Age: 61
female
Janet Healy (born June 17, 1965) started her career in live-action films, working with directors Stanley Kramer, Hal Ashby and Sam Peckinpah. She worked with Steven Spielberg on Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 1941, serving as Associate Producer on the latter. She then joined George Lucas' visual effects company, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), as a Co-Head of Production. At ILM, Janet produced some of the era's most groundbreaking visual effects work, including the Academy Award®-winning visual effects for Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Jurassic Park. She was instrumental in leading the industry transition from reliance on photo-chemical and in-camera processes to the use of the digital 2D and 3D techniques that are common place in visual effects today. During those years at ILM she was also the Visual Effects Producer for Ghostbusters II, Joe Versus the Volcano, and Willow. In 1995 she joined Walt Disney Feature Animation as the Head of Digital Production and oversaw the CG work on the films Tarzan, Dinosaur and Mulan. She moved to DreamWorks Animation a to serve as Head of Production for several years and was a Producer on Shark Tale. In 2008, Janet joined Chris Meledandri at Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures. Along with Chris, Janet is the Producer of Despicable Me, The Lorax, Despicable Me 2, The Minions, The Secret Life of Pets, Sing, Despicable Me 3, The Grinch, The Secret life of Pets 2, Sing 2, and Minions:The Rise of Gru. Janet is a member of the New Media Council of the Producers Guild of America and a Founding Member of the Visual Effects Society. She has served as a member of the Board of Directors and as an Executive Board member of those organizations respectively. In 2014 she was awarded the Visual Effects Society's highest honor, The Founder's Award, for her contributions to the industry and to that organization. She is also a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As of 2022, the films Janet has produced have earned more than $ 8 billion worldwide. In 2015 she was honored to be a recipient of the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture, and she is also a Dame of Saint-Émilion, France.
Janet Healy
Producer
for Producer in Charlotte's Web (Illumination Entertainment film) (2014)
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Charlotte's Web is a 2014 American animated musical comedy fantasy film based on the 1952 novel by E. B. White. Directed by Craig Wright, written by Susannah Grant and Karey Kirkpatrick, and produced by Chris Meledandri, it is the third film adaptation of E. B. White's book, the CGI animated reboot of Paramount's 1973 animated feature film produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and the 2006 live-action/CGI remake produced by Nickelodeon Movies. The film stars an ensemble voice cast that includes Natasha Lyonne, Madeleine Curry, Iain Armitage, Robin Williams (in his final animated feature), Rosie O'Donnell, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Samuel E. Wright, Rachel Bloom, Bill Hader, and Rowan Atkinson as the narrator. Bruce Broughton composed the film's score. Produced by Illumination Entertainment, the film premiered in Australia on July 7, 2014 and was released theatrically by Universal Pictures on July 25, 2014 in the United States. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, yet was only modestly commercially successful. It grossed $83 million at the US box office and $61 million elsewhere for a worldwide total of $144 million against an $85 million budget, as well as grossing an additional $95.2 million in home media sales.
