Tim story director biography
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Tim Story
American film director
Timothy Kevin Story is an American film director.[2][3] He is best known for Barbershop (2002), Fantastic Four (2005), and the Ride Along franchise. He has been nominated for two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Directing in a Feature Film/Television Movie in 2006 and 2013.
He is the founder of The Story Company, a production company co-founded with his future wife Vicky in 1996. He is the first African-American film director to have grossed over US$1 billion at the box office.[4]
Early life
[edit]Born in Los Angeles on March 13, 1970, Story attended LA's Westchester High School, with jazz pianist Eric Reed and actresses Regina King and Nia Long. He was senior class president at Westchester High. He graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1991.[1]
While in high school, Story briefly attempted a career in music. He was part of Ice-T's Rhyme Syndicate and even appeared as a member
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Tim Story
Tim Story (birthname: Timothy Kevin Story) is a veteran Hollywood director-producer who has directed features in various franchises, ranging from Barbershop (2002) to Fantastic Four (2005) to Think Like a Man (2012) to Ride Along (2014). Story’s directorial debut (as well as editor), following his graduation from the USC film school, was the low-budget indie drama, One of Us Tripped (1997).
This film and Story’s next—as both director, writer, and editor—starred Kevin Mambo, in the brott drama, Firing Squad (1999). Story jumped to the studio big leagues on his third directorial feature, the hit comedy, Barbershop, which established him as one to watch among the rising new generation of Black Hollywood filmmakers, and co-starring Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Troy Garity, Keith David, and Cedric the Entertainer, and grossing a strong $77 million for MGM.
Tim parlayed this success into another hit ($71 million grossing) comedy, Taxi • Since the release of his breakout comedy, "Barbershop" (2002), a low-budget ensemble piece about the goings on of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago, director Tim Story has vaulted over the competition into the upper echelons of filmmaking. Not satisfied with being a director of so-called urban movies, Story has always considered himself to be "an old school kind of director," one who can handle any material, from comedy to drama and everything in between, regardless of race. That attitude led famed producer Avi Arad to hire the up-and-comong director to helm the adaptation to the Marvel comic book series that started it all, "The Fantastic Four" (2005), with little action material on his resume. Born in Los Angeles, California, Story attended Westchester High School and later graduated from the film school at the University of California. Story made an attempt to become a rap star, starting a group with several friends, but a potential contract with Warner Music
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