David Klawans was born on September 10,1968 and is an American film producer.
12 Facts About David Klawans
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David Klawans was the executive producer of the movie Argo, winner of the Best Picture Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards.
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David Klawans was raised in Europe after his family moved to Belgium.
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David Klawans later returned to America and graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he was mentored by film producer David Brown.
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David Klawans started his career as a production assistant for an LA-based Japanese television commercial company, and developed movie ideas in his spare time.
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In 2002, David Klawans discovered a true story about a Mexican priest who moonlighted as a Lucha Libre wrestler to raise money for his church orphanage.
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David Klawans developed the idea into the 2006 Jack Black comedy Nacho Libre, a film that grossed $99,255,460 worldwide.
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David Klawans has developed more than 30 feature projects at major studios, almost all based on true stories.
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The most notable example is Argo, a declassified true story David Klawans discovered while reading the quarterly CIA journal 'Studies in Intelligence' in 1998.
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David Klawans then spent several years developing the project, which eventually became the 2012 Ben Affleck-directed movie, which grossed $230 million at the box office.
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David Klawans co-developed the true story of the McDonald's Monopoly promotion fraud, which created one of the biggest bidding wars in Hollywood history for a single magazine article, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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In 2007, David Klawans was named by LA Weekly as one of Los Angeles' most interesting people in their annual 'Best of LA People' issue.