Peter Safran Filmography

Occupation:: Co-producer, Executive Producer, Producer

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My Life in Ruins

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss, Harland Williams, Rachel Dratch

Synopsis: A Greek tour guide named Georgia (My Big Fat Greek Wedding star Nia Vardalos) attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for "mojo") by guiding a rag-tag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land in this sun-soaked comedy from director Donald Petrie (Miss Read More

1/1/09
Disaster Movie

Crew: Producer

Actors: Matt Lanter, Vanessa Minnillo, Carmen Electra, Kim Kardashian, G-Thang

Synopsis: The filmmaking team behind Date Movie and Meet the Spartans are back with a comedy spoof sending up disaster movies in this Lionsgate production. Matt Lanter, Vanessa Minnillo, Carmen Electra, and Kim Kardashian head up the cast. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

8/29/08
Over Her Dead Body

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs, Lindsay Sloane

Synopsis: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, and Lake Bell star in first-time feature filmmaker Jeff Lowell's heavenly romantic comedy concerning a female psychic and a doubtful skeptic who find their fledgling love affair thwarted by the latter's recently deceased fiancée. Henry (Rudd) and Kate (Longoria Parker Read More

2/1/08
Meet the Spartans

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitian, Kevin Sorbo, Diedrich Bader

Synopsis: From the creators of Scary Movie and Date Movie comes this tongue-in-cheek parody of the sword-and-sandal epics, dubbed Meet the Spartans. The 20th Century Fox production was written and directed by the filmmaking team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Sure, Leonidas may have nothing more than Read More

1/25/08
Chilled in Miami

Crew: Producer

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Harry Connick, Jr., Rashida Jones

Synopsis: Renée Zellweger stars as a career woman from Miami who gets transplanted to the Minnesota boondocks in this fish-out-of-water comedy from Gold Circle Films. Harry Connick Jr. and Rashida Jones co-star in the Jonas Elmer-helmed feature, scripted by Ken Rance and C. Jay Cox. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Read More

1/1/08
The Long Weekend

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Chris Klein, Brendan Fehr, Chandra West, Craig Fairbrass

Synopsis: An advertising executive at risk of losing his job finds that inspiration can sometimes come from the least likely of places in a brotherly comedy about getting laid and getting the job done from director Pat Holden. Adman Ed Waxman (Brendan Fehr) has just been informed by the higher-ups that if Read More

6/9/06
Heist [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dougray Scott, Michele Hicks, Steve Harris, Seymour Cassel, Reno Wilson

Synopsis: Apparently inspired by the success of the 2001 remake of Ocean's 11 and its sequels, the NBC series Heist spent its entire first season following a gang of clever and charismatic criminals as they prepared to rob three Rodeo Drive jewelers simultaneously on the eve of the annual Academy Awards Read More

2006
Jiminy Glick in La La Wood

Crew: Producer

Actors: Martin Short, Jan Hooks, Linda Cardellini, Janeane Garofalo, John Michael Higgins

Synopsis: The world's most obnoxious celebrity talk-show host demonstrates how he rose to mediocrity in this pungent show business satire. Jiminy Glick (Martin Short) is a corpulent entertainment reporter who is looking to kick his career into high gear. Hoping to snag some celebrity interviews, Jiminy and Read More

5/6/05
P. Diddy Presents the Bad Boys of Comedy [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

2005
Connie and Carla

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny, Stephen Spinella, Alec Mapa

Synopsis: Actress and writer Nia Vardalos, who became an overnight sensation with My Big Fat Greek Wedding, returns to the big screen with this gender-bending comedy. Connie (Vardalos) and Carla (Toni Collette) are best friends who've shared the same dream ever since they were teenagers -- making a name for Read More

4/16/04
My Baby's Daddy

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Eddie Griffin, Anthony Anderson, Michael Imperioli, Method Man, John Amos

Synopsis: Three lazy pals find they're facing fatherhood simultaneously in this light-hearted comedy co-written by star Eddie Griffin. Lonnie (Griffin), G. (Anthony Anderson), and Dominick (Michael Imperioli) live stress-free lives with Lonnie's trash-talking Uncle Virgil (John Amos). But when all three Read More

1/9/04
Scary Movie

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Cheri Oteri, Shannon Elizabeth, Anna Faris

Synopsis: After parodying the blaxploitation films of the 1970s in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Keenen Ivory Wayans takes aim at slasher films of the 1980s and 1990s in this raunchy satire, which was produced under the clumsy but inarguably appropriate title Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween. Read More

7/7/00
The Specials

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rob Lowe, Jamie Kennedy, Thomas Haden Church, Paget Brewster, Kelly Coffield

Synopsis: A satire of comic-book superheroes in the same vein as the 1999 Mystery Men, The Specials is set in a parallel universe where gangs of superheroes regularly compete against one another for glory or, failing that, flattering action-figure likenesses. The Specials are one of these gangs, and not a Read More

2000
Senseless

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Marlon Wayans, David Spade, Matthew Lillard, Brad Dourif, Tamara Taylor

Synopsis: Penelope Spheeris directed this Marlon Wayans comedy, scripted by the Rocket Man team of Greg Erb and Craig Mazin. Saddled with several on and off-campus jobs, hard-working college student Darryl Witherspoon (Marlon Wayans) is aiming for a position with the Smythe-Bates brokerage firm, but twit Read More

1998
Rocketman

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Harland Williams, Jessica Lundy, Bill Sadler, Jeffrey DeMunn, James Pickens, Jr.

Synopsis: During training, a member of the first manned mission to Mars is injured, and NASA chooses a replacement, spaced-out spacecraft designer Fred Z. Randall (Canadian stand-up comic Harland Williams), to team with cocky crew captain William "Wild Bill" Overbeck (William Sadler), efficient mission Read More

1997