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Daniel Grodnik is a Writer and Producer American born on 30 may 1952 at Minneapolis (USA)

Daniel Grodnik

Daniel Grodnik
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Nationality USA
Birth 30 may 1952 (71 years) at Minneapolis (USA)

Daniel Grodnik (born May 30, 1952) is an American film producer and screenwriter in Los Angeles, California. He is the founder and CEO of Mass Hysteria Entertainment (Ticker Symbol: MHYS)

Best films

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
(Executive Producer)

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Filmography of Daniel Grodnik (36 films)

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Scriptwriter

Without Warning, 1h29
Directed by Greydon Clark
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Cameron Mitchell, David Caruso, Kevin Peter Hall, Sue Ane Langdon
Roles Writer
Rating51% 2.5530852.5530852.5530852.5530852.553085
A father and son go hunting in the mountains. Before they can begin hunting, which the son does not want to do anyway, they are killed by flying jellyfish-like creatures, which penetrate their skin with needle-tipped tentacles.

Producer

The Fanatic
Directed by Fred Durst
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors John Travolta, Devon Sawa, James Paxton, Luis Da Silva, Josh Richman
Roles Producer
Rating41% 2.055872.055872.055872.055872.05587
Moose est fan de cinéma et fan de son acteur préféré, Hunter Dunbar, qu'il idolâtre. Obsédé à la folie par "sa" star, il va finir par le persécuter et vouloir détruire sa vie.
Primal
Primal (2019)
, 1h37
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Actors Nicolas Cage, Famke Janssen, Kevin Durand, Michael Imperioli, LaMonica Garrett
Roles Producer
Rating49% 2.4608152.4608152.4608152.4608152.460815
Frank Walsh, chasseur pour les zoos, fait une traversée avec plusieurs de ses "prises", parmi lesquelles un jaguar blanc très rare. Lorsqu'un assassin politique s'échappe de sa cabine et relâche les animaux captifs, c'est la panique à bord ! Frank doit désormais sauver l'équipage de ces dangereuses créatures et du criminel.
Dear Dictator, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Michael Caine, Katie Holmes, Odeya Rush, Seth Green, Jason Biggs
Roles Producer
Rating50% 2.5084752.5084752.5084752.5084752.508475
Tatiana Mills est une adolescente solitaire et mal dans sa peau. Elle écrit des lettres au général Anton Vincent, un célèbre dictateur régnant dans les Caraïbes. Jusqu'au jour où ce dernier est renversé par un coup d'état. Il fuit alors son île pour se réfugier dans le garage de la maison de Tatiana, aux États-Unis. Il y rencontre aussi sa mère célibataire, Darlene. Caché dans cette banlieue américaine, le vieil homme se lie avec la jeune fille. Il lui apprend comment déclencher une révolution dans son école, en lui conseillant notamment de se rebeller contre les autres filles méchantes avec elle.
55 Steps
55 Steps (2018)
, 1h55
Directed by Bille August
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Helena Bonham Carter, Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Tambor, Tim Plester, Michael Culkin, Jonathan Kerrigan
Roles Executive Producer
Rating68% 3.4440853.4440853.4440853.4440853.444085
L'histoire vraie d'une amitié et complicité féminines entre deux femmes que tout oppose. Avocate des droits des patients, Colette Hugues devient l'avocate d'Eleanor Riese, une patiente schizophrène de l’unité de psychiatrie d’un hôpital de San Francisco. Ensemble, elles vont se lancer dans une bataille juridique pour améliorer le traitement des malades mentaux maltraités et laissés-pour-compte dans les hôpitaux. En parallèle, Eleanor va tout faire pour transformer la vie bourgeoise et trop rangée de Colette.
Mara
Mara (2018)
, 1h38
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Ghost films
Actors Olga Kurylenko, Javier Botet, Lance E. Nichols, Rosie Fellner, Craig Conway, Gia Skova
Roles Producer
Rating51% 2.562462.562462.562462.562462.56246
Psychologue criminelle, Kate Fuller est chargée d'enquêter sur la mort d'un homme qui semble avoir été étranglé par sa propre femme alors qu'il dormait. Mais leur petite fille, témoin du meurtre, raconte à Fuller qu'un démon nommé Mara l'a tué. Ce dernier s’incrusterait dans les esprits des personnes victimes de paralysie du sommeil. Lorsqu'elles s'endorment, elle sont paralysées et attaquées par cet créature démoniaque. Très vite, lors de son sommeil, Kate ressent les mêmes symptômes pétrifiants que toutes les victimes, ce qui la pousse à percer rapidement ce mystère avant de tomber de fatigue et d'être tuée par Mara...
Heist
Heist (2015)
, 1h33
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism, Transport films, Heist films, Films about hijackings
Actors Robert De Niro, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kate Bosworth, Morris Chestnut, David Bautista, Gina Carano
Roles Executive Producer
Rating60% 3.0499953.0499953.0499953.0499953.049995
A single father plans an in-and-out heist to rob a casino owner alongside his co-worker in order to get the money to pay for his daughter's illness. Things go awry when they are forced to hijack a bus.
Drive Hard
Drive Hard (2014)
, 1h36
Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors John Cusack, Thomas Jane, Zoe Ventoura, Damien Garvey, Kellyn Morris, Jerome Ehlers
Roles Executive Producer
Rating43% 2.1534352.1534352.1534352.1534352.153435
Former race car driver and American expatriate Peter Roberts has retired at the urging of his lawyer wife, though he resists getting an office job. Instead, he becomes an instructor at a driving school, while waiting for an investment opportunity to open a racing school. After he drops his daughter off to school and learns that he can no longer afford her private school tuition, he takes a fellow American as his first client. The man, Simon Keller, reveals that he has investigated Roberts' finances and personal life. Disturbed, Roberts insists on ending the lesson and returning to the school. Keller agrees but requests that they stop at a bank first, so that he can pay Roberts.
Drive Hard
Drive Hard (2014)
, 2h6
Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors John Cusack, Thomas Jane, Zoe Ventoura, Damien Garvey, Jerome Ehlers, Carol Burns
Roles Executive Producer
Rating43% 2.1534352.1534352.1534352.1534352.153435
Simon Keller, cambrioleur d'envergure internationale, entend engager un conducteur expérimenté pour étoffer son équipe. Il décide de faire appel au service de Peter Roberts, un ancien champion de F1.
Carjacked
Carjacked (2011)
, 1h26
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff, Joanna Cassidy, Catherine Dent, Kristen Kerr, Gary Grubbs
Roles Producer
Rating50% 2.50412.50412.50412.50412.5041
En Louisiane, Lorraine Burton et son jeune fils Chad sont pris en otage par Roy, un braqueur de banque en cavale.
Camille
Camille (2008)

Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Zombie films
Actors James Franco, Sienna Miller, David Carradine, Scott Glenn, Ed Lauter, Tyler Jeffrey Hynes
Roles Producer
Rating59% 2.953592.953592.953592.953592.95359
The plot follows the two characters who have recently married and are going to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon. Silas Parker (Franco) is a thief who marries Camille Foster (Miller), his parole officer's niece, in hopes it will be his chance to escape to Canada. Silas cannot stand Camille and she is blind to how he really feels, believing that everything will be all right once they get to the falls. After their wedding Camille frets about there being no rice thrown and how that is bad luck.
Never Cry Werewolf, 1h27
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film
Actors Nina Dobrev, Kevin Sorbo, Peter Stebbings, Melanie Leishman, Von Flores, Julie Sype
Roles Executive Producer
Rating46% 2.318642.318642.318642.318642.31864
When 16-year-old Loren (Nina Dobrev) and her family greet a new neighbor, Jared (Peter Stebbings), a good-looking single guy and his dog, she senses something mysterious and dangerous about him. Her suspicions become further aroused when some of the locals begin disappearing one by one. As Loren becomes obsessed with her neighbor's behavior, she is unaware that he is monitoring her just as closely as a hungry wolf stalking its prey at night. Because Loren reminds her neighbor of his young and deceased wife, Melissa, he claims her as his territory and bites her friend Angie, who seems to be close to her. With the help of local TV hunting show personality Redd Tucker (Kevin Sorbo) and a delivery boy with a secret crush on attractive Loren, the unlikely trio prepare for a full-moon showdown against an immortal creature with insatiable bloodlust. Jared also has Loren's brother locked inside a freezer. It's her brother's life for hers.
Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon, 1h30
Directed by Paul Ziller
Origin Canada
Genres Action, Adventure, Horror
Actors Carly pope, Peter DeLuise, Ona Grauer, Crystal Lowe, Brandon Jay McLaren, Kris Pope
Roles Producer
Rating33% 1.671131.671131.671131.671131.67113
A college football team's plane crashes in the Himalayas. The survivors, consisting of Sarah, Peyton, Raven, Ashley, Dennis, Kyra, Rice, Andrew, and Garcia, have only three energy bars for food. Finding a trail of blood, Garcia and Andrew find a cave that turns out to be the Yeti's lair. Garcia escapes, but the Yeti butchers Andrew. Soon afterward, Sarah sees one of the corpses being dragged away, but Peyton ignores her.
Hallowed Ground, 1h23
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Jaimie Alexander, Brian McNamara, Ethan Philips, Chloë Grace Moretz, Hudson Leick, Nick Chinlund
Roles Producer
Rating45% 2.2658852.2658852.2658852.2658852.265885
After becoming stranded in a small town called Hope, Elizabeth "Liz" Chambers, (Jaimie Alexander) discovers her arrival was foretold a century earlier by the town's founding preacher Jonas Hathaway (Nick Chinlund) and that she is an integral part of his impending—and terrifying—rebirth. Forced to stay overnight in the town, Liz meets Sarah Austin (Hudson Leick), a reporter for a tabloid newspaper, who is in town to investigate legends of living scarecrows. The townspeople of Hope once sacrificed people by nailing them to crosses in the cornfields until a young girl alerted residents of the nearby town of Liberty. Horrified to learn of the murders going on in Hope, the townspeople of Liberty nailed the local preacher who spearheaded the sacrifices to a cross. Legend contends that one day he will be reborn.
Safe Harbour, 1h43
Directed by Bill Corcoran
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Melissa Gilbert, Brad Johnson, Liana Liberato, Michael DeLorenzo, Katie Walder, Rebecca Staab
Roles Producer
Rating54% 2.710222.710222.710222.710222.71022
Pip was once a normal 11-year-old kid with a happy life, but she became very lonely when her father and brother died at a plane crash. Especially her mother Ophelia has trouble dealing with the loss and becomes depressed. While walking on the beach one day, Pip meets Matt, an artist with a broken heart. She immediately befriends him. Her mother worries about her friendship and suspects Matt of being a pedophile. However, it doesn't take long before Matt wins over Ophelia's heart as well.