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Josh Stolberg is an American film director, screenwriter, and photographer. Stolberg is known for comedies, such as the film Good Luck Chuck , starring Dane Cook, Jessica Alba and Dan Fogler. [1] [2]
He won the Seashore Award and the Queen Spirit Award as a director of the film The Life Coach. He also wrote and directed the 2005 film Kids in America , [3] and made a cameo appearance as a security guard in the film. He was also a part of the writing team for the first two episodes of Book 1: Water of Avatar: The Last Airbender .
He also branched into horror films, penning the remakes Piranha 3D (directed by Alexandre Aja) and Sorority Row . He co-wrote the scripts for several entries in the long-running Saw franchise, such as Jigsaw , Spiral [4] and Saw X . [5] [6] Among his projects in development are the adaptation of the book The Spellman Files, to be produced by Laura Ziskin; Man-Witch (to be directed by Todd Phillips [7] ) as well as the adaptation of the book The Candy Shop War .
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | ||
| 2005 | Kids in America | Yes | Yes | No |
| The Life Coach | Yes | No | No | |
| 2007 | Good Luck Chuck | No | Yes | No |
| 2009 | Sorority Row | No | Yes | No |
| 2010 | Piranha 3D | No | Yes | No |
| 2011 | Conception | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 2013 | Crawlspace | Yes | Yes | No |
| Feels So Good | Yes | No | Executive | |
| 2014 | The Hungover Games | Yes | No | No |
| 2017 | Jigsaw | No | Yes | No |
| 2021 | Spiral: From the Book of Saw | No | Yes | No |
| 2023 | Saw X | No | Yes | No |
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Pumpkinhead is a 1988 American supernatural horror film. It was the directorial debut of special effects artist Stan Winston. The film has built up a cult following since its release. The first in the Pumpkinhead franchise, it was followed by a direct-to-video sequel, two TV film sequels, and a comic book series. The film was originally called Vengeance: The Demon and it was inspired by a poem written by poet Ed Justin. The film inspired a video game called Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's revenge.
Tony Todd is an American actor who made his debut as Sgt. Warren in the film Platoon (1986), and portrayed Kurn in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990–1991) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996). He achieved stardom for his roles as Ben in the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead, as the title character in the four films of the Candyman film series (1992–2021) and William Bludworth in the Final Destination franchise (2000–2011). He also starred as Dan in The Man from Earth (2007) and voiced The Fallen in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Darkseid in the DC Animated Movie Universe, Zoom in The Flash and Venom in the upcoming Spider-Man 2 (2023) game.
James Wan is an Australian filmmaker. He has primarily worked in the horror genre as the co-creator of the Saw and Insidious franchises and the creator of The Conjuring Universe. The lattermost is the highest-grossing horror franchise at over $2 billion. Wan is also the founder of film and television production company Atomic Monster.
Kim David Henkel is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor. He is best known as the co-writer of Tobe Hooper's horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Jaume Balagueró Bernat is a Spanish film director widely known for his horror films, most notably the acclaimed REC series.
Robert Florsheim is an American screenwriter, best known for co-writing The Passion Of The Ark with Josh Stolberg,. Their original script was reported by Daily Variety as the highest priced spec script ever sold by unproduced screenwriters. In refashioning the script into "Evan Almighty", Universal Studios discarded the script and then hired screenwriter Steve Oedekerk, who received sole writing credit on the finished film.
Darren Lynn Bousman is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for his work in horror films. He has directed four of the Saw films: Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, and Spiral. He also directed the horror musicals Repo! The Genetic Opera and The Devil's Carnival movies. Bousman is co-creator and writer of alternate reality games (ARG) and immersive experiences, The Tension Experience (2016), The Lust Experience (2017), Theatre Macabre (2018), iConfidant (2020), and One Day Die (2020).
Marcus Dunstan is an American screenwriter and director who, along with Patrick Melton, wrote screenplay for the film Feast, which was the winner of Season Three of the filmmaking competition reality TV series Project Greenlight. Dunstan has since written the screenplays for Feast, Feast II: Sloppy Seconds, Feast III: The Happy Finish, The Collector, The Collection, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, and Saw 3D, and in some cases, making cameo appearances in those films as well.
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Piranha 3D is a 2010 American 3D horror comedy film that serves as a remake of the comedy horror film Piranha (1978) and an entry in the Piranha film series. Directed by Alexandre Aja and written by Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg, the film stars Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Jerry O'Connell, Ving Rhames, Jessica Szohr, Steven R. McQueen, Christopher Lloyd and Richard Dreyfuss. During spring break on Lake Victoria, a popular waterside resort, an underground tremor releases hundreds of prehistoric, carnivorous piranhas into the lake. Local cop Julie Forester must join forces with a band of unlikely strangers—though they are badly outnumbered—to destroy the ravenous creatures before everyone becomes fish food.
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Piranha 3DD is a 2012 American 3D horror comedy film directed by John Gulager, and written by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton It is a sequel to the 2010 film Piranha 3D and stars Danielle Panabaker, Matt Bush, David Koechner, Chris Zylka, Katrina Bowden, Gary Busey, Christopher Lloyd, and David Hasselhoff. Set after the events of the previous film on Lake Victoria, a prehistoric school of bloodthirsty piranhas invades a newly opened water park.
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Spiral: From the Book of Saw is a 2021 American horror-thriller film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and written by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger. A spin-off, it is the ninth installment of the Saw film series. The film stars Chris Rock, Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols, and Samuel L. Jackson, and follows police efforts to stop a Jigsaw copycat killer. The original creators of the series, James Wan and Leigh Whannell, as well as Rock and series veteran Kevin Greutert, serve as executive producers.
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Keith Thomas is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and author. He is best known for directing horror films such as The Vigil (2019) and Firestarter (2022).
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