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Joel Simon has served as President, WWE Films, since 2002, handling a diverse slate of entertainment projects. He is currently producing The Condemned, staring Stone Cold Steve Austin which will be distributed by Lionsgate. He just completed producing The Marine, starring WWE Raw Superstar John Cena, which will be distributed by 20th Century Fox, and See No Evil starring WWE RAW Superstar Kane, which will be distributed by Lions Gate.
Previously, Simon served as president of Quincy Jones Media Group and Quincy Jones/David Salzman Productions, overseeing all feature and television productions from the late 1990s through 2001. Prior to that, he was partnered for nearly a decade with producer Bill Todman, Jr. in Todman/Simon Productions, which had a first-look deal with Lorimar and Warner Bros. Pictures, and whose feature releases included Married to the Mob and Hard to Kill. For television, the company produced the CBS series People Next Door and the movie-of-the-week The Innocent, which aired on NBC, as well as numerous network pilots.
Among Simon’s additional production credits are the feature comedy Vacuums, starring Chevy Chase; the blockbuster hits X-Men and X-Men 2; Wild Wild West starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline and Salma Hayek; Steel, starring Shaquille O’Neal and The In-Laws starring Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks; plus the television movie Passing Glory for TNT, and Say It Loud: A Celebration of Black Music in America, a five-hour VH-1 original documentary mini-series.
Simon began his career in the 1970s as co-founder and executive vice president of Simon Marketing, Inc., a marketing and sales promotional agency that served such national clients as McDonalds and Shell Oil. | 