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Craig Zadan is a Producer American born on 15 april 1949 at Miami (USA)

Craig Zadan

Craig Zadan
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Nationality USA
Birth 15 april 1949 at Miami (USA)
Death 20 august 2018 (at 69 years)

Craig Zadan (born April 15, 1949) is an American executive producer, director, and writer. Zadan and is one half of the successful production team Storyline Entertainment with Neil Meron since their meeting many years ago in the New York theatrical community.

Best films

Chicago (2002)
(Executive Producer)
The Bucket List (2008)
(Producer)
Hairspray (2007)
(Producer)
Footloose (1984)
(Producer)

Usually with

Neil Meron
Neil Meron
(26 films)
Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman
(3 films)
Rob Marshall
Rob Marshall
(3 films)
Kenny Leon
Kenny Leon
(3 films)
Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Craig Zadan (28 films)

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Producer

Hairspray Live!, 2h45
Directed by Kenny Leon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Téléfilm musical
Actors Harvey Fierstein, Ariana Grande, Dove Cameron, Kristin Chenoweth, Garrett Clayton, Jennifer Hudson
Roles Executive Producer
Rating70% 3.503323.503323.503323.503323.50332
Tracy Turnblad, une jeune fille enrobée qui vit à Baltimore, malgré son physique, elle n'a qu'une idée en tête : danser dans la célèbre émission Corny Collins Show. Par chance, ce dernier assiste à une de ses performances au lycée et lui propose de venir rejoindre son équipe.
Anna Nicole, 1h25
Directed by Mary Harron
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about pornography
Actors Agnes Bruckner, Martin Landau, Virginia Madsen, Adam Goldberg, Cary Elwes, Jay Huguley
Roles Executive Producer
Rating53% 2.650492.650492.650492.650492.65049
Depicting the tragic life of modelist Anna Nicole Smith from her childhood up until her death in 2007.
Steel Magnolias
Directed by Kenny Leon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Films based on plays, Buddy films
Actors Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard, Phylicia Rashād, Jill Scott, Adepero Oduye, Condola Rashād
Roles Executive Producer
Rating54% 2.719092.719092.719092.719092.71909
Un groupe d'amis très proches passent une grande partie de leur temps à se retrouver dans une paroisse située en Louisiane.
Blue Lagoon: The Awakening, 1h29
Directed by Mikael Salomon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents, Films about virginity
Actors Indiana Evans, Brenton Thwaites, Denise Richards, Frank John Hughes, Patrick St. Esprit, Hayley Kiyoko
Roles Executive Producer
Rating53% 2.6926652.6926652.6926652.6926652.692665
Emma and Dean are two high school students on a class trip to Trinidad to build a school for children and explore the island. The two have little in common. During a boat party, Emma falls overboard when the party is interrupted by a police raid, Dean jumps in the water to save her. The pair drifts in a dinghy to a deserted island, and their parents desperately search for them. Wondering if they will ever be rescued, Emma and Dean must rely on each other to survive. At first they're friends, but as time goes on their feelings start to blossom and it evolves into a romantic relationship. After being stuck for over 100 days, they are rescued by a tourist helicopter and taken back. They are met by family, friends, and the media. After Emma is thrust back into a more popular position in school, Dean still somewhat of an outcast, still longs for her. Emma attends the prom, and Dean eventually decides to go as well after being persuaded by his father. Emma and Dean kiss passionately there and dance.
Footloose
Footloose (2011)
, 1h53
Directed by Craig Brewer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Andie MacDowell, Dennis Quaid, Miles Teller, Patrick J. Flueger
Roles Producer
Rating58% 2.9118452.9118452.9118452.9118452.911845
After a long night of partying, Bobby Moore and four of his friends drive over a bridge and crash into a truck. His father, Shaw Moore (Dennis Quaid), the reverend of the church of the small Southern United States town of Bomont, Georgia, persuades the city council to pass several paternalistic laws, including a ban on all unsupervised dancing within the city limits.
The Bucket List, 1h33
Directed by Rob Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Medical-themed films, Films about Tibet, Transport films, Films about cancer, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, Rob Morrow, Beverly Todd, Alfonso Freeman
Roles Producer
Rating73% 3.6984553.6984553.6984553.6984553.698455
Blue-collar mechanic Carter Chambers (Freeman) and billionaire hospital magnate Edward Cole (Nicholson) meet for the first time in the hospital after both have been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Although Edward is reluctant to share a room with Carter, complaining that he "looks half-dead already", they become friends as they undergo their respective treatments.
A Raisin in the Sun, 2h11
Directed by Kenny Leon
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Sean Combs, Phylicia Rashād, Audra McDonald, Sanaa Lathan, John Stamos, Bill Nunn
Roles Executive Producer
Rating64% 3.246183.246183.246183.246183.24618
1959. Walter se sent à l'étroit dans l'appartement qu'il partage avec sa mère Lena, sa soeur Beneatha, sa femme Ruth et son fils Travis. Il rêve d'investir dans un magasin de spiritueux et il aimerait que sa mère, qui doit toucher 10 000 dollars de son défunt mari, lui prête un peu d'argent. Mais cette dernière préfère acheter une maison. Une fois la propriété acquise, cette famille afro-américaine découvre qu'elle n'est vraiment du goût du voisinage, qui est entièrement blanc...
Living Proof
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Harry Connick, Paula Cale, Angie Harmon, Amanda Bynes, Bernadette Peters, Regina King
Roles Producer
Rating67% 3.395163.395163.395163.395163.39516
The film follows the true story of Dr. Dennis Slamon (played by Harry Connick, Jr.), who helped develop the breast cancer drug Herceptin, over the course of 8 years from 1988 to 1996. Dr. Slamon is a research doctor at UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles), where he has developed the experimental drug Herceptin, which he believes will become a treatment for breast cancer. However, when the drug company stops funding for research, philanthropists, including Lilly Tartikoff (Angie Harmon) and Ronald Perelman help him continue tests of the drug. Funding was done with an initial donation from Perelman's Revlon charity, and continued over the years with the "Fire and Ice Ball" organized by Tartikoff.
Hairspray
Hairspray (2007)
, 1h57
Directed by Adam Shankman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about racism, Films about television, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden
Roles Producer
Rating66% 3.3496653.3496653.3496653.3496653.349665
Tracy Turnblad is an overweight high school student living in Baltimore, Maryland ("Good Morning Baltimore"). She and her classmate Penny Pingleton watch the The Corny Collins Show, a local teen dance television show, together ("The Nicest Kids in Town").
The Music Man, 2h30
Directed by Jeff Bleckner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Matthew Broderick, Kristin Chenoweth, Debra Monk, Cameron Monaghan, Clyde Alves, David Aaron Baker
Roles Executive producer
Rating60% 3.046963.046963.046963.046963.04696
Professor Harold Hill (Matthew Broderick), a confidence artist who makes a living by selling instruments and uniforms to aspiring musicians he fails to teach once they are delivered, sets his sights on the naive citizens of River City, Iowa as his latest targets. Hill is sitting on a train in the first scene, playing cards while listening to the passengers on the train talk about him and his cons (Rock Island). Before getting off at River City, an anvil salesman named Charlie realizes who Hill is, but fails to catch him when he gets off the train. Charlie yells out the window of the train "I won't forget your face, Hill!" before the train travels on, while Hill is stepping on to the fresh soil of Iowa.
Chicago
Chicago (2002)
, 1h53
Directed by Rob Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Action, Musical, Crime
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Prison films, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Musical films, Women in prison films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly, Christine Baranski
Roles Executive Producer
Rating71% 3.5994353.5994353.5994353.5994353.599435
In 1927, Roxie Hart sees star Velma Kelly perform ("All That Jazz") at a Chicago theater. Wanting stardom for herself, she begins an affair with Fred Casely, who claims to know the manager. After the show, Velma is arrested for killing her husband Charlie and sister Veronica, who were in bed together. A month later, Casely admits to Roxie that he has no showbiz connections and just wanted her body. Enraged, she shoots him dead. She convinces her husband Amos to take the blame, telling him she killed a burglar in self-defense. As Amos confesses to the detective, Roxie fantasizes that she is singing a song devoted to her husband ("Funny Honey"). However, when the detective brings up evidence that Roxie and Casely were having an affair, Amos recants; Roxie furiously admits what really happened and is arrested. Ambitious District Attorney Harrison announces he will seek the death penalty.
Martin and Lewis, 2h
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy
Actors Jeremy Northam, Sean Hayes, Paula Cale, Sarah Manninen, Kate Levering, Tony Nappo
Roles Executive Producer
Rating63% 3.1952553.1952553.1952553.1952553.195255
When lounge singer Dean Martin (Northam) and burlesque comic Jerry Lewis (Hayes) clicked during an impromptu pairing in 1946, neither anticipated their unparalleled success as a team. Lewis was going nowhere fast with an act built around miming to records, while Martin was making a subpar living as a crooner, sleeping on his agent's couch. Lewis had beseeched his agent to reteam him with the reluctant Martin; Lewis instigated their act and adopted the jaded pro as his unofficial big brother. Ever aloof, Martin is content to cash in on the bonanza and continue his sideline in womanizing. But as Lewis assumes more control, Martin’s mistress, Jeanne (Levering), nags him to take more credit. From bistros to radio to television, the seductive singer and the wacky stooge click with audiences. As the act takes Hollywood by storm in 1949, Lewis becomes paranoid about Martin’s popularity; psychosomatic stomach pains become his way of grabbing attention. Handsome and effortlessly charming, Martin successfully launches a solo acting career, in part to escape Lewis’s directorial aspirations and oppressive neediness. When Martin is called on the carpet by his wife, Betty (Cale), he walks out on his family; his frustration and resentment at being part of a two-headed showbiz monster only increases. Engineered by managers and agents, the last lap of the Martin-Lewis partnership is a cheerless financial arrangement, and though each triumphs after the official split in 1956, neither ever recaptures the elation of their early chemistry.
What Makes a Family, 2h
Directed by Maggie Greenwald
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Brooke Shields, Cherry Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, Anne Meara, Al Waxman, Melanie Nicholls-King
Roles Executive Producer
Rating65% 3.2940253.2940253.2940253.2940253.294025
En Floride, Sandy Cataldi vit en couple avec Janine Nielssen. Très amoureuses l'une de l'autre, Sandy et Janine décident de se marier. Rapidement, elles désirent avoir un enfant et ont recours à l'insémination artificielle. Si la famille de Sandy est enthousiaste à cette idée, celle de Janine, qui n'a toujours pas accepté son homosexualité, réagit violemment et la rejette.