Kyle Newman | |
|---|---|
 Newman in 2015 | |
| Born | March 16, 1976 Morristown, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma mater | New York University, Tisch School of the Arts |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, producer, screenwriter, author, editor, actor |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 4 |
Kyle Newman (born March 16, 1976) is an American filmmaker, actor and author. He is best known for directing Fanboys (2009), and has since directed Barely Lethal (2015), and 1Up (2022).
Newman was born in 1976 in New Jersey. He has a brother named Kevin, who went on to work as a character designer for The Simpsons .[ citation needed ]
He is an honors graduate of New York University's School of Film/TV and the receipt of the Martin Scorsese Award for "Excellence in Directing". In 1998, Newman's short film Bitten by Love won the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker's Award while he was a student at New York University. [1]
In 2006, Newman began production on Fanboys , a Star Wars-themed comedy starring Jay Baruchel, Dan Fogler and Sam Huntington. Initially set for release in August 2007, it was pushed back to January 2008 as Newman was given more funding to shoot addition scenes. However, reuniting the cast would only be possible that September, so it was pushed back again to early 2008. By the end of the year, Newman was not involved in reshoots, and the scenes were directed by Steven Brill. The film was eventually released in February 2009 to poor reviews. Newman later directed Barely Lethal for A24, which starred Hailee Steinfeld and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as 1Up for Lionsgate and Prime Video, a comedy set in the world of competitive esports starring Ruby Rose. He is set to direct a documentary for Hasbro, exploring the fifty-year history of Dungeons & Dragons . [2]
In 2016, Newman produced Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made , a documentary about three teenagers who set out to recreate Steven Spielberg's classic Raiders of the Lost Ark shot-for-shot in 1982, which was distributed by Drafthouse Films. He reteamed with director Jeremy Coon and Fanboys scribe Adam F. Goldberg to produce A Disturbance in the Force , a documentary about the making of The Star Wars Holiday Special . He is the co-creator, co-story writer of the Netflix Original animated feature film Gnome Alone . Newman also executive produced Happily , alongside Jack Black.
2018 saw the release of his first book Art & Arcana: A Visual History via Ten Speed Press/Penguin Random House in association with Wizards of the Coast. It received nominations for a Locus Award, a Diana Jones Award, and a Hugo Award. [3] Newman's second book Heroes' Feast: The Official Dungeons & Dragons Cookbook published in October 2020 by Ten Speed Press/Penguin Random House in association with Wizards of the Coast, reunited the author team and became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a cooking show titled Heroes' Feast for Hasbro. In 2023, sequels to both books were published by Ten Speed Press/Penguin Random House. Dungeons & Dragons: Lore & Legends tells the story of D&D's 5th Edition and Heroes' Feast: Flavors of the Multiverse is the planet-hopping follow-up cookbook. [4]
Newman has directed music videos for artists including Taylor Swift ("Style", "Clean"), Lana Del Rey ("Summertime Sadness") and Cyn ("House With A View", "Losing Sleep"), and created the video content for Swift's The 1989 World Tour.
In 2006, while working on the set of Fanboys , he met actress and former model Jaime King. [5] Newman proposed in spring 2007, and the two married on November 23, 2007 [6] in an "intimate and relaxed" ceremony in Los Angeles at Greystone Park and Manor, where Newman had proposed. [7] Newman and King have two sons together; [8] Taylor Swift is godmother to their second son. [9]
In May 2020, King filed for divorce from Newman after 13 years of marriage. [10] King also filed a domestic violence prevention petition and was granted a temporary restraining order against Newman, [10] which was later withdrawn. [11] The divorce was finalized in September 2023. [12]
Newman has a son and daughter with his partner, singer-songwriter Cyn. [13] [14]
Newman is a supporter of Premier League club Arsenal. [15]
| Year | Film | Role | Credited as | Notes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Producer | Writer | Editor | Actor | ||||
| 1999 | The Cyclist | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Short film |
| 1998 | Bitten by Love | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Short film |
| 2000 | Drone | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Short film |
| 2004 | Artflick.001 | — | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Short film / documentary |
| The Hollow | Cool High School Dude | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Television film | |
| 2008 | The Cube | — | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Short film for Microsoft |
| 2009 | Fanboys | — | Yes | No | No | No | No | Also editor; uncredited |
| 2012 | Latch Key | Mr. Kyle | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Short film |
| 2013 | The Return of Return of the Jedi: 30 Years and Counting | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Short film / documentary |
| Ralph McQuarrie: Tribute to a Master | — | No | No | No | No | No | Documentary Associate producer and interviewer | |
| 2015 | Barely Lethal | — | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made | — | No | No | No | No | No | Documentary Executive producer | |
| 2017 | Gnome Alone | — | No | No | No | No | No | Story by |
| 2021 | 1Up | Iggy, Kong Coach | Yes | No | No | No | No | Executive producer |
| 2021 | Happily | — | No | No | No | No | No | |
| 2023 | A Disturbance in the Force | Himself | No | Yes | No | No | No | Documentary |
| TBA | Untitled Dungeons & Dragons documentary | — | Yes | No | No | No | No | Documentary Executive producer |
| Delinquents | — | No | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Star Wars: Smuggler's Gambit – Live Stage Show | Director, producer and writer |
| 2015 | Star Wars: Smuggler's Bounty – Live Stage Show | |
| 2017 | Star Wars: Smuggler's Revenge – Live Stage Show |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2009–2010 | Spartacus: Blood and Sand | Motion comic Director, 2 episodes |
| 2010 | The Crazies | Motion comic Director, 4 episodes |
| 2023 | Heroes' Feast | Consulting producer; 20 episodes Appears as himself, 2 episodes |
| Year | Title | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | "Bury Me Alive" | We Are the Fallen | Director |
| 2012 | "Bel Air" | Lana Del Rey | |
| "Summertime Sadness" | Director (with Spencer Susser) | ||
| 2015 | "31 Seconds" | Jaime King & J. Ralph | Director |
| 2015 | "Style" | Taylor Swift | |
| 2015 | "Clean" (for The 1989 World Tour) | ||
| 2022 | "House With A View" | Cyn | |
| 2023 | "Losing Sleep" | ||
| 2023 | "Clean (Taylor's Version)" | Taylor Swift |
An ogre is a legendary monster depicted as a large, hideous, man-like being that eats ordinary human beings, especially infants and children. Ogres frequently feature in mythology, folklore, and fiction throughout the world. They appear in many classic works of literature, and are most often associated in fairy tales and legend.
A gelatinous cube is a fictional monster from the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It is described as a ten-foot cube of transparent gelatinous ooze, which is able to absorb and digest organic matter.
Drizzt Do'Urden is a fictional character appearing in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Drizzt was created by author R. A. Salvatore as a supporting character in the Icewind Dale Trilogy. Salvatore created him on a whim when his publisher needed him to replace one of the characters in an early version of the first book, The Crystal Shard. Drizzt has since become a popular heroic character of the Forgotten Realms setting, and has been featured as the main character of a long series of books, starting chronologically with The Dark Elf Trilogy. As an atypical drow, Drizzt has forsaken both the evil ways of his people and their home in the Underdark, in the drow city of Menzoberranzan.
The beholder is a fictional monster in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It is depicted as a floating orb of flesh with a large mouth, single central eye, and many smaller eyestalks on top with powerful magical abilities.
Erol Otus is an American artist and game designer, who contributed art to the fantasy role-playing game (RPG) genre, especially early in the Dungeons & Dragons franchise. He created art for the award winning Star Control II as well as providing the voice for one of the character races, the Chmmr, in the same game.
Jaime King is an American actress and model. In her modeling career and early film roles, she used the names Jamie King and James King, which was a childhood nickname given to King by her parents, because her agency already represented another Jaime—the older, then-more famous model Jaime Rishar.
Miniatures games are a form of tabletop game which prominently features the use of miniature models or figures.
Eberron Campaign Setting is a hardcover accessory for the 3.5 edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
Chainmail is a medieval miniature wargame created by Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren. Gygax developed the core medieval system of the game by expanding on rules authored by his fellow Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association (LGTSA) member Jeff Perren, a hobby-shop owner with whom he had become friendly. Guidon Games released the first edition of Chainmail in 1971.
The Shady Dragon Inn is an accessory designed for the Basic Set or Expert Set of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. It was published by TSR, Inc. in 1983. Written by Carl Smith, The Shady Dragon Inn is a supplement used to help dungeon masters introduce fully designed characters into any scenario.
The barbarian is a playable character class in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. The class was introduced in 1985 and went through a number of variations in subsequent editions of the game.
Kobolds are a fictional race of humanoid creatures featured in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game and other fantasy media. They are often depicted as small reptilian humanoids with long tails, distantly related to dragons.
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, goblins are a common and fairly weak race of evil humanoid monsters. Goblins are non-human monsters that low-level player characters often face in combat.
Siege of Bodenburg is a wargame developed in 1967 by Henry Bodenstedt. It is one of the earliest sets of rules for conducting battles with medieval miniatures.
The original Dungeons & Dragons boxed set by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson was published by Tactical Studies Rules in 1974. It included the original edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Its product designation was TSR 2002.
Greyhawk is a supplementary rulebook written by Gary Gygax and Robert J. Kuntz for the original edition of the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game. It has been called "the first and most important supplement" to the original D&D rules. Although the name of the book was taken from the home campaign supervised by Gygax and Kuntz based on Gygax's imagined Castle Greyhawk and the lands surrounding it, Greyhawk did not give any details of the castle or the campaign world; instead, it explained the rules that Gygax and Kuntz used in their home campaign, and introduced a number of character classes, spells, concepts and monsters used in all subsequent editions of D&D.
A ghoul is a mythical creature originating in pre-Islamic Arabia, often described as hideous human-like monster that dwelt in the desert or other secluded locations in order to lure travellers astray. It was not until Antoine Galland translated the Arabian Nights into French that the western idea of ghoul was introduced. Galland depicted the ghoul as a monstrous creature that dwelled in cemeteries, feasting upon corpses. This definition of the ghoul has persisted until modern times, with ghouls appearing in literature, television and film, as well video games.
Scott Fitzgerald Gray is a Canadian writer, editor, story editor, and role-playing game designer known for his work on the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop role-playing game.
Art & Arcana: A Visual History is a book by Michael and Sam Witwer, Kyle Newman, and Jon Peterson published in 2018.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
