Dimitri Logothetis
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Dimitri Logothetis immigrated to America with his parents at age six.
He grew up in Los Angeles, went to high school in the South Bay were he
played football, and attended college at Loyola Marymount were received
a Masters in Film and Television. Dimitri made a short film at Loyola
which he produced and directed called Call Me Kaiser. The film won
seven national and international film festivals. Since his early days
as director and writer of acclaimed feature films, television and
documentaries, Dimitri has excelled in all genres ranging from dramas
to thrillers and comedies. In addition to his artistic endeavors,
Dimitri Logothetis has run three companies, managed hundreds of
employees around the world, and implemented over one hundred fifty
million of production financing. In 2011 he became the President of
Motion Pictures for Kings Road Entertainment, which produced Kickboxer
and The Big Easy as well as The Best of Times, Dimitri is developing
several Kings library projects as remakes. In 2020 he created a brand new science fiction martial
arts film franchise in Jiu Jitsu, which was based on a comic book. Jiu Jitsu
starred Nicholas Cage, Alain Moussi, Tony Jaa, and Marie Avgeropoulos.
The film was #4 on Netflix in the US the week of it's release. Dimitri also
rebooted the iconic Kickboxer Film Franchise. He wrote, produced and
directed the two new Kickboxers. Dimitri brought back
Jean Claude-Van Damme along with Christopher Lambert from Highlander
and several major fan pleasing world champion MMA fighters like
George St. Pierre and Fabricio Werdum along with MikeTyson.
Kickboxer Retaliation got 92% from critics and 84% from the audience
on Rotten Tomatoes. Dimitri is not only an award
winning filmmaker, but has had several significant milestones in his
career including in 2013, winning the Monaco Film Festival for his
documentary Momo, The Sam Giancana Story, as well as Executive
Producer/ Showrunner of two Warner Brothers TV series, developing and
Executive producing Stephen Kings Sleepwalkers for Columbia Pictures.
Directing four TV pilots, and making one of the highest selling most
successful documentaries of all time, Champions Forever with Muhammed
Ali. Logothetis most recently completed production on Gunner, an actioner
starring Morgan Freeman and Luke Hemsworth. Next year, Dimitri is preparing
to shoot his latest set of features, Kickboxer: Armageddon, the final chapter
in a reboot trilogy based on the Kickboxer action franchise, and Flying Shadow,
an action thriller.
Dimitri Logothetis IMDbPro Success Story
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