Denise Di Novi
Highest Rated: 95% Little Women (2019)
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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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65% | 58% | 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 |
| 35% | 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 |
| 27% | 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 |
| 23% | 73% | Practical Magic | Producer | $46.8M | 1998 |
| 5% | 64% | Almost Heroes | Producer | $6.1M | 1998 |
| 91% | 65% | James and the Giant Peach | Producer | $28.9M | 1996 |
| 93% | 84% | Little Women | Producer | $48.8M | 1994 |
| 93% | 88% | Ed Wood | Producer | $5.9M | 1994 |
| 48% | 42% | Cabin Boy | Producer | $3.5M | 1994 |
| 95% | 91% | The Nightmare Before Christmas |
Producer, Production Design |
$2.4M | 1993 |
| 81% | 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 |
| 93% | 83% | Heathers | Producer | $1.1M | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | Going Berserk | Associate Producer | - | 1983 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89% | 87% | Outlander | Director | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The District | Executive Producer | 2000-2004 |