Jonathan Liebesman

7 films directed

Biography

Jonathan Liebesman was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on September 15, 1976. He would remain in his home country, studying filmmaking at the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, until 1996; that year, he traveled to New York City to visit his cousin who was attending New York University. Soon after the visit, Jonathan enrolled at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

For his student first film, Jonathan turned Roald Dahl's short story Genesis and Catastrophe (2000) into a 8-minute, award-winning short that help him land Hollywood representation; accolades included the 2000 Hollywood Film Festival's Young Filmmaker Award and the Austin Film Festival's Student Short Film Award.

Jonathan would make his feature-film debut in 2002 with Darkness Falls (2003), a dark twist on the Tooth Fairy tale that opened at #1 at the box office despite being critically panned. It also served as the big-screen debut for Emma Caulfield Ford, long a fan-favorite as Anya Jenkins on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997).

Most directed genres

Recurring actors

Noel Fisher 2

The career in numbers

US$ 361 mi Total budget from 4 film(s) with data
US$ 1.0 bi Total box office from 5 film(s) with data
US$ 90 mi Average budget from 4 film(s) with data
US$ 210 mi Average box office from 5 film(s) with data
5.8 Average rating from 7 film(s) with data
2.9× Return on investment from 4 film(s) with data

Budget and box office do not exist for every film in our records. Averages are computed over the films that carry the figure, and the count beside each one says how many.

Films directed

Film	Year	Budget	Box office	Rating
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	2014	US$ 125 mi	US$ 485 mi	5.9
Wrath of the Titans	2012	US$ 150 mi	US$ 302 mi	5.8
Battle: Los Angeles	2011	US$ 70 mi	US$ 212 mi	5.8
The Killing Room	2009	—	US$ 467,220	5.7
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning	2006	US$ 16 mi	US$ 51 mi	6.2
Rings	2005	—	—	5.8
Darkness Falls	2003	—	—	5.6