Neal H. Moritz

Neal H. Moritz was born on Jun 06, 1959 in USA. Neal H. Moritz's big-screen debut came with Framed directed by Dean Parisot in 1990. Neal H. Moritz is known for Sonic Drone Home directed by David Nelson, Ben Schwartz stars as Sonic and Fred Tatasciore as Knuckles. Neal H. Moritz has got 1 awards and 5 nominations so far. The most recent award Neal H. Moritz achieved is Black Reel Awards. The upcoming new movie Neal H. Moritz plays is Fast X which will be released on May 19, 2023.

Neal H. Moritz is an American film and television producer who was born on June 6, 1959. After graduating from college at Westwood, he earned a master's degree in 1985, which led to a startup of his own production company Neal Moritz Productions. He had a production deal with Paramount Pictures. The first movie he produced is Les faussaires (1990)In 1990, Moritz partnered with ex-United Artists employee David Heyman to start out Moritz-Heyman Productions. The two men have collaborated on films Juice (1992), The Stöned Age (1994) and Blind Justice (1994). Additionally, it partnered with commercial producer Bruce Mellon to start out Original Film in 1993, to produce commercials and music videos. After Heyman left, he signed a production deal with Columbia Pictures in 1996, after a brief deal with 20th Century Fox expired.Through his Original Film company, he produced two films in 1997, the disaster film Volcano (1997) and the slasher film Souviens-toi... l'été dernier (1997). The success of the latter saw him producing a sequel Souviens-toi... l'été dernier 2 (1998), as well as various slashers like Urban Legend (1998) and Urban Legend 2: Coup de grâce (2000), as well as Soul Survivors (2001).In 1998, he produced the TV movie Les rois de Las Vegas (1998) for HBO, which marked for the first time seeing him working with director Rob Cohen. On the same year, his Original Film company signed a deal with Newmarket Capital Group to produce lower budget films. Through his deal with Newmarket, he oversaw the teen fins Sexe intentions (1999) and The Skulls, société secrète (2000), both of them received two direct-to-video sequels. In 1999, his first foray on TV was the show Shasta (1999), and at the same time he made its foray onto the comedy market with the films Flic de haut vol (1999) and Held Up (1999).In 2001, after years of making teen films, he made its first foray by producing the action film Fast and Furious (2001), which marked the first time he ever met him with star Vin Diesel. The success of the film spawned many sequels and many imitators like xXx (2002), S.W.A.T. unité d'élite (2003) and Torque, la route s'enflamme (2004). In 2002, he partnered with agent Marty Adelstein in launching the management company Original, and they spawned a division Original Television, of which signed a deal with 20th Century Fox Television. His venture produced Tru Calling: compte à rebours (2003), Point Pleasant: Entre le bien et le mal (2005) and the most successful of all time, Prison Break (2005) and it went defunct in 2004.He continued making films from the time period, including Furtif (2005), Rédemption (2006), Click (2006) (with friend and rival Columbia affiliated producer Adam Sandler), Je suis une légende (2007), Angles d'attaque (2008), Le chasseur de primes (2010) and The Green Hornet (2011) (with friend and the up and coming team of writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg), while working on "Fast & Furious" sequels. In 2006, Original Film reactivated TV production by signing a deal with Sony Pictures Television, and the following year he made its first foray onto family films, Evan tout-puissant (2007). In 2012, he worked with MGM and Columbia on 21 Jump Street (2012) and it's sequel 22 Jump Street (2014).His TV work with Sony Pictures Television included the shows The Big C (2010) and Save Me (2013). In 2015, he produced the most successful family film of all time, Chair de Poule - Le Film (2015) with Sony Pictures Animation, which was followed up in 2018 by Chair de poule 2 : Les Fantômes d'Halloween (2018). On the same year, he acquired the rights to Valiant Comics, resulting in the creation of Bloodshot (2020). In 2017, Moritz signed a film production deal with Paramount Pictures (which Moritz worked with it back in the 1980s). His first film with Paramount was Sonic le film (2020). He continued to produce TV shows for Sony, like Preacher (2016), S.W.A.T. (2017) and The Boys (2019), and for Universal, the show Happy! (2017).He was currently in post-production on the film Fast & Furious 9 (2021), which is scheduled for release on Memorial Day 2021, which changed from release dates many times during the COVID-19 pandemic.