Avi Lerner
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Avinoam Lerner (born 27 June 1941 in Haifa, Israel) is a film producer, primarily of American action movies and B movies.
Lerner originally worked in movie theaters in Tel Aviv, but soon re-located to South Africa, where he produced several films in that country and also owned a chain of movie theaters there until he re-located once again to Los Angeles in the early 1990s.
Lerner founded two production companies, Nu Image and Millennium Films with Trevor Short, Danny Dimbort, and Danny Lerner. The companies have a varied output, though the vast majority is action films. In the case of action films, many of the ones he produces are filmed in Bulgaria, where he owns a studio.
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The bulk of Lerner's films featured action stars who were at their peak in the late 1980s-1990s: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lundgren, and Chuck Norris, usually released as direct-to-video. Lerner is currently producing John Rambo and Poe starring Sylvester Stallone. He announced at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival that Robert De Niro and Al Pacino will star in Righteous Kill for Millennium Films and Emmett Furla Films [1]
Other features Lerner has had a hand in include: End Game, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and James Woods; Edison, starring Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, and Justin Timberlake; 16 Blocks; The Black Dahlia; and The Wicker Man.
