Anthony Hickox is a film director, film producer and screenwriter.
Background
Anthony "Tony" Hickox was born in 1959 and comes from a family of filmmakers. He is the eldest son of the director Douglas Hickox and Academy Award-winning editor Anne V. Coates and elder brother of editor Emma E. Hickox and James D.R. Hickox.
Career
After starting as a club promoter in London he came to Los Angeles in 1986 and became a writer/director during the late 80"s and 90"son His visual style often uses a dual-focus technique in which one person"s face takes up most the screen in profile, with another person shown on the other half of the screen in the background. He then started directing action movies after a list of well known 90"s horror and creating the television show "Extreme" for American Broadcasting Company/Universal.
This led to Home Box Office hiring him to make their first action/horror Full Eclipse which spawned their Friday night action slot that lasted over 5 years and to which made several more contributions.
At the same time continuing his deal at Universal where he shot pilots for " Two", "Martian Law", "" and "New York Undercover". After working with Natasha McElone and William Hurt (Contaminated Manitoba), he went on to direct Katherine Heigl and Steven Moyer in "Prince Valiant" a movie described by one of the actors involved, Warwick Davis, as "a disaster from start to finish" which was "premiered, panned and bombed".
He blames this on, who he says "seemed intent on partying all night long and giving roles to his friends." He then directed Steven Seagal in Submerged and Eddie Griffin in Blast!, both made over $15 million a piece on Digital Video Disc. In 2008 he has completed the British horror movie Knife Edge and is hoping to start a remake of Cat People in 2014. He is also working on a video game Invasion Earth! He is on the board of directors of the film distribution company 7arts pictures (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation) run by Peter Hoffman ex chairman of Carolco and the production company Medient run by Indian film producer Manu Kumaran.
In 2011 Medient co-financed Nick Cassavetes "Yellow" and Noel Clark"s "Storage 24" for Universal.
He recently signed on to direct "God"s Lions" based on the best selling novel and is setting up the "Waxwork" television show at Bold films. He also is developing "Johnny Mnumonic" as a television show with Sean Daniels and Peter Hoffman. He just completed "Exodus to Shanghai" based on the true story of Doctor Ho who saved 5000 Jews during Hitlers invasion of Austria.