include AMELIA, starring Hillary Swank as Amelia Earhart, for director Mira Nair; and the long awaited sequel to THE BOONDOCK SAINTS: ALL SAINTS DAY. His recent production of RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE, in 3D, the fourth in the series with Paul W. S. Anderson once again directing Mila Jovovich became the most successful installment of the series, grossing over $300 Million dollars worldwide. He is currently in post production on BREAKAWAY starring Rob Lowe and Camilla Belle and GOON starring Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber, Jay Baruchel, and Eugene Levy and pre-production of the sequel to SILENT HILL to be written and directed by Michael Bassett.
Following his genre instincts for both horror and comedy, 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 last Halloween to rave reviews. Touring companies have completed successful runs in Toronto, Tokyo, Seoul, Korea and soon London’s West End.
Don Carmody was born in New England and immigrated 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.
On January 20, 2010, Don had a keynote Fireside Chat at The GameON: Finance Conference, which took place at The Design Exchange, 234 Bay Street, Toronto. Don Carmody (the producer behind Resident Evil, Boondock Saints & Silent Hill) spoke about how the industries (Film and Gaming) are colliding. [1] Ray Sharma (of XMG) Moderated this keynote discussion.
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