Jon Avnet
This son of the founder and chair of the largest distributor of electronic equipment entered show business staging theatrical productions Off-Broadway. He entered the film industry as a reader at United Artists and later participated in the director's program of the American Film Institute after his student film "Confusion's Corner" (featuring a then-unknown Richard Gere) earned him a fellowship. After working as an associate producer, Avnet and family friend Steve Tisch launched Tisch/Avnet Productions in 1977. For seven years, they oversaw a number of successful features (most notably 1983's "Risky Business" which catapulted Tom Cruise to stardom), several issue-oriented TV-movies like "The Burning Bed" (NBC, 1984), starring Farrah Fawcett, and the acclaimed, but short-lived series "Call to Glory" (ABC, 1984-85).
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Jon Avnet
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strong | Executive Producer | - | 2022 |
54% |
|
Four Good Days | Producer | $828.7K | 2020 |
41% |
|
Three Christs |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$37.3K | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sickhouse | Executive Producer | - | 2016 |
67% |
|
Jackie & Ryan |
Producer, Executive Producer |
- | 2014 |
No Score Yet |
|
Mitch Albom's Have a Little Faith |
Director, Executive Producer |
- | 2011 |
18% |
|
Righteous Kill |
Director, Producer |
$40.1M | 2008 |
5% |
|
88 Minutes |
Director, Producer |
$16.9M | 2007 |
17% |
|
Land of the Blind | Producer | - | 2006 |
71% |
|
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | Producer | $37.8M | 2004 |
100% |
|
Uprising | Director | - | 2001 |
76% |
|
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her | Producer | - | 2000 |
51% |
|
Steal This Movie | Executive Producer | $76.1K | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
|
A House Divided | Executive Producer | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
|
My Last Love | Executive Producer | - | 1999 |
20% |
|
Inspector Gadget | Executive Producer | $97.4M | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
|
Poodle Springs | Executive Producer | - | 1998 |
27% |
|
Red Corner |
Director, Producer |
$22.4M | 1997 |
55% |
|
George of the Jungle | Producer | $105.3M | 1997 |
20% |
|
D3: The Mighty Ducks | Producer | $23.0M | 1996 |
32% |
|
Up Close & Personal |
Director, Producer |
$51.1M | 1996 |
45% |
|
Miami Rhapsody | Executive Producer | $5.2M | 1995 |
25% |
|
The War |
Director, Producer |
$16.5M | 1994 |
69% |
|
When a Man Loves a Woman | Producer | $50.0M | 1994 |
20% |
|
D2: The Mighty Ducks | Producer | $45.6M | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | For Their Own Good | Executive Producer | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Switch | Producer | - | 1993 |
30% |
|
The Three Musketeers | Executive Producer | $53.7M | 1993 |
27% |
|
The Mighty Ducks | Producer | $50.7M | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Nightman | Executive Producer | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet |
|
Backfield in Motion | Executive Producer | - | 1991 |
76% |
|
Fried Green Tomatoes |
Director, Producer |
$81.2M | 1991 |
0% |
|
Funny About Love | Producer | $7.6M | 1990 |
83% |
|
Men Don't Leave | Producer | $5.8M | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Breaking Point | Producer | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
|
In Love and War | Executive Producer | - | 1987 |
48% |
|
Less Than Zero | Producer | $10.8M | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
|
Between Two Women | Director | - | 1986 |
93% |
|
Risky Business | Producer | - | 1983 |
10% |
|
Deal of the Century | Executive Producer | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Something So Right | Executive Producer | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet |
|
Prime Suspect | Producer | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Other Love | Executive Producer | - | 1979 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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92% | 47% | Justified: City Primeval | Director | 2023 |
87% | 67% | The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers | Executive Producer | 2022 |
96% | 82% | Manhunt | Director | 2020 |
96% | 90% | Sneaky Pete | Executive Producer | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Starter Wife |
Executive Producer, Director |
2007 |
96% | No Score Yet | Boomtown | Executive Producer | 2002-2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge | Executive Producer | 1995 |