Biography
Boaz Yakin (Hebrew: בועז יכין, born June 20, 1966) is an Israeli-American screenwriter, film director, and producer based in New York City. He has written screenplays to films like The Rookie, Fresh, A Price Above Rubies, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and Now You See Me, and has directed the 2000 sports drama Remember the Titans and the 2012 Jason Statham action film Safe. As a producer he has collaborated frequently with filmmaker Eli Roth and served as executive producer for the first ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Once Again (for the very first time)
2024
Director, Producer, Writer
Repetition is an illusion. Everything is always new. Legendary street dancer DeRay and spoken-word poet and battle rapper Naima explore a powerful l...

Aviva
2022
Director, Producer, Writer
A unique exploration into romantic connection and gender dynamics, 'Aviva' tells the story of a relationship between a man and a woman, with each of t...

The Harder They Fall
2021
Screenplay
Gunning for revenge, outlaw Nat Love saddles up with his gang to take down enemy Rufus Buck, a ruthless crime boss who just got sprung from prison.

Boarding School
2018
Writer, Director
When troubled 12-year-old Jacob Felsen is sent away to boarding school, he enters every kid’s worst nightmare: a creepy old mansion, deserted except f...

Max 2: White House Hero
2017
Characters
Max is assigned to the White House while Butch, the secret service dog, is on maternity leave. He meets TJ, a 12 year old boy, who is the President's ...

Now You See Me 2
2016
Characters
One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find them...

Max
2015
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
A dog that helped soldiers in Afghanistan returns to the U.S. and is adopted by his handler's family after suffering a traumatic experience.
Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
2013
as Self
A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery.

Now You See Me
2013
Executive Producer, Story, Screenplay
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with...

Safe
2012
Writer, Director
After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, th...

Bombay Beach
2011
Producer
Bombay Beach is one of the poorest communities in southern California located on the shores of the Salton Sea, a man-made sea stranded in the middle o...

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010
Screenplay
A rogue prince reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable ...

Death in Love
2008
Writer, Director
Death in Love is a psychosexual-thriller about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a doctor overseeing human experimentation at a Nazi German con...

Hostel: Part II
2007
Executive Producer
Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel, and discover the grim reality behind it.

Hostel
2006
Executive Producer
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.

2001 Maniacs
2005
Producer
On their way to Spring Break, college kids take a detour through an old Southern town. The people of Pleasant Valley insist the kids stay for their an...

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
2004
Screenplay
In pre-revolution Cuba, Katey Miller is about to defy everyone's expectations. Instead of a parent-approved suitor, Katey is drawn to the sexy waiter,...

Uptown Girls
2003
Director, Executive Producer
Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray...

Remember the Titans
2000
Director
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different ...

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
1999
Story
A bank-robbing gang of misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the w...

A Price Above Rubies
1998
Director, Screenplay
About a young woman who is married to a devout Jew and the problems that trouble their marriage because of the woman wanting something more out of her...

Fresh
1994
Director, Writer
Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his rival employers against each other.

The Rookie
1990
Screenplay
Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result o...

The Punisher
1989
Writer
The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle, a ...
Broken Theater
N/A
Executive Producer
Ten artists meet in a ghost theater. At the cost of each other, they grapple with love, humiliation and loss.