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Penney Finkelman Cox was born in 1951 in Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a producer and assistant director, known for The Prince of Egypt (1998), Shrek (2001) and Snakes on a Plane (2006). She has been married to Jim Cox since 24 December 1985.
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Penney Finkelman Cox was born in 1951 in Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a producer and assistant director, known for The Prince of Egypt (1998), Shrek (2001) and Snakes on a Plane (2006). She has been married to Jim Cox since 24 December 1985.
View Penney Finkelman Cox’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members. I am a multi-faceted producers. With over a dozen producing credits, both live-action and…
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Born and raised in Havertown, Finkelman Cox began her career at Columbia Pictures. In 1985, she moved to Walt Disney Studios where she was responsible for establishing the production entities to create and animate Roger Rabbit, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. She was also instrumental in helping PIXAR esta...
Always attracted to new challenges, Finkelman Cox helped build the animation division of DreamWorks Studios from scratch and was instrumental in the purchase of PDI, helping to build it into a digital effects theatrical giant. Finkelman Cox produced DreamWorks' first traditionally animated feature, The Prince of Egypt and followed that up with the ...
From 2002-2009 she began a new division Sony Pictures Animation where she served as Senior Executive Vice President. The new animation division for Sony Studios required hiring personnel and building a new animation company to rival DreamWorks, Disney and Pixar in quality. During her tenure she developed and produced the hit comedies Open Season, S...
Finkelman Cox and her producing partner Sandra Rabins have an independent production entity, Patchwork Productions, which executive produced the 2006 feature film Snakes on a Plane. Currently Patchwork Productions is developing several projects with studios in Japan and China, with the first movie releasing in 2016.
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1. Gloria(1980) - (dga trainee) 2. The First Deadly Sin(1980) - (dga trainee) 3. Skokie(1981) (TV Movie) - (second assistant director) 4. My Body, My Child(1982) (TV Movie) - (second assistant director) 5. I, the Jury(1982) - (second assistant director: second unit) 6. The Soldier(1982) - (assistant production manager) 7. Born Beautiful(1982) (TV Movie) - (production manager) 8. Terms of Endearment(1983) - (co-producer) 9. Broadcast News(1987) - (co-producer) 10. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids(1989...
The film was directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells (in Chapman and Hickner's feature directorial debuts), and produced by Jeffrey Katzenberg, Penney Finkelman Cox, and Sandra Rabins, from a screenplay written by Philip LaZebnik.
Penney Finkelman Cox is known as an Producer, Executive Producer, Co-Producer, Thanks, Actor, Assistant Director Trainee, Production Manager, and Assistant Production Manager. Some of her work includes Shrek, Antz, The Prince of Egypt, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Snakes on a Plane, Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, and Duck Duck Goose.
Aug 26, 2017 · Animation veterans Penney Finkelman Cox and Sandra Rabins are departing Original Force Animation, two years after helping the Chinese digital animation studio expand into Hollywood.
