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Boaz Yakin

Highest Rated: 90% Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy (2020)

Lowest Rated: 13% Uptown Girls (2003)

Birthday: Jun 20, 1966

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

The first feature for this Los Angeles-based screenwriter-director, "Fresh" (1994), was a gritty depiction of a 12-year-old Brooklyn drug runner. Yakin researched his script in the drug-ravaged communities of his native New York. The picture was generally well-received and projected its helmer into the forefront of young American independents. Yakin launched his career shortly after graduation from film school, moving West to pursue opportunities as a screenwriter. In L.A., he developed projects for United Artists, Warner Brothers and White Eagle Productions, Sylvester Stallone's production company. Yakin co-wrote an action flick, "The Punisher" (1989), for New World Pictures. Based on a popular Marvel Comics vigilante character, the film starred Dolph Lundgren and Louis Gossett Jr. His second co-writing credit was on "The Rookie" (1990), an underperforming cop picture co-produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, who also starred with Charlie Sheen.

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Highest-Rated Movies

90% Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
Watchlist 88% 93% The Harder They Fall Watchlist
88% 91% Fresh
Watchlist 83% 98% Aviva Watchlist
77% 78% Bombay Beach
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71% 93% Remember the Titans
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59% 59% Safe
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57% 53% A Price Above Rubies
Watchlist 51% 70% Now You See Me Watchlist
45% 34% Death in Love
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Boaz Yakin

Boaz Yakin MAX, l-r: Josh Wiggins, director Boaz Yakin on set, 2015. ph: Kent Smith/©Warner Bros. Pictures MAX, l-r: Carlos the dog, Dejon LaQuake, director Boaz Yakin, Mia Xitlali, Josh Wiggins, 2015. ph: Kent Smith/©Warner Bros. Pictures MAX, l-r: Luke Kleintank, director Boaz Yakin, Thomas Haden Church, 2015. ph: Kent Smith/©Warner Bros. Pictures UPTOWN GIRLS, Director Boaz Yakin, Brittany Murphy on the set, 2003, (c) MGM DEATH IN LOVE, director Boaz Yakin, Emma Bell, on set, 2008. Ph: John Clifford/©Screen Media Films UPTOWN GIRLS, Dakota Fanning, director Boaz Yakin on the set, 2003, (c) MGM A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES, Boaz Yakin, on set, 1998. ©Miramax FRESH, producer Lawrence Bender, director Boaz Yakin, 1994, (c) Miramax Films View more photos

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Once Again (For the Very First Time) 2025 Director, Screenwriter, Producer The Harder They Fall 88% 93% 2021 Screenwriter Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy 90% 2020 Producer Aviva 83% 98% 2020 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Boarding School 33% 62% 2018 Director, Screenwriter Max 37% 70% 2015 Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer Now You See Me 51% 70% 2013 Screenwriter, Producer, Executive Producer Safe 59% 59% 2012 Director, Screenwriter Bombay Beach 77% 78% 2011 Producer, Executive Producer Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 37% 58% 2010 Screenwriter Death in Love 45% 34% 2008 Director, Writer, Producer Hostel Part II 44% 39% 2007 Executive Producer Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights 23% 73% 2004 Writer Uptown Girls 13% 61% 2003 Director, Executive Producer Remember the Titans 71% 93% 2000 Director A Price Above Rubies 57% 53% 1998 Director, Writer Fresh 88% 91% 1994 Director, Screenwriter The Punisher 25% 33% 1990 Screenwriter
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