Biography:

John Andrew Davis (born July 20, 1954) is an American film producer and founder of Davis Entertainment.

Career

John Davis, Chairman of Los Angeles-based Davis Entertainment, has been a producer on more than 90 feature films and movies for television that have earned more than $4.8 billion world wide.

Davis Entertainment produces projects for all studios and mini-majors, though the company has had a first-look production deal at 20th Century Fox since 1994. Davis's arrangement with Fox is among the two longest-standing of any active producer at any studio.

Upcoming Davis Entertainment films include a re-imagining of Frankenstein starring Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy for Fox, and a big screen version of the 1960s TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. starring Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer for Warner Bros.

Some of Davis's many feature film productions include the $100 million-plus micro-budgeted Chronicle; the sci-fi thriller I, Robot, starring Will Smith; the Jim Carrey starrer Mr. Popper's Penguins; Norbit, the comedy starring Eddie Murphy for DreamWorks/Paramount Pictures; the blockbuster The Firm, starring Tom Cruise; the two Dr. Dolittle films, starring Eddie Murphy; the Jack Black adventure comedy Gulliver's Travels; Courage Under Fire, starring Denzel Washington; the Garfield franchise series for Fox; Waterworld, starring Kevin Costner; the Eddie Murphy comedy Daddy Day Care; Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger; the Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau trilogy Out to Sea, Grumpy Old Men, and Grumpier Old Men; Behind Enemy Lines, starring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman; Predator 2, John Woo's Paycheck, starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman, for Paramount Pictures; and Alien vs. Predator, an action thriller combining the two iconic cinematic aliens, among many others.

For television, Davis Entertainment developed and executive produced the NBC hour long drama The Blacklist, a Sony Television production.

Davis recently extended Davis Entertainment into Broadway and formed a joint venture with 20th Century Fox, Broadway producer Kevin McCollum and industry executive Tom McGrath to develop live stage production based on Fox's previous films.

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