Shawn Levy

Shawn Adam Levy born July 23 1968 is a Canadian and American filmmaker and actor He is the founder of 21 Laps Entertainment His work has spanned numerous genres and his films as a director have grossed a collective 35 billion worldwide Following early work as a television director most notably for The Famous Jett Jackson Levy gained recognition in the 2000s for directing comedy films such as Big Fat Liar 2002 Just Married 2003 Cheaper by the Dozen 2003 and The Pink Panther 2006 He then found further success as the director of the first three films in the Night at the Museum film franchise 200614 In the early 2010s he directed films including Date Night 2010 Real Steel 2011 and The Internship 2013 developed several comedy television pilots and executive produced the first five seasons of the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing Levy was a producer on the 2016 scifi film Arrival which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture Levy was an executive producer through the entire run of the Netflix original series Stranger Things He directed the third and fourth episodes of each of the shows first four seasons as well as the sixth and seventh episodes of the final season He also directed the Netflix limited series All the Light We Cannot See 2023 Levy has collaborated with Ryan Reynolds by directing Free Guy 2021 The Adam Project 2022 and Deadpool Wolverine 2024 with the latter emerging as his highestgrossing film and the highestgrossing Rrated film of all time Description above from the Wikipedia article Shawn Levy licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia