John Baldecchi is a film producer known for The Mexican (2001) and Point Break (2015). He is an executive producer on Happy Death Day (2017) and the sequel, Happy Death Day 2U (2019) along with Jason Blum with Blumhouse Productions and Universal Studios.
Career Baldecchi worked for Laurence Mark Productions producing The Adventures of Huck Finn and the sequel Tom and Huck, Gunmen, Oliver Twist, Deep Rising and Simon Birch. After being named President of Production, the company produced Jerry Maguire and As Good as It Gets.
Baldecchi partnered with Lawrence Bender in a production deal at Fox 2000 and together they made The Mexican and Stark Raving Mad. Baldecchi then segued into a long-term production deal at Sony Pictures and started the sales, finance, production outfit Fusion Films. Baldecchi produced UltraViolet, Odd Thomas, Conan the Barbarian, 88 Minutes, and Point Break.
Baldecchi founded Digital Riot Media with Doug Barry in 2016. The company produced the digital feature FML. The next two features produced were Happy Death Day and the sequel Happy Death Day 2 U. In February 2022, Baldecchi along with Dominic Ianno, John Baldecchi, Alex Dundas and Griffin Gmelich, partnered to launch a Los Angeles film and television production company, Roundtable Entertainment.
Filmography YearTitleRole1993The Adventures of Huck FinnCo-producer1993GunmenCo-producer1995Silo 3 JaneProducer1995Tom and HuckProducer1995Cutthroat IslandCo-producer1997Oliver TwistProducer1998Deep RisingProducer1998Simon BirchExecutive producer2001The MexicanProducer2002Stark Raving MadProducer2006UltravioletProducer200788 MinutesExecutive producer2011Conan the BarbarianProducer2013Odd ThomasProducer2015Point BreakProducer2016FMLProducer2017Happy Death DayExecutive producer2019Happy Death Day 2UExecutive producer 2020 Children of the Corn Producer 2024 AMFAD All My Friends Are Dead Producer, actor 2027 Twilight of the Dead Producer
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