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Caldecot "Cotty" Chubb (born March 3, 1950) is an American film producer who has produced films such as ''
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'', '' Hoffa'', ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Dark Blue'' and '' Pootie Tang''. He won the
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in 1997 for ''
Eve's Bayou ''Eve's Bayou'' is a 1997 American Southern Gothic drama film written and directed by Kasi Lemmons, who made her directorial debut with this film. Samuel L. Jackson served as a producer, and starred in the film with Lisa Nicole Carson, Jur ...
'' and was a nominee for ''
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'' in 1991. Both of those films have been admitted to the National Film Archive of the Library of Congress.


Career

Since the early 1980s, Chubb has worked in Los Angeles as a producer and senior production executive supervising the development and production of several dozen films in addition to his own. From 1988 to 1992, he worked at Pressman Film Corp., from 1994 to 2003 at Alphaville, and at Michael London's Groundswell Productions from 2006 to 2007. Currently, Chubb is a producer on his own account through ChubbCo, working in a wide variety of financing and distribution environments. Prior to his work in the film business, Chubb also built a small business in New York publishing fine art photography.


Films

Chubb has personally produced ten films. Beginning with '' Cherry 2000'', in 1987 starring
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; '' Waiting for the Light'', in 1990 with
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and Teri Garr; ''
To Sleep with Anger ''To Sleep with Anger'' is a 1990 American black comedy film written and directed by Charles Burnett, and starring Danny Glover. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Con ...
'' also released in 1990 from director Charles Burnett; '' Hoffa'' in 1992 starring
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and directed by and co-starring
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; ''
Eve's Bayou ''Eve's Bayou'' is a 1997 American Southern Gothic drama film written and directed by Kasi Lemmons, who made her directorial debut with this film. Samuel L. Jackson served as a producer, and starred in the film with Lisa Nicole Carson, Jur ...
'' the 1997 debut picture by
Kasi Lemmons Kasi Lemmons (; born Karen Lemmons, February 24, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actress. She made her directorial debut with ''Eve's Bayou'' (1997), followed by ''The Caveman's Valentine'' (2001), ''Talk to Me (2007 film), ...
starring Samuel L. Jackson; '' Pootie Tang'' released in 2001 by
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starring
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; '' Dark Blue'' in 2002 starring
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and directed by
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; '' Believe in Me'', starring Jeffrey Donovan, Samantha Mathis,
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and Heather Matarrazzo, released by
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in 2007; ''
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'' in 2010 starring Samuel L. Jackson,
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, and
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, released by
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; and his tenth movie, '' The Dinner'', written and directed by
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, and starring
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, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall. The film premiered in competition at
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in 2017, and was released by The Orchard. It is an adaptation of Herman Koch's Dutch novel ''Het Diner'', a worldwide best-selling psychological thriller. Previously, he was executive producer on Ed Harris's ''
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'', based on the Robert Parker novel, starring Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger and Jeremy Irons (WB/New Line, 2008); Michael Almereyda's "Tonight at Noon," starring
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, Lauren Ambrose, Connie Nielsen and Rutger Hauer; and Alex Proyas's ''
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'', starring Brandon Lee, which Miramax released in 1994. He was associate producer on the Taviani brothers' ''
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''. Between 2012 and 2014, Chubb was executive producer of five films: '' I Nostri Ragazzi'', an Italian adaptation of the Koch novel, directed by Ivano De Matteo, which premiered at the 2014 Venice Film Festival; '' Het Diner'', a Dutch adaptation of the Koch novel written and directed by Menno Meyjes (2012); ''
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'', an English-language film from Belgian writer-director Dominique DeRudddere starring
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(2012); and ''
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'', by writer-director Brian Horiuchi, starring Frank Langella, Gena Rowlands, Rosario Dawson, Josh Hartnett, and Penn Badgely (2012). In 2022 and 2024 he executive-produced two new adaptations of "The Dinner," from Brazil and South Korea.


Television

In television he was executive producer of five films: '' The National Tree'' for Hallmark in 2009, ''Banshee'' (Oxygen Network, 2006), ''
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'' (HBO Films, 2004), ''Don't Look Back'' for HBO in 1996, and ''Avalanche'' for Fox in 1994; and was an executive producer of the four-hour mini-series ''Attila'' for Studios USA and the USA Network, which aired 2001.


Digital publishing

While continuing his movie and television work, in 2011 he partnered with Ron Martinez, founder and CEO of Invention Arts LLC, to create Aerbook, a digital publishing environment for authors and creators to make, publish and share media-rich, optionally interactive ebooks and apps designed for the fast-growing tablet marketplace. The company pivoted to enabling digital commerce in media-rich streams and was sold to
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in 2015.


Other work

From 1999 to 2010, Chubb was the executive director of the Eggleston Artistic Trust, managing the career and business of the distinguished American artist and photographer,
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. In 2008 he produced "William Eggleston’s ‘Stranded in Canton,’" a documentary created by Robert Gordon from Eggleston’s videotapes originally shot in 1973. In addition, Chubb has taught producing as an adjunct professor at the
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in 2015, at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2016 and since 2017 at the
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.


Personal life

Chubb is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in the Producer Branch. He is married with two daughters.


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External links

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