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Shawn Adam Levy (/ˈliːvaɪ/; born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He is the founder of 21 Laps Entertainment. His work has spanned numerous genres, and his films as a director have grossed $3.5 billion worldwide. Following early work as a television director, Levy gained recognition in the 2000s for directing comedy films like Big Fat Liar (2002), Just Married (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) and The Pink Panther (2006). He then found further success as the director of the first three films in the Night at the Museum film franchise (2006–14). In the early 2010s, he directed films including Date Night (2010), Real Steel (2011), and The Internship (2013), and developed several comedy television pilots. Executive produced the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing. Levy produced the 2016 sci-fi film Arrival, earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Since 2016, Levy has been an executive producer on the Netflix original series Stranger Things. He has directed the third and fourth episodes of each of the show's four seasons and the Netflix limited series All the Light We CanNot See (2023). Levy has recently collaborated with Ryan Reynolds by directing Free Guy (2021), The Adam Project (2022), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), with the latter emerging as his highest-grossing film and the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shawn Levy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Shawn Levy
Director
for Director in Spider-Man: Rise of the Ock
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A year after the Green Goblin’s rampage left Aunt May and Captain Stacy dead, Peter Parker begins his senior year at Midtown High carrying the crushing guilt of two lives he couldn’t save. Though still protecting New York as Spider-Man, he’s colder, more ruthless — a hero losing sight of who he once was. When a brilliant scientist and Oscorp rival, Dr. Otto Octavius, unveils an experimental fusion reactor meant to revolutionize clean energy, tragedy strikes again. A catastrophic failure fuses four mechanical arms to his body, warping his mind and birthing Doctor Octopus — a man convinced he must “save the world” by destroying it first. As Otto’s intellect turns to madness, New York becomes his laboratory, and Spider-Man his greatest obstacle. Spider-Man: Rise of the Ock is an R-rated collision of grief, obsession, and redemption. Peter sees in Otto the reflection of everything he’s becoming — brilliant, broken, and blinded by loss. As Doc Ock’s rampage threatens to consume the city, Peter is forced to face his darkest fears: that being Spider-Man may cost him his soul. With Gwen pulling him back from the edge, he must find the strength to save a man who’s beyond saving. In a brutal, high-stakes finale across collapsing bridges and burning streets, Spider-Man fights not just to stop Doc Ock, but to prove to himself that compassion can still survive in a world built on pain.
