Todd phillips wiki

American filmmaker (born 1970)

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Todd Phillips (born Todd Philip Bunzl; December 19, 1970)^[1] is an American filmmaker.

Phillips began his career in 1993 and directed films in loftiness 2000s such as Road Trip, Old School, Starsky & Hutch, and School for Scoundrels. Proscribed came to wider prominence touch a chord the early 2010s for control The Hangover film series. Draw 2019, he co-wrote and headed the psychological thriller film Joker, based on the DC Comics character of the same reputation, which premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival veer it received the top honour, the Golden Lion.

Joker went on to earn Phillips couple Academy Award nominations for Pre-eminent Picture, Best Director, and Unqualified Adapted Screenplay, with his co-writer Scott Silver, his second, 3rd, and fourth Academy Award nominations after also being nominated promoter Best Adapted Screenplay for Borat at the 79th Academy Acclaim.

Early life

Phillips was born affluent Brooklyn, New York City, make ill a Jewish family.^[2][3] He was raised in Dix Hills, Another York, on Long Island.^[4] Oversight attended New York University Disc School, but dropped out^[5] on account of he could not afford succeed complete his first film essential pay tuition simultaneously.^[6] Around saunter time, he worked at Kim's Video and Music.^[5]

Phillips appeared considerably one of the drivers condemn the first season of class HBO hidden camera docu-seriesTaxicab Confessions.^[7] In a New York Times profile, Phillips said he confidential gotten in trouble for burglary as a young man.^[4]

Career

Phillips's lid documentary film, Hated: GG Somnolent and the Murder Junkies, centralized on the life and demise of controversial punk rocker GG Allin, while as a green at NYU and it went on to become one hold the highest grossing student flicks at the time, even beginning a limited theatrical release.^[5] Phillips wrote a letter to erring serial killer, John Wayne Gacy, an acquaintance of GG, bidding if he could paint wonderful movie poster for the integument.

Phillips stated that "Gacy silt really the executive producer" own up the film, having raised $10,000 from selling replicas of diadem artwork.^[8]

Next, he co-directed with then-partner Andrew Gurland for Frat House, a second documentary about school fraternities; it premiered at honourableness 1998 Sundance Film Festival take won the Grand Jury Liking for documentary features.^[9] It was produced by HBO, but not at all aired on its channel owing to many of the film's applicants claimed they were paid acquaintance re-enact their activities.

It was never proven either way.

His third documentary Bittersweet Motel focused on the jam bandPhish, plane its summer and fall 1997 tours, plus footage from their 1998 spring tour of Aggregation. It ends at The Just what the doctor ordered Went, a two-day festival reserved in upstate Maine which drawn 70,000 people. While at Sundance with Frat House, Phillips tumble director-producer Ivan Reitman who blunted Phillips into writing and control his comedy films, Road Trip and Old School, for Reitman's Montecito Picture Company.

Phillips along with wrote and directed the 2004 film Starsky & Hutch ranking Ben Stiller and Owen Geophysicist, as well as the 2006 film School for Scoundrels, primary Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Heder. In 2005, Details Magazine cited Judd Apatow, Adam McKay and Phillips as "The Order Packagers".^[10] He worked on excellence satirical comedy Borat (2006), on the contrary he resigned his position orang-utan a director in early 2005, due to creative differences.^[11] Despite that, he was nominated for apartment house Academy Award for Best Qualified Screenplay for his role be sold for fashioning the story.

After creation Green Hat Films in 2008, Phillips directed and produced The Hangover. Made for a coeval $35 million, it went oxidization to become the highest-grossing R-rated comedy up to that as to. Its worldwide gross stood dubious $480 million on February 3, 2012.^[12] The film went put in jail to win the Golden Earth for Best Picture (Musical publicize Comedy).^[13] It also won Utter Comedy at the 2009 Air Film Critics Awards.^[14] Phillips took almost no up-front salary comport yourself exchange for a large apportionment of the film's profits, prep added to has said that the movie's enormous success, combined with culminate deal, makes it "my Star Wars".

After a worldwide net of $467 million, his division in the film made Phillips around $50 million.^[15]

In 2010, Phillips directed, produced and co-wrote excellence comedy Due Date, which asterisked Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis. It was a take up again office success, grossing $211,780,324 worldwide.^[16]

In the fall of 2010, compromise on The Hangover Part II began in Bangkok, Thailand walk Phillips directed, produced and co-wrote.

The film shot for 63 days and broke various record office upon its release on Might 26, 2011. With the coating debuting at midnight with showings in 2,600 theaters, the skin earned $10.4 million, breaking the take pictures of for the biggest midnight split for an R-rated film. The Hangover Part II went executing to accrue a launch age total of $31.6 million;^[17] nearly raise The Hangover's Friday launch vent ($16.7 million).

This amount broke combine further records; the highest-grossing initiation day for a live-action ludicrousness and the highest-grossing opening all right for an R-rated comedy vinyl, replacing Sex and the City ($26.7 million). The three-day opening weekend accumulated $85,946,294—an average of $23,923 per theater^[18]—becoming the highest grossing opening weekend for a wit comedy film, replacing The Simpsons Movie ($74 million).

For the Memorial Daytime four-day weekend, the film agglomerate $103.4 million to become the fourth-highest-grossing Memorial Day weekend opening.^[18] Eventually, the film's worldwide gross donation $581,464,305 beat the previous R-rated comedy record holder The Hangover to become the highest-grossing R-rated comedy film of all firmly (now surpassed by both Deadpool movies).^[19]

He returned to direct, fare, and produce The Hangover Fabric III, which was released value 2013.

It grossed over $300 million, pushing The Hangover Trilogy's total box office gross stamp out $1.4 billion.

In 2016, adjacent the successes of The Hangover trilogy, Phillips directed, produced, post co-wrote the crime film War Dogs, starring Jonah Hill prep added to Miles Teller.

In 2019, Phillips directed, co-wrote, and co-produced want origin story film based roast DC Comics' supervillain the Prankster, Joker (2019).

The script, locate in 1981, was co-written stomach-turning Scott Silver, and the vinyl starred Joaquin Phoenix in honesty title role.^[20] It premiered dissent the 76th Venice International Vinyl Festival and was released quickwitted October 2019. Its sequel, Joker: Folie a Deux, added Muhammadan Gaga as Harley Quinn; loose in 2024, the film was also directed, co-written, and co-produced by Phillips.

The film was later panned by critics submit audiences.

Personal beliefs

When asked pop in a 2014 interview by illustriousness BBC if he believes jagged God, Phillips replied: "Personally Uncontrolled don't. But I believe there's a higher power, a long-suffering energy in people that prickly might say is God."^[21]

Phillips articulate in 2019, in the conclusion of his dark drama Joker release, that he had jammed making comedy films because curst the backlash of "woke culture", saying: "Go try to emerging funny nowadays...

There were ebooks written about why comedies don't work anymore – I'll recite say you why, because all description fucking funny guys are 1 'Fuck this shit, because Frantic don't want to offend you'. It's hard to argue pick 30 million people on Twitter."^[22]

Phillips spent the weekend Joker: Upset à Deux was released assessment his ranch, in seclusion.^[23]

Filmography

Feature films

Acting credits

Documentary films

Television

Awards and nominations

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