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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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Highest-Rated Movies

95% 83% Heathers
Watchlist 95% 92% Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Watchlist 95% 92% Little Women Watchlist
92% 88% Ed Wood
Watchlist 92% 84% Little Women Watchlist
91% 66% James and the Giant Peach
Watchlist 90% 91% Edward Scissorhands Watchlist
82% 78% The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Watchlist 82% 73% Batman Returns Watchlist 79% 78% Crazy, Stupid, Love. Watchlist
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Denise Di Novi

Denise Di Novi 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 View more photos

Filmography

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The Sky is Everywhere 64% 59% 2022 Producer Little Women 95% 92% 2019 Producer Unforgettable 29% 33% 2017 Director, Producer Beaches 50% 29% 2017 Executive Producer Danny Collins 77% 73% 2015 Executive Producer Focus 56% 53% 2015 Producer You're Not You 52% 70% 2014 Executive Producer The Best of Me 12% 59% 2014 Producer If I Stay 36% 61% 2014 Executive Producer The Lucky One 20% 67% 2012 Producer Crazy, Stupid, Love. 79% 78% 2011 Producer Monte Carlo 41% 50% 2011 Producer Life as We Know It 30% 61% 2010 Executive Producer Ramona and Beezus 71% 71% 2010 Producer Nights in Rodanthe 30% 52% 2008 Producer The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 66% 66% 2008 Producer Lucky You 28% 28% 2007 Producer The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 82% 78% 2005 Producer Catwoman 8% 18% 2004 Producer New York Minute 11% 47% 2004 Producer Eloise at Christmastime 73% 2003 Executive Producer Eloise at the Plaza 69% 2003 Executive Producer What a Girl Wants 35% 62% 2003 Producer A Walk to Remember 30% 78% 2002 Producer Happy Campers 57% 62% 2001 Producer
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