Boaz Yakin
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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Boaz Yakin
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Once Again (For the Very First Time) |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$19.8K | 2025 |
88% |
|
The Harder They Fall | Screenwriter | - | 2021 |
90% | No Score Yet | Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy | Producer | - | 2020 |
83% |
|
Aviva |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2020 |
33% |
|
Boarding School |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2018 |
37% |
|
Max |
Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
$42.7M | 2015 |
51% |
|
Now You See Me |
Screenwriter, Producer, Executive Producer |
$117.7M | 2013 |
59% |
|
Safe |
Director, Screenwriter |
$17.1M | 2012 |
77% |
|
Bombay Beach |
Producer, Executive Producer |
- | 2011 |
37% |
|
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Screenwriter | $90.8M | 2010 |
45% |
|
Death in Love |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 2008 |
44% |
|
Hostel Part II | Executive Producer | $17.5M | 2007 |
23% |
|
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights | Writer | $14.1M | 2004 |
13% |
|
Uptown Girls |
Director, Executive Producer |
$36.9M | 2003 |
71% |
|
Remember the Titans | Director | $115.8M | 2000 |
57% |
|
A Price Above Rubies |
Director, Writer |
$1.1M | 1998 |
88% |
|
Fresh |
Director, Screenwriter |
$7.7M | 1994 |
25% |
|
The Punisher | Screenwriter | - | 1990 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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75% | 74% | Lady in the Lake |
Executive Producer, Writer |
2024 |