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Joseph James Dante Jr. (/ˈdɑːnteɪ/; born November 28, 1946) is an American film director, producer, editor and actor. His films—notably Gremlins (1984) alongside its sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)—often mix 1950s-style B movies with cartoon comedy.

Joe Dante
Joe Dante as member of the jury for the 2009 Venice Film Festival
Born	Joseph James Dante Jr.[1] (1946-11-28) November 28, 1946 (age 75) Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater	University of the Arts Thomas Jefferson University
Occupation	Director, producer, editor, actor
Years active	1968–present
Website	renfieldproductions.com

Dante's films also include Piranha (1978), The Howling (1981), Explorers (1985), Innerspace (1987), The 'Burbs (1989), Matinee (1993), Small Soldiers (1998), and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). His work for television and cable includes immigration satire The Second Civil War (1997) and episodes of anthology series Masters of Horror ("Homecoming" and "The Screwfly Solution") and Amazing Stories, as well as Police Squad! and Hawaii Five-0.

Early life

Dante was born in Morristown, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Livingston. His father, Joseph James Dante, was a professional golfer, though Dante was more interested in becoming a cartoonist.[2]

Career

1960s

Dante began his film career working for legendary, low-budget producer Roger Corman, who provided similar opportunities to future directors Francis Ford Coppola and James Cameron. In 1968, he made The Movie Orgy, a 7-hour compilation of film clips, commercials and film trailers assembled by Dante.

1970s

He then worked as an editor on Grand Theft Auto after co-directing Hollywood Boulevard with Allan Arkush. His next feature film, the Roger Corman-produced Piranha, was released in 1978 inspired by Steven Spielberg's Jaws. In 1979, Dante helped direct Rock 'n' Roll High School when Allan Arkush fell ill due to exhaustion, but remains uncredited as a director.

1980s

Dante enlisted John Sayles to rewrite the script for the werewolf tale The Howling, loosely based on the novel by Gary Brandner. Dante directed episodes of television series Police Squad!, before Steven Spielberg invited him to join the directing team on anthology movie Twilight Zone: The Movie. Dante's segment, "It's a Good Life", featured cartoon-style special effects, and revolved around a woman played by Kathleen Quinlan who is 'adopted' by an omnipotent boy. His next film, Gremlins proved to be one of Dante's biggest hits to date, being the third-highest-grossing film of 1984.[3] Combining horror and comedy elements, the film revolves around Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan), who is given a strange creature he calls Gizmo as a pet. After Billy fails to follow the rules for looking after Gizmo, the creature spawns other creatures, which transform into destructive monsters who then begin rampaging through the local town. Dante next directed Explorers, about a group of friends who build a working spacecraft and encounter extraterrestrial life. The film marked the debuts of both River Phoenix and Ethan Hawke. In 1987, Dante made the comedy adventure Innerspace, in which Dennis Quaid's character is miniaturised and injected inside a human body. In 1989, Dante directed Tom Hanks in The 'Burbs, a black comedy in which Hanks' character deals with nightmarish neighbors.

1990s

In 1990, Dante directed a sequel to his film Gremlins, this time set in a New York high rise. In 1993, he directed Matinee, which received positive reviews. Set during the 1960s, the film pays homage to B movies and the showmen who made and promoted them. In his review for the Chicago Reader, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote, "At the same time that Dante has a field day brutally satirizing our desire to scare ourselves and others, he also re-creates early-60s clichés with a relish and a feeling for detail that come very close to love". USA Today reviewer Mike Clark wrote "Part spoof, part nostalgia trip and part primer in exploitation-pic ballyhoo, Matinee is a sweetly resonant little movie-lovers' movie". Dante was creative consultant on short-lived fantasy series Eerie, Indiana (1991–1992), and directed five episodes. He played himself in the series finale. In the mid-90s, he worked on The Phantom. When he was removed from the film, he chose screen credit as executive producer rather than pay. In 1998, he directed Small Soldiers which received mixed reviews and was a moderate box office success.

2000s

Dante directed the 2003 live-action/animation hybrid, Looney Tunes: Back in Action.[4] A box office bomb,[5][6] the film received mixed reviews.[7][8] In 2007, Dante launched the web series Trailers from Hell,[9] which provides commentary by directors, producers and screenwriters on trailers for classic and cult movies. He is also a contributor to the website.[10] Dante's 2009 film The Hole[11] received positive reviews, and was awarded the Premio Persol at the 2009 Venice Film Festival. The new award was for the "3-D feature deemed the most creative among those produced globally between September 2008 and August 2009."[12] With Roger Corman producing, Dante also directed the interactive web series Splatter for Netflix. The series stars Corey Feldman as a rock star seeking revenge on those he thinks have wronged him.[13]

2010s

In 2014, Dante made Burying the Ex, a horror comedy about a young man whose controlling girlfriend suddenly dies in a freak accident but when he tries to move on with his life along with his new partner he discovers that his now undead Ex has come back. The film stars Anton Yelchin and Ashley Greene. It was selected to be screened out of competition at the 71st Venice International Film Festival,[14][15] and was released in 2015. Dante served as executive producer on the independent feature length thriller Dark, starring Whitney Able and Alexandra Breckenridge, directed by Nick Basile. The film is set in New York City during the 2003 blackout. The film was released by Screen Media Films on June 7, 2016.[16] In 2018, Dante directed a segment of Nightmare Cinema, a horror anthology film starring Mickey Rourke and featuring shorts also directed by Alejandro Brugués, Mick Garris, Ryūhei Kitamura, and David Slade.[17]

2020s

In 2020, it was announced that Dante would be returning to the world of Gremlins serving as a consultant on the HBO Max prequel series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai.[18]

Unrealized projects

Year	Title and description	Ref.
1980s	Humanoids from the Deep, which Dante turned down	[citation needed]
	Jaws 3, People 0, an early attempt of another Jaws sequel pitched as a spoof	[19]
	Halloween III: Season of the Witch	[20][21]
	The Philadelphia Experiment	[22]
	Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers	[23]
	Batman starring John Lithgow as the Joker	[24]
1990s	Problem Child, which Dante turned down	[citation needed]
	Little Man Tate	[citation needed]
	A film adaptation of Jack London's novel The Sea-Wolf set in modern-day starring Tom Hanks	[25]
	Termite Terrace, a biopic on Chuck Jones written by Charles S. Haas based on Jones's own memoirs	[26]
	Jurassic Park	[27]
	Milk Money	[28]
	Beverly Hills Cop III	[citation needed]
	Doctor Who: The Movie	[citation needed]
	The Phantom	[29]
	The Mummy rewritten as a love story set in contemporary times starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the brooding Mummy	[30]
	The World Is Not Enough, which Dante turned down	[citation needed]
2000s	The 6th Day starring Kevin Costner as Adam Gibson	[citation needed]
	Godzilla Reborn, a sequel to Godzilla 2000 written by Michael Schlesinger	[31]
	The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes, a biopic written by Tim Lucas, Charlie Largent, Michael Almereyda and James Robison centering on Roger Corman's making of The Trip	[32][33]
2010s	Fear Paris, retitled from Paris, I'll Kill You, a horror anthology film with segments to have been directed by Dante, Xavier Gens and Timo Vuorensola	[34][35]
	Ombra Amore, retitled from Monster Love, a horror comedy romance written by Greg Pak about a werewolf and a vampire who fall in love	[36][37]
	Labirintus, a supernatural thriller written by Alan Campbell set in the catacombs beneath Hungary's Buda Castle	[38]

Frequent collaborators

Like most directors, Dante has developed a stock company of actors who have worked with him over a long period of time.

Dante's long-time friend and business associate, Sylvia, played one of the nuns at the concert in Allan Arkush's Rock 'n' Roll High School. Dante co-wrote and directed five scenes of the film when Arkush became ill.

Filmmaking style and influences

Dante's films are well known for their many references to other movies and for their special effects.[39] Dante's garage is frequently mentioned in audio commentaries as holding many of the props from his various films, including the Peltzer Peeler Juicer from Gremlins, and where the mock-pornographic scene in The Howling was shot.

His respect for the screenwriter extends to the point where, in order to make sure Dante can confer with the writer on-set and provide some minor, additional remuneration, he always casts the writer in a small part of the production itself. The studio is normally unwilling to pay to have the writer on-set in any other way.[40]

Dante has cited among his major influences Roger Corman, Chuck Jones, Frank Tashlin, James Whale and Jean Cocteau, as well as an admiration for the film Hellzapoppin', from which he frequently borrows jokes because of how difficult the film is to see in the United States.[41]

Archive

The moving image collection of Joe Dante and Jon Davison is held at the Academy Film Archive. The joint collection includes feature films, pre-production elements, and theatrical trailer reels.[42]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Editor	Notes
1976	Hollywood Boulevard	Yes	Yes	Co-directed with Allan Arkush
1978	Piranha	Yes	Yes
1981	The Howling	Yes	Yes
1983	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Partial	No	Segment: "It’s a Good Life"
1984	Gremlins	Yes	No
1985	Explorers	Yes	No
1987	Innerspace	Yes	No
	Amazon Women on the Moon	Partial	No	Segments: "Hairlooming", "Bullshit or Not", "Critics' Corner", "Roast Your Loved One", "French Ventriloquist's Dummy" and "Reckless Youth"
1989	The 'Burbs	Yes	No
1990	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Yes	No
1993	Matinee	Yes	No
1998	Small Soldiers	Yes	No
2003	Looney Tunes: Back in Action	Yes	No
2006	Trapped Ashes	Partial	No	Wraparound segments
2009	The Hole	Yes	No
2014	Burying the Ex	Yes	No
2018	Nightmare Cinema	Partial	No	Segment: "Mirari"

Other film work

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Executive producer	Editor	Notes
1977	Grand Theft Auto	No	No	No	Yes
1979	Rock 'n' Roll High School	Uncredited	Story	No	No	Directed five scenes
1996	The Phantom	No	No	Yes	No
2011	Trail of Blood	No	No	Yes	No
2015	Dark	No	No	Yes	No
2017	Trafficked	No	No	Yes	No
2018	Camp Cold Brook	No	No	Yes	No

Television

Year(s)	Title	Director	Producer	Notes
1982	Police Squad!	Yes	No	Episode: "Ring of Fear" (E2)
		Yes	No	Episode: "Testimony of Evil" (E6)
1985	The Twilight Zone	Yes	No	Episode: "The Shadow Man" (S1 E10a)
1986	Amazing Stories	Yes	No	Episode: "Boo!" (S1 E17)
		Yes	No	Episode: "The Greibble" (S2 E6)
1991-1992	Eerie, Indiana	Yes	No	Episode: "Forever Ware" (S1 E1)
		Yes	No	Episode: "The Retainer" (S1 E2)
		Yes	No	Episode: "The Losers" (S1 E4)
		Yes	No	Episode: "Heart on a Chain" (S1 E7)
		Yes	No	Episode: "The Hole in the Head Gang" (S1 E13)
1994	Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror	No	Associate	Television documentary
	Runaway Daughters	Yes	No	Television film
1995	Picture Windows	Yes	No	Episode: "Lightning" (E4)
1997	The Second Civil War	Yes	No	Television film
1998	The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy	Yes	Executive	Television film
2001	Night Visions	Yes	No	Episode: "Quiet Please" (E3b)
		Yes	No	Episode: "The Occupant" (E6b)
2002-2003	Jeremiah	No	Executive
2005-2006	Masters of Horror	Yes	No	Episode: "Homecoming" (S1 E6)
		Yes	No	Episode: "The Screwfly Solution" (S2 E7)
2007-present	Trailers from Hell	No	Yes
2007	CSI: NY	Yes	No	Episode: "Boo" (S4 E6)
2011-2017	Hawaii Five-0	Yes	No	Episode: "Sacred Bones" (S2 E7)
		Yes	No	Episode: "The Promise" (S3 E20)
		Yes	No	Episode: "Fish Out of Water" (S4 E2)
		Yes	No	Episode: "In Deep" (S4 E7)
		Yes	No	Episode: "The Last Break" (S5 E3)
		Yes	No	Episode: "Unmasked" (S5 E6)
		Yes	No	Episode: "Embers" (S5 E16)
		Yes	No	Episode: "The Chilling Storm Is on the Mountains" (S6 E3)
		Yes	No	Episode: "Monsters" (S6 E6)
		Yes	No	Episode: "The Deal" (S7 E12)
2014	Witches of East End	Yes	No	Episode: "When a Mandragora Loves a Woman" (S2 E6)
		Yes	No	Episode: "Poe Way Out" (S2 E11)
2015-2016	Salem	Yes	No	Episode: "The Beckoning Fair One" (S2 E7)
		Yes	No	Episode: "Night's Black Agents" (S3 E4)
2016	Legends of Tomorrow	Yes	No	Episode: "Night of the Hawk" (S1 E8)
	MacGyver	Yes	No	Episode: "Wire Cutter" (S1 E4)

Miscellaneous

Year	Title	Notes
1968	The Movie Orgy	Compilation of preexisting clips
1994	The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror	Theme park pre-show film
2003	Haunted Lighthouse	Theme park film
2009	Splatter	Interactive web series
2022	Razzennest	horror film by Johannes Grenzfurthner; Dante is the narrator and plays himself

Documentary appearances

• Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (2009)
• In Search of Darkness (2019)
• Love, Antosha (2019)
• In Search of Darkness: Part II (2020)
• Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021)
• In Search of Tomorrow (2022)

References

Further reading

• Nil Baskar, Gabe Klinger (Ed.): Joe Dante, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen Vol. 19, Vienna: SYNEMA - Gesellschaft für Film und Medien, 2013, ISBN 978-3-901644-52-8

External links

• Interview with Joe Dante, Part 1, MUBI
• Interview with Joe Dante, Part 2, MUBI
• Joe Dante at IMDb
• Joe Dante at AllMovie
• Interview with Joe Dante from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image

На других языках

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[de] Joe Dante

Joe Dante (* 28. November 1946 in Morristown, New Jersey) ist ein US-amerikanischer Filmregisseur, der auch für das Fernsehen tätig ist.

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[es] Joe Dante

Joseph James "Joe" Dante, Jr. (Morristown, Nueva Jersey, 28 de noviembre de 1946) es un director y productor estadounidense de películas con contenido humorístico y de ciencia ficción. Entre sus películas destacan Piraña (1978) y The Howling (1981), ambas escritas por John Sayles; Gremlins (1984), su primer gran éxito, y la secuela Gremlins 2: la nueva generación (1990); Innerspace (1987); Amazon Women on the Moon (1987); y Looney Tunes: De nuevo en acción (2003).

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[ru] Данте, Джо

Джо́зеф Да́нте-младший (англ. Joseph Dante, Jr.; 28 ноября 1946 года, Морристаун  (англ.) (рус., Нью-Джерси, США), более известный как Джо Данте (Joe Dante) — американский кинорежиссёр и продюсер, прославившийся работами в жанре комедии и фильмов ужасов.

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