Gary Lucchesi Filmography

Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer
Biography:: Over the course of the '80s and '90s, and into the first decade of the millennium, omnipotent Hollywood producer Gary Lucchesi quickly built a name and established a track record for himself as one of Tinseltown's most prolific and eminently successful green-lighters. Lucchesi began where so many...Read More

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Untitled United Artists Spy Thriller

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: 24 co-creator Joel Surnow teams with the series co-executive producer Michael Loceff to pen this spy thriller to be directed by Casino Royale's Martin Campbell for United Artists. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
Fame

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kristy Flores, Thomas Dekker, Paul Iacono, Paul McGill, Naturi Naughton

Synopsis: This remake of the '80s classic focuses on a group of young students attending a high school for the performing arts. Classmates study various aspects of performance, from dance to songwriting to acting, all of them hoping for the chance to one day become stars. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Read More

9/25/09
Game

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Amber Valletta, Logan Lerman, Alison Lohman

Synopsis: Crank helmers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor co-direct the sci-fi thriller Game, which they also scripted. The picture unfolds in a dystopian near-future, where computer devices are implanted in the brains of unlucky individuals, and the latest "craze" for a depraved few involves controlling the Read More

9/4/09
Crank: High Voltage

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Clifton Collins, Jr., Dwight Yoakam, Efren Ramirez, Bai Ling

Synopsis: The indestructible hopped-up hitman Chev Chelios, played to the hilt once again by Jason Statham, returns in Crank 2: High Voltage, picking up where the first film left off -- except this time, Chelios is chasing a Chinese gangster who hijacked his heart and substituted it with a mechanical one Read More

4/17/09
The Ugly Truth

Crew: Producer

Actors: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Cheryl Hines, John Michael Higgins, Nick Searcy

Synopsis: Katherine Heigl stars as a lovelorn television producer who's made to run a gauntlet of romantic exploits by a pig-headed morning-show host (played by Gerard Butler) as a way to prove whose romantic methods are more accurate in this Lakeshore Entertainment production. Legally Blonde's Robert Luketic Read More

4/3/09
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra

Synopsis: The Underworld series gets the prequel treatment with this third outing that fleshes out the story of the ancient war between the vampiric Death Dealers and their werewolf counterparts, the Lycans. F/X technician Patrick Tatopoulos (Godzilla, Independence Day) steps out of the effects lab and into Read More

1/23/09
Shell Game

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Live Free or Die Hard's Len Wiseman brings his dream project to the big screen with this big budget sci-fi film that tells the story of a detective's investigation into a crime ring dealing in immortality for Lakeshore Entertainment and Columbia Pictures. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
Henry Poole Is Here

Crew: Producer

Actors: Luke Wilson, Radha Mitchell, Adriana Barraza, George Lopez, Cheryl Hines

Synopsis: Given a grim diagnosis during a routine doctor's checkup, a man who once had it all finds his attempt to disappear into a working-class suburb and spend his remaining days subsisting on vodka and junk food hopelessly disrupted when he falls for the beautiful divorcée next door and a busybody Read More

8/15/08
Elegy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard

Synopsis: Adapted from author Philip Roth's novel The Dying Animal, director Isabel Coixet's elegant tale of obsession explores the relationship between a highly respected professor (Ben Kingsley) and an impossibly gorgeous grad student (Penélope Cruz). As their relationship deepens, the professor finds his Read More

8/8/08
The Midnight Meat Train

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Vinnie Jones, Roger Bart, Tony Curran

Synopsis: A photographer propelled to explore his dark side begins tracking a subway serial killer whose brutal butchery makes for the most nightmarish images ever captured on camera in director Ryuhei Kitamura's adaptation of a short story by horror heavyweight Clive Barker. Leon Kaufman (Bradley Cooper) Read More

8/1/08
Pathology

Crew: Producer

Actors: Milo Ventimiglia, Michael Weston, Alyssa Milano, Lauren Lee Smith, Johnny Whitworth

Synopsis: Milo Ventimiglia (of the blockbuster TV series Heroes), headlines this dark crime thriller, which marks the sophomore directorial outing of Marc Schoelermann, following the 2006 telemovie Hexxx. Ventimiglia portrays a young intern, newly arrived at the University Hospital in Philadelphia, who Read More

4/18/08
Untraceable

Crew: Producer

Actors: Diane Lane, Billy Burke, Colin Hanks, Joseph Cross, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: A serial killer with a sickening knack for showmanship and a keen sense of technological know-how sets up a graphic website to taunt the FBI and display his gruesome handiwork in this dark thriller directed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear and Frequency) and starring Diane Lane. As a cybercimes Read More

1/25/08
Appointment in Samarra

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The Human Stain director Robert Benton focuses his lens on the social circuit in Gibbsville, PA, with this adaptation of John O'Hara's novel concerning a glamorous couple who are the envy of their community until the once-respected husband sets down a harrowing path of self-destruction. ~ Jason Read More

1/1/08
Feast of Love

Crew: Producer

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Billy Burke, Selma Blair

Synopsis: A group of friends living in suburban Oregon come into contact with a sensual free spirit named Chloe (Alexa Davalos), who changes their outlook on life in the most unexpected of ways in this ensemble drama adapted from the acclaimed novel by author Charles Baxter. As college professor and writer Read More

9/28/07
Blood and Chocolate

Crew: Producer

Actors: Agnes Bruckner, Olivier Martinez, Hugh Dancy, Bryan Dick, Katja Riemann

Synopsis: Iron Jawed Angels director Katja von Garnier and the producers of Underworld team to adapt author Annette Curtis Klause's tale of a teenage werewolf who is forced to choose between love and loyalty to the pack when she falls for a handsome young human. Vivian Gandillon (Agnes Bruckner) is a Read More

1/26/07
The Dead Girl

Crew: Producer

Actors: Toni Collette, Rose Byrne, Mary Beth Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Brittany Murphy

Synopsis: Karen Moncrieff, the Independent Spirit-award nominated director of Blue Car, assembles a stellar cast comprised of Toni Collette, James Franco, Giovanni Ribisi, and Mary Beth Hurt to tell the tale of one girl's mysterious death, and how the tragic actions of the people who surround her eventually Read More

12/29/06
The Last Kiss

Crew: Producer

Actors: Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Casey Affleck, Rachel Bilson, Michael Weston

Synopsis: A successful 30-year-old (Zach Braff) with a the perfect girlfriend (Jacinda Barrett) and a lucrative outlook on life struggles with the increasing pressures of adulthood as he weighs the merits of settling down with the woman who loves him against risking it all to be with a comely co-ed (Rachel Bilson Read More

9/15/06
The Covenant

Crew: Producer

Actors: Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Laura Ramsey, Taylor Kitsch, Toby Hemingway

Synopsis: An ancient secret threatens to unleash the powers of darkness on a group of modern prep school students when the sole survivor of a cursed bloodline returns to lay claim to the powers denied to him centuries ago in a supernatural teen thriller from director Renny Harlin and screenwriter J.S. Cardone Read More

9/8/06
Crank

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Efren Ramirez, Dwight Yoakam

Synopsis: A one-time freelance hitman who was just attempting to turn his life around is forced to keep his heart pumping when his vengeful former employers inject him with a lethal poison that will permanently stop his ticker if his pulse sinks beneath an active rate in a non-stop urban action extravaganza Read More

9/1/06
She's the Man

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey, Vinnie Jones, Julie Hagerty

Synopsis: A simple case of assumed identity snowballs into a romantic mix-up of epic proportions in director Andy Fickman's contemporary teen take on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Viola Hastings (Amanda Bynes) has good reason for wanting to conceal her identity upon arriving at Illyria Prep school Read More

3/17/06
Underworld: Evolution

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy

Synopsis: Tribes of vampires and werewolves battle for supremacy among the undead in this follow-up to the horror hit Underworld. Tracing the bloody history of the ongoing war between the Death Dealers, a gang of upper-crust vampires, and the Lycans, a pack of scruffy werewolves, Underworld: Evolution finds Read More

1/20/06
Aeon Flux

Crew: Producer

Actors: Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Frances McDormand

Synopsis: Based on the animated series by Peter Chung, Aeon Flux imagines a future in which 99 percent of the world's population is killed through industrial disease, and the survivors live in a single city that, despite utopian appearances, is quite totalitarian. Disinclined to embrace any particular Read More

12/2/05
The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Crew: Producer

Actors: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Carpenter, Colm Feore

Synopsis: In this blend of psychological thriller and courtroom drama, Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter) is a 19-year-old college student who begins displaying bizarre and troubling behavior; as her actions become increasingly destructive and shocking, Emily begins speaking in strange tongues and destroys Read More

9/9/05
Undiscovered

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Pell James, Steven Strait, Kip Pardue, Carrie Fisher, Ashlee Simpson

Synopsis: Two talented young people head to California looking for fame, but find love along the way in this romantic drama. Luke (Steven Strait) is a struggling rock musician who has decided to leave New York City for the seemingly greener pastures of Los Angeles. A few days before he leaves, he spots a Read More

8/26/05
The Cave

Crew: Producer

Actors: Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian, Rick Ravanello, Marcel Iures

Synopsis: Terror lurks deep beneath the surface of the Earth in this thriller. While on a dig in a Romanian forest, a group of scientists make a startling find -- they find a huge abbey, dating back to the 13th Century, which was built over the entrance to a massive network of subterranean caves. Eager to Read More

8/26/05
Million Dollar Baby

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Mackie, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter

Synopsis: Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran boxing trainer who has devoted his life to the ring and has precious little to show for it; his daughter never answers his letters, and a fighter he's groomed into contender status has paid him back by signing with another manager, leaving Frankie high Read More

12/15/04
Wicker Park

Crew: Producer

Actors: Josh Hartnett, Matthew Lillard, Diane Kruger, Rose Byrne, Jessica Paré

Synopsis: Directed by Paul McGuigan, Wicker Park follows Chicago businessman Matthew's (Josh Hartnett) return to Windy City life after having dedicated two years of his life to mourning his long lost love Lisa (Diane Kruger), who'd mysteriously vanished from his life. Things are finally looking up again for Read More

9/3/04
Suspect Zero

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, Carrie-Anne Moss, Harry J. Lennix

Synopsis: Directed by E. Elias Merhige, Suspect Zero follows the disgraced FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway (Aaron Eckhart), who was transferred to a desolate area in Albuquerque, New Mexico as punishment for botching a procedure which ultimately led to the release of one of the most notorious criminals on the Read More

8/27/04
The Human Stain

Crew: Producer

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Wentworth Miller

Synopsis: For his first film since 1998's Twilight, acclaimed director Robert Benton helmed this tense drama written by Fatal Attraction co-scribe Nicholas Meyer and based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth. Set in the late '90s at the height of the Clinton sex-scandal, The Human Stain stars Anthony Hopkins Read More

10/31/03
Underworld

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen, Shane Brolly, Bill Nighy

Synopsis: A young man who has pledged his life to helping others finds himself in a pitched battle between two gangs of supernatural villains in this blend of horror story and action thriller. Michael Corvin (Scott Speedman) is a medical student who is heading home after a long day of school and work when Read More

9/19/03
The Mothman Prophecies

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton, Debra Messing, Lucinda Jenney, Alan Bates

Synopsis: Based on a book by paranormal investigator John Keel, this spooky, X-Files-type supernatural thriller is purportedly based loosely on true events that occurred in the small town of Point Pleasant, WV, in 1966-1967. Richard Gere stars as journalist John Klein, an up-and-coming reporter devastated Read More

1/25/02
Wild Iris

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gena Rowlands, Laura Linney, Emile Hirsch, Fred Ward, Lee Tergesen

Synopsis: A woman tries to make sense of her relationship with her mother -- who also happens to be her boss and landlady -- in this dramatic comedy. Iris (Laura Linney) has never had an especially warm relationship with her mother Min (Gena Rowlands), but after her husband committed suicide, Iris was Read More

2001
The Gift

Crew: Producer

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Hilary Swank

Synopsis: Supernatural horror meets character drama in this Sam Raimi-directed thriller. Set in Georgia, the film concerns a widowed mother named Annie (Cate Blanchett) who is blessed with the ability to have psychic visions. When Annie is asked to use her powers to investigate the murder of a rich society Read More

12/20/00
Autumn in New York

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, Anthony LaPaglia, Elaine Stritch, Vera Farmiga

Synopsis: An man gets an unexpected lesson in love and life from a much younger woman in this romantic drama. Will Keane (Richard Gere) is a wealthy 50-year-old restaurant tycoon who has a knack for wooing beautiful women, but is unable to commit to a lasting relationship. On day Will meets a beautiful Read More

8/11/00
Passion of Mind

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Demi Moore, Stellan Skarsgård, William Fichtner, Sinéad Cusack, Peter Riegert

Synopsis: Demi Moore stars in this unusual psychological drama about two women caught between reality and imagination. Marie (Moore) is an American widow trying to raise two children under difficult circumstances in a small town in France. Marty (also played by Moore) is a successful businesswoman in New Read More

5/26/00
The Next Best Thing

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rupert Everett, Madonna, Benjamin Bratt, Michael Vartan, Josef Sommer

Synopsis: Best buddies Abbie (Madonna), a heterosexual yoga instructor, and Robert (Rupert Everett), a gay landscaper, cope with failed relationships, the approach of middle age, and the AIDS-related death of a mutual friend by sticking together as a "family of choice." Drunk one night, they have sex, and Read More

3/3/00
Runaway Bride

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo, Rita Wilson

Synopsis: In 1990, Pretty Woman turned Julia Roberts into a star and gave Richard Gere's career a much-needed boost; for 1999, Roberts and Gere reunited with director Garry Marshall for the romantic comedy Runaway Bride. Roberts plays Maggie, who has left so many prospective husbands at the altar that she Read More

7/30/99
Just the Ticket

Crew: Producer

Actors: Andy Garcia, Andie MacDowell, Richard Bradford, Laura Harris, Andre B. Blake

Synopsis: Gary Starke (Andy Garcia) was an orphan living on the streets at 13 who grew up to preside over a crew of street hustlers as the grand master of ticket scalpers. Charming, savvy, and honorable, Gary seems beloved by everyone until Linda (Andie MacDowell), the love of his life, dumps him. Tired of Read More

2/26/99
Vendetta

Crew: Producer

Actors: Christopher Walken, Clancy Brown, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the 1890's. After the Chief of Police was brutally murdered, much of the city's Sicilian population was rounded up and brought in for questioning. Eventually Read More

1999
Breast Men

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: David Schwimmer, Chris Cooper, Emily Procter, Matt Frewer, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: This docudrama recaps the history of silicone breast implants, beginning in 1962 when idealistic Houston medical resident Kevin Saunders (David Schwimmer) gets an idea after seeing how women pad their bras. After he shares his notion with cosmetic pro Dr. William Larson (Chris Cooper), the two Read More

1997
Primal Fear

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Alfre Woodard

Synopsis: A high-profile slaying becomes the case of an ambitious attorney's career in this legal thriller based on the novel by William Diehl. Richard Gere stars as Martin Vail, a famed defense lawyer who volunteers his services to Aaron Stampler (Edward Norton), a Kentucky teenager charged with the murder Read More

1996
Gotti

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Armand Assante, Anthony Quinn, William Forsythe, Richard Sarafian, Vincent Pastore

Synopsis: Gotti is the semi-biographical tale of John Gotti, the infamous crime boss of the Gambino mob family. This drama chronicles not only the bloody rise of Gotti, also known as the "Dapper Don", but the FBI's struggle to bring him to justice. His refusal to play by the normal "rules" of the mafia Read More

1996
Virtuosity

Crew: Producer

Actors: Denzel Washington, Kelly Lynch, Russell Crowe, Stephen Spinella, William Forsythe

Synopsis: In a futuristic, high-tech world run by huge corporations, Parker Barnes (Denzel Washington) is an L.A. policeman serving time for killing the psychotic who murdered his wife and child. Lindenmeyer (Stephen Spinella), a Dr. Frankenstein of the computer era, has created a monster, Sid 6.7 (Russell Crowe Read More

1995
Three Wishes

Crew: Producer

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Joseph Mazzello, Seth Mumy, David Marshall Grant

Synopsis: In this offbeat comedy set in the 1950s, Patrick Swayze plays Jack McCloud, a drifter and beatnik who enters the conservative suburban life of the Holman family after Jeanne Holman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) accidentally hits him with her car. Jeanne takes Jack into her home while he recovers Read More

1995
Jennifer Eight

Crew: Producer

Actors: Andy Garcia, Uma Thurman, Lance Henriksen, Kathy Baker, Graham Beckel, Kevin Conway

Synopsis: Stressed out LA detective John Berlin gets too near the edge following the destruction of his marriage and decides to leave the violence an un-ending hub-bub of the big city and take a job in the supposedly quiet northern tow of Eureka. Unfortunately, he isn't there long before he finds himself Read More

11/6/92

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