Director
Tim Story
Born March 13, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA25 films
Timothy Kevin Story (born March 13, 1970) is an American film director. He is best known for Barbershop (2002), Fantastic Four (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), and the Ride Along franchise. He has been nominated for two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Directing in a Feature Film/Television Movie in 2006 and 2013. He is a Los Angeles native and the founder of The Story Company, a production company co-founded with his future wife, Vicky, in 1996. He is the first African-American film director to have grossed over one billion USD at the box office.
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First watchTom & Jerry20216.7Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse get kicked out of their home and relocate to a fancy New York hotel, where a scrappy employee named Kayla will lose her job if she can’t evict Jerry before…View filmEssential films
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25 films as director- TBAUntitled Grumpy Old Men RemakeDirector
- TBAHumbugDirector
- TBANight WolfDirector
- TBAMy Own Worst EnemyDirector
- TBAMan of WarDirector
- TBARide Along 3Director
- 202672 HOURSDirector
- 2025The PickupDirector
- 2023Dashing Through the SnowDirector
- 2023The BlackeningDirector
- 2021Tom & JerryDirector
- 2019ShaftDirector
- 2016Kevin Hart: What Now?Director
- 2016Ride Along 2Director
- 2014Think Like a Man TooDirector
- 2014Ride AlongDirector
- 2012Think Like a ManDirector
- 2011Kevin Hart: Laugh at My PainDirector
- 2010Hurricane SeasonDirector
- 2007Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver SurferDirector
- 2005Fantastic FourDirector
- 2004TaxiDirector
- 2002BarbershopDirector
- 1999The Firing SquadDirector
- 1997One of Us TrippedDirector