Denise Di Novi

Denise Di Novi is an American film producer and director Denise Di Novi is one of the most prominent producers in Hollywood producing dozens of films for most Hollywood studios Her most popular include Heathers Batman Returns Edward Scissorhands The Nightmare Before Christmas Crazy Stupid Love and Practical Magic and Little Women starring Winona Ryder and Little Women starring Saoirse Ronan She is the daughter of jazz musician Gene DiNovi when Di Novi was three years old her family moved to Los Angeles from New York where her father had been a prominent Bebop jazz musician in many of the Big Bands as well as serving as Musical Conductor for Peggy Lee Lena Horne Anne Margaret and Dinah Shore In the 70s the family moved to Toronto Canada Her mother Patricia McNeil Di Novi was a dancer in New York City on Broadway Di Novi studied communications at Simmons College in Massachusetts and earned a journalism degree After working as a copy editor at the National Observer and staff writer for Canada AM she became a reporter for Torontos Citytv However she left to take a job as a unit publicist for Final Assignment She became a principal in the Montrealbased production company Filmplan International acting in various production capacities on nine major studio releases including films with David Cronenberg In 1983 Filmplan relocated to Los Angeles and merged with Arnold Kopelsons Film Packagescitation needed Di Novi joined New World Pictures as Executive Vice President of production She later shifted into an overall deal as an independent producer producing Heathers 1988 starring Winona Ryder Di Novi then headed Tim Burton Productions and was responsible for producing several films She set up her own production company Di Novi Pictures 1993 at Columbia Pictures She then entered into a producing deal with Warner Brothers Pictures Di Novi has produced over 40 films These include six from her partnership with Tim Burton Edward Scissorhands 1990 Batman Returns 1992 The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993 Cabin Boy 1994 Ed Wood also 1994 and James and the Giant Peach1996 She produced four films based on books by Nicholas Sparks Message in a Bottle 1999 A Walk to Remember 2002 Nights in Rodanthe 2008 and The Lucky One 2012 For four years Di Novi was executive producer of The District a CBS primetime series created by Terry George Di Novi made her directorial debut on the thriller Unforgettable 2017 for Warner Bros Di Novi completed a series for FX The Veil starring Elisabeth Moss that aired in 2024 Description above from the Wikipedia article Denise Di Novi  licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia