May 8, 2024
Todd Garner, the head of Broken Road Productions, is a veteran
producer and Hollywood creative executive with a remarkable gift
for creating and nurturing mainstream, commercial motion pictures.
In various capacities throughout his career, Garner has developed,
overseen, executive produced or produced well over 170 movies, many
of them major hits for their respective studios. Formerly a
founding partner of Revolution Studios and before that co-head of
production at Walt Disney Studios, Garner founded Broken Road
Productions in summer 2005. In the last fifteen years, Broken Road
has produced 22 movies and 3 TV series.
After producing the runaway hit PAUL BLART: MALL COP and its
sequel, which combined grossed over $290 million in worldwide box
office, Broken Road produced KNIGHT AND DAY for Fox grossing over
$261 million worldwide, MGM & Sony's ZOOKEEPER which grossed $170
million, and INTO THE STORM for New Line, which grossed over $161
million worldwide. In November 2018, Screen Gems' THE POSSESSION OF
HANNAH GRACE starring Shay Mitchell & Stana Katic finished with a
stellar $45M WW on a $6M budget. Released summer 2019 was New Line
Cinema's TAG, starring Jon Hamm, Ed Helms, Jake Johnson and Isla
Fisher and February 2019 featured the release of ISN'T IT ROMANTIC
starring Rebel Wilson, Liam Hemsworth, Adam DeVine, & Priyanka
Chopra.
Garner is currently in post-production on MORTAL KOMBAT at New Line
and the true story ALL MY LIFE for Universal. He is currently in
production on the comedy VACATION FRIENDS starring John Cena & Lil
Rel Howery at Fox/Hulu and the Netflix sitcom "The Crew" starring
Kevin James. Garner has the Bert Kreischer series "The Cabin"
premiering on Netflix this fall. Other features in development
include: a SLEEPY HOLLOW reboot at Paramount Pictures, a remake of
AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON at Universal, FUZZY TOWERS starring
Kevin James at Netflix and SENIOR YEAR with Rebel Wilson at
Paramount.
Garner was an Executive Producer on films such as XXX, ANGER
MANAGEMENT and 13 GOING ON 30. He joined Revolution as a partner in
May 2000 and was responsible for overseeing all aspects of
development and production for the company's motion pictures during
its remarkable first five years. During his tenure, Garner oversaw
such hit Revolution films as BLACK HAWK DOWN, PUNCH DRUNK LOVE and
HELLBOY.
Todd currently hosts "The Producer's Guide: Todd Garner &
Hollywood's Elite," which takes an in depth look at the movie
business and what it takes to be a producer in today's world.