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Shawn Adam Levy (/ˈliːvaɪ/; born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He is the founder of 21 Laps Entertainment. His work has spanned numerous genres, and his films as a director have grossed $3.5 billion worldwide. Following early work as a television director, Levy gained recognition in the 2000s for directing comedy films like Big Fat Liar (2002), Just Married (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) and The Pink Panther (2006). He then found further success as the director of the first three films in the Night at the Museum film franchise (2006–14). In the early 2010s, he directed films including Date Night (2010), Real Steel (2011), and The Internship (2013), and developed several comedy television pilots. Executive produced the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing. Levy produced the 2016 sci-fi film Arrival, earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Since 2016, Levy has been an executive producer on the Netflix original series Stranger Things. He has directed the third and fourth episodes of each of the show's four seasons and the Netflix limited series All the Light We CanNot See (2023). Levy has recently collaborated with Ryan Reynolds by directing Free Guy (2021), The Adam Project (2022), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), with the latter emerging as his highest-grossing film and the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shawn Levy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Shawn Adam Levy (/ˈliːvaɪ/; born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He is the founder of 21 Laps Entertainment. His work has spanned numerous genres, and his films as a director have grossed $3.5 billion worldwide. Following early work as a television director, Levy gained recognition in the 2000s for directing comedy films like Big Fat Liar (2002), Just Married (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) and The Pink Panther (2006). He then found further success as the director of the first three films in the Night at the Museum film franchise (2006–14). In the early 2010s, he directed films including Date Night (2010), Real Steel (2011), and The Internship (2013), and developed several comedy television pilots. Executive produced the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing. Levy produced the 2016 sci-fi film Arrival, earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Since 2016, Levy has been an executive producer on the Netflix original series Stranger Things. He has directed the third and fourth episodes of each of the show's four seasons and the Netflix limited series All the Light We CanNot See (2023). Levy has recently collaborated with Ryan Reynolds by directing Free Guy (2021), The Adam Project (2022), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), with the latter emerging as his highest-grossing film and the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shawn Levy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Beverly Hills, 90210
Stranger Things
China Beach
Welcome to Wrexham
30 Rock
21 Jump Street
Beyond Stranger Things
Tour of Duty
Step by Step
Lifestories
The Internship
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Big Fat Liar
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Cheaper by the Dozen
The Kiss
What Happened, Brittany Murphy?
Liberace: Behind the Music
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
Production Credits
Arrival
Real Steel
The Internship
Shadow and Bone
Boy Band
The Spectacular Now
I Am Not Okay with This
Crater
Cheaper by the Dozen
Night at the Museum
Avengers: Doomsday
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Sesame Street
The Darkest Minds
Why Him?
Stranger Things
Date Night
Fist Fight
There's Someone Inside Your House
Deadpool & Wolverine
The Rocker
This Is Where I Leave You
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip
Stranger Things: Tales from '85
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
The Adam Project
Kin
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Never Let Go
Big Fat Liar
Birds of Prey
Table 19
The Watch
The Perfect Couple
Love and Monsters
The Future Of
Last Man Standing
Dungeons & Dragons: The Forgotten Realms
The Backrooms
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Lost Ollie
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
What Happens in Vegas
The Boogeyman
Cheaper by the Dozen
Dash & Lily
Unsolved Mysteries
All the Light We Cannot See
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
Free Guy
Star Wars: Starfighter
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