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      Denise Di Novi

      Denise Di Novi

      Highest Rated: 95% Heathers (1989)

      Lowest Rated: 5% Almost Heroes (1998)

      Birthday: Mar 21, 1956

      Birthplace: Sherman Oaks, California, USA

      Producer of offbeat Hollywood hits best known for her association with director Tim Burton. Di Novi began as a print copy editor and segued to on-air reporting and film criticism for "City-TV" in Canada. She entered film in 1980 as a unit publicist on a Canadian feature, "Final Assignment." That year, she also joined Filmplan International, a Canadian production company, where she worked in various capacities. Di Novi moved to Los Angeles and received an associate producer credit on "Going Beserk" (1983), a raucous comedy starring John Candy. She next joined New World Pictures as vice president in charge of production. Di Novi received her first full producer credit on the teen black comedy "Heathers" (1989). She then joined forces with eccentric film stylist Tim Burton as head of his production company and subsequently produced "Edward Scissorhands" (1990), the successful sequel "Batman Returns" (1992) and "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993), a macabre animated fantasy. In 1992 Di Novi left Burton's company to form her own Di Novi Pictures in conjunction with Columbia.

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      UNFORGETTABLE, DIRECTOR DENISE DI NOVI (LEFT), ON-SET, 2017. PH: KAREN BALLARD. ©WARNER BROS. FOCUS, from left: Margot Robbie, producer Denise Di Novi, con artist advisor Apollo Robbins, on set, 2015. ph: Frank Masi/©Warner Bros. Pictures NIGHTS IN RODANTHE, from left: producer Denise Di Novi, Richard Gere, on set, 2008. ©Warner Bros. UNFORGETTABLE, FROM LEFT, KATHERINE HEIGL, DIRECTOR DENISE DI NOVI, ROSARIO DAWSON, ON-SET, 2017. PH: KAREN BALLARD. ©WARNER BROS. UNFORGETTABLE, FROM LEFT, DIRECTOR DENISE DI NOVI, KATHERINE HEIGL, ROSARIO DAWSON, ON-SET, 2017. PH: KAREN BALLARD. ©WARNER BROS. UNFORGETTABLE, DIRECTOR DENISE DI NOVI, TYING UP GEOFF STULTS, 2017. PH: KAREN BALLARD. ©WARNER BROS. UNFORGETTABLE, FROM LEFT, CINEMATOGRAPHER CALEB DESCHANEL, DIRECTOR DENISE DI NOVI, ON-SET, 2017. PH: KAREN BALLARD. ©WARNER BROS. THE BEST OF ME, producer Denise Di Novi (right), on set, 2014. ph: Gemma LaMana/©Relativity Media THE BEST OF ME, from left: director Michael Hoffman, producer Denise Di Novi, on set, 2014. ph: Gemma LaMana/©Relativity Media THE BEST OF ME, from left: producer Denise Di Novi (top left), director Michael Hoffman (headphones), on set, 2014. ph: Gemma LaMana/©Relativity Media
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      64% 59% The Sky is Everywhere Producer - 2022
      95% 92% Little Women Producer $108.1M 2019
      28% 33% Unforgettable Director,
      Producer       		$11.3M 2017
      50% 31% Beaches Executive Producer - 2017
      78% 73% Danny Collins Executive Producer $5.5M 2015
      56% 53% Focus Producer $53.9M 2015
      48% 70% You're Not You Executive Producer - 2014
      12% 59% The Best of Me Producer $26.8M 2014
      36% 61% If I Stay Executive Producer $50.5M 2014
      20% 67% The Lucky One Producer $60.4M 2012
      79% 78% Crazy, Stupid, Love. Producer $84.3M 2011
      40% 50% Monte Carlo Producer $23.2M 2011
      30% 61% Life as We Know It Executive Producer $53.4M 2010
      70% 71% Ramona and Beezus Producer $26.2M 2010
      30% 52% Nights in Rodanthe Producer $41.8M 2008
      66% 66% The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 Producer $44.1M 2008
      28% 28% Lucky You Producer $5.8M 2007
      82% 78% The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Producer $39.0M 2005
      8% 18% Catwoman Producer $40.2M 2004
      11% 47% New York Minute Producer $14.0M 2004
      No Score Yet 73% Eloise at Christmastime Executive Producer - 2003
      No Score Yet 69% Eloise at the Plaza Executive Producer - 2003
      36% 62% What a Girl Wants Producer $36.0M 2003
      29% 78% A Walk to Remember Producer $41.2M 2002
      57% 62% Happy Campers Producer - 2001
      12% 61% Original Sin Producer $16.5M 2001
      32% 66% Message in a Bottle Producer $52.8M 1999
      24% 73% Practical Magic Producer $46.8M 1998
      5% 64% Almost Heroes Producer $6.1M 1998
      91% 66% James and the Giant Peach Producer $28.9M 1996
      92% 84% Little Women Producer $48.8M 1994
      92% 88% Ed Wood Producer $5.9M 1994
      48% 42% Cabin Boy Producer $3.5M 1994
      95% 92% The Nightmare Before Christmas Producer,
      Production Design       		$86.1M 1993
      82% 73% Batman Returns Producer $160.3M 1992
      89% 91% Edward Scissorhands Producer $54.2M 1990
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Applegates Producer - 1990
      95% 83% Heathers Producer $1.1M 1989
      No Score Yet 31% Going Berserk Associate Producer - 1983

      TV

      Credit
      50% No Score Yet The Veil Executive Producer 2023-2024
      90% 87% Outlander Director 2018
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The District Executive Producer 2000-2004