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Some Films by Latter-day Saint Directors

Title	Director	Year	U.S. Box Office Gross	Budget	Rank for Year
Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets	Kieth Merrill	1984	$280,000,000	$2,000,000
Anastasia	Don Bluth	1997	58,406,347	53,000,000	31
The Fox and the Hound	Richard Rich	1981	53,368,988		12
The Land Before Time	Don Bluth	1988	48,092,846		20
An American Tail	Don Bluth	1986	47,483,002		15
Mysteries of Egypt	Bruce Neibaur	1998	40,593,286		50
Shampoo	Hal Ashby	1975	49,407,734		4
Napoleon Dynamite	Jared Hess	2004	44,540,956	400,000
The Master of Disguise	Perry Andelin Blake	2002	40,363,530	16,000,000	60
Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West	Bruce Neibaur	2002	33,721,000		70
Being There	Hal Ashby	1979	30,177,511		21
All Dogs Go To Heaven	Don Bluth	1989	27,100,027		35
Nurse Betty	Neil LaBute	2000	25,167,270	24,000,000	89
Titan A.E.	Don Bluth	2000	22,751,979	75,000,000	91
The Black Cauldron	Richard Rich	1985	22,096,645	25,000,000	42
Windwalker	Kieth Merrill	1980	18,636,000		19
Across the Sea of Time	Stephen Low	1995	15,998,022		92
The King and I	Richard Rich	1999	11,956,538		109
Rock-a-Doodle	Don Bluth	1992	11,657,385		84
Thumbelina	Don Bluth	1994	11,373,501		91
The Secret of NIMH	Don Bluth	1982	10,140,325		67
Possession	Neil LaBute	2002	10,103,647	25,000,000	146
The Swan Princess	Richard Rich	1994	9,770,000		97
Los Muertos, la carne y el diablo	José María Oliveira	1974	§ 6,734,827
The Other Side of Heaven	Mitch Davis	2001	4,720,371	7,000,000	151
Your Friends and Neighbors	Neil LaBute	1998	4,710,749	5,000,000	158
The Pebble and the Penguin	Don Bluth	1995	3,939,728		146
Covered Wagon	James Cruze	1923	3,800,000	782,000
The Work and the Glory	Russ Holt	2004	3,347,647	7,500,000
Las Flores del miedo	José María Oliveira	1973	§ 3,088,350
In The Company of Men	Neil LaBute	1997	2,883,661	250,000	160
God's Army	Richard Dutcher	2000	2,628,829	300,000	172
Silent Night, Deadly Night	Charles E. Sellier Jr.	1984	2,500,000		90
Mark Twain's America in 3D	Stephen Low	1998	2,295,067		182
The Slugger's Wife	Hal Ashby	1985	1,878,000		87
The Legend of Johnny Lingo	Steven Ramirez	2003	1,690,025		200
The Book of Mormon Movie, Vol. 1: The Journey	Gary Rogers	2003	1,672,730	2,000,000	191
Saints and Soldiers	Ryan Little	2004	1,310,470	780,000
8 Million Ways to Die	Hal Ashby	1986	1,305,114		111
The Singles Ward	Kurt Hale	2002	1,250,798	500,000	214
Permanent Midnight	David Veloz	1998	1,166,199		200
The Best Two Years	Scott S. Anderson	2004	1,163,450	400,000
The R.M.	Kurt Hale	2003	1,111,615	500,000	192
Brigham City	Richard Dutcher	2001	905,073	900,000	204
Lookin' to Get Out	Hal Ashby	1982	832,238	17,000,000	93
Jack Weyland's Charly	Adam Thomas Anderegg	2002	814,666	950,000	230
Latter Days	C. Jay Cox	2004	809,475	850,000
The Shape of Things	Neil LaBute	2003	732,241	4,000,000	209
The Cremaster Cycle	Matthew Barney	2003	514,622		223
Little Secrets	Blair Treu	2002	405,182	2,500,000	255
Pride & Prejudice	Andrew Black	2003	372,752	350,000	309
Alan and Naomi	Sterling Van Wagenen	1992	259,311		156
The Swan Princess 2	Richard Rich	1997	235,766		234
The Home Teachers	Kurt Hale	2004	196,123	500,000
Baptists at Our Barbecue	Christian Vuissa	2004	173,306	500,000
The Trumpet of the Swan	Richard Rich	2001	152,525		286
Mobsters and Mormons	John E. Moyer	2005	145,613	350,000
Sons of Provo	Will Swenson	2005	120,488	200,000
Handcart	Kels Goodman	2002	98,666	300,000	333
Down and Derby	Eric Hendershot	2005	90,621
Out of Step	Ryan Little	2002	80,000	700,000	345
A Troll in Central Park	Don Bluth	1994	71,368		182
The Work and the Story	Nathan Smith Jones	2003	14,474	120,000	424
Spin	James Redford	2004	12,355

Worldwide box office gross for some films with significant international release

Title	Director	Worldwide Box Office Gross
Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets	Kieth Merrill	$400,000,000
Anastasia	Don Bluth	139,400,000
Mysteries of Egypt	Bruce Neibaur	70,000,000
Titan A.E.	Don Bluth	35,500,000

An interesting note: When it was originally released, "The Fox and the Hound" (directed by Richard Rich) was the highest-grossing picture in Disney history up to that time.





Total U.S. Box Office Gross for Latter-day Saint Directors

The table below shows the calculated total U.S. box office gross for Latter-day Saint filmmakers. But these figures are based only on the movies we have box office data for. We have many gaps. Kieth Merrill, in particular, has directed many films which we do not have box office data for. If we had the data for his other regular theatrically released films plus his many long-playing IMAX films, his total gross would be significantly higher.

The "Number of Films in Total" is just that -- the number of films included in the "total box office" calculation. These directors have directed additional films for which box office data are unavailable.

Director	Total U.S. Box Office Gross	Number of Films in Total
Kieth Merrill	$298,636,000	2
Don Bluth	241,059,753	10
Richard Rich	97,580,462	6
Hal Ashby	83,600,597	5
Bruce Neibaur	74,314,286	2
Jared Hess	44,540,956	1
Neil LaBute	43,100,000	5
Perry Andelin Blake	40,363,530	1
Stephen Low	18,293,089	2
José María Oliveira	§ 9,823,177	2
Mitch Davis	4,719,533	1
Richard Dutcher	3,533,902	2
Russ Holt	3,347,647	1
Kurt Hale	2,558,536	3
Charles E. Sellier Jr.	2,500,000	1
Steven Ramirez	1,690,025	1
Gary Rogers	1,672,730	1
Ryan Little	1,192,433	2
David Veloz	1,166,199	1
Scott S. Anderson	1,163,450	1
Adam Thomas Anderegg	814,666	1
C. Jay Cox	809,475	1
Matthew Barney	514,622	1
Blair Treu	405,182	1
Andrew Black	372,752	1
Sterling Van Wagenen	259,311	1
Christian Vuissa	173,306	1
John E. Moyer	145,613	1
Will Swenson	120,488	1
Kels Goodman	98,666	1
Eric Hendershot	90,621	1
Nathan Smith Jones	14,474	1
James Redford	12,355	1

Roy Allen Smith: It should be noted that Roy Allen Smith (a native of Cedar City, Utah) is the producer and director of 3 sequels to Don Bluth's "The Land Before Time": "The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure" (1994), "The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving" (1995) and "The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists" (1996). Although these movies were released as direct-to-video products and are not listed in the box office tables on this page, it may be noted that they have earned hundreds of millions of dollars in video sales.

"In December, the fourth direct-to-video sequel to [Don Bluth and] Steven Spielberg's 1988 animated theatrical feature, "The Land Before Time", will be released directly to home video. So far, the six-title franchise (which includes a Sing-Along-Songs title) has amassed consumer sales of over $480 million."
Source: Animation World Magazine, Issue 2.8, November 1997 (http://www.awn.com/mag/issue2.8/2.8pages/2.8jacksonanimation.html)


Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets: Earlier reports listed the cumulative box office gross for this popular IMAX film at $105 million North American and $45 international, for a world total of $150 million. The film has played continuously for two decades at the Grand Canyon, one of America's most popular tourist destinations, and has also played in other IMAX theaters, easily making it one of the top-earning documentaries in film history. In 2002 the director reported that the cumulative box office gross was over $400 million, but he did not have the breakdown about how much of this was domestic. The proportion from the earlier figures (70%) has been applied to the $400 million figure to estimate the current North American cumulative gross: $280 million.

Windwalker: The director of this movie reports seeing a total box office gross of $30 million in a major trade magazine. We are still in the process of looking for that report, to make sure that it is not an adjusted-for-inflation figure.

Some Films by Latter-day Saint Writers

Also, people listed as "writer" may be the sole screenwriter, a screenwriter who worked in collaboration with others, or the author of a story or novel that a movie was based on. It's difficult to make a direct comparison between Samuel W. Taylor's (who wrote a story which was the basis for "Flubber") and Richard Dutcher, who wrote the entire screenplay for "God's Army" himself. Taylor, of course, is better known as a novelist (he wrote Heaven Knows Why! and Family Kingdom, for instance) than a filmmaker.

Also, note that the U.S. box office gross isn't the only measure of a film's success. David Howard's "Galaxy Quest" made a lot of money (over $71 million), but that placed it 30th overall among movies released in 1999. "The Absent Minded Professor" (based on Taylor's story) was relatively more successful, because it was the fourth most successful movie in 1961, despite its lower (un-adjusted) box office gross ($25.4 million).

Title	Writer	Year	U.S. Box Office Gross	Budget	Rank for Year
Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets	Kieth Merrill	1984	$280,000,000	$2,000,000
As Good As It Gets	Mark Andrus	1997	148,478,011	50,000,000	6
The Santa Clause 2: The Mrs. Clause	Ken Daurio Cinco Paul	2002	139,225,854	65,000,000	15
Sweet Home Alabama	C. Jay Cox	2002	127,214,072	63,000,000	18
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Brett Helquist *	2004	118,634,549	125,000,000
Flubber	Samuel W. Taylor	1997	92,969,000		17
Galaxy Quest	David Howard	1999	71,423,726	45,000,000	30
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	Mark Andrus	2002	69,542,820		39
Behind Enemy Lines	David Veloz	2001	58,855,732	40,000,000	40
In Search of Noah's Ark	Charles E. Sellier Jr.	1977	55,734,000		10
Natural Born Killers	David Veloz	1994	50,282,766		25
Jeremiah Johnson	Vardis Fisher	1972	44,693,786		5
Napoleon Dynamite	Jared Hess Jerusha Hess	2004	44,540,956	400,000
Mysteries of Egypt	Bruce Neibaur	1998	40,593,286		50
All Dogs Go To Heaven	Don Bluth Ken Cromar	1989	27,100,027		35
Absent-Minded Professor	Samuel W. Taylor	1961	25,381,407		5
Nurse Betty	Neil LaBute	2000	25,167,270	24,000,000	89
In Search of Historic Jesus	Charles E. Sellier Jr. Robert Starling	1980	22,438,000		16
Son of Flubber	Samuel W. Taylor	1963	22,129,412		6
Windwalker	Blaine Yorgason Ray Goldrup	1980	18,636,000		19
The Snows of Kilimanjaro	Casey Robinson	1952	14,170,000		3
This is the Army	Casey Robinson	1943	18,096,180		1
Life as a House	Mark Andrus	2001	15,561,627	18,000,000	114
The King and I	Brian Nissen	1999	11,956,538		109
Thumbelina	Don Bluth	1994	11,373,501		91
Casablanca	Casey Robinson	1942	10,462,500	950,000	5
The Secret of NIMH	Don Bluth	1982	10,140,325		67
Possession	Neil LaBute	2002	10,103,647	25,000,000	146
The Swan Princess	Richard Rich Brian Nissen	1994	9,770,000		97
Late for Dinner	Mark Andrus	1991	8,641,499		72
Pushing Tin	Glen Charles Les Charles	1999	8,406,264	33,000,000	134
Mulholland Drive	Joyce Eliason	2001	7,219,578	15,000,000	134
Los Muertos, la carne y el diablo	José María Oliveira	1974	§ 6,734,827
Bubble Boy	Ken Daurio Cinco Paul	2001	5,002,310	13,000,000	148
The Other Side of Heaven	John H. Groberg Mitch Davis	2001	4,720,371	7,000,000	151
Your Friends and Neighbors	Neil LaBute	1998	4,710,749	5,000,000	158
Cats Don't Dance	Cinco Paul	1997	3,562,749	32,000,000	152
The Work and the Glory	Gerald N. Lund Russ Holt	2004	3,347,647	7,500,000
Las Flores del miedo	José María Oliveira	1973	§ 3,088,350
In The Company of Men	Neil LaBute	1997	2,883,661	250,000	160
God's Army	Richard Dutcher	2000	2,628,829	300,000	172
Brigham Young - Frontiersman	Vardis Fisher	1940	2,500,000	2,700,000
The Legend of Johnny Lingo	John Garbett	2003	1,690,025		200
Mark Twain's America in 3D	Stephen Low	1998	2,295,067		182
The Book of Mormon Movie, Vol. 1: The Journey	Gary Rogers Craig Clyde	2003	1,672,730	2,000,000	191
Saints and Soldiers	Matt Whitaker	2004	1,310,470	780,000
The Singles Ward	John E. Moyer Kurt Hale	2002	1,250,798	500,000	214
Permanent Midnight	David Veloz	1998	1,166,199		200
The Best Two Years	Scott S. Anderson	2004	1,163,450	400,000
The R.M.	John E. Moyer Kurt Hale	2003	1,111,615	500,000	192
Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Movie	Raymond F. Jones	1996	949,745		206
Brigham City	Richard Dutcher	2001	905,073	900,000	204
Jack Weyland's Charly	Jack Weyland Janine Gilbert	2002	814,666	950,000	230
Latter Days	C. Jay Cox	2004	809,475	850,000
The Shape of Things	Neil LaBute	2003	732,241	4,000,000	209
The Cremaster Cycle	Matthew Barney	2003	514,622		223
Pride & Prejudice	Anne K. Black Jason Faller Katherine Swigert	2003	372,752	350,000	309
The Swan Princess 2	Richard Rich Brian Nissen	1997	235,766		234
The Home Teachers	John E. Moyer Kurt Hale	2004	196,123	500,000
Beverly Hills Brats	Terry Moore	1989	192,561		152
Baptists at Our Barbecue	Robert Farrell Smith F. Matthew Smith Christian Vuissa	2004	173,306	500,000
Mobsters and Mormons	John E. Moyer	2005	145,613	350,000
Sons of Provo	Will Swenson Peter D. Brown	2005	120,488	200,000
Handcart	Kels Goodman Mark von Bowers	2002	98,666	300,000	333
Down and Derby	Eric Hendershot	2005	90,621
Thumbsucker	Walter Kirn	2005	85,327	4,000,000
Out of Step	Michael Buster Willow Leigh Jones Nikki Schmutz	2002	80,000	700,000	345
WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception	Sheldon Rampton	2004	27,301
The Work and the Story	Nathan Smith Jones	2003	14,474	120,000	424
Spin	James Redford	2004	12,355

Raymond F. Jones, the devout Latter-day Saint and popular Campbell-era science fiction writer, is the author of This Island Earth, the basis for the same-titled film which was one of the most successful science fiction films of the 1950s. We do not have box office data for that film. "This Island Earth" is the central movie-within-a-movie that the "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" characters watch and comment on. "This Island Earth" was directed by Joseph M. Newman, a native of Logan, Utah. Interestingly enough, "Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Movie" was written and produced by Kevin Murphy, a graduate of the University of Utah.

Cinco Paul is not one of the main credited screenwriters of "Cats Don't Dance," but was given the credit "additional screenplay material."

Brett Helquist is the illustrator and co-creator of the "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" books. He is not the author of the books.

Writer/Screenwriter	Total U.S. Box Office Gross	Number of Films in Total
Kieth Merrill	$280,000,000	1
Mark Andrus	242,416,778	4
Cinco Paul	147,000,000	3
Ken Daurio	143,000,000	2
Samuel W. Taylor	140,479,819	3
C. Jay Cox	127,382,498	2
David Veloz	110,303,732	3
Charles E. Sellier Jr.	78,172,000	2
David Howard	71,423,726	1
Don Bluth	48,613,853	3
Vardis Fisher	47,193,786	2
Jared Hess Jerusha Hess	44,540,956	1
Neil LaBute	43,100,000	5
Bruce Neibaur	40,593,286	1
Casey Robinson	36,728,680	3
Ken Cromar	27,100,027	1
Robert Starling	22,438,000	1
Brian Nissen	21,962,304	3
Blaine Yorgason Ray Goldrup	18,636,000	1
Richard Rich	10,005,766	2
José María Oliveira	§ 9,823,177	2
Glen Charles and Les Charles	8,406,264	1
John H. Groberg Mitch Davis	4,719,533	1
Richard Dutcher	3,533,902	2
Gerald N. Lund Russ Holt	3,347,647	1
John E. Moyer	2,626,481	4
Kurt Hale	2,558,536	3
Stephen Low	2,295,067	1
John Garbett	1,690,025	1
Matt Whitaker	1,310,470	1
Gary Rogers Craig Clyde	1,672,730	1
Scott S. Anderson	1,163,450	1
Jack Weyland Janine Gilbert	814,666	1
Matthew Barney	514,622	1
Anne K. Black Jason Faller Katherine Swigert	372,752	1
Terry Moore	192,561	1
Robert Farrell Smith F. Matthew Smith Christian Vuissa	173,306	1
Will Swenson Peter D. Brown	120,488	1
Kels Goodman Mark von Bowers	98,666	1
Eric Hendershot	90,621	1
Walter Kirn	85,327	1
Michael Buster Willow Leigh Jones Nikki Schmutz	80,000	1
Sheldon Rampton	27,301	1
Nathan Smith Jones	14,474	1
James Redford	12,355	1

Some Films with Latter-day Saint Producers

Individuals who were a unit production manager for a movie are only listed if they also an executive producer or associate producer. For example, Jerry Molen's credits as unit production manager for "The Color Purple" (1985), "A Soldier's Story" (1984), "Tootsie" (1982) and "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1981) are not listed below.

A producer is the chief of a movie production in all matters save the creative efforts of the director. A producer is responsible for raising funding, hiring key personnel, and arranging for distributors. Usually there there are only one or two people with the title "producer" for any one movie.

A co-producer is a producer who performs a substantial portion of a creative producing function, or who is primarily responsible for one or more managerial producing functions. A co-producer has less responsibility than a producer for the completion of a project. Note that if a project has more than one producer, it doesn't mean that these individuals are "co-producers" in the technical sense of that term.

An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the filmmaking process, but who is still responsible for the overall production. Typically an executive producer handles business and legal issues.

[These definitions come largely from IMDb.com]

Film Title	Year	Producer	Position	U.S. Box Office Gross	Worldwide Box Office Gross	Budget	Rank in Year in U.S.
Jurassic Park	1993	Jerry Molen	producer	357,067,947	920,100,000	63,000,000	1
Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets	1984	Kieth Merrill O. Douglas Memmott	producer	280,000,000	400,000,000	2,000,000
Shrek	2001	John Garbett	original producer	267,652,016	481,900,000	60,000,000	3
Twister	1996	Jerry Molen	exec. prod.	241,888,385	494,700,000	92,000,000	2
Lost World: The Jurassic Park	1997	Jerry Molen	producer	229,086,679	614,400,000	73,000,000	2
Austin Powers in Goldmember	2002	Eric McLeod	producer	213,079,163	287,880,000	63,000,000	7
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	1999	Eric McLeod	producer	206,040,086	309,700,000	33,000,000	4
Toy Story	1995	Ed Catmull	exec. prod.	191,796,233	358,800,000	30,000,000	1
Mr. and Mrs. Smith	2005	Eric McLeod	producer	185,346,461		110,000,000
Rain Man	1988	Jerry Molen	co-producer/ unit prod. mgr.	172,825,435	412,800,000		1
The Blair Witch Project	1999	Kevin J. Foxe	exec. prod.	140,530,114	240,500,000	35,000	10
Minority Report	2002	Jerry Molen	producer	132,014,112		137,000,000	16
The Flintstones	1994	Jerry Molen	exec. prod.	130,531,208	358,500,000		4
Mulan	1998	Pam Coats	producer	120,620,254	303,600,000	70,000,000	13
Hook	1991	Jerry Molen	producer	119,654,823	300,900,000	70,000,000	6
The Cat in the Hat	2003	Eric McLeod Aldric La'Auli Porter	exec. prod. assoc. prod./1st A.D.	101,091,659		149,000,000	26
Casper	1995	Jerry Molen	exec. prod.	100,328,194	282,300,000	55,000,000	8
Schindler's List	1993	Jerry Molen	producer	96,065,768	321,200,000	25,000,000	9
Days of Thunder	1990	Jerry Molen	exec. prod./ unit prod. mgr.	82,663,996	165,900,000	60,000,000	13
The Dukes of Hazzard	2005	Eric McLeod	exec. producer	79,101,892		53,000,000
Galaxy Quest	1999		producer	71,423,726		45,000,000	30
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams	1975	Charles E. Sellier Jr.	producer	65,000,000		140,000	6
The Cell	2000	Eric McLeod	producer	61,301,011		33,000,000	40
Anastasia	1997	Don Bluth	producer	58,406,347	139,400,000	53,000,000	31
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery	1997	Eric McLeod	exec. prod./ unit prod. mgr.	53,883,989		17,000,000	34
The Little Rascals	1994	Jerry Molen	exec. prod.	51,765,950			22
The Land Before Time	1988	Don Bluth	producer	48,092,846			20
An American Tail	1986	Don Bluth	producer	47,483,002			15
Napoleon Dynamite	2004	Jeremy Coon Chris Wyatt	producer producer producer	44,540,956		400,000
Wag the Dog	1997	Eric McLeod	co-producer/ unit prod. mgr.	43,057,470		15,000,000	49
Mysteries of Egypt	1998	Scott Swofford	producer	40,593,286	70,000,000		50
Swiss Family Robinson	1960	Bill Anderson	co-producer	40,356,000			1
Showtime	2002	Eric McLeod	exec. prod.	37,948,765		85,000,000	68
Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West	2002	Jeff T. Miller	producer	33,721,000			70
*batteries not included	1987	Jerry Molen	assoc. prod./ unit prod. mgr.	33,110,251			31
The Adventures of the Wilderness Family	1975		producer	31,223,000			13
All Dogs Go To Heaven	1989	Don Bluth	producer	27,100,027			35
Now and Then	1995	Eric McLeod	co-producer/ unit prod. mgr.	27,067,247			62
Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows	2000	Kevin J. Foxe	assoc. prod.	26,421,314		15,000,000	88
In Search of Noah's Ark	1977	Charles E. Sellier Jr.	producer	23,770,000			10
Titan A.E.	2000	Don Bluth	producer	22,751,979	35,500,000	75,000,000	91
In Search of Historic Jesus	1980	Charles E. Sellier Jr.	producer	22,438,000			16
The Bermuda Triangle	1979	Charles E. Sellier Jr.	producer	22,200,000			24
Corrina, Corrina	1994	Eric McLeod	line producer/ unit prod. mgr.	20,146,496			63
Little Giants	1994	Jerry Molen	exec. prod.	19,306,362			67
Windwalker	1980	Kieth Merrill Douglas G. Johnson	producer assoc. prod./unit prod. mgr.	18,636,000			19
The Apple Dumpling Gang	1975	Bill Anderson	producer	16,580,000			12
Bright Lights, Big City	1988	Jerry Molen	exec. prod./ unit prod. mgr.	16,118,000			57
Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure	2001	Scott Swofford	producer	15,517,786			121
Living Out Loud	1998	Eric McLeod	co-producer/ unit prod. mgr.	12,905,901		12,000,000	110
A Far Off Place	1993	Jerry Molen	exec. prod.	12,890,752			75
Thumbelina	1994	Don Bluth	producer	11,373,501			91
The Secret of NIMH	1982	Don Bluth	producer	10,140,325			67
The Swan Princess	1994	Richard Rich Jared F. Brown Thomas J. Tobin Seldon O. Young	producer producer co-producer exec. prod.	9,770,000			97
The Trip to Bountiful	1985	Sterling Van Wagenen	producer	7,466,000			65
Mulholland Drive	2001	Joyce Eliason	co-producer	7,219,578		15,000,000	134
Los Muertos, la carne y el diablo	1974	José María Oliveira	producer	§ 6,734,827
Hangar 18	1980	Charles E. Sellier Jr.	producer	6,000,000			23
Bubble Boy	2001	Eric McLeod	exec. prod.	5,002,310		13,000,000	148
The Other Side of Heaven	2001	Jerry Molen John Garbett	producer	4,720,371		7,000,000	151
The Boogens	1982	Charles E. Sellier Jr.	producer	4,000,000
The Pebble and the Penguin	1995	Don Bluth	producer	3,939,728			146
The Trigger Effect	1996	Jerry Molen	exec. prod.	3,608,238			165
The Work and the Glory	2004	Scott Swofford Larry H. Miller Jeff T. Miller	producer exec. prod line prod.	3,347,647		7,500,000
American Adobo	2002	Kevin J. Foxe	exec. prod.	3,094,699			186
Las Flores del miedo	1973	José María Oliveira	producer	§ 3,088,350
Feeling Minnesota	1996	Eric McLeod	co-producer/ unit prod. mgr.	3,078,555			169
God's Army	2000	Richard Dutcher	producer	2,628,829		300,000	172
The Legend of Johnny Lingo	2003	Jerry Molen John Garbett Brad Pelo	producer producer exec. prod.	1,690,025			200
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues	1993	Eric McLeod	line producer/ unit prod. mgr.	1,649,796		8,000,000	167
The Book of Mormon Movie, Vol. 1: The Journey	2003	Gary Rogers David Hales Bryce Fillmore Thane Hales Howard Cheney Kurt Thompson Ted Harris	producer co-producer line producer exec. prod. exec. prod. exec. prod. exec. prod.	1,672,730		2,000,000	191
Saints and Soldiers	2004	Adam Abel Brian Brough	producer assoc. prod./prod. manager	1,310,470		780,000
The Singles Ward	2002	Dave Hunter Kurt Hale	producer exec. prod.	1,250,798		500,000	214
The Best Two Years	2004	Scott S. Anderson Michael Flynn Fred C. Danneman Dave Sapp	producer producer exec. prod. line prod./1st A.D./unit prod. mgr	1,163,450		400,000
The R.M.	2003	Dave Hunter Kurt Hale	producer exec. prod.	1,111,615		500,000	192
Brigham City	2001	Richard Dutcher Dave Sapp	producer line prod./A.D.	905,073		900,000	204
Jack Weyland's Charly	2002	Micah Merrill Lance Williams Tip Boxell Herbert Christensen Leslie Richards Mary Merrill	producer producer co-prod. exec. prod. assoc. prod. assoc. prod.	814,666		950,000	230
The Shape of Things	2003	Neil LaBute	producer	732,241		4,000,000	209
The Cremaster Cycle	2003	Matthew Barney	producer	514,622			223
Little Secrets	2002	Blair Treu	producer	405,182		2,500,000	255
Pride & Prejudice	2003	Jason Faller Kynan Griffin	producer co-producer	372,752		350,000	309
Alan and Naomi	1992	David Anderson	producer	259,311			156
The Swan Princess 2	1997	Richard Rich Thomas J. Tobin Jared F. Brown Seldon O. Young	producer co-producer exec. prod. exec. prod.	235,766			234
The Home Teachers	2004	Dave Hunter Kurt Hale	producer exec. prod.	196,123		500,000
Baptists at Our Barbecue	2004	F. Matthew Smith Farrell M. Smith Robert Farrell Smith Christian Vuissa	producer producer producer producer	173,306		500,000
Mobsters and Mormons	2005	Dave Hunter Kurt Hale John E. Moyer George Dayton Bonnie Allen	producer producer producer exec. prod. exec. prod.	145,613		350,000
Trumpet of the Swan	2001	Richard Rich Thomas J. Tobin Seldon O. Young	producer co-producer exec. prod.	152,525			286
Sons of Provo	2005	Will Swenson Peter D. Brown	producer producer	120,488		200,000
Handcart	2002	Dave Sapp Kels Goodman	producer	98,666		300,000	333
Down and Derby	2005	Steele Hendershot Dickilyn Johnson Eric Hendershot John Stone	producer producer exec. prod. exec. prod	90,621
Out of Step	2002	Cary Derbidge	producer	80,000		700,000	345
A Troll in Central Park	1994	Don Bluth	producer	71,368			182
...And God Spoke	1993	Richard Raddon	producer	62,598			185
Summer of the Monkeys	1998	Allan Henderson Chris Harding	exec. prod.	22,500			309
The Work and the Story	2003	Nathan Smith Jones Miriam Smith Dan Merkley Jileen Sargent Darren Douglas Nord Spencer Hill	producer producer producer exec. prod. exec. prod. exec. prod.	14,474		120,000	424
Convicts	1991	Sterling Van Wagenen	producer	13,000			182
How to Draw a Bunny	2002	Kevin J. Foxe	assoc. prod.	2,706	4,148		494

Producer	Total U.S. Box Office Gross	Number of Films in Total
Jerry Molen	$1,802,604,003	17
Eric McLeod	1,030,000,000	15
Kieth Merrill	298,636,000	2
O. Douglas Memmott	280,000,000	1
John Garbett	272,346,327	2
Don Bluth	229,402,368	9
Ed Catmull	191,796,233	1
Kevin J. Foxe	170,048,833	4
Charles E. Sellier Jr.	143,408,000	6
Pam Coats	120,600,000	1
Bill Anderson *	56,936,000	2
Scott Swofford	49,250,000	3
Jeremy Coon Chris Wyatt	44,540,956	1
Jeff T. Miller	33,721,000	2
Douglas G. Johnson	18,636,000	1
Richard Rich	10,158,291	3
Thomas J. Tobin	10,158,291	3
Seldon O. Young	10,158,291	3
Jared F. Brown	10,005,766	2
José María Oliveira	§ 9,823,177	2
Sterling Van Wagenen	7,479,000	2
Richard Dutcher	3,533,902	2
Larry H. Miller	3,347,647	1
Dave Hunter Kurt Hale	2,626,481	4
Brad Pelo	1,690,025	1
Gary Rogers David Hales Bryce Fillmore Thane Hales Howard Cheney Kurt Thompson Ted Harris	1,672,730	1
Adam Abel Brian Brough	1,310,470	1
Scott S. Anderson Michael Flynn Fred C. Danneman	1,163,450	1
Dave Sapp	1,078,000	3
Micah Merrill Lance Williams Tip Boxell Herbert Christensen Leslie Richards Mary Merrill	814,666	1
Neil LaBute	732,241	1
Matthew Barney	514,622	1
Blair Treu	405,182	1
Jason Faller Kynan Griffin	372,752	1
David Anderson *	242,000	1
F. Matthew Smith Farrell M. Smith Robert Farrell Smith Christian Vuissa	173,306	1
John E. Moyer George Dayton Bonnie Allen	145,613	1
Will Swenson Peter D. Brown	120,488	1
Kels Goodman	98,666	1
Steele Hendershot Dickilyn Johnson Eric Hendershot John Stone	90,621	1
Cary Derbidge	80,000	1
Richard Raddon	62,598	1
Allan Henderson Chris Harding *	22,500	1
Nathan Smith Jones Miriam Smith Jileen Sargent Darren Douglas Nord Spencer Hill	14,474	1

§ Oliveira: Spanish José María Oliveira was one of first converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Spain, and the nation's first stake president. The box office values for his films listed on this page are ticket sales in Spanish pesetas. All other figures on this page are in U.S. dollars. Oliveira's American-born wife starred in his films.

John Garbett and Shrek: John Garbett was the original producer of Shrek, but he stepped down in order to work on other projects. In the final credits about ten different producers are listed. [Producers: Aron Warner, John H. Williams, Jeffrey Katzenberg; Co-producers: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio; Executive producers: Penney Finkelman Cox, Sandra Rabins, Steven Spielberg (uncredited); Co-executive producer: David Lipman; Associate producer: Jane Hartwell.] In the film, Garbett is listed at the very end of the credits, as one of 56 people listed under the heading "Los Angeles Pre-Production."

A summary of news reports on an extensive "Shrek" information page (http://members.fortunecity.com/backtodisney/Shrek.html, viewed June 2002) refers to Garbett as an original producer of the film:

The pre-production on Shrek started in 1995. Dreamworks first hired a motion capture company to develop it, wasting a year and a lot of money. Then, a small crack team took a couple of months to develop a 15-minute 3D demo, using the voices of actors Chris Farley and Janeane Garofalo: very disappointed by the results he saw in the summer of 1997, Jeffrey Katzeberg felt the project did not justify the very high CGI costs. He unsuccessfully shopped the project around to various studios, before hiring PDI (Antz) to do most of the character work as well as miniatures for backgrounds.

In December 1997, the future of Shrek seemed to grow even darker, with the surprising death of its main voice character, 33-year-old Chris Farley. "Chris Farley was our first choice to voice the ogre Shrek and when he died, it was a huge personal loss and a setback for the film," recalls co-director Andrew Adamson. "Chris was such a sweet and vulnerable person." The project was then completely re-tooled: director Ron Tippe was replaced by Kelly Asbury (who would soon move on to Spirit of the West) and Andrew Adamson, John Garbett stepped down as producer and writer Aron Warner (Antz) was hired. The first act of the movie was re-written, and an all-star cast convinced to join the project: Mike Myers, fresh from his Austin Powers fame, replaced his late friend Chris Farley as the monster, while Something about Mary star Cameron Diaz was substituted to Janeane Garofalo in the role of the princess...

"The Singles Ward" budget: Production budget: $400,000; Marketing: $100,000.

Budget for "Jack Weyland's Charly": Production budget: $700,000. Initial P&A (Prints and Advertising): $250,000. [Source: The producers of the film provided this information.]

Budget for "Handcart": The $300,000 budget includes P&A, which was relatively small for this film. The production budget was originally set at $250,000 and went over by $50,000.

Budget for "The Master of Disguise": Producton budget according to IMDb.com and other sources: $16,000,000. P&A: $32,000,000, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com; may be an estimate.

The Fox and the Hound: The movie grossed $29,812,000 domestically when it was originally released in 1981. It earned $23,556,988 domestically during its re-release in 1988. Total = $53,368,988.

Minority Report: Production budget: $102,000,000. P&A: $35,000,000, according to www.the-numbers.com.

Sweet Home Alabama: Production budget: $38,000,000. Prints and Advertising Budget: $25,000,000.

The Thomas Crown Affair: The "Rentals" figure for the film was $6,100,000, according to IMDb.com. Rentals (the amount of money paid to the distributor by the theaters) were approximately 1/2 of box office take in 1968 for studio films. The budget for this movie was $4,300,000.

The Book of Mormon Movie, Vol. 1: The Journey: Producer/director Gary Rogers announced at the SLC premiere of the movie that the production budget was $1,500,000, with $500,000 for P&A.

The Cat in the Hat: Production: $109 million; P&A: $40 million