James W. Skotchdopole

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Crumb Catcher

Crumb Catcher

2024

Producer

6.0
Producing

After blacking out on his wedding night, Shane and his wife head to a remote estate for their honeymoon. That night, there’s a knock at the door; a wa...

Furlough

Furlough

2018

Executive Producer

5.7
Producing

In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she's tasked with...

War Machine

War Machine

2017

Executive Producer

5.6
Producing

A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true stor...

The Comedian

The Comedian

2016

Thanks

5.7

An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know...

The Revenant

The Revenant

2015

Producer, Unit Production Manager

7.5
Producing

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

2014

Producer

7.5
Producing

A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night appr...

Django Unchained

Django Unchained

2012

Executive Producer, Unit Production Manager

8.2
Producing

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Lay the Favorite

Lay the Favorite

2012

Executive Producer, Unit Production Manager

5.2
Producing

A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.

Violet & Daisy

Violet & Daisy

2011

Executive Producer

6.1
Producing

Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan.

The Women

The Women

2008

Executive Producer, Unit Production Manager

5.1
Producing

The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-we...

Bewitched

Bewitched

2005

Executive Producer

5.1
Producing

Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the c...

Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire'

Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire'

2005

as Self

7.8
Acting

A documentary on the making of the 2004 film "Man on Fire," mixing movie clips, behind-the-scenes shots and interviews of cast and crew. The program c...

Man on Fire

Man on Fire

2004

Executive Producer

7.5
Producing

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventual...

Sand

Sand

2000

Producer, Second Assistant Director

3.2
Producing Directing

A young man tries running from his past by hiding from his two violent brothers, only to have them track and harass him and his friends.

Company Man

Company Man

2000

Producer

5.0
Producing

In the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sen...

Enemy of the State

Enemy of the State

1998

Executive Producer

7.1
Producing

The life of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert 'Bobby' Dean is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a college buddy while holiday ...

The Fan

The Fan

1996

Executive Producer, First Assistant Director

6.0
Producing Directing

When the San Francisco Giants pay center-fielder, Bobby Rayburn $40 million to lead their team to the World Series, no one is happier or more supporti...

Crimson Tide

Crimson Tide

1995

Associate Producer, First Assistant Director

7.2
Producing Directing

After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on...

Mixed Nuts

Mixed Nuts

1994

Executive Producer, First Assistant Director

5.4
Producing Directing

The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.

True Romance

True Romance

1993

Co-Producer

7.5
Producing

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

Sleepless in Seattle

Sleepless in Seattle

1993

First Assistant Director, Associate Producer

6.7
Directing Producing

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Talking about his father’s loneliness s...

The Last Boy Scout

The Last Boy Scout

1991

First Assistant Director

6.8
Directing

When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl attempts to investigate and solve the case...

What About Bob?

What About Bob?

1991

First Assistant Director

6.9
Directing

Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness...

Naked Tango

Naked Tango

1990

Associate Producer

6.6
Producing

When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.

Days of Thunder

Days of Thunder

1990

First Assistant Director

6.4
Directing

Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hots...

Scrooged

Scrooged

1988

Second Assistant Director

6.8
Directing

Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after fi...

Moon Over Parador

Moon Over Parador

1988

Second Assistant Director

5.8
Directing

Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Rob...

Biloxi Blues

Biloxi Blues

1988

Second Assistant Director

6.3
Directing

Eugene, an aspiring writer from Brooklyn, is drafted into the US Army during the final months of World War II. For his basic training, the Army sends ...

The Believers

The Believers

1987

Second Assistant Director

6.0
Directing

Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly...

The Untouchables

The Untouchables

1987

Second Assistant Director

7.8
Directing

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname ...

Ishtar

Ishtar

1987

Second Assistant Director

4.5
Directing

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the ...

The Money Pit

The Money Pit

1986

Second Assistant Director

6.5
Directing

After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-...

A Night in Heaven

A Night in Heaven

1983

Production Assistant

4.7

Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a m...

Play Dirty

N/A

Executive Producer

Producing

Based on the professional thief character Parker, created by Donald E. Westlake. Premise TBA.