11 Facts About Avi Lerner

Avinoam Lerner is an Israeli-American film producer, primarily of American action movies.

Avi Lerner was born in Haifa, Israel, on October 13,1947, to a Jewish family; he grew up on Hatzionut Boulevard.

Avi Lerner joined the Israeli military in 1966 and served in the Six-Day War and in the Paratroopers Brigade.

Avi Lerner served in the 1973 Yom Kippur War as a reservist.

Avi Lerner founded two production companies, Nu Image and Millennium Films, with Trevor Short, Danny Dimbort and Danny Avi Lerner.

In 2007, Avi Lerner obtained the rights to the Rambo franchise and rebooted the series in 2008 with Rambo.

Until his success with The Expendables, Avi Lerner's reputation was of a B movie producer.

Avi Lerner has complained that Israel is the only country where his work is criticized, and he avoids giving interviews to Israeli reporters.

Avi Lerner describes his approach to the film industry as purely business-oriented: unlike Hollywood's larger film studios, which invest much larger sums of money to cover production expenses but lose money from time to time, Avi Lerner's team carefully calculates the potential revenue of a given film and tailors the production costs accordingly.

In 2018, Hollywood actor Terry Crews accused Avi Lerner of making a phone call to his manager in which he said Avi Lerner threatened to introduce difficulties into Terry Crews' career unless Crews dropped his case against Hollywood talent agency William Morris Endeavor, employer of agent and founding member Adam Venit.

Avi Lerner is listed as a producer in the thriller Trespass.