Jon Kilik Filmography

Miracle at St. Anna

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, Matteo Sciabordi, Pierfrancesco Favino, Valentina Cervi

Synopsis: A group of four black soldiers in the 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division of the U.S. Army during World War II get stuck behind enemy lines after getting separated from their squadron when one of them bravely attempts to rescue an Italian boy. Alienated from their own country, the soldiers find solace Read More

Lou Reed's Berlin

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lou Reed, Emmanuelle Seigner

Synopsis: Thirty-three years after his ambitious concept album {^Berlin} was pronounced dead on arrival, Lou Reed reteams with producers Bob Ezrin and Hal Willner to stage live performances of the now-classic release at concert venues all across the globe. The album, which was savaged by critics upon Read More

I Come With the Rain

Crew: Producer

Actors: Josh Hartnett, Tran Nu Yên-Khê

Foxcatcher

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The true story of John E. du Pont, heir to the DuPont fortune, is brought to the big screen in Foxcatcher, director Bennett Miller's (Capote) retelling of the tragic events that led to du Pont being convicted of killing Olympic wrestler David Schultz. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

The Limits of Control

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Isaach de Bankolé, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Gael García Bernal

Synopsis: Jim Jarmusch directs Isaach de Bankolé in The Limits of Control, a Focus Features production that follows an unlawful lone wolf as he pulls a job in Spain. Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, and Gael García Bernal co-star in the Focus Features production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais

Synopsis: The astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby -- a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden paralysis at 43 years old, and somehow found the strength to rebound -- first touched the world in Bauby's best-selling autobiography The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (aka La Read More

Babel

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi, Adriana Barraza, Koji Yakusho

Synopsis: The tragic aftermath of human carelessness travels around the world in this multi-narrative drama from filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu. Richard (Brad Pitt) and Susan (Cate Blanchett) are a couple from the United States who have traveled to Morocco in Northern Africa on a vacation after the Read More

Inside Man

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Synopsis: The volatile showdown between a determined cop and a perfectionist bank robber is sent spiraling toward disaster when a scheming power broker steps in to take control of the situation in this hair-raising heist flick directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, and Jodie Foster Read More

Broken Flowers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy

Synopsis: A man sets out to find the son he didn't know he had and winds up getting answers to some questions he never asked in this comedy drama from director Jim Jarmusch. Don Johnston (Bill Murray) is an emotionally blank middle-aged man who has never married and lives a quiet, comfortable life thanks to Read More

Across the Hall

Crew: Producer

Actors: Adrian Grenier, James Oliver, Natalie Smyka, Jamie Benge

Alexander

Crew: Producer

Actors: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Jared Leto, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: The fourth film to chronicle the life of fourth-century B.C. ruler Alexander the Great, Oliver Stone's Alexander stars Colin Farrell as the titular Macedonian conqueror. The film follows the young king as he leads his forces on a bloody empirical conquest across the known world, taking large parts Read More

The Party's Over

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: Actors and political activists come together to take a long, hard look at the State of the Union during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election in this documentary, a follow-up to 1993's The Last Party, in which actor Robert Downey Jr. followed the 1992 presidential campaign. In The Last Party 2000 Read More

25th Hour

Crew: Producer

Actors: Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox

Synopsis: A man has one day to put his life in order before a long stretch in prison in this drama directed by Spike Lee. Monty Brogan (Edward Norton) is a man who came from a working class family in New York. Monty's best friends Jacob (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Slaughtery (Barry Pepper) went on to Read More

Skins

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eric Schweig, Graham Greene, Gary Farmer, Noah Watts, Lois Red Elk

Synopsis: Filmmaker Chris Eyre, who directed the independent success story Smoke Signals -- one of the first motion pictures directed by, written by, and starring Native American talent -- offers another look at contemporary Native American culture in this hard-hitting drama. Rudy (Eric Schweig) and Mogie Read More

Pollock

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan, Jennifer Connelly, Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis: Artist Jackson Pollock revolutionized American painting in the 1940's with his exciting abstract canvases that used dripped and splattered paint in a manner at once excitingly physical and structurally intelligent. While Pollock became a heroic figure in the art world, his private life was nothing Read More

Bamboozled

Crew: Producer

Actors: Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, Michael Rapaport

Synopsis: Writer and director Spike Lee casts his satiric gaze on racism in American television and how America's racist past still impacts the present in this biting comedy. Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) is an astute, Harvard-educated African-American writer working for an independent television network Read More

Before Night Falls

Crew: Producer

Actors: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn

Synopsis: For his sophomore feature film effort, visual artist Julian Schnabel chronicles the life of one of Cuba's most charismatic literary voices, the late Reinaldo Arenas. Working with Arenas' friends and family, Schnabel recounts the author's impoverished rural upbringing and the intense love and Read More

Cradle Will Rock

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Cary Elwes, Cherry Jones, Angus MacFadyen

Synopsis: The sometimes rocky relationship between art and politics in America in the 1930s -- as well as the gulf between the wealthy and the struggling -- sets the stage for Tim Robbins' ambitious comedy-drama Cradle Will Rock. Pulling together a variety of threads from actual events, Robbins examines the Read More

Summer of Sam

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: In the summer of 1977, a serial killer who called himself Son of Sam (real name David Berkowitz) held New York City in terror as he went on a killing spree, periodically writing letters to New York's media in which he took full responsibility for the murders and made clear that he intended to kill Read More

Pleasantville

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J.T. Walsh

Synopsis: Gary Ross, Oscar nominated for his Dave and Big screenplays, made his directorial debut with this comedy. The cheerful '50s TV sitcom "Pleasantville" is revived in the '90s for a loyal cable audience. One devoted fan is shy suburban teen David Wagner (Tobey Maguire), who has an almost obsessive Read More

He Got Game

Crew: Producer

Actors: Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich, Rosario Dawson, Hill Harper

Synopsis: Denzel Washington and writer-director Spike Lee team for the third time with this contemporary basketball drama focusing on a promising athlete, the son of a convict-father. Jake Shuttlesworth (Denzel Washington) has been in prison for six years when tough prison-warden Wyatt (Ned Beatty) tells Read More

Girl 6

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Theresa Randle, Isaiah Washington, Spike Lee, Jenifer Lewis, Debi Mazar

Synopsis: Spike Lee directed this comedy-drama about a woman who falls into a career in phone sex. An African-American woman (Theresa Randle) who aspires to a career as an actress endures a number of dispiriting jobs (handing out leaflets and working as a coat check girl) before reaching the end of her rope Read More

Basquiat

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Benicio Del Toro, Claire Forlani, David Bowie

Synopsis: Andy Warhol was a phenomenon who warrants a lot of explaining: a completely colorless mega-star celebrity, and a kind of LaBrea Tarpit for a vivid and talented collection of oddballs in the New York scene. He fostered their continued degeneration into weird lifestyles and heavy drug use; and at Read More

Clockers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, Isaiah Washington, Keith David

Synopsis: Based on Richard Price's grim best-seller, and directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay co-written with Price, Clockers takes the structure of a police procedural to build a chilling portrait of despair, hope, and the unanswered problem of black-on-black crime in an urban housing project. The Read More

Dead Man Walking

Crew: Producer

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: Tim Robbins' second directorial effort (after the political satire Bob Roberts) was this drama based on a true story, which explores the issue of capital punishment. Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) is a nun and teacher living in rural Louisiana. One day, she receives a letter from Matthew Read More

Crooklyn

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly, Zelda Harris, Carlton Williams

Synopsis: Spike Lee and his siblings Cinque Lee and Joie Lee co-wrote this nostalgic but unglamorized look at a family growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s, inspired by their own childhood. Woody Carmichael (Delroy Lindo) is a jazz musician whose career is in a slump; he once made a good living as a session Read More

Prêt-à-Porter

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger

Synopsis: This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual "Pret-a-Porter" fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors and Read More

A Bronx Tale

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Francis Capra, Taral Hicks

Synopsis: Robert De Niro made his directorial debut with this expanded adaptation of Chazz Palminteri's one-character play. DeNiro's role of Lorenzo Anello, an Italian-America bus driver, is secondary to the part of his son Calogero, played by young Francis Capra. The top dog in Calogero's Bronx Read More

Malcolm X

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Angela Bassett, Al Freeman, Jr., Delroy Lindo, Albert Hall

Synopsis: Writer-director Spike Lee's epic portrayal of the life and times of the slain civil rights leader Malcolm X begins with the cross-cut imagery of the police beating of black motorist Rodney King juxtaposed with an American flag burning into the shape of the letter X. When the film's narrative Read More

Fathers and Sons

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Rory Cochrane, Ellen Greene, Rosanna Arquette

Synopsis: After his wife dies, Max Fish (Jeff Goldblum) trades in his directing career for the life of a New Jersey bookstore owner. As Max struggles to overcome his drinking problem, his moody son Ed (Rory Cochrane) tries out a drug scene of his own, and the two try to work out their changing Read More

Jungle Fever

Crew: Producer

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Anthony Quinn, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

Synopsis: Spike Lee defines "jungle fever" as sexual attraction between members of two races. In his film Jungle Fever, he examines the repercussions of an interracial affair upon two very distinct communities. Wesley Snipes is Flipper, a happily married and successful architect, and Annabella Sciorra is Read More

Mo' Better Blues

Crew: Producer

Actors: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Joie Lee, Cynda Williams

Synopsis: Spike Lee's 1990 directing effort is a jazz film, the story of a fictional trumpeter named Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington). He leads a quintet at the Beneath the Underground club with a flashy saxophonist named Shadow Henderson (Wesley Snipes). Though Shadow takes a few too many solos Read More

Do the Right Thing

Crew: Producer

Actors: Danny Aiello, Spike Lee, Richard Edson, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Bill Nunn, Ossie Davis

Synopsis: Director Spike Lee dives head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills, using as his springboard the hottest day of the year on one block in Brooklyn, NY. Three businesses dominate the block: a storefront radio station, where a smooth-talkin' deejay (Samuel L. Jackson) spins the platters Read More

The Beat

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Savage, David Jacobson, William McNamara, Kara Glover, Jeffrey Horowitz

Synopsis: This drama is based on a play by Mones and is set within a grim New York neighborhood where a new kid comes to the neighborhood. Unlike the street-wise and life-toughened gang members around him, the youth is a sensitive poet who teaches the kids about the meaning and beauty of life. ~ Sandra Read More

Bum Rap

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Craig Wasson, Blanche Baker, Al Lewis, Anita Gillette, Frances Fisher

Synopsis:
First-timer Daniel Irom wrote and directed Bum Rap, which represents something of a variation on Fielder Cook's superior Seize the Day (1986). The picture concentrates on taxi driver and striving actor Paul Colson (Craig Wasson of Four Friends and Go Tell the Spartans), whose life goes Read More