Justin Bursch has over twenty producing credits to his name. He is best known for his work as executive producer on COLOSSAL, a monster movie turned on its head, starring Anne Hathaway as Gloria, a woman facing the realization she is somehow connected to an enormous monster terrorizing Seoul, South Korea. Justin executive produced BAD COUNTRY, a tense thriller set in 1980s Baton Rouge, following the complicated relationship between a contract killer turned informant, Matt Dillon as Jesse Weiland, and Willem Dafeo as Bud Carter, a police detective combating a Southern crime ring. He went on to produce GOOD KIDS, starring Zoey Deutch and Nicholas Braun in the hilarious and touching coming of age story, navigating life after high school. You can catch Justin Bursch’s newest film, I FEEL PRETTY, in theatres today, starring Amy Schumer and Michelle Williams. This heartfelt comedy follows Schumer’s character Renee Bennett, in the aftermath of a fall that has stripped her self consciousness and allowed her to see herself as a beautiful woman for the first time in her life.
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- Justin Bursch IMDB
- Cruel World
- I Feel Pretty
- Bad Country
- Ranger 7 Films
- Good Kids
- Lady Bloodfight
- Colossal
QUOTES:
“I think the best thing about Hollywood is that no one has the same path, and my path started in sports.”
“I wanted to learn filmmaking inside out, so I would be the one that would make the budget, and do the plan, and figure out how to make the movie from start to finish.”
“This is producing. Always have a back up plan.”
“It’s relationships you make ten years ago, and something comes back around that makes sense, and you know you can partner with your other buddy over here. That’s producing. It’s a war of attrition.”
“When you’re younger in your career you have to do whatever your opportunity is and then do it well. And then you can start to choose, and then people start to notice what you do well, and then you can start to choose what kind of films and projects and people you want to be involved with.”