Avinoam Lerner (born 13 October 1947 in Haifa, Israel) is a film producer, primarily of American action movies.
Lerner originally worked in movie theaters in Tel Aviv, but soon re-located to South Africa, where he produced several films in that country and also owned a chain of movie theaters there until he re-located once again to Los Angeles in the early 1990s. In 1991, he served as President of the independent production/distribution company, ...
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Avinoam Lerner (born 13 October 1947 in Haifa, Israel) is a film producer, primarily of American action movies.
Lerner originally worked in movie theaters in Tel Aviv, but soon re-located to South Africa, where he produced several films in that country and also owned a chain of movie theaters there until he re-located once again to Los Angeles in the early 1990s. In 1991, he served as President of the independent production/distribution company, Global Pictures.
Lerner founded two production companies, Nu Image and Millennium Films with Trevor Short, Danny Dimbort, and Danny Lerner. The companies have a varied output, though the vast majority are action films. In the case of action films, many of the ones he produces are filmed in Bulgaria, where he owns a tin-roofed studio converted from a communist era warehouse.
Nu Image & Millennium Films bought independent film studio First Look Pictures but rarely use it to distribute their films.
The bulk of Lerner's films featured action stars...
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