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Michelle Manning

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Michelle Manning is an American film director, television director, and producer best known for producing Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. She served as the President of Production for Paramount Pictures from 1997-2005. Since 2017, she has been an executive producer on the groundbreaking Disney Channel series Andi Mack.

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She began her career with Zoetrope Studios, where she was production supervisor of Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. Manning worked as an executive for Ned Tanen's Channel Productions, where she produced The Breakfast Club and was associate producer of Sixteen Candles. Manning made her feature directorial debut in 1986 with Blue City for producers Walter Hill and William Hayward as well as musical sequences for Hill's Another 48 Hrs. In television, Manning directed episodes of Miami Vice and Paramount's Friday the 13th: The Series.

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The Breakfast Club posterFirst watchThe Breakfast Club19857.7Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast…View film

Essential films

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The Dirt poster7.4The Dirt2019Sixteen Candles poster6.7Sixteen Candles1984Adventures in Babysitting poster7.2Adventures in Babysitting2016Teen Beach 2 poster6.8Teen Beach 22015The Eye poster5.9The Eye2008Jenny's Wedding poster5.7Jenny's Wedding2015Come Away poster5.8Come Away2020

Filmography

10 films
  1. 2020Come AwayExecutive Producer
  2. 2019The DirtExecutive Producer
  3. 2016Adventures in BabysittingExecutive Producer
  4. 2015Jenny's WeddingProducer
  5. 2015Teen Beach 2Executive Producer
  6. 2013Last I HeardCo-Executive Producer
  7. 2013Prosecuting Casey AnthonyExecutive Producer
  8. 2008The EyeProducer
  9. 1985The Breakfast ClubCo-Producer
  10. 1984Sixteen CandlesAssociate Producer