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Black and Escape Artists is currently in pre-production with “The Equalizer 2,” set to go before the cameras in 2017, and in development with “Masters Of The Universe,” both for Columbia Pictures.
Todd Black is one of Hollywood’s most respected producers having worked with many of the top talent in the industry, both in front and behind the camera. Black also produced 2015’s critically acclaimed “Southpaw,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal, the blockbuster hit “The Equalizer,” starring Denzel Washington, “The Pursuit of Happyness,” which earned Will Smith an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor, “The Taking of Pelham 123,” directed by Tony Scott, and “Hope Springs,” starring Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones, among many others.
Black’s long-time collaboration with Denzel Washington began when he brought “Antwone Fisher,” the screenplay he developed for ten years, to the Academy Award®-winner. Washington decided not only would he star in the film, but he would also direct the touching drama, cementing their partnership as producer and director. When Washington stepped behind the camera to direct “The Great Debaters,” Black was again his producer. That movie went on to earn a Golden Globe nomination for Best Drama. In addition, both “Antwone Fisher” and “The Great Debaters” earned the Producer Guild’s Stanley Kramer Award. “FENCES” is their third collaboration as director and producer.
Other noteworthy producing credits for Black include “Knowing” and “The Weather Man,” both starring Nicolas Cage, “Seven Pounds,” starring Will Smith, and “Sex Tape,” starring Cameron Diaz. Black entered the business as a casting associate after attending USC’s School of Theater. Shortly after getting out of school, he produced Michael Eisner’s Disney Sunday Night Movies that aired on television. Black next went on to produce “Fire In The Sky,” for Paramount Pictures and “Wrestling Ernest Hemingway” for Warner Bros. In 1995, Black became President of Motion Picture Production at Mandalay Entertainment where he managed “Donnie Brasco,” “Seven Years In Tibet,” “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” and “Wild Things,” to name a few. A few years later, he teamed with producer Jason Blumenthal to create Black & Blu Productions. In 2001, Black and Blumenthal joined Steve Tisch, producer of “Risky Business” and “Forest Gump,” among others, to form Escape Artists which has a first-look production deal with Sony Pictures. Their first film, which Black personally oversaw throughout the filmmaking process, was “A Knight’s Tale,” starring Heath Ledger.
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