Biography
Michael De Luca (born August 13, 1965) is an American film studio executive, producer, and screenwriter. He is also the former production president at New Line Cinema and DreamWorks. De Luca has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Picture. De Luca formerly served as the chairman of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion Picture Group and as co-chairperson and CEO of Warner Bros. Pictures Group (now known as Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mi...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Fire Inside
2024
Producer
Claressa Shields, a high school junior from Flint, Michigan, aided by her tough-love coach, Jason Crutchfield, pushes past all limitations to become t...

Ricky Stanicky
2024
Producer
When three childhood best friends pull a prank gone wrong, they invent the imaginary Ricky Stanicky to get them out of trouble. Twenty years later, th...

Licorice Pizza
2021
Thanks
The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando V...

The Rescue
2021
Executive Producer
The enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded...

Reminiscence
2021
Producer
Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offe...

12 Mighty Orphans
2021
Producer
Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depres...

The Kitchen
2019
Producer
The mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take ...

The Sisters Brothers
2018
Producer
Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the...

Under the Silver Lake
2018
Producer
Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next...

Fifty Shades Freed
2018
Producer
Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life ...

Fifty Shades Darker
2017
Producer
When a wounded Christian Grey tries to entice a cautious Ana Steele back into his life, she demands a new arrangement before she will give him another...

Fifty Shades of Grey
2015
Producer
When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little d...

Dracula Untold
2014
Producer
Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to pr...

Captain Phillips
2013
Producer
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship...

Butter
2012
Producer
An adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their Iowa town's annual contest.

Moneyball: Playing the Game
2012
as Self
Cast and crew discuss the film's authentic recreation of baseball scenes and the landscape of the 2002 baseball season, sets and filming locales, cost...

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
2011
Producer
When the devil resurfaces with aims to take over the world in human form, Johnny Blaze reluctantly comes out of hiding to transform into the flame-spe...

The Sitter
2011
Producer
Noah, is not your typical entertain-the-kids-no-matter-how-boring-it-is kind of sitter. He's reluctant to take a sitting gig; he'd rather, well, be do...

Moneyball
2011
Producer
The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-gen...

Fright Night
2011
Producer
A teenager suspects his new neighbour is a vampire. Unable to convince anyone, he tries to enlist the help of a self-proclaimed vampire hunter and mag...

Priest
2011
Producer
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with...

Drive Angry
2011
Producer
Milton is a hardened felon who has broken out of Hell, intent on finding the vicious cult who brutally murdered his daughter and kidnapped her baby. H...

The Social Network
2010
Producer
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network k...

Brothers
2009
Producer
When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to ...

The Love Guru
2008
Producer
Born in America and raised in an Indian ashram, Pitka returns to his native land to seek his fortune as a spiritualist and self-help expert. His skill...

21
2008
Producer
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine ...

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh
2007
After ditching his law career, Jonathan Hensleigh (Die Hard: with a Vengeance, Armageddon) went on to become a widely respected and successful action-...

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Jeff Nathanson
2007
as Himself
Jeff Nathanson is easily among the A-list of Hollywood screenwriters, His script for Catch Me If You Can earned him much critical praise, as well as t...

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter David Seltzer
2007
as Himself
David Seltzer knows Hollywood. He knows the business, the tricks of the trade and all the hidden truths. He's got the stories from working with Jacque...

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Simon Kinberg
2007
as Himself
Simon Kinberg recently burst onto the scene with his script for XXX: State of the Union, and has since worked on comic-to-film adaptations for Elektra...

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Paul Attanasio
2007
as Himself
Paul Attanasio's nuanced screenplays for Quiz Show and Donnie Brasco earned him Oscar nominations, and he recently wrote The Good German for Steven So...

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Billy Ray
2007
as Himself
BILLY RAY has written or co-written the screenplays for Color of Night, Volcano and Hart's War and also created the sci-fi series Earth 2. In 2003, Ra...

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Nia Vardalos
2007
as Himself
NIA VARDALOS was nominated for the Academy Award® and the Writers Guild Award in 2003 for her breakthrough screenplay My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which ...

Ghost Rider
2007
Producer
In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Sim...

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel
2006
as Himself
Few screenwriters can concentrate for more than a few hours, let alone sustain a career in Hollywood for over 30 years. But the blockbuster comedy wri...

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter John Hamburg
2006
as Himself
Hamburg wrote and directed the crime comedy Safe Men, which played at Sundance and spawned a devoted cult following. A sure-thing comedy closer, the N...

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter David Goyer
2006
as himself
David Goyer knows how to bring comic book heroes to kicking, screaming, vengeful life, as he did in The Crow: City of Angels, the Blade series, and Ba...

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Stuart Beattie
2006
as himself
After 15 years in the business, Stuart Beattie has learned a thing or two about how to make characters sing (or sting) on the page. Listen in as he de...

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Paul Haggis
2006
as Himself
Oscar-winning writer, director and producer Paul Haggis (Crash) reflects on his remarkable journey from television to feature film in this lively conv...

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Sheldon Turner
2006
as Himself
Sheldon Turner is the prototype for the smart, brash, ambitious young screenwriter. He recently broke through with his script for the remake of The Lo...

Zathura: A Space Adventure
2005
Producer
After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay ...

A Man Apart
2003
Executive Producer
When Vetter's wife is killed in a botched hit organized by Diablo, he seeks revenge against those responsible. But in the process, Vetter and Hicks ha...

S1m0ne
2002
Executive Producer
The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the prod...

Unconditional Love
2002
Executive Producer
After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the l...

Highway
2002
Executive Producer
Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. P...

Blade II
2002
Executive Producer
Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.

John Q
2002
Executive Producer
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because ...

Run Ronnie Run
2002
Executive Producer
A redneck with an uncanny knack for getting arrested becomes the star of his own reality program.

I Am Sam
2001
Executive Producer
Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. ...

Knockaround Guys
2001
Executive Producer
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.

Storytelling
2001
Executive Producer
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.

Life as a House
2001
Executive Producer
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in ...

Rush Hour 2
2001
Executive Producer
It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the lad...

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2001
Executive Producer
Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internati...

Town & Country
2001
Executive Producer
Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps, some with his wif...

Blow
2001
Executive Producer
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family....

Thirteen Days
2000
Executive Producer
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases establishe...

Little Nicky
2000
Executive Producer
After the lord of darkness decides he will not cede his throne to any of his three sons, the two most powerful of them escape to Earth to create a kin...

Lost Souls
2000
Executive Producer
A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected...

Magnolia
1999
Executive Producer
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy geniu...

The Bachelor
1999
Executive Producer
Jimmie is seeing his single friends get married one by one. He isn't too worried until his girlfriend Anne catches the bouquet at his friend Marco's w...

Body Shots
1999
Executive Producer
The Los Angeles club scene is a place of booze-fueled decadence and debauchery. In a night full of possibilities, eight 20-somethings take to the club...

Detroit Rock City
1999
Executive Producer
In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the four teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal ...

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
1999
Executive Producer
When diabolical genius Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo,’ Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself - with ...
La Magra
1998
as Self
This short documentary shows the original ending to 'Blade' (1998) and explains why it is not in the final film.

Pleasantville
1998
Executive Producer
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and...

Blade
1998
Executive Producer
The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.

American History X
1998
Co-Executive Producer
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we le...

Lost in Space
1998
Executive Producer
The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other...

Dark City
1998
Executive Producer
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic ...

Wag the Dog
1997
Executive Producer
During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President...

One Night Stand
1997
Co-Executive Producer
In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle tr...

Boogie Nights
1997
Co-Executive Producer
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his cra...

B.A.P.S
1997
Executive Producer
Two wannabe Black American princesses aim to marry rich men, who will pay for their world's first combination hair salon and soul food restaurant.

The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
Executive Producer
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and...

Last Man Standing
1996
Executive Producer
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances fr...

Bed of Roses
1996
Thanks
The seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer. But when his fairy-tale fantasies c...

Judge Dredd
1995
Story
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his m...

In the Mouth of Madness
1995
Screenplay, Executive Producer
An insurance investigator begins discovering the impact a horror writer's books has on his fans is more than inspirational.

Don Juan DeMarco
1994
Executive Producer
John Arnold DeMarco is a man who believes he is Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric trea...

The Mask
1994
Executive Producer
When timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss discovers a magical mask containing the spirit of the Norse god Loki, his entire life changes. While wearing the ...

The Nightmare Begins Again
1993
Writer
When Fred Krueger is set free on a technicality, the parents of the children he murdered take matters into their own hands, while a high school track ...

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
Co-Executive Producer
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before the...

Deep Cover
1992
Co-Executive Producer
Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian fore...

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
1991
Screenplay, Executive Producer
Just when you thought it was safe to sleep, Freddy Krueger returns in this sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, as psychologist Mag...

Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
1990
Executive Producer
Two college students driving coast to coast are lured off the main highway and onto a deserted Texas road. Here they are stalked by the menacing Leath...

A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
1989
Production Executive
Alice finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again. This time, the taunting murderer is striking through the sleeping mind of her unb...

Freddy's Nightmares: No More Mr. Nice Guy
1988
Writer
Freddy Kruger explains how he became the bon vivant and fashion plate who we know and hate so well. Freddy's ramblings lead to the evening's drama, al...

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
1988
Production Executive
Freddy Krueger is resurrected from his apparent demise, and rapidly tracks down and kills the remainder of the Elm Street kids. However, Kristen, who ...

The Lawnmower Man
1987
Writer
Short film / "Dollar Baby" version of the Stephen King short story from 1987.
The Fortress
N/A
Producer
A group of refugees hidden aboard a container ship discover their passage to safety is not what it seems.
13 Minutes
N/A
Producer
Natasha doesn’t know how she ended up in the icy lake that night, but she was presumed dead for 13 minutes because of it. Turning to her old friend Be...

Metro 2033
N/A
Producer
An adaption of the book about the Moscow Metro, where the last survivors hide after a global nuclear holocaust.
Untitled John Lennon/Yoko Ono Project
N/A
Producer
A film documenting the love story between iconic musicians John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Bloodlines
N/A
Producer
An FBI agent investigates a Mexican drug cartel's money laundering scheme involving race horses.
An Untamed State
N/A
Producer
The powerful, unflinching story of a Haitian-American woman kidnapped for ransom in front of her husband and child.
Ground Control to Major Tom
N/A
Producer
An astronaut and a NASA ground control expert who have never met but fall in love over the course of the astronaut’s classified mission to an abandone...
Cheshire Crossing
N/A
Producer
The story of Dorothy from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Alice of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Peter Pan's Wendy, who meet in boarding school for...