Drake, Joseph (Joe Drake)

PERSONAL

Addresses:

Office—Mandate Pictures, 8750 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 300 East, Los Angeles, CA 90211; Lionsgate, 2700 Colorado Ave., Suite 200, Santa Monica, CA 90404.

Career:

Producer and executive. Worked at Moviestore Entertainment; Rysher Entertainment, senior vice president of international theatrical sales; Lionsgate International, president; Lionsgate, Santa Monica, CA, co-chief operating officer and president of motion picture group; Senator International (later known as Mandate Pictures), Los Angeles, owner, chief executive officer, and president; Ghost House Pictures (developer, financier, and distributor of horror and thriller films), cofounder and producer.

Awards, Honors:

Christopher Award (with others), feature films, 2008, for Juno.

CREDITS

Film Executive Producer:

American Psycho, Lions Gate Films, 2000.

(As Joe Drake) The Grudge (also known as The Juon, Untitled "Ju-on: The Grudge" Remake, Der Fluch, El grito, The Grudge—A maldicao, Ha-Tina, Kauna, La maldicion, O grito, and Vimm), Columbia, 2004.

(As Joe Drake) Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (also known as American High, Harold & Kumar, Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies, and Harold et Kumar chassant le burger), New Line Cinema, 2004.

(As Joe Drake) The Boogeyman (also known as Boogeyman—Der schwarze Mann), Screen Gems, 2005.

(As Joe Drake) Lords of Dogtown (also known as American Knights and Dogtown Boys), TriStar, 2005.

Neverwas, Senator Film, 2005, Miramax Home Entertainment, 2007.

(As Joe Drake) The Grudge 2 (also known as The Juon and Der Fluch), Columbia, 2006.

(As Joe Drake) Stranger Than Fiction (also known as Killing Harold Crick), Columbia, 2006.

(As Joe Drake) Boogeyman 2, Columbia, 2007.

Juno, Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2007.

(As Joe Drake) The Messengers (also known as Les messengers), Columbia, 2007.

(As Joe Drake) Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, Twentieth Century-Fox/Fox-Walden, 2007.

Rise (also known as Blood and Rise: Blood Hunter), Destination Films/Samuel Goldwyn Films, 2007.

30 Days of Night, Sony Pictures Releasing, 2007.

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (also known as Harold & Kumar Go to Amsterdam and Harold & Kumar 2), New Line Cinema, 2008.

Horsemen (also known as The Horsemen), Focus Features, 2008.

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2008.

The Strangers, Rogue Pictures, 2008.

Boogeyman 3, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2009.

Drag Me to Hell, Universal, 2009.

Film Producer:

Ginger Snaps: Unleashed (also known as Ginger snaps—Resurrection, Ginger Snaps: The Sequel, Ginger Snaps: Unleashed, Ginger Snaps 2, Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed, and Werewolf: Gingersnaps), Lionsgate, 2004.

Passengers, Columbia, 2008.

The Grudge 3, Columbia, 2009.

Worked on other projects.

Film Executive in Charge of Production:

Ski School (also known as L'ecole de ski s'envoie en l'air), Moviestore Entertainment, 1991.

Television Producer; Series:

(With Nathan Kahane) 13, The CW, 2008.