Neal H. Moritz

'Neal H. Moritz' (qv) 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 _Framed (1990)_ (qv)In 1990, Moritz partnered with ex-United Artists employee 'David Heyman' (qv) to start out Moritz-Heyman Productions. The two men have collaborated on films _Juice (1992)_ (qv), _The Stöned Age (1994)_ (qv) and _Blind Justice (1994)_ (qv). Additionally, it partnered with commercial producer 'Bruce Mellon' (qv) 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)_ (qv) and the slasher film _I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)_ (qv). The success of the latter saw him producing a sequel _I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)_ (qv), as well as various slashers like _Urban Legend (1998)_ (qv) and _Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)_ (qv), as well as _Soul Survivors (2001)_ (qv).In 1998, he produced the TV movie _The Rat Pack (1998)_ (qv) for HBO, which marked for the first time seeing him working with director 'Rob Cohen' (qv). 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 _Cruel Intentions (1999)_ (qv) and _The Skulls (2000)_ (qv), both of them received two direct-to-video sequels. In 1999, his first foray on TV was the show _Shasta McNasty (1999)_ (qv), and at the same time he made its foray onto the comedy market with the films _Blue Streak (1999)_ (qv) and _Held Up (1999)_ (qv).In 2001, after years of making teen films, he made its first foray by producing the action film _The Fast and the Furious (2001)_ (qv), which marked the first time he ever met him with star 'Vin Diesel' (qv). The success of the film spawned many sequels and many imitators like _xXx (2002)_ (qv), _S.W.A.T. (2003)_ (qv) and _Torque (2004)_ (qv). In 2002, he partnered with agent 'Marty Adelstein' (qv) 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 (2003)_ (qv), _Point Pleasant (2005)_ (qv) and the most successful of all time, _Prison Break (2005)_ (qv) and it went defunct in 2004.He continued making films from the time period, including _Stealth (2005)_ (qv), _Gridiron Gang (2006)_ (qv), _Click (2006)_ (qv) (with friend and rival Columbia affiliated producer 'Adam Sandler' (qv)), _I Am Legend (2007)_ (qv), _Vantage Point (2008)_ (qv), _The Bounty Hunter (2010)_ (qv) and _The Green Hornet (2011)_ (qv) (with friend and the up and coming team of writers 'Seth Rogen' (qv) and 'Evan Goldberg' (qv)), 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 Almighty (2007)_ (qv). In 2012, he worked with MGM and Columbia on _21 Jump Street (2012)_ (qv) and it's sequel _22 Jump Street (2014)_ (qv).His TV work with Sony Pictures Television included the shows _The Big C (2010)_ (qv) and _Save Me (2013)_ (qv). In 2015, he produced the most successful family film of all time, _Goosebumps (2015)_ (qv) with Sony Pictures Animation, which was followed up in 2018 by _Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)_ (qv). On the same year, he acquired the rights to Valiant Comics, resulting in the creation of _Bloodshot (2020)_ (qv). 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 the Hedgehog (2020)_ (qv). He continued to produce TV shows for Sony, like _Preacher (2016)_ (qv), _S.W.A.T. (2017)_ (qv) and _The Boys (2019)_ (qv), and for Universal, the show _Happy! (2017)_ (qv).He was currently in post-production on the film _F9 (2021)_ (qv), which is scheduled for release on Memorial Day 2021, which changed from release dates many times during the COVID-19 pandemic.::D.N.