/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000005a5096 rename

John Andrew Davis (born April 7, 1953) is an American film producer and founder of Davis...

John Andrew Davis (born April 7, 1953) is an American film producer and founder of Davis Entertainment. Davis was born and raised near Denver, Co., and is the son of former 20th Century Fox owner Marvin Davis. His obsession with film began as a youth when his father purchased the neighborhood movie theater, where he sold popcorn and subsequently viewed up to 300 films a year. Davis graduated from Bowdoin College, attended Amherst College and received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. In 2005, he was acknowledged by the Hollywood Reporter as the industry's most prolific and successful producer. Davis has produced an impressive slate of hit motion pictures in all genres, but with notable successes in two of the most profitable film genres – action-adventure, and family films. Davis’s family films include Norbit, starring Eddie Murphy (in their fourth film together) for DreamWorks/Paramount; Garfield and Garfield 2, both for Fox; the $100 million-plus hit Eddie Murphy comedy Daddy Day Care, produced with Revolution Studios; the two hugely successful Dr. Dolittle films, starring Eddie Murphy; the Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau trilogy Out to Sea, Grumpy Old Men, and Grumpier Old