Joel Silver Filmography

Born:: July 14, 1952 in South Orange NJ
Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer
Biography:: A movie buff practically since infancy, American producer Joel Silver attended the film school at New York University. After graduation Silver quickly worked his way up to an assistant producer post under Universal's Lawrence Gordon; after considerable success with a series of popular pictures...Read More

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Logan's Run

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In a future where the masses are systematically put to death upon reaching a certain age, those who attempt to cheat death are dubbed "runners" and pursued by formidable operatives known as Sandmen. Logan is a Sandman who is fast approaching that fateful age, and when he decides to run, the stage Read More

1/1/10
Sherlock Holmes

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Kelly Reilly

Synopsis: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous super-sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, gets an update with this adaptation of Lionel Wigram's comic book series by writer/director Guy Ritchie (RocknRolla) starring Robert Downey Jr. as the titular detective, with Jude Law stepping into the shoes of his sidekick, Dr. Read More

1/1/10
Book of Eli

Crew: Producer

Actors: Denzel Washington

Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic America where the once-picturesque countryside has become a desolate and violent wasteland, one man (Denzel Washington) fights to protect that sacred tome that could hold the key to the survival of the human race in this futuristic thriller from filmmaking duo Albert and Allen Hughes Read More

1/1/09
The Gamekeeper

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Virgin Comics' series {^The Gamekeeper} is being developed for a movie treatment by book creator and filmmaker Guy Ritchie. The revenge tale follows a country caretaker who hunts the city streets for the killer of his son by adapting his keen ability to understanding animal behaviors. Warner Bros. Read More

1/1/09
The Factory

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Cusack

Synopsis: John Cusack stars as cop whose obsession for catching a serial killer is pushed over the edge when his daughter goes missing in the Dark Castle picture The Factory for Warner Bros. Pictures. Australia's Project Greenlight winner Morgan O'Neill helms the production from a script he co-wrote with Paul Leyden Read More

1/1/09
Ninja Assassin

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rain, Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, Sho Kosugi, Rick Yune

Synopsis: V for Vendetta director James McTeigue re-teams with that film's producers Larry and Andy Wachowski for this action-packed tale of a skilled assassin who was trained by a mythical secret society, and patiently awaits the day he will avenge the death of his best friend. Swept off the streets as a Read More

1/1/09
RocknRolla

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Mark Strong, Idris Elba

Synopsis: Guy Ritchie returns to his roots with RocknRolla, a crime comedy in the spirit of his early films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

10/3/08
Whiteout

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, Columbus Short, Alex O'Loughlin

Synopsis: A U.S. marshall tracking a vicious murderer through the Antarctic must locate the killer before the sun sets for six months, or risk being trapped in the dark with the madman for months on end in director Dominic Sena's adaptation of the graphic novel series by Greg Rucka. U.S. marshall Carrie Read More

9/19/08
Speed Racer

Crew: Producer

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox, John Goodman

Synopsis: The Matrix masterminds Andy and Larry Wachowski usher anime icon Tatsuo Yoshida's classic 1960s-era hit into the new millennium with this family-friendly story of a young racecar driver who takes on the mysterious Racer X in a custom-made, gadget-loaded speed machine named the Mach 5. Speed Read More

5/9/08
Orphan

Crew: Producer

Actors: Peter Sarsgaard, Vera Farmiga

Synopsis: Dark Castle Entertainment presents the story of a couple (Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga) that seeks adoption after losing their own child, only to welcome into their house a young girl who has a hidden evil streak underneath her sweet demeanor in the Warner Bros. picture Orphan. House of Wax's Jaume Collet-Serra Read More

1/1/08
Fred Claus

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, John Michael Higgins, Miranda Richardson, Rachel Weisz

Synopsis: Santa's black-sheep brother gets a much-needed shot at redemption in this holiday comedy reuniting actor Vince Vaughn and director David Dobkin (Clay Pigeons, Wedding Crashers). It's not easy being the brother of a benevolent and beloved saint, and no one knows that better than Fred Claus Read More

11/9/07
The Brave One

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Nicky Katt, Naveen Andrews, Mary Steenburgen

Synopsis: Neil Jordan's The Brave One stars Jodie Foster as a happy woman whose life changes irrevocably after a brutal assault leaves her partner (Naveen Andrews) dead. The woman, feeling that the police investigation will be unable to catch the perpetrators, begins to live in constant fear. This outlook Read More

9/14/07
The Invasion

Crew: Producer

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Jeffrey Wright

Synopsis: A mysterious, mind-altering epidemic has infected humankind, and when a Washington, D.C. psychiatrist discovers that the outbreak seems to be extraterrestrial in origin, she struggles to save her son from infection in this sci-fi thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, and directed by Read More

8/17/07
The Reaping

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba, AnnaSophia Robb, Stephen Rea

Synopsis: Her faith shaken by a family tragedy from which she was never quite able to fully recover, a professor of theology from Louisiana State University moonlighting as a debunker of unexplained religious phenomena finds herself faced with an apocalyptic series of events that seem to reflect the ten Read More

4/5/07
Return to House on Haunted Hill

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Amanda Righetti, Cerina Vincent, Erik Palladino

Synopsis: When the lone survivor of the original excursion to The House on Haunted Hill dies under suspicious circumstances, her sister returns to the foreboding mansion to solve the mystery of her sibling's death in the feature directorial debut of former make-up special effects artist Victor Garcia Read More

2007
Moonlight [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alex O'Loughlin, Sophia Myles, Jason Dohring, Shannyn Sossamon

Synopsis: "Being a vampire sucks." This pretty much summed up the attitude of the protagonist of this heady CBS mixture of suspense and the supernatural. Alex O'Loughlin starred as LA private detective Mick St. John, who'd become an "undead" vampire way back in 1947 thanks to his fang-bearing former wife Read More

2007
V for Vendetta

Crew: Producer

Actors: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt

Synopsis: Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta takes place in an alternate vision of Britain in which a corrupt and abusive totalitarian government has risen to complete power. During a threatening run in with the secret police, an unassuming young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) is Read More

3/17/06
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan, Corbin Bernsen, Dash Mihok

Synopsis: A thesp-turned-crook gets a chance at career in movies as well as crime scene investigation in this offbeat action comedy with nods to Raymond Chandler. Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.) is a struggling New York actor who high-tails it to Los Angeles. Once there, Lockhart winds up at the posh Read More

10/21/05
House of Wax

Crew: Producer

Actors: Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki

Synopsis: A bunch of college students are stranded in a small town where suffering for art takes on a whole new meaning in this tale of terror. Carly (Elisha Cuthbert) and her boyfriend, Wade (Jared Padalecki), have hit the road with a handful of their friends to attend a championship college football game; Read More

5/6/05
Alien vs. Predator

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon

Synopsis: Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, Alien vs. Predator follows billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) and his team of drillers, scientists, and archaeologists, to an obscure pyramid site in Antarctica. Among the icy ruins, allegedly, lies the proof of an empire predating humankind. Once Read More

8/13/04
Bet Your Life

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sean Carrigan, Corinne van Ryck de Groot, Billy Zane

Synopsis: The Next Action Star reality show winners Corinne van Ryck De Groot and Sean Carrigan star in this take on The Most Dangerous Game that finds an indebted former professional quarterback agreeing to pose as the prey in a particularly heated hunt. Sonny Briggs (Carrigan) was once the king of the Read More

2004
Veronica Mars [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The weekly, hour-long series Veronica Mars starred Kristen Bell as the 17-year-old title character, formerly the most popular girl in her high school in the affluent community of Neptune. Ever since her sheriff father, Keith Mars (Enrico Colantoni), was fired and publicly disgraced for daring to Read More

2004
Next Action Star [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tina Malave

2004
Gothika

Crew: Producer

Actors: Halle Berry, Robert Downey, Jr., Charles S. Dutton, John Carroll Lynch, Bernard Hill, Penélope Cruz

Synopsis: A woman is taken on a voyage to the other side of sanity in this moody thriller. Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) is a clinical psychologist who works alongside her husband, Dr. Doug Grey (Charles S. Dutton), in the mental ward of a top security prison, where Miranda has been devoting much of her Read More

11/21/03
The Matrix Revolutions

Crew: Producer

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett Smith

Synopsis: Shot back-to-back with The Matrix Reloaded, the third and final installment of Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski's sci-fi action saga picks up where the second film left off. Neo (Keanu Reeves) remains unconscious in the real world, caught in a mysterious subway station that lies between the Read More

11/5/03
The Matrix Reloaded

Crew: Producer

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett Smith

Synopsis: After creating an international sensation with the visually dazzling and intellectually challenging sci-fi blockbuster The Matrix, the Wachowski brothers returned with the first of two projected sequels that pick up where the first film left off. Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) Read More

5/15/03
Cradle 2 the Grave

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jet Li, DMX, Mark Dacascos, Kelly Hu, Anthony Anderson, Tom Arnold

Synopsis: A thief and a lawman join forces to hunt down a common enemy in this action thriller. Tony Fait (DMX) is a master thief who, along with his crew (Gabrielle Union, Anthony Anderson, and Drag-On), pulls off a major score when they steal a cache of highly valuable black diamonds. However, the Read More

2/28/03
The Animatrix [Animated Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Raising the anticipation level for the two Matrix sequels, the Wachowski brothers opened up the franchise to a handful of animators. The project resulted in nine animated shorts that present stories related tangentially to the feature films. World Record features a track star who gets a brief Read More

2003
Ghost Ship

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington, Isaiah Washington

Synopsis: A salvage team think they've made the find of a lifetime, until they discover there's more on board than meets the eye in this supernatural thriller. Led by Captain Sean Murphy (Gabriel Byrne), the crew of the tugboat Arctic Warrior have discovered a sideline far more lucrative than hauling Read More

10/25/02
13 Ghosts

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tony Shalhoub, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, Alec Roberts, Shannon Elizabeth, Kathryn Anderson

Synopsis: This haunted house chiller is the second feature from Dark Castle Entertainment, the mid-budget outfit put together in 1999 to remake the cheesy horror genre pictures of William Castle by his daughter, Terry Castle, and producers Gilbert Adler, Robert Zemeckis, and Joel Silver. Financially ravaged Read More

10/26/01
Osmosis Jones

Actors: Bill Murray, Molly Shannon, Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne, David Hyde Pierce

Synopsis: Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly, the impish impresarios of gross-out comedy, take their body function-inspired humor to new extremes in this mixture of live action and animation. Bill Murray stars as Frank, a zoo worker suffering from the effects of an unknown malady he contracted after eating Read More

8/10/01
Swordfish

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Vinnie Jones

Synopsis: Director Dominic Sena follows up his stylish action film Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) with this high-tech thriller. John Travolta stars as Gabriel Shear, a charismatic spy who plots to steal a multi-billion-dollar fortune in illegal government funds. In order to make his scheme work, however, Gabriel Read More

6/8/01
Exit Wounds

Crew: Producer

Actors: Steven Seagal, DMX, Isaiah Washington, Anthony Anderson, Michael Jai White, Jill Hennessy

Synopsis: Returning to his action feature terrain after a short hiatus, Steven Seagal plays Orin Boyd, a maverick Detroit detective with an unconventional way of taking down foes. After a failed intervention in a terrorist kidnapping case that humiliates his superiors, Boyd -- who is hailed as a top-drawer Read More

3/16/01
Jane Doe

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Kevin Elders directs the USA original movie Jane Doe, a complicated thriller about a woman forcibly implicated in an extortion. As a security officer at weapons development firm CY-KOR, Jane (Teri Hatcher) has access to the company's computer systems and passwords. After her teenaged son Michael (Trevor Blumas Read More

2001
The Matrix Revisited

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Josh Oreck directed this look at the making of The Matrix. In addition to an explanation of the technical achievements, the documentary contains behind-the-scenes footage of stars Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Laurence Fishburne. One of the most informative sections of the film details the Read More

2001
Dungeons & Dragons

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Justin Whalin, Marlon Wayans, Zoe McLellan, Thora Birch, Bruce Payne, Jeremy Irons, Kristen Wilson

Synopsis: The imaginary world of the world's most popular fantasy role-playing game comes to life in this special-effects laden adventure. In the Empire of Izmer, magic is the key to power in both the supernatural and political realms. The Mages are a sect who know the secrets of magic and use it to hold Read More

12/8/00
Romeo Must Die

Crew: Producer

Actors: Aaliyah, Anthony Anderson, Edoardo Ballerini, DMX, Jon Kit Lee

Synopsis: William Shakespeare's streak as the hottest storyteller in Hollywood continues with this modern-dress variation on Romeo and Juliet. In this loose adaptation, Hang Sing (Jet Li) is a former police officer from Hong Kong who comes to the United States following the death of his brother, the leader Read More

3/22/00
Freedom

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Holt McCallany, Bodhi Elfman, Darius McCrary, Georg Stanford Brown

Synopsis: A handful of ragtag warriors take it upon themselves to win back America's freedom in this weekly action series. In the near future, the democratic government of the United States of America is overthrown in a military takeover, with Col. Devon (James Morrison) ruling the land through martial law. Read More

2000
House on Haunted Hill

Crew: Producer

Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher, Chris Kattan

Synopsis: In this remake of William Castle's campy 1958 classic, an eccentric millionaire named Steven Price invites a diverse group of people to a reputedly haunted mansion that was formerly the site of an insane asylum. Steven offers his guests $1,000,000 each if they can spend the entire night at the old Read More

10/29/99
The Matrix

Crew: Producer

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Gloria Foster, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: What if virtual reality wasn't just for fun, but was being used to imprison you? That's the dilemma that faces mild-mannered computer jockey Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) in The Matrix. It's the year 1999, and Anderson (hacker alias: Neo) works in a cubicle, manning a computer and doing a little Read More

3/31/99
Made Men

Crew: Producer

Actors: James Belushi, Michael Beach, Timothy Dalton, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: A man under federal protection finds himself on the run from a gang of angry mobsters and a cop gone bad after his successful execution of a multimillion dollar heist. This studio film is not to be confused with the 1997 indie melodrama, starring Cara Buono of The Sopranos and directed by Don Read More

1999
Action [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jay Mohr, Illeana Douglas, Jack Plotnick, Buddy Hackett

1999
The Strip

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sean Patrick Flanery, Guy Torry, Joe Viterelli, Stacey Dash, Tippi Hedren

1999
Lethal Weapon 4

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock

Synopsis: Detectives Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) reteamed for their fourth foray together in this buddy-cop action-comedy series based on characters created by Shane Black. With the passage of years, Murtagh's daughter Rianne (Traci Wolfe) is now about to upgrade Murtagh to Read More

7/10/98
Fathers' Day

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nastassja Kinski, Charlie Hofheimer

Synopsis: Two of the screen's most popular comic actors meet in this movie about two men brought together by unexpected circumstances. On the surface, Jack Lawrence (Billy Crystal) and Dale Putley (Robin Williams) wouldn't appear to have much in common. Jack is an efficient, serious-minded lawyer with a Read More

1997
Conspiracy Theory

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart, Stephen Kahan

Synopsis: Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) is a New York City cab driver who seems to have absorbed every bit of crackpot information passed along as "suppressed news" that's surfaced on talk radio or the Internet in the past 20 years. Anti-United Nations militia men who are actually U.N. operatives? NASA Read More

1997
Executive Decision

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Steven Seagal, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: In this action thriller, a group of Islamic terrorists, led by Nagi Hassan (David Suchet), highjacks a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers aboard, but Lt. Col. Austin Travis (Steven Seagal), a United States intelligence agent, is convinced that this isn't an ordinary case of air piracy. His Read More

1996
Tales From the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, Angie Everhart, Chris Sarandon, Corey Feldman

Synopsis: In this satirical horror-comedy, a gumshoe investigates a combination TV ministry/whorehouse/vampire infestation. After bounty hunter Vincent (Phil Fondacaro) unearths the remains of Lilith, queen of the vampires, he restores the alluring creature to life and lords over her using a magical Read More

1996
Fair Game

Crew: Producer

Actors: Cindy Crawford, William Baldwin, Steven Berkoff, Christopher McDonald, Miguel Sandoval

Synopsis: Supermodel and sex symbol Cindy Crawford made her acting debut in this high-decibel thriller. Kate McQuean (Crawford) is a lawyer who -- in the course of a divorce proceeding -- attempts to seize a 157-foot freighter docked off the Florida coast in lieu of unpaid alimony. It turns out that the Read More

1995
Assassins

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore, Anatoly Davydov

Synopsis: Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner helms this action-adventure yarn in which Robert Rath (Sylvester Stallone), a veteran, burned-out hit man for hire who's looking to leave his profession, meets a younger, crazier, more ambitious competitor, Miguel Bain (Antonio Banderas), who is out to best Read More

1995
Demon Knight

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Billy Zane, Bill Sadler, Jada Pinkett Smith, Brenda Bakke, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: This first theatrical feature spun off from the television series Tales from the Crypt (which was in turn inspired by the infamous EC horror comics of the 1950s) concerns a mysterious man named Brayker (Bill Sadler), who arrives at a church-turned-rooming house in a small town in New Mexico. Hot Read More

1994
Richie Rich

Crew: Producer

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, John Larroquette, Edward Herrmann, Jonathan Hyde, Christine Ebersole

Synopsis: A purposely outlandish cartoon created in 1953, Harvey Comics hero Richie Rich finally came to the big screen in 1994, when a boy billionaire was not quite as fanciful an idea. Richie Rich (Macaulay Culkin) is the wealthiest boy in the world, but even though he loves his doting parents, Richard (Edward Herrmann Read More

1994
Demolition Man

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Bratt

Synopsis: The plot of this action film begins in 1996, with Los Angeles in a violence-crazed conflagration. One of the LAPD's most notorious cops, John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), known as "the demolition man," is in hot pursuit of blonde-haired psychopath Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes), who is so nasty he Read More

1993
Lethal Weapon 3

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Stuart Wilson

Synopsis: Superstars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return with director Richard Donner for Lethal Weapon 3, the third in the phenomenally successful action series. In this film, Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is only eight days away from retirement and his partner Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) once again manages Read More

5/15/92
The Last Boy Scout

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field, Noble Willingham, Taylor Negron

Synopsis: Producer Joel Silver, director Tony Scott, and screenwriters Shane Black and Greg Hicks team up for this gridiron-set action thriller. Bruce Willis stars as Joe Hallenbeck, who was once a top-of-the-line Secret Service agent but has since become an alcoholic, flea-bag detective. While performing Read More

12/13/91
Ricochet

Crew: Producer

Actors: Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, Kevin Pollak, Lindsay Wagner

Synopsis: Ricochet, a suspenseful, exciting police thriller that loses its way at the end, is the story of a good cop whose life is destroyed by an obsessed psychotic criminal whom he sent to prison years before. Nick (Denzel Washington) is a successful happily married police officer with a distinguished Read More

10/4/91
Hudson Hawk

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, Sandra Bernhard, Richard E. Grant, James Coburn

Synopsis: Michael Lehmann directed this post-modernist hash of To Catch a Thief and The Naked Gun starring Bruce Willis as Hudson Hawk, a cat burglar who wants to go straight, but the circumstances won't allow it. The story begins in a pre-credit sequence that takes place in the renaissance. Leonardo Da Read More

5/24/91
Predator 2

Crew: Producer

Actors: Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Rubén Blades, Maria Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton

Synopsis: This special effects-heavy science fiction sequel moves the action from the first film's Amaz