Joe Dante

DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, MISCELLANEOUS

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Joe Dante is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art. After a stint as a film reviewer, he began his filmmaking apprenticeship in 1974 as trailer editor for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. He made his directorial debut in 1976 with Hollywood Boulevard (1976) (co-directed with Allan Arkush), a thinly disguised spoof of New World exploitation pictures, shot in ten days for $60,000.In 1977 Dante made his solo debut as a film director with Piranhas (1978), which went on to become one of the company's biggest hits and was distributed throughout the rest of the world by United Artists. During his tenure at New World, Dante edited Ron Howard's directorial debut Lâchez les bolides (1977) and co-wrote the original story for Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979).For Avco-Embassy Dante next directed the highly praised werewolf thriller Hurlements (1981), followed by the It's a Good Life segment of the episodic La quatrième dimension - le film (1983).Having worked with Steven Spielberg on Twilight Zone, Dante was chosen to helm one of the first Amblin Productions for Warner Bros. Gremlins (1984) became a runaway hit and grossed more than $200 million worldwide.Dante followed up with Explorers (1985) for Paramount, a sci-fi fantasy about three kids who build their own spaceship, and then L'aventure intérieure (1987) for Guber/Peters, Amblin and Warner Bros., an action comedy in which miniaturized test pilot Dennis Quaid is injected into the body of supermarket clerk Martin Short.Tom Hanks starred in Dante's next film for Imagine/Universal, Les banlieusards (1989), which was followed by Gremlins 2: La nouvelle génération (1990) for Warner Bros. in 1990. Panic sur Florida Beach (1993) featuring John Goodman as a huckster showman premiering his new horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis, was a production of Dante and partner Michael Finnell's Renfield Productions for Universal in 1993.Dreamworks/Universal's Small Soldiers was released in 1998, followed in 2003 by Warner Bros. Les Looney Tunes passent à l'action (2003) featuring one of Dante's favorite actors, Bugs Bunny.Dante's Masters of Horror: Homecoming (2005), debuted in December 2005 to rave reviews from critics and audiences alike and was named to numerous "Top 10" critics lists. The Sitges and Brussels International Film Festivals both honored Homecoming with Special Jury Recognition Awards, and the New Yorker called it the best political film of 2005. More recent work includes Masters of Horror: The Screwfly Solution (2006), and Les experts: Manhattan: Boo (2007). His new 3D thriller, The Hole (2009), for Bold Films recently premiered at the Venice Film Festival where it garnered the first-ever award for Best 3D Feature.Dante also produces the critically-acclaimed webisode/mobile phone series, Trailers from Hell.Along the way Dante contributed several comedy segments to the multi-part Cheeseburger Film Sandwich (1987) spoof produced by John Landis, and directed various episodes of the tv series Histoires fantastiques (1985), La cinquième dimension (1985), Police Squad! (1982), Night Visions (2001) and Picture Windows (1994). He also directed the network pilots for The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (1998) and the NBC series Marshall et Simon (1991), on which he was creative consultant throughout its run.Dante received Cable Ace nominations for his direction of Showtime's Rebel Highway: Runaway Daughters (1994) and HBO's The Second Civil War (1997). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

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Streaming Availability

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Releases by Year

Joe Dante on average has worked on 3 movies per year from 1976 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Joe Dante movies released per year from 2009 till 2021.

Top Genres

Joe Dante works mostly in Documentary Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 38% of Joe Dante movies are Documentary Genre movies. See Top Genres that Joe Dante worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Joe Dante has worked on is 6.7.

6.7 / 10

Joe Dante's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

A documentary following film fans working to restore the set of the climatic graveyard scene from the iconic spaghetti western Den gode, den onde, den fule (1966).

7.4/1086 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

From King Kong to Avatar, from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings, movie creatures have never been more popular as they are today. Yet the art of creating monsters for the big screen is as old as cinema itself.

7.4/10107 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "The Big Lebowski" and everything in between, this fascinating deep-dive documentary begins its celebration of the greatest cult movies of all-time discussing the birth of the midnight movie.

7.3/10105 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Comedy,Fantasy,Horror
Gremlins (1984)

A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.

7.3/10106 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

TCM looks back at the history of Christmas movies from classics like "Scrooge", "It's a Wonderful Life", "Miracle on 34th Street", and "White Christmas" to contemporary films like "Home Alone".

7.2/1058 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

He is considered to be one of the most significant links in the history of comedy, admired by such people as Eric Bogosian and Woody Allen. His television appearances have spanned from Merv...

7.2/1072 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

7.1/1080 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

An exploration of the appeal of horror films, with interviews of many legendary directors in the genre.

7.1/1096 min

Available in 10 platform(s).