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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.

Young Jared Grace has moved from New York to a new home at the Spiderwick Estate. Always misbehaving and having a hard time fitting in to the new place, he hears a strange sound which leads him into finding Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You. However, dark forces soon find out about the Fieldguide and are after it to unleash an even darker force to take over the world. Now it's up to Jared, his twin brother Simon, and his older sister Mallory as they find out more about the secrets of the field guide and discovering the magical world that their uncle Arthur Spiderwick has discovered before them. An adaptation of the novel series directed by Shawn Levy and the Duffer Brothers and produced by Netflix. Each book will be its own episode, following all three characters into the world of the Spiderwick Chronicles.
