KEY PERSONNEL
SELECTED FILMS HIGHLIGHTS
DIRTY DANCING
Biggest multi artist soundtrack in history; spawned numerous sequels and
live stage tours.
PLATOON
Academy Award Winning Best Picture; directed by Oliver Stone.
BLUE STEEL
Directed by Academy Award Winner Kathryn Bigelow; starring Jamie Lee
Curtis.
TERMINATOR 2 JUDGMENT DAY
Four time Academy Award winner; first film to extensively use morphing; started era of digital filmmaking; starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, directed by James Cameron.
MORTAL KOMBAT
First hit movie based on video game; has been so far three number one movies with a fourth movie to be released Summer ’26. Soundtrack is first EDM (Electronic Dance Music) Million selling (Platinum) album. Spawned numerous other media including live action and animated TV series.
TRUE LIES
First hit Western movie in China using revenue share model; starring Arnold
Schwarzenegger, directed by James Cameron.
LEGO THE ADVENTURES OF CLUTCH POWERS (ANIMATED)
First feature length film based on LEGO.
Jimmy Ienner
Jimmy Ienner is one of the most respected and successful film and music impresarios in the world, with works from Kiss to Pink Floyd to Dirty Dancing (film, music, live stage) and many more.
The Dirty Dancing soundtrack remains one of the topselling albums of all time and went platinum eleven times, selling more than 39 million copies worldwide.
Among many other accolades, Jimmy has been awarded 85 Golden and Platinum albums, multiple Grammys and two Oscars.
PARTNER AND SENIOR ADVISOR
Larry Kasanoff
CHAIRMAN / CEO
Larry Kasanoff, Chairman/CEO, is the Producer or Executive Producer of all MORTAL KOMBAT media including three Number One films, a television series, an animated series, platinum selling soundtracks, direct to dvd, and a live tour.
He is Executive Producer of the box-office smash film, TRUE LIES, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and directed by James Cameron.
Previously, as president and co-founder of Lightstorm Entertainment, Larry supervised production, marketing, publicity and merchandising for the four-time Academy Award winning hit, TERMINATOR 2 JUDGMENT DAY, directed by James Cameron.
He produced two movies with Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow.
Larry - as a producer or studio head - has made over 200 feature films, including DIRTY DANCING and Academy Award Winning Best Picture PLATOON. He has raised well over a billion dollars in the film business.
In the music world, Larry has packaged or produced video projects with several of the world’s biggest talents, including Michael Jackson, The Rolling Stones and Elton John. For Terminator 2, he produced MTV’s top video of the year, “You Could Be Mine” with Gun’s ‘N Roses.
Larry is the author of two published books: A TOUCH OF THE MADNESS (Ben Bella Books via Penguin Random House) and a coffee table photo book, MALIBU BLONDE (Edition Sklylight).
Larry holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Cornell University.
FEATURE FILMS
Threshold Entertainment, and/or its management, as studio heads, producers or executive producers, have made the following movies, to name a few.
