Callum Greene

Callum Greene is a film producer who has worked on myriad acclaimed independent and studio films. Greene was nominated twice by the IFP Spirit Awards in 2004 for Happy Here and Now, which won the audience award at the South by Southwest in Austin, and Homework, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance the same year. Greene is renowned for his ability to bring projects to the big screen under any circumstance.

Crimson Peak marked the second project that Greene has made with Guillermo del Toro, the other being 2013's Pacific Rim, on which he served as executive producer. Greene also spent 21 months with del Toro in New Zealand prepping The Hobbit as executive producer. Del Toro and Greene ultimately decided to leave The Hobbit to pursue other projects.

In the past years Greene has produced Columbia's Vantage Point, and Made of Honor, and served as co-producer on Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival (2006). He also line-produced Emilio Estevez's Bobby, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival (2007), as well as director/writer/producer Sofia Coppola's Academy Award® winner, Lost in Translation.

Other credits include executive producer of Miramax's Everybody's Fine, which starred Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell. Greene has served as producer on many independent films, such as Thumbsucker, The Beautiful Country and Second Best, which all premiered at Sundance, and The Next Best Thing. He also produced the acclaimed television movie 3 A.M., which starred Danny Glover, Michelle Rodriguez and Pam Grier.

In addition, Greene has produced numerous documentaries, including This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss, which starred Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Woody Harrelson and Sam Shepard, and director Mike Mills' documentary Does Your Soul Have a Cold?, for IFC TV.

Greene began in Europe as a producer and stage manager of theater. He enrolled at Columbia University in its master's program in 1995, and the following year was awarded the Arthur Krim fellowship to encourage his producing abilities. Greene went on to co-produce such features as Long Time Since, The Farmhouse and In the Weeds, as well as line-producing Better Living, Hostage and Hamlet.

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