Robert Shaye Filmography

Born:: March 3, 1939 in Detroit, MI
Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer
Birth name:: Robert Kenneth Shaye
Biography:: Best known as the founder, co-chairman, and co-CEO of New Line Cinema, warhorse Robert K. Shaye is responsible for turning that enterprise from a fledgling, independently owned distributor of "arthouse" features and documentaries (circa the late '60s), into one of the most significant film...Read More

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Foundation

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Former New Line Cinema studio heads Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne team up to produce what many have considered an impossible adaptation -- that of Isaac Asimov's Foundation. The sprawling work of thoughtful science fiction details mathematician Hari Seldon's goal to preserve humanity after Read More

1/1/10
The Last Mimzy

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Chris O'Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Rainn Wilson

Synopsis: New Line Cinema founder Robert Shaye's directorial debut, the family-friendly science-fiction tale The Last Mimzy is an adaptation of a short story by Lewis Padgett. The story concerns a young brother and sister, Noah and Emma Wilder (Chris O'Neil and Rhiannon Leigh Wryn), who discover a strange Read More

3/23/07
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

Synopsis: Stuart Samuels's popular documentary Midnight Movies: From Margin to Mainstream grounds itself in the thesis that six revolutionary American motion pictures - Night of the Living Dead (1968), El Topo (1970), Pink Flamingoes (1972), The Harder they Come (1972), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Read More

2005
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom

Synopsis: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King brings Peter Jackson's mammoth adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic to a close in suitably epic fashion. Instead of starting just where the previous film left off, however, it goes far back in time to the moment the tormented creature Gollum first Read More

12/17/03
Freddy Vs. Jason

Crew: Associate Producer, Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Monica Keena, Jason Ritter, Kelly Rowland

Synopsis: Rumored and anticipated for years, the two biggest icons of the slasher genre finally meet in Freddy Vs. Jason, the eighth entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street saga and the 11th film in the Friday the 13th series, though with Jason X taking place in the future, it should be noted that the events Read More

8/15/03
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett

Synopsis: The second film in Peter Jackson's series of screen adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's internationally popular Lord of The Rings trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers literally begins where The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ended, with the Fellowship splitting into three Read More

12/18/02
Festival In Cannes

Actors: Jenny Gabrielle, Greta Scacchi, Kim Kolarich, Rachel Bailit, Zack Norman

Synopsis: The romance, intrigue, and industry politics of the world's biggest film festival -- which is also the world's biggest film marketplace -- provides the backdrop for this typically understated comedy-drama from director Henry Jaglom. Alice Palmer (Greta Scacchi) is a well-known American actress who Read More

3/8/02
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean

Synopsis: New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson fulfills his lifelong dream of transforming author J.R.R. Tolkien's best-selling fantasy epic into a three-part motion picture that begins with this holiday 2001 release. Elijah Wood stars as Frodo Baggins, a Hobbit resident of the medieval "Middle-earth" who Read More

12/19/01
Frequency

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dennis Quaid, James Caviezel, Andre Braugher, Elizabeth Mitchell, Noah Emmerich

Synopsis: Known more for his dark, psychological crime thrillers Primal Fear (1996) and Fallen (1998), director Gregory Hoblit surprisingly created this Frank Capra-meets-Rod Serling-style fantasy that mixes several genres of storytelling into a likable stew. James Caviezel stars as John Sullivan, a New Read More

4/28/00
Divine Trash

Actors: John Waters, Jeanine Basinger, Steve Buscemi, Ken Jacobs

Synopsis: A documentary profile of filmmaker John Waters, Divine Trash focuses on the bad-taste pioneer's early years, especially his 1972 breakthrough Pink Flamingos, which turned the director of Mondo Trasho and Multiple Maniacs into the king of midnight movies thanks to word of mouth about the film's Read More

1998
Blink

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, Laurie Metcalf, James Remar, Peter Friedman

Synopsis: In Blink, a woman regaining her eyesight after a double cornea transplant operation glimpses the killer of her upstairs neighbor and then must fight for her life as the killer stalks her. Emma Brody (Madeline Stowe), a musician in an Irish folk-rock band was blinded as a result of childhood abuse Read More

1994
Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Miko Hughes, David Newsom, Tracy Middendorf

Synopsis: Veteran horror director Wes Craven was responsible for the hit 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street, which introduced the character of Freddy Krueger. After Craven sold the rights to his character, Krueger became filmdom's top grossing monster, with five sequels by 1991, none of them involving Read More

1994
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Jon Lovitz, Tim Curry, Kathy Ireland

Synopsis: The Lethal Weapon series and the rest of the buddy-cop genre receives the parody treatment in this low-brow comedy. Emilio Estevez stars as Jack Colt, the Mel Gibson-like loose cannon, while Samuel L. Jackson assumes the Danny Glover role as Wes Luger, his exasperated partner. Together, Colt and Read More

1993
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt, Lezlie Deane, Rick Logan

Synopsis: The producers insisted that this sixth entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street series marked the last; no points for guessing that additional sequels followed. This time, homicidal wraith Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) decides to extend his reign of terror past Elm Street. His agent-on-earth is his Read More

9/13/91
Book of Love

Crew: Director

Actors: Chris Young, Keith Coogan, Josie Bissett, Beau Dremann, Aeryk Egan, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Jill Jaress

Synopsis: A teenager in the '50s moves to a new neighborhood and has to deal with all the problems that come with it in this lighthearted feature--complete with a rock 'n' roll soundtrack. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1/4/91
Heart Condition

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Denzel Washington, Chloe Webb, Roger E. Mosley, Ja'net DuBois

Synopsis: Jack Moony (Bob Hoskins) is a vice detective, but he is also an intense and crazed, racist lout. Jack has had a brief fling with a hooker named Crystal (Chloe Webb), but Crystal left him for Napoleon Stone (Denzel Washington), a suave, handsome, cosmopolitan lawyer, who becomes the object of Read More

2/2/90
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kate Hodge, Viggo Mortensen, William Butler, Ken Foree, Joe Unger

Synopsis: Upon stopping for gas and directions on the Texas back roads, bickering yuppies Michelle (Kate Hodge) and Ryan (William Butler) get harassed by leering service-station owner Alfredo (Tom Everett). When the helpful intercession of a hitchhiker named Tex (Viggo Mortensen) leads to violence, the Read More

1/12/90
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Kelly Minter, Joe Seely, Danny Hassel, Erika Anderson

Synopsis: In the fifth installment in the Nightmare on Elm Street series, Alice (Lisa Wilcox) begins the film with the notion that she is safe after she vanquished the evil Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) by learning how to battle the dreamworld psychopath within her own unconscious mind. But somehow Freddy Read More

1989
Freddy's Nightmares: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Englund

Synopsis: The hideously charred face, blazing eyes, and razor-enhanced glove of "dream demon" Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund remain essential ingredients to Freddy's Nightmares as the weekly, hour-long horror series launches its second season. As before, Freddy's "role" in the proceedings varies from story Read More

1989
The Prince of Pennsylvania

Crew: Producer

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Amy Madigan, Bonnie Bedelia, Fred Ward, Joseph de Lisi

Synopsis: Set in a remote Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this off-beat comedy follows the friendship between an old hippie woman and a depressive teenage punk rocker who feels like a pariah. The fun begins when the two conspire to kidnap the boy's crazy father in hopes of getting a hold of the family Read More

9/16/88
Critters 2: The Main Course

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Scott Grimes, Liane Alexandra Curtis, Don Opper, Barry Corbin, Tom Hodges

Synopsis: Critters 2: The Main Course is the sequel to the highly enjoyable horror comedy Critters. The people of the Kansas town first menaced by the little, furry creatures find that they are not yet safe as they are again assaulted when the creatures reproduce. Charlie (Don Opper) is joined by Lee (Roxanne Kernohan Read More

4/29/88
Hairspray

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Ricki Lake, Michael St. Gerard, Divine, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown

Synopsis: Forever interested in the kitsch built into past eras, director John Waters chooses the TV dance show craze of the early '60s for his playful focus in Hairspray. Ricki Lake plays Tracy Turnblad, just one of several alliteratively named characters coming of age in 1962 Baltimore, where "The Corny Read More

2/26/88
Freddy's Nightmares: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Englund

Synopsis: The first season of the horror anthology Freddy's Nightmares begins with a revisionary rehash of the premise established in the original Nightmare on Elm Street film series, as multiple murderer Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), released from prison on a technically, falls victim to the vigilante Read More

1988
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Rodney Eastman, Danny Hassel, Andras Jones, Tuesday Knight, Ken Sagoes

Synopsis: This fourth trip down Freddy Lane was the most successful at the box-office, but although it has some impressive visuals, it is mostly an empty film. Credit must go to the effects team for some fine work, but otherwise, this entry from the director of Cutthroat Island (Renny Harlin) is extremely Read More

1988
Stranded

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Ione Skye, Joe Morton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Susan Barnes, Cameron Dye

Synopsis: Any film with a cast that runs the age-and-experience gamut from Ione Skye to Maureen O'Sullivan is certainly worth at least one look. Stranded casts Ione as a lonely 17-year-old, living in a remote farmhouse with her grandmother, O'Sullivan. Late one evening, five space aliens crash-land near the Read More

11/20/87
The Hidden

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Nouri, Kyle MacLachlan, Ed O'Ross, Clu Gulager, Claudia Christian

Synopsis: A cop discovers that there's something unusual about his new partner in this unusual sci-fi thriller. A seemingly well-mannered stock broker one day snaps, robbing a bank, stealing a Ferrari, and driving straight into a police barricade without any thought for his own safety, and he's mowed down Read More

10/30/87
My Demon Lover

Crew: Producer

Actors: Scott Valentine, Michelle Little, Arnold Johnson, Robert Trebor, Alan Fudge

Synopsis: A young man named Kaz (Scott Valentine), afflicted with the curse of turning into an animal at the least sign of sexual arousal, tries to remain friends with a girl he's just met (Michelle Little). Meanwhile, he recruits a bizarre street scientist (Arnold Johnson) to create an antidote to the Read More

4/24/87
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Crew: Producer

Actors: Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne, Priscilla Pointer, Craig Wasson, Robert Englund

Synopsis: The best of the Elm Street sequels, this creepy, surreal fantasy features terrific effects, a fine young cast, and an air of grim fatalism that sets it apart from its giggly successors. Patricia Arquette stars as Kristen, whose nightmare leads to a slashed wrist which looks suspiciously like a Read More

1987
Quiet Cool

Crew: Producer

Actors: James Remar, Adam Coleman Howard, Daphne Ashbrook, Jared Martin, Nick Cassavetes

Synopsis: This actioner is set in a remote, heavily forested area in Northern California where marijuana growers raise their illegal crops and run whole communities with their terrorist tactics and wealth. The tale centers on the efforts of a fearless New York cop to free one such community from the tyranny Read More

11/7/86
Critters

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes, Nadine Van Der Velde

Synopsis: Critters, an amusing horror comedy directed byStephen Herek, is the story of a family menaced by eight basketball sized creatures from outer space who arrive at their Kansas farm in search of food. Helen Brown (Dee Wallace Stone) and Brad (Scott Grimes), owners of the farm find themselves held Read More

4/11/86
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler, Clu Gulager, Hope Lange, Robert Englund

Synopsis: Several years after the events of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jesse Walsh and his family moved into the home of Nancy Thompson, the only survivor of supernatural killer Freddie's reign of terror. Haunted by dreams of the disfigured child-killer, the lonely Jesse has trouble sleeping, falls asleep Read More

1985
A Nightmare on Elm Street

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Saxon, Ronee Blakely, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund

Synopsis: A decade of wisecracking sequels have not diminished the power of this striking horror film from the director of Scream. Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to Read More

11/9/84
Xtro

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Philip Sayer, Bernice Stegers, Danny Brainin, Simon Nash, Maryam D'Abo

Synopsis: For those with a taste for the repugnant comes this gory blood-and-guts fest that tells the horrific story of a British fellow who gets kidnapped by aliens and three years later is returned carrying infectious spores that have transformed him into a kind of crab thingy that causes all kinds of Read More

1983
The First Time

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tim Choate, Krista Errickson, Marshall Erwin Efron, Wendy Fulton, Raymond Patterson

Synopsis: In this quiet though not quite bland semi-autobiographical look at his formative years, director Charlie Loventhal has his main character Charlie (Tim Choate) enrolled in the film school of a small college. But while Charlie has aspirations of making comedies, his classmates and pretentious film Read More

1983
Alone in the Dark

Crew: Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau, Dwight Schultz, Erland Van Lidth

Synopsis: This is a very enjoyable tongue-in-cheek horror film about some homicidal maniacs who break out of an asylum and terrorize a psychiatrist's family on a dark and stormy night. Martin Landau and Jack Palance are particularly funny, but there are some genuine scares as well. One scene, in which a Read More

1982
Polyester

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, Mink Stole, David Samson

Synopsis: After making a name for himself with such underground gross-out epics as Pink Flamingos and Desperate Living, director John Waters made a bid for somewhat wider acceptance with this black comedy, which is sedate only by the standards of his previous work. Francine Fishpaw (Divine) is a housewife Read More

1981
Stunts

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Forster, Fiona Lewis, Joanna Cassidy, Darrell Fetty, Bruce Glover

Synopsis: Robert Forster delivers a well-turned performance as a professional stuntman in this Hawksian murder mystery. Forster is Glen Wilson, an ace stuntman who travels from movie set to movie set, performing dangerous professional work. Fiona Lewis is B.J. Parswell, a journalist whose presence creates Read More

1977

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