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| Boaz Yakin |
| Born |
(1966-06-20) June 20, 1966 (age 46)
New York City |
| Occupation |
Writer, director, producer |
| Spouse(s) |
Alma Har'el |
Boaz Yakin (born June 20, 1966)[1] is an American screenwriter and film director based in New York City. Yakin studied filmmaking at City College of New York and New York University. He's the writer of such screenplays as Fresh and A Price Above Rubies, and he is the director of the film Remember the Titans.
Life and career [edit]
Yakin was born in New York City to an Israeli[2][3] couple who met in Paris while studying mime with Marcel Marceau.[4] He attended a yeshiva, and later, the Bronx High School of Science, where he was classmates in 1983 with actor Jon Cryer.[3]
Yakin studied filmmaking at New York's City College. He moved on to New York University, and made his first deal for a screenplay at the age of 19.[4]
After finishing school, Yakin worked in the film business helping to develop projects for several companies, and saw his first screenplay reach the screen in 1989, when The Punisher, a vehicle for Dolph Lundgren, was released. Yakin's next screenplay was The Rookie, starring Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen. Wanting to take on more personal material, Yakin drew from his experiences growing up in New York's inner city for his next screenplay, Fresh. Yakin opted to direct his screenplay for Fresh himself, and the film won critical acclaim, earning the Filmmaker's Trophy at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival.
Yakin went back to his youth for inspiration on his next project; while his parents were non-practicing Jews, they enrolled their son in an Orthodox private school when he was five, and his experience with the Chassidic community informed his screenplay for A Price Above Rubies. Yakin rebounded with his next assignment, which was his first film that he directed but did not write; Remember the Titans was a major box-office success, and moved him to the upper tier of bankable Hollywood talents.
His Holocaust drama Death in Love debuted in January 2008. Yakin describes it as a movie about the failure of the family and inability to change your past.[5]
He was a member of the US Dramatic Jury at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.[6]
In 2013, he will direct Sympathy for the Devil, with Samuel L. Jackson and Josh Duhamel in the cast.[7]
Yakin is married to Israeli music video director Alma Har'el.[8]
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- Marathon, a graphic novel illustrated by Joe Infurnari, First Second, 2012
- Jerusalem, a graphic novel illustrated by Nick Bertozzi, First Second, 2013
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Films directed by Boaz Yakin
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Yakin, Boaz |
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American film director |
| Date of birth |
June 20, 1966 |
| Place of birth |
New York City |
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 Boaz Yakin talks Safe (Part 1) - JoBlo.com http://www.joblo.com - Boaz Yakin talks "Safe" (Part 1) A second-rate cage fighter on the mixed martial arts circuit, Luke Wright lives a numbing life of rou... |  Safe - Todsicher: Boaz Yakin (Regie) über den Style des Films https://www.facebook.com/SafeDerFilm http://www.facebook.com/concordefilmverleih http://www.safe-derfilm.de/ http://www.gplus.to/concordefilmverleih http://p... |  Boaz Yakin talks Safe (Part 2) - JoBlo.com http://www.joblo.com - Boaz Yakin talks "Safe" (Part 2) A second-rate cage fighter on the mixed martial arts circuit, Luke Wright lives a numbing life of rou... |  Boaz Yakin's "Safe" - Call-In Commentary Watch the trailer for "Safe" with commentary from writer/director Boaz Yakin. |  Uptown Girls Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray, the oft ignored daughter of a music executive she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child. |  DEATH IN LOVE (Boaz Yakin) Scene Scene from the movie 'Death in Love' with the talented Josh Lucas and Lukas Haas. Loved their performance. DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT own the copyrights to this vi... |  Wake Up Makes sense.. Starring: Samuel L. Jackson Directed by: Boaz Yakin and Kitao Sakurai Written by: Adam Mansbach Produced by: Jesse Schiller Executive Producer:... |  Safe - Todsicher: Boaz Yakin (Regie) über Jason Statham https://www.facebook.com/SafeDerFilm http://www.facebook.com/concordefilmverleih http://www.safe-derfilm.de/ http://www.gplus.to/concordefilmverleih http://p... |  Fresh (10/10) Movie CLIP - You Ready to be the King (1994) HD Fresh Movie Clip - watch all clips http://j.mp/weefYG click to subscribe http://j.mp/sNDUs5 Meeting Sam (Samuel L. Jackson) one last time in the park to play... |  Fresh (3/10) Movie CLIP - Forget the Clock (1994) HD Fresh Movie Clip - watch all clips http://j.mp/weefYG click to subscribe http://j.mp/sNDUs5 While playing a game of chess, Sam (Samuel L. Jackson) imparts so... |
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CriterionCast.com (blog)
Mon, 13 May 2013 09:08:06 -0700
While he may be best known for a film like the Jason Statham starring action film, Safe, director Boaz Yakin has become a relatively interesting filmmaker on that third rung of journeymen filmmakers often fitting most unsung action directors. However ...
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Haaretz
Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:30:53 -0700
Graphic violence: Filmmaker Boaz Yakin turns the War of Independence into a comic-book novel. The highly regarded movie director and screenwriter says he was inspired by his family's past to write a book that focuses on 'the loss of innocence, both of ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Fri, 17 May 2013 07:19:33 -0700
Kurtzman: It was a beautiful spec written by Boaz Yakin and Ed Ricourt and it was just wildly original and entertaining from tip-to-toe. It's very rare that you get a spec that keeps you guessing page to page, that you can't really stay ahead of. There ...
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The Daily BLAM!
Wed, 15 May 2013 07:22:45 -0700
Now You See Me is directed by Louis Leterrier (The Transporter, The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans) off a screenplay by Boaz Yakin and Edward Ricourt. The film stars Woody Harrellson, Jessie Eisenberg, Morgan Freeman, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Caine, ...
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Crave Online
Mon, 13 May 2013 10:06:17 -0700
Louis Leterrier (The Transporter 2) directs from a script by Edward Ricourt, Boaz Yakin (Safe) and Ed Solomon (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure). Check out CraveOnline's exclusive Now You See Me motion poster below, come back in two weeks for our ...
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Comic Book Resources
Mon, 06 May 2013 13:00:01 -0700
Jerusalem: A Family Portrait is a big slab of comics from Boaz Yakin (the writer) and Nick Bertozzi (the artist), and several other artists whom Bertozzi thanks in the back of the book but aren't listed except in tiny print on the last page. Seriously ...
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I Am Rogue.com
Thu, 09 May 2013 11:31:37 -0700
This is promising. Also credited on the screenplay are Edward Ricourt and Remember the Titans director Boaz Yakin. Directing is Louis Leterrier, who is behind the camera for his first feature since Clash of the Titans in 2010. Leterrier started out in ...
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CriterionCast.com (blog)
Thu, 09 May 2013 16:49:02 -0700
From Safe director Boaz Yakin, the film is a coming of age tale about a 12-year old caught in a world where the streets are as magnetic as anything in this world. While Yakin has since gone on to helm films ranging from Safe to Remember The Titans ...
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