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Shawn Levy

1968 (58 years old)Directing

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Statistics

Total Movies
31
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Total Box Office
$10.13B
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Domestic Gross
46%
$4.70B
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International Gross
54%
$5.43B
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Average per Movie
$247.1M
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Total Budget
$2.78B
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Profitability Gap
+$1.68B
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Avg ROI
2.9x
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Opening Weekends
$1.29B
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Highest Grossing
$1.34B
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Biography

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.

Personal Information

BirthdayJuly 23, 1968
Place of BirthMontreal, Quebec, Canada
Known ForDirecting
Also Known As
Shawn Adam Levyショーン・アダム・レヴィשון אדם לויショーン レヴィ