Roger Birnbaum Filmography

Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer
Biography:: Through much of the 1990s, producer and executive producer Roger Birnbaum headed the Disney-affiliated independent studio Caravan Pictures. As a producer, he and Caravan founder Joe Roth teamed up to back such films as Angels in the Outfield (1994) and While You Were Sleeping (1995). Projects done...Read More

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The Tourist

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tom Cruise, Charlize Theron

Synopsis: Director Bharat Nalluri teams with screenwriter Julian Fellowes for this remake of Jerome Salle's 2005 thriller. When an American tourist (Tom Cruise) realizes that a female Interpol agent (Charlize Theron) is using him to flush out the elusive criminal with whom she once had an affair, the stage Read More

1/1/10
Hercules: The Thracian Wars

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Filmmaker Peter Berg adapts Radical Publishing's comic series Hercules: The Thracian Wars for Universal Pictures with this big-screen adventure. Ryan Condal provides the script, with Berg handling producing duties. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
Leap Year

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A woman (Amy Adams) heads to Ireland in order to force her boyfriend to accept her wedding proposal by scheduling it on leap day, the only time when he couldn't refuse due to the country's tradition in this Spyglass Entertainment romantic comedy. Shopgirl's Anand Tucker directs from a script by Read More

1/1/09
Bunny Lake Is Missing

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Narc and Smokin' Aces director Joe Carnahan teams with actress Reese Witherspoon for this remake of the 1965 Otto Preminger thriller concerning the mystery that unfolds when a woman reports her daughter missing and the police investigation reveals that no such girl ever existed. Pulitzer Read More

2009
Four Christmases

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Jon Voight, Jon Favreau, Mary Steenburgen

Synopsis: A crafty couple run the Christmas Day gauntlet by racing to visit their divorced parents' four separate households in this Vince Vaughn/Reece Witherspoon comedy that proves the holidays are no time for relaxing. Brad (Vaughn) and Kate (Witherspoon) have made something of an art form out of Read More

11/26/08
Flash of Genius

Crew: Producer

Actors: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Dermot Mulroney, Jake Abel, Daniel Roebuck

Synopsis: Greg Kinnear stars in director Marc Abraham's man-against-the-system docudrama Flash of Genius as inventor Robert Kearns, the visionary who developed the modern intermittent windshield wiper. Kearns submitted the invention to each of the big three auto companies, each of which promptly rejected Read More

10/3/08
Ghost Town

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ricky Gervais, Téa Leoni, Greg Kinnear, Billy Campbell, Dana Ivey

Synopsis: Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear star in director David Koepp's fantasy comedy concerning Bertram Pincus, a dentist who gains the ability to communicate with the dead after momentarily dying during a routine medical procedure. When the dearly departed begin requesting favors from Dr. Pincus, the Read More

9/19/08
Wanted

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Common

Synopsis: Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov helms his first English-language feature film with this big-screen adaptation of Mark Millar's action-packed graphic novel. Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a cube-dwelling hypochondriac whose uneventful life has become a mundane blur of terminal boredom. Read More

6/27/08
The Love Guru

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco, Verne Troyer, Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: Austin Powers trilogy star Mike Myers collaborates with writer Graham Gordy for this comedy concerning a self-help guru named Pitka (Myers) who devotes his life to unknotting the romantic entanglements of troubled couples. As a young child, Pitka is abandoned at the gates of an ashram in India and Read More

6/20/08
The Happening

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez, Betty Buckley

Synopsis: Lady in the Water director M. Night Shyamalan puts PG-13 suspense on pause to tell this grim apocalyptic tale about a family fleeing a natural disaster that poses a grave threat to the whole of humanity. Philadelphia high-school science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) is discussing the Read More

6/13/08
The Ruins

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, Joe Anderson

Synopsis: Based on the novel by A Simple Plan author Scott Smith, director Carter B. Smith's Yucatan-set thriller follows four American tourists as they unwisely venture off the beaten path while vacationing in Cancun. When a friendly German tourist implores the Americans to help search the jungle for his Read More

4/4/08
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Margaret Avery, Joy Bryant, Louis C.K., Michael Clarke Duncan

Synopsis: A single father who has just found success as the host of an outrageous television talk show begins to question his path in life when he returns home to attend his parents' 50th wedding anniversary party in the company of his famous fiancée -- a reality television star -- in this Read More

2/8/08
27 Dresses

Crew: Producer

Actors: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman, Judy Greer, Edward Burns

Synopsis: A single woman who has served as a bridesmaid a shocking 27 times wrestles with the prospect of supporting her sister at the altar on number 28, despite having fallen helplessly in love with her smitten sibling's handsome husband-to-be. Jane (Katherine Heigl) has the kind of altruistic traits that Read More

1/18/08
The Brood

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: David Cronenberg's unnerving psychological thriller The Brood gets the remake treatment with this Spyglass Entertainment production scripted by Cory Goodman. The story follows a doctor who specializes in radical therapies in which patients externalize their anger, resulting in lesions, burns, and Read More

1/1/08
Balls of Fury

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, George Lopez, Maggie Q, James Hong

Synopsis: A disgraced former ping pong champion is drawn back into the world of high-stakes table tennis to carry out a top-secret mission in the feature directorial debut of Reno 911! writer/director Ben Garant. Far removed from the rigidly regulated world of professional sports, clandestine ping pong Read More

8/29/07
Rush Hour 3

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Youki Kudoh, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: In this third installment of the popular action comedy franchise, LAPD Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) and Chief Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) book a flight for Europe and prepare to clean up the streets of Paris after discovering that Chinese triads have extended their criminal influence to Read More

8/10/07
Underdog

Crew: Producer

Actors: James Belushi, Peter Dinklage, Patrick Warburton, Alex Neuberger, Taylor Momsen

Synopsis: Bestowed with superpowers when a lab experiment goes unexpectedly awry, an average beagle becomes the savior of Capitol City as everyone's favorite canine do-gooder embarks on his first-ever live-action adventure. The maniacal Dr. Simon Barsinister (Peter Dinklage) was on the verge of a Read More

8/3/07
Evan Almighty

Crew: Producer

Actors: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, Johnny Simmons, Graham Phillips

Synopsis: 40-Year-Old Virgin star Steve Carell reprises his role as preening newscaster Evan Baxter in this heavenly sequel to the 2003 Jim Carrey comedy hit. Shortly after television anchorman-turned-U.S. congressman Evan Baxter (Carell) relocates his family from Buffalo to Northern Virginia, God (Morgan Freeman Read More

6/22/07
The Invisible

Crew: Producer

Actors: Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher Marquette, Alex O'Loughlin

Synopsis: A severely beaten teenager, trapped in a walking purgatory between life and death, must help authorities to the location of his broken body before it's too late, in this remake of the 2002 Swedish thriller Den Osynlige. Graduating senior Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin) has plans to attend a Read More

4/27/07
The Lookout

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino

Synopsis: A former high-school hockey star handicapped in a tragic car accident becomes an unlikely ally to a crack team of determined bank robbers in this thriller starring Jeff Daniels and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. When his promising career on the ice is suddenly cut short, former athlete Chris Pratt (Gordon-Levitt Read More

3/30/07
Stick It

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Missy Peregrym, Vanessa Lengies, Nicki SooHoo, Maddy Curley

Synopsis: A cocky teenager learns some important lessons about playing by her own rules in this comedy drama. Haley Graham (Missy Peregrym) is a gifted 17-year-old gymnast with a strong rebellious streak -- strong enough that she walked away from her teammates on the eve of a major international tournament Read More

4/28/06
Stay Alive

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jon Foster, Samaire Armstrong, Frankie Muniz, Jimmi Simpson, Wendell Pierce

Synopsis: A group of teens discover that the next generation of survival horror games are more realistic than they thought when they begin dying in the same manner as their pixilated counterparts in director William Brent Bell's bloody tale of video games gone bad. In the days following the mysterious death Read More

3/24/06
Eight Below

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Paul Walker, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood, Jason Biggs, Gerard Plunkett

Synopsis: Eight brave sled dogs search for the master who is looking for a way to rescue them in this adventure drama. An American geologist (Bruce Greenwood) flies to Antarctica to participate in a project at the United States Research Base, where he teams up with arctic guide Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker) Read More

2/17/06
Memoirs of a Geisha

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh

Synopsis: This film, based on the novel by Arthur Golden, unfolds from the perspective of Chiyo (Zhang Ziyi), a girl who, at the age of nine, is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto in the early 1930s. Here, she learns that becoming a geisha can be the single path to wealth and independence for a woman. The head Read More

12/9/05
The Legend of Zorro

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Nick Chinlund, Julio Oscar Mechoso

Synopsis: The legendary Mexican hero returns to the screen in this swashbuckling sequel to the 1998 box-office hit The Mask of Zorro. It's 1850, and the people of California, eager to improve their difficult lot in life, have launched a campaign to become part of the United States. Don Alejandro de la Vega (Antonio Banderas Read More

10/28/05
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Warwick Davis

Synopsis: Douglas Adams' oft-adapted tale of an normal guy making his way through the universe (it's already been presented as a novel, a radio serial, a television series, and a comic book) finally makes its way to the big screen in this endearingly goofy sci-fi comedy. Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is a Read More

4/29/05
The Pacifier

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lauren Graham, Vin Diesel, Faith Ford, Brittany Snow, Max Thieriot

Synopsis: The toughest man in the American military faces a new kind of challenge -- looking after four kids in soccer-mom suburbia -- in this family-friendly comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. Shane Wolf (Vin Diesel) is a former Navy SEAL who was assigned to protect a scientist working on a top-secret Read More

3/4/05
Mr. 3000

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bernie Mac, Angela Bassett, Brian J. White, Michael Rispoli, Ian Anthony Dale

Synopsis: Directed by Charles Stone III, Mr. 3000 revolves around over-the-hill baseball star Stan Ross (Bernie Mac), who retired after making what he thought was his 3,000th base hit for the Milwaukee Brewers (i.e. the exact amount of hits it takes to qualify for the Hall of Fame). Though he shocked his Read More

9/17/04
Connie and Carla

Crew: 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
The Perfect Score

Crew: Producer

Actors: Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Bryan Greenberg, Scarlett Johansson, Darius Miles, Leonardo Nam

Synopsis: Produced by MTV Films, The Perfect Score is a teen crime comedy about a group of high school students who decide to steal the answers to the SAT exam. Kyle (Chris Evans) wants to be an architect, but his scores are too low to get into the school of his choice. Matty (Bryan Greenberg) is Read More

1/30/04
The Ranch

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Amy Madigan, Nicki Micheaux

Synopsis: Susan Seidelman directed this made-for-cable comedy drama about a few days in the lives of a group of "working girls" in Reno, NV. "The Ranch" is a legally operated brothel that operates under the careful watch of state health inspectors (who insist on weekly medical checkups) and the Read More

2004
Seabiscuit

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, Gary Stevens

Synopsis: For his sophomore effort, director Gary Ross re-teams with Tobey Maguire and William H. Macy, stars of his directorial debut Pleasantville, for this depression-era sports drama about the legendary racehorse, Seabiscuit. Unlike 1949's fictionalized The Story of Seabiscuit starring Shirley Temple Read More

7/25/03
Bruce Almighty

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman, Philip Baker Hall, Catherine Bell

Synopsis: After a bad day at work, a man suddenly gets a new job -- as the world's new Heavenly Father -- in this comedy. Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) is a television reporter working in Buffalo, NY, who has been growing increasingly dissatisfied with his existence, and after an especially bad day, he flies Read More

5/23/03
Shanghai Knights

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Aaron Johnson, Tom Fisher, Aidan Gillen

Synopsis: East and West team up to take on bad guys in the British Empire in this sequel to the action comedy hit Shanghai Noon. Chon Wang (Jackie Chan), once an Imperial Guard in China, is now the Sheriff of Carson City, NV, while his onetime cohort, former train robber Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson), scrapes Read More

2/7/03
The Recruit

Crew: Producer

Actors: Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, Bridget Moynahan, Gabriel Macht

Synopsis: A brilliant young man is tapped to join the elite branch of American intelligence, only to discover how complex and dangerous the job can really be in this suspense-drama. James Clayton (Colin Farrell) recently completed his studies at MIT, where he graduated at the top of his class and is Read More

1/31/03
1 Love

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Essentially a cinematic love letter to the game of basketball, this documentary was helmed by filmmaker Leon Gast, the Academy Award-winning director of When We Were Kings. Featuring such basketball luminaries as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Kobe Bryant, the film explores the game's modern roots on the Read More

2003
Miracles [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Skeet Ulrich, Angus MacFadyen, Marisa Ramirez, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: Debuting January 27, 2003, the weekly, hourlong supernatural-drama series Miracles starred Skeet Ulrich as Paul Callan, a sincere, self-effacing young seminarian whose job it was to investigate "miraculous phenomena" on behalf of the Catholic church. At first, Paul adhered to the party line Read More

2003
Abandon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam, Zooey Deschanel

Synopsis: A young woman is faced with the disturbing reemergence of a man she once loved in this psychological thriller. Embry Langan (Charlie Hunnam) was a wealthy but reckless student at an exclusive private college until he mysteriously vanished, with airline tickets to Europe left unused and plenty of Read More

10/18/02
Reign of Fire

Crew: Producer

Actors: Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler, Scott James Moutter

Synopsis: Medieval fantasy meets futuristic science fiction in this effects-heavy action epic from former X-Files director Rob Bowman. In present-day London, 12-year-old Quinn Abercromby witnesses the awakening of a hibernating dragon from a centuries-long slumber, the result of a construction dig Read More

7/12/02
Dragonfly

Crew: Producer

Actors: Linda Hunt, Kevin Costner, Kathy Bates

Synopsis: In this supernatural thriller, Kevin Costner plays Joe Darrow, a physician mourning the death of his wife Emily (Susannah Thompson) in a bus accident in South America, where she was providing medical outreach. Wracked by grief, Joe works extra shifts at the hospital to take his mind off the Read More

2/22/02
The Count of Monte Cristo

Crew: Producer

Actors: James Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Dagmara Dominczyk, Richard Harris, Luis Guzman

Synopsis: The classic tale of swashbuckling adventure by the senior Alexandre Dumas comes to the screen in its umpteenth incarnation, this time from Kevin Reynolds, directing his first feature in five years. James Caviezel stars as Edmond Dantes, an honest sailor who plans to marry his beautiful lover Read More

1/25/02
Out Cold

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jason London, Lee Majors, Willie Garson, Zach Galifianakis, David Koechner

Synopsis: Four wacky guys take on a pack of rich stuffed shirts (does this premise sound at all familiar?) in this broad comedy. Rick (Jason London) is a slobby but good-natured snowboarder who is mending a broken heart after splitting up with Anna (Caroline Dhavernas), a girl he met while on vacation in Read More

11/21/01
Rush Hour 2

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, John Lone, Zhang Ziyi, Roselyn Sanchez

Synopsis: A surprise box-office smash spawns this inevitably action-packed buddy comedy follow-up that reunites director Brett Ratner with stars Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. Chan is Chief Inspector Lee of the Royal Hong Kong Police, who travels back to China with his American colleague, Los Angeles Read More

8/3/01
Unbreakable

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright Penn, Charlayne Woodard, Spencer Treat Clark

Synopsis: Actor Bruce Willis and writer/director M. Night Shyamalan reunite after the surprise success of The Sixth Sense for this supernatural thriller. David Dunne (Willis) is taking a train from New York City back home to Philadelphia after a job interview that didn't go well when his car jumps the Read More

11/22/00
Shanghai Noon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu, Brandon Merrill, Roger Yuan

Synopsis: Jackie Chan has often played a fish out of water, but he's rarely found himself so far upstream as in this comic adventure, in which he puts his fighting skills to the test in the Old West of the 1850s. Lo Fong (Roger Yuan), onetime captain of the Chinese Imperial Guard, has traded upholding the Read More

5/26/00
Keeping the Faith

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Edward Norton, Ben Stiller, Jenna Elfman, Anne Bancroft, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Actor Edward Norton debuts as a director with this comedy-drama about love, friendship, and faith. Priest Brian Finn (Norton) and rabbi Jacob Schram (Ben Stiller) have known each other since childhood. When Anna Reilly (Jenna Elfman), whom they both knew as children, returns to New York, both men Read More

4/14/00
Inspector Gadget

Crew: Producer

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Michelle Trachtenberg, Andy Dick

Synopsis: Matthew Broderick stars in this live-action adaptation of the popular animated series. When a well-meaning but overly trusting security guard is wounded in an explosion created by the evil Dr. Claw, a beautiful scientist named Brenda (Joely Fisher) takes him under her wing and turns him into a Read More

7/30/99
Holy Man

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum, Kelly Preston, Robert Loggia, Jon Cryer

Synopsis: Stephen Herek directed this comedy-drama in which soul-less exec Ricky Hayman (Jeff Goldblum), programmer for the failing Good Buy Shopping Network, is dismayed by a request to increase sales in two weeks. Bald do-gooder guru G. (Eddie Murphy) assists when Ricky and marketing director Kate (Kelly Preston Read More

10/9/98
Rush Hour

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson, Elizabeth Peña, Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis: Brett Ratner directed this action-comedy that found box-office success by teaming Chris Tucker with Jackie Chan -- performing his own stunts as per his earlier films. As the story begins, Hong-Kong supercop Lee's (Chan), detective savvy leads to the confiscation of $500 million in weapons, drugs Read More

9/18/98
Simon Birch

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn

Synopsis: This comedy-drama features a narration by Jim Carrey, looking back to childhood in a manner similar to the narration on TV's The Wonder Years. The film is the directorial debut of writer Mark Steven Johnson, scripter of Grumpy Old Men and its sequel. Johnson adapted only a small portion of John Irving Read More

9/11/98
Six Days, Seven Nights

Crew: Producer

Actors: Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors, Temuera Morrison

Synopsis: Ivan Reitman directed this romantic comedy-adventure that opens in New York where fast-paced magazine associate editor Robin Monroe (Anne Heche) and her boyfriend, Frank (David Schwimmer), leave for a week's vacation on a remote island. They've already been together for three years, so when Frank Read More

6/12/98
Making Sandwiches

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, Eric Roberts, Roger Birnbaum

1998
Grosse Pointe Blank

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd, Alan Arkin, Joan Cusack

Synopsis: Most people have trouble deciding what to say when they're asked what they've been doing with their lives at a High School reunion, but Martin Blank (as played by John Cusack) has a different problem than most -- he has to make his career sound less interesting than it actually is. Martin Read More

1997
Gone Fishin'

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joe Pesci, Danny Glover, Rosanna Arquette, Lynn Whitfield, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: Just how much trouble can two guys get into while trying to catch some fish? Joe Waters (Joe Pesci) and Gus Green (Danny Glover) are two guys from New Jersey who've known each other since childhood; they've always been friends, and they've always been inept to the point of posing a threat to life Read More

1997
Metro

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Michael Rapaport, Michael Wincott, Carmen Ejogo, Denis Arndt

Synopsis: Eddie Murphy once again finds himself exchanging both wisecracks and gunfire in this comic action-thriller. Scott Roper (Murphy) is a hostage negotiator with the San Francisco Police Department; Roper has his own way of doing things, which doesn't always mean following department proceedure, but Read More

1997
The Beautician and the Beast

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Fran Drescher, Timothy Dalton, Ian McNeice, Patrick Malahide, Lisa Jakub

Synopsis: Joy Miller (Fran Drescher) is a beautician who teaches an evening course in hairstyling at a Brooklyn community college. When a cigarette dropped on a wig leads to a fire, Joy saves the lab animals kept in the building and achieves 15 minutes of local notoriety. Grushinsky (