Denise Di Novi Filmography

Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer

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Ramona

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Award-winning short filmmaker Elizabeth Allen follows up her debut feature, Aquamarine, with this adaptation of the Newbury Award-winning children's book series by author Beverly Cleary. Scribe Laurie Craig steps in to assume screenwriting duties for the live-action feature centering on the Read More

3/19/10
The Illustrated Man

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Zack Snyder brings Ray Bradbury's anthology The Illustrated Man to the big screen with this modern-day retelling of a man whose tattoos foretell the future. The story was originally adapted in 1969 as a Rod Steiger vehicle. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
Larklight

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Shekhar Kapur heads into sci-fi fantasy territory with this Warner Bros. adaptation of Philip Reeve's novel regarding an alternate universe that mixes the Victorian era with epic space travels and battles. Kapur directs from a script developed with Steven Knight, with Denise Di Novi producing. Read More

1/1/10
Nights in Rodanthe

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Christopher Meloni, Viola Davis, Becky Ann Baker

Synopsis: Adapted from author Nicholas Sparks' popular romance novel, director George C. Wolfe's Nights in Rodanthe tells the tale of a doctor (Richard Gere) en route to reconcile with his estranged son when his benevolent mission is sidelined upon checking into a North Carolina beach-town inn. When the Read More

9/26/08
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Crew: Producer

Actors: Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Rachel Nichols

Synopsis: The 2008 sequel to the female buddy film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants constitutes an adaptation of Ann Brashares' novel Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood. Like the premier installment, this picture explores the seriocomic events that unfold one summer in the lives of Read More

8/8/08
Major Movie Star

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jessica Simpson, Jill Marie Jones

Synopsis: Noted genre specialist Steve Miner (Lake Placid and Halloween: H20) takes a break from horror to direct Dukes of Hazzard star Jessica Simpson in this showbiz comedy concerning a pampered movie starlet who gets in over her head while attempting to land a lucrative film role. Informed by the Read More

1/1/08
Lucky You

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall, Debra Messing, Horatio Sanz

Synopsis: A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer in a high-stakes emotional drama from L.A. Confidential director Curtis Hanson Read More

5/4/07
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Crew: Producer

Actors: Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Jenna Boyd

Synopsis: Ann Brashares' best-selling novel for young adults comes to the big screen in this engaging comedy drama. Carmen (America Ferrera), Bridget (Blake Lively), Lena (Alexis Bledel), and Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) are four teenage girls who have been close friends since they were babies (and even before Read More

6/1/05
Catwoman

Crew: Producer

Actors: Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone, Lambert Wilson, Alex Borstein

Synopsis: Patience Philips (Halle Berry) seems destined to spend her life apologizing for taking up space. Despite her artistic ability -- she has a more than respectable career as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a Goliath cosmetics company -- Patience is excruciatingly shy, quick to take blame, and Read More

7/23/04
New York Minute

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Eugene Levy, Andy Richter, Riley Smith

Synopsis: Marking their first theatrical-release feature since 1995's It Takes Two, the Olsen twins bring their adventures back to the big screen with New York Minute. Billed as a sort of Ferris Bueller's Day Off for tweens, the plot involves the escapades of two enterprising Long Island girls, Roxy (Mary-Kate Olsen Read More

5/7/04
What a Girl Wants

Crew: Producer

Actors: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Jonathan Pryce, Eileen Atkins, Anna Chancellor

Synopsis: Loosely based on the 1958 comedy The Reluctant Debutante starring Sandra Dee, the family-friendly comedy What a Girl Wants features popular Nickelodeon teen star Amanda Bynes in her first feature-starring performance after her debut in Big Fat Liar. She plays teenager Daphne Reynolds, who lives in Read More

4/4/03
Eloise at the Plaza

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Julie Andrews, Christine Baranski, Jeffrey Tambor, Sofia Vassilieva, Debra Monk

Synopsis: Created by author/entertainer Kay Thompson in 1955, precocious six-year-old Eloise, who lived in the Plaza Hotel with her long-suffering nanny, her dog Weenie, and her turtle Skipperdee, was the heroine of several delightful children's books written by Thompson and whimsically illustrated by Hilary Knight Read More

2003
A Walk to Remember

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mandy Moore, Shane West, Peter Coyote, Daryl Hannah, Lauren German

Synopsis: The best-seller by sentimental novelist Nicholas Sparks becomes this teen melodrama set in a coastal North Carolina port. Cocky, popular high school student Landon Carter (Shane West) is the big man on campus at Beaufort High School until a hazing incident leaves a fellow student paralyzed. Read More

1/25/02
Original Sin

Crew: Producer

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Jane, Jack Thompson, Gregory Itzin

Synopsis: A lonely man's search for companionship soon takes him to dangerous and unexpected places in this erotically charged drama. Luis Antonio Vargas (Antonio Banderas) is a successful coffee salesman living in Cuba in the 1880s. Luis has had little luck finding love among the women of his native Read More

8/3/01
Happy Campers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brad Renfro, Dominique Swain, Emily Bergl, James King, Jordan Bridges

Synopsis: Screenwriter Daniel Waters, who up-ended the traditional teen comedy with his cult classic Heathers, makes his directorial debut with this darkly humorous teen romp. It's summer at Camp Bleeding Dove, and when the teenaged counselors aren't busy watching their young charges or being verbally Read More

2001
The District [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Craig T. Nelson, Jayne Brook, Lynne Thigpen, Roger Aaron Brown, Sean Patrick Thomas

Synopsis: Craig T. Nelson stars as Jack Mannion, a policeman brought in to fight crime in the nation's capital in this television drama series. After a controversial but successful stint as chief of police in Newark, NJ, Mannion makes a positive impression on Deputy Mayor Mary Ann Mitchell (Jayne Brook) and Read More

2000
The '70s

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeanetta Arnette, Robert Bailey Jr., Graham Beckel, Orlando Brown, Michael Easton

Synopsis: Four friends struggle to find themselves in the decade that brought us disco, platform shoes, and those smiley-face buttons in this miniseries, which first aired in April of 2000 on NBC. Byron Shaw (Brad Rowe), his girlfriend Eileen (Vinessa Shaw), and his sister Christie (Amy Smart) are all at Read More

2000
Message in a Bottle

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, Paul Newman, John Savage, Illeana Douglas

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, Message In A Bottle stars Robin Wright Penn as Theresa Osborne, a writer for the Chicago Tribune. While her son visits her cheating ex-husband, Theresa goes on a vacation by herself. One day, while running on the beach, she finds a bottle washed up on the Read More

2/12/99
Practical Magic

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing, Aidan Quinn

Synopsis: Griffin Dunne directed this romantic fantasy adapted from the 1995 Alice Hoffman novel about the Owens family of witches, regarded as outcasts in the town where they live. Aunt Frances (Stockard Channing) and her sister Aunt Jet (Dianne Wiest) tried to pass on practical magic skills to their Read More

10/16/98
Almost Heroes

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chris Farley, Matthew Perry, Eugene Levy, Kevin Dunn, Lisa Barbuscia

Synopsis: Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman) directed this comedy about two hapless explorers -- hard-drinking trapper Bartholomew Hunt (the late Chris Farley in his last major role) and foppish Leslie Edwards (Matthew Perry) -- who lead an ill-fated 1804 expedition through the Pacific Northwest in a Read More

5/29/98
James and the Giant Peach

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Joanna Lumley, Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves, Pete Postlethwaite, Miriam Margolyes, Paul Terry, Susan Sarandon

Synopsis: A young boy's discovery of a gigantic peach triggers an eventful journey across the sea in this strikingly designed and surprisingly twisted animated adventure. A live-action framing device establishes the dark yet fanciful mood one might expect from an adaptation of a Roald Dahl story, as young Read More

1996
Cabin Boy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chris Elliott, Ritch Brinkley, James Gammon, Brian Doyle-Murray, Brion James

Synopsis: Former NBC intern and Get a Life creator Chris Elliott stars as the title character, a recent graduate of the exclusive Fancy Lad Academy who unwittingly boards the wrong sea vessel and ends up a whipping post for its gruff, foul-mouthed crew after his predecessor (Andy Richter of The Late Show) Read More

1994
Ed Wood

Crew: Producer

Actors: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones

Synopsis: Hollywood visionary Tim Burton pays homage to another Hollywood visionary, albeit a less successful one, in this unusual fictionalized biography. The film follows Wood (Johnny Depp) in his quest for film greatness as he writes and directs turkey after turkey, cross-dresses, and surrounds himself Read More

1994
Little Women

Crew: Producer

Actors: Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, Susan Sarandon, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, Eric Stoltz, John Neville

Synopsis: Louisa May Alcott's classic novel about a family of women in Civil War-era New England is again brought to the screen in this adaptation. The focus is on the March sisters, four young girls raised by their mother (Susan Sarandon) after their father leaves for battle as part of the Union Army. At Read More

1994
The Nightmare Before Christmas

Crew: Producer

Actors: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix

Synopsis: This stop-motion animated fable was a big hit when it was released -- not only at the box office, but critically. It was praised for its stunning originality and for the excellence of its execution. In addition, it was praised for being a completely absorbing fable that both grownups and children Read More

10/29/93
Batman Returns

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough

Synopsis: In this first sequel to 1989's Batman, the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the hideously deformed scion of a wealthy Gotham City family. The Penguin plots with evil businessman Max Schreck (Christopher Walken) to become mayor and then turn Gotham into a Read More

6/19/92
The Applegates

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ed Begley, Jr., Stockard Channing, Cami Cooper, Bobby Jacoby, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: The Applegates is the video title for the darkly satirical comedy Meet the Applegates. The titular family, for all intents and purposes human beings, are actually a clan of giant Brazilian Cocorada bugs. Paterfamilias Dick Applegate (Ed Begley Jr.) takes a job with an Ohio nuclear power plant Read More

2/1/91
Edward Scissorhands

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price, Kathy Baker

Synopsis: Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands opens as an eccentric inventor (Vincent Price) lovingly assembles a synthetic youth named Edward (Johnny Depp). Edward has all the essential ingredients for today's standard body, with the exception of a pair of hands. For what is initially thought to be a Read More

12/7/90
Heathers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker

Synopsis: A deliciously nasty black comedy, Heathers is set at a cliquish high school in Ohio. The most exclusive of those cliques is the Heathers, comprised of the prettiest and most popular girls in town. The group's leader is the manipulative Kim Walker, who orchestrates the humiliation of anyone who Read More

3/31/89
Fraternity Vacation

Crew: Producer

Actors: Stephen Geoffreys, Sheree J. Wilson, Cameron Dye, Leigh McCloskey, Tim Robbins, John Vernon

Synopsis: Delivering no more and no less than what its title suggests, this teen movie is about three frat brothers chasing down sex and women in Palm Springs for a long weekend escape from blizzard conditions at Iowa State. Wendall (Stephen Geoffreys) is the requisite nerd of the group whose heart throbs Read More

1985
Going Berserk

Crew: Associate Producer, Producer

Actors: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Alley Mills, Pat Hingle, Elizabeth Kerr

Synopsis: In this comedy, a stuffy congressman is dismayed when he discovers that his beloved daughter intends to marry limousine driver John Bourgignon (John Candy). While intending to put on a good show for his father-in-law to be, John is captured by some political opponents of the congressman. His Read More

1983