Denise Di Novi

Denise Di Novi (born March 21, 1956) is an American film producer and director.

Denise Di Novi
Born	March 21, 1956 Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Film producer, director

Early life

When she was three years old, Di Novi and her family moved to Los Angeles from New York, where her father made music for the TV shows of Danny Thomas, Dick Van Dyke and Andy Griffith. In the late 1960s, the family moved to Toronto, Canada.

Career

Di Novi studied communications at Simmons College in Massachusetts, and received a degree in journalism. After working as a copy editor at the National Observer and staff writer for Canada AM, she became a reporter for Toronto's Citytv, but quit in 1980, taking a job as a unit publicist for Final Assignment. She became a principal in the Montreal-based production company Film Plan, acting in various production capacities on nine major studio releases, including Scanners (1981) and Videodrome (1983). In 1983, Film Plan relocated to Los Angeles and merged with Arnold Kopelson's Film Packages.

Di Novi joined New World Pictures as Executive Vice President of production. She later shifted into an overall deal as an independent producer, producing Heathers (1988) starring Winona Ryder. Di Novi then headed Tim Burton Productions and was responsible for producing several films. She set up her own production company, Di Novi Pictures, in 1993, at Columbia Pictures. She then entered into a producing deal with Warner Brothers Pictures.

Di Novi has produced 35 films. These include six from her partnership with Tim Burton, Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Cabin Boy (1994), Ed Wood (also 1994) and James and the Giant Peach (1996). She produced four films based on books by Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle (1999), A Walk to Remember (2002), Nights in Rodanthe (2008) and The Lucky One (2012).

For four years, Di Novi was executive producer of The District, a CBS primetime series created by Terry George. Di Novi made her directorial debut on the thriller Unforgettable (2017), for Warner Bros.[1]

Filmography

She was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

Year	Film	Credit
1983	Going Berserk	Associate producer
	For Those I Loved	Associate producer
1988	Heathers
1990	Meet the Applegates
	Edward Scissorhands
1992	Batman Returns
1993	The Nightmare Before Christmas
1994	Cabin Boy
	Ed Wood
	Little Women
1996	James and the Giant Peach
1998	Almost Heroes
	Practical Magic
1999	Message in a Bottle
2001	Happy Campers
	Original Sin
2002	A Walk to Remember
2003	What a Girl Wants
2004	New York Minute
	Catwoman
2005	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2007	Lucky You
2008	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
	Nights in Rodanthe
2010	Ramona and Beezus
	Life as We Know It	Executive producer
2011	Monte Carlo
	Crazy, Stupid, Love
2012	The Lucky One
2014	If I Stay	Executive producer
	You're Not You
	The Best of Me
2015	Focus
	Danny Collins	Executive producer
2017	Unforgettable
2019	Little Women
TBA	The Sky Is Everywhere

As director

Year	Film
2017	Unforgettable

Miscellaneous crew

Year	Film	Role
1980	The Lucky Star	Unit publicist
	Final Assignment
1981	Gas	Script coordinator
1982	Visiting Hours
1983	Videodrome	Creative consultant
	Of Unknown Origin	Assistant to director
1985	Fraternity Vacation	Production executive

Thanks

Year	Film	Role
1995	Live Nude Girls	Special thanks
2015	The Intern

Television

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
2000	The '70s	Executive producer	Television film
2002	Jo
2003	Eloise at the Plaza	Executive producer
	Eloise at Christmastime
	Hotel		Television pilot
2000−04	The District		Television series
2004	Sudbury		Television film
2017	Beaches
2021	Ways & Means		Television pilot
TBA	How To Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings
	Teachable

As director

Year	Title
2017	Bones
2018	Sneaky Pete
	Outlander
	Ray Donovan

References

1. McNary, Dave (June 22, 2015). "Producer Denise Di Novi to Direct Thriller 'Unforgettable'".

External links

• Denise Di Novi at IMDb
• Profile of Di Novi, Lukeford.net
• Profile of Di Novi, Filmbug.com
• Movieline 1994 profile article