Caldecot Chubb | |
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Born | 1950 (age 66–67) New York City, New York, United States |
Occupation | Film producer |
Caldecot Chubb (born 1950) is an American film producer who has produced films such as Eve's Bayou,Hoffa,Unthinkable,The Crow,Dark Blue and Pootie Tang.
He also produced The Dinner, written and directed by Oren Moverman, starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall, set to premiere in competition at Berlinale 2017 and release by The Orchard, an adaptation of Herman Koch's Dutch novel Het Diner, a worldwide best-selling psychological thriller.
After successfully building a small business in New York publishing fine art photography, Cotty Chubb has worked in Los Angeles as a producer and senior production executive since the mid-1980s with stints at Pressman Film Corp. from 1988 to 1992, from 1994 to 2003 at Alphaville, and at Groundswell Productions in 2006–2007. Collectively in those sixteen years as an executive, he supervised the development and production of several dozen films besides his own. Presently, Chubb is a producer on his own account, working in a wide variety of financing and distribution environments, and in 2010, he branched out into managing writers and directors.
Besides The Dinner, Chubb has personally produced nine films, Unthinkable, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Sheen, and Carrie-Anne Moss, released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in 2010; Believe in Me, starring Jeffrey Donovan, Samantha Mathis, Bruce Dern and Heather Matarrazzo, released by IFC Films in 2007; Dark Blue starring Kurt Russell and directed by Ron Shelton (United Artists, 2003); Pootie Tang (Paramount, 2001), with Chris Rock; Eve's Bayou, Kasi Lemmons' debut picture, with Samuel L. Jackson; Hoffa, starring Jack Nicholson and directed by and co-starring Danny DeVito; Charles Burnett's much acclaimed To Sleep With Anger; Waiting for the Light with Shirley MacLaine and Teri Garr; and Cherry 2000, starring Melanie Griffith.