Thomas Karnowski Filmography

Occupation:: Associate Producer, Co-producer, Executive Producer, Producer, Unit Production Manager

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The Brothers Bloom

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rinko Kikuchi, Maximilian Schell

Synopsis: When the younger of two notorious sibling con artists announces a plan to go legit, his brother implores him to carry out one last swindle in the eagerly anticipated sophomore feature from Brick writer/director Rian Johnson. Tired of a life on the run, a confidence man who has dedicated his life Read More

12/19/08
Max Payne

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Olga Kurylenko

Synopsis: Rockstar Games' double-gunned action franchise comes to the big screen thanks to director John Moore (The Omen) and Mark Wahlberg, who embodies the title character of Max Payne, a widowed cop hell-bent on delivering justice no matter what the cost as he investigates a string of killings in his Read More

10/17/08
10,000 B.C.

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel, Ben Badra

Synopsis: A young outcast from a primitive tribe is forced to defend his people from a brutal onslaught in Independence Day director Roland Emmerich's fast-paced period adventure. Despite the fact that he is low man on the totem pole in his tribe of fearless hunters, a brave young boy (Steven Strait) longs Read More

3/7/08
The Illusionist

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell, Eddie Marsan

Synopsis: A supernaturally talented magician attempts to undermine the rigid social structure of turn-of-the-century Vienna by using his powers to win the love of his upper-class, childhood sweetheart in director Neil Burger's cinematic adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steven Millhauser's short Read More

8/18/06
Everything Is Illuminated

Crew: Unit Production Manager

Actors: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin

Synopsis: A young man takes a strange and unexpectedly funny journey in search of a family heroine he's never known in this screen adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Jonathan (Elijah Wood) is a lifelong collector of any and all objects pertaining to his family, and he has become obsessed with Read More

9/16/05
Eurotrip

Crew: Co-producer, Unit Production Manager

Actors: Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg, Travis Wester

Synopsis: Written and directed by Alec Berg, David Mandel, and Jeff Schaffer, Eurotrip is a teen comedy from the Montecito Picture Company (makers of similar movies Old School and Road Trip). Mainstream teenager Scott (Scott Mechlowicz) forms an online friendship with German student Mieke in order to get a Read More

2/20/04
Belo Odelo

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lazar Ristovski, Radmila Shchogolyeva, Dragan Nikolic, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Danilo "Bata" Stojkovic

Synopsis: At the time of this film's release, Lazar Ristovski was the most popular Yugoslavian actor on stage as well as on screen, having had recently played Blacky in Underground and the boxer in Bare Baruta. He was the director, producer, screenwriter, and lead actor of this first film about a Read More

1999
Omega Doom

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Shannon Whirry, Norbert Weisser, Tina Cote, Anna Katarina

Synopsis: In this future-set sci-fi action adventure the post-holocaust world in which mankind was defeated by his own machines is now populated and controlled by cyborgs carrying sharpened sticks and laser boomerangs. Omega Doom (Rutger Hauer) is one such cyborg. He is programmed to destroy everything that Read More

1996
Nemesis 3: Prey Harder

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tim Thomerson, Norbert Weisser, Sue Price, Debbie Muggli, Sharon Bruneau

Synopsis: Alex is still man's last hope for survival against the cyborgs, as more come hunting for her head. Lots of guns, explosions and a pair of children left over from Village of the Damned. ~ Sean D. MacLaggan, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
Double Dragon

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Robert Patrick, Mark Dacascos, Scott Wolf, Kristina Malandro Wagner, Julia Nickson

Synopsis: In this futuristic martial arts drama based on a popular video game, Los Angeles has been transformed into a watery New Angeles after a long-threatened earthquake devastates the West Coast. Billy Lee (Scott Wolf) and his brother Jimmy (Mark Dacascos) are two martial arts experts who were raised by Read More

1994
Knights

Crew: Producer, Production Manager

Synopsis: The venerable character actor Lance Henriksen plays an archetypically Machiavellian leader of bad cyborgs in this sci-fi action drama. Country-western staple Kris Kristofferson co-stars as Gabriel, a good cyborg who teams up with a sexy kick-boxer named Nia (Kathy Long) to fight the robots and Read More

1993
Brain Smasher: A Love Story

Crew: Producer

Actors: Andrew Dice Clay, Teri Hatcher, Yuji Okumoto, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Brion James

Synopsis: Andrew Dice Clay trades in dumb yucks for numchucks in Brainsmasher: A Love Story as Ed Molloy, a part-time comic and bouncer who takes on a belligerent gang of ninjas. The story kicks in when supermodel Samantha Crains (Teri Hatcher) receives a red lotus flower from her sister that has to be Read More

1993
Nemesis

Crew: Producer, Production Designer

Actors: Olivier Gruner, Tim Thomerson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Merle Kennedy, Yuji Okumoto

Synopsis: Set in a WW III-decimated 21st-century Los Angeles in which humans compete with cyborgs, this low-budget special-effects laden thriller chronicles the attempts of a heroic fellow to clean up the town and keep the androids from taking over what's left of the planet. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

1993
Kickboxer 2: The Road Back

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sasha Mitchell, Peter Boyle, Dennis Chan, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, John Diehl

Synopsis: This sequel to the popular Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle centers on the exploits of David Sloan (Sasha Mitchell) the younger brother of the two fighters (Van Damme and Dennis Alexio) who died in the first installment. As this episode begins, David has given up competition and is running a Read More

6/14/91
Cyborg

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter, Vincent Klyn, Alex Daniels, Dayle Haddon

Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic world, killer-for-hire Gibson Rickenbacker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is hired to escort a cyborg--which contains valuable information on a cure for a deathly plague--to its research center. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

4/7/89
Deceit

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The polluters on planet Earth pose a significant risk to the rest of the galaxy and for this reason two alien agents from the Intergalactic Environmental Protection Agency are dispatched to destroy the offending world. This erotic sci-fi parody chronicles their adventures that begin with the Read More

1989
Alien from L.A.

Crew: Line Producer

Actors: Kathy Ireland, Thom Matthews, Don Michael Paul, Linda Kerridge, Richard Haines

Synopsis: Who else but a California Valley Girl could stumble down a hole in the ground and end up in the lost city of Atlantis: "Ooooh, and the buildings are sooo spiffy..." The Atlanteans are quite sure she's on their side, so they decide she's gotta' go and send out the death squads. The "Alien" in this Read More

2/26/88
Down Twisted

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Carey Lowell, Charles Rocket, Trudi Dochtermann, Thom Matthews, Norbert Weisser

Synopsis: In this well-wrought, fast-paced caper flick, a naive, good-hearted waitress doesn't think twice about helping her troubled roommate. Unfortunately, her help lands her in Central America fleeing for her life with a grungy mercenary. They are chased because the two are believed to have possession Read More

2/27/87
The Sword and the Sorcerer

Crew: Co-producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Lee Horsely, Kathleen Beller, Simon MacCorkindale, George Maharis, Richard Lynch

Synopsis: This is an unusual entry in the knights-in-armor genre. Set in medieval England, the film follows the exploits of a young swordsman, Talon (Lee Horsley). Working as a mercenary knight, Talon possesses a unique three-bladed sword which fires its two extra blades when he touches a button. By chance Read More

1982