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Janell M. Sammelman

  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Additional Crew
  • Production Manager
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Janell M. Sammelman is known for Priest (2011), Fantastic Four (2015) and The Do-Over (2016).
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    Known for

    Paul Bettany in Priest (2011)
    Priest
    5.7
    Movie
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director(as Janell Sammelman)
    • 2011
    Jamie Bell, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, and Miles Teller in Fantastic Four (2015)
    Fantastic Four
    4.3
    Movie
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director(additional photography)
    • 2015
    Adam Sandler and David Spade in The Do-Over (2016)
    The Do-Over
    5.7
    Movie
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director(second unit)
    • 2016
    xXx (2002)
    xXx
    5.8
    Movie
    • Additional Crew
    • 2002

    Credits

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    Second Unit or Assistant Director

    • Suits LA
      • first assistant director
      • Released
      • TV Series
      • 2025
    • Rez Ball (2024)
      Rez Ball
      6.3
      • first assistant director
      • 2024
    • Jake Gyllenhaal in Road House (2024)
      Road House
      6.2
      • first assistant director
      • 2024
    • Tim Meadows, Tina Fey, Christopher Briney, Reneé Rapp, Jaquel Spivey, Angourie Rice, Bebe Wood, Avantika, and Auli'i Cravalho in Mean Girls (2024)
      Mean Girls
      5.6
      • first assistant director: additional photography (uncredited)
      • 2024
    • Javier Botet in The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
      The Last Voyage of the Demeter
      6.1
      • first assistant director
      • 2023
    • Christoph Waltz in The Consultant (2023)
      The Consultant
      6.5
      TV Series
      • first assistant director (as Janell Sammelman)
      • 2023
    • Gael García Bernal in Werewolf by Night (2022)
      Werewolf by Night
      7.1
      TV Movie
      • first assistant director
      • 2022
    • Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Kat Dennings, Kathryn Hahn, Randall Park, and Teyonah Parris in WandaVision (2021)
      WandaVision
      7.9
      TV Mini Series
      • first assistant director
      • 2021
    • Ray McKinnon, Mads Mikkelsen, David Oyelowo, Kurt Sutter, Mylène Dinh-Robic, Nick Jonas, Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, and Cynthia Erivo in Chaos Walking (2021)
      Chaos Walking
      5.7
      • first assistant director: additional photography, Georgia Unit (as Janell Sammelman)
      • 2021
    • Gillian Jacobs, Adam Devine, Cole Sand, Isabella Crovetti, Josie Totah, Izabella Alvarez, Bianca Grava, Hayden Crawford, and Nathaniel Logan McIntyre in Magic Camp (2020)
      Magic Camp
      6.3
      • assistant director
      • 2020
    • Ewan McGregor and Roger Dale Floyd in Doctor Sleep (2019)
      Doctor Sleep
      7.3
      • first assistant director (as Janell Sammelman)
      • 2019
    • Mckenna Grace, Lulu Wilson, Victoria Pedretti, Julian Hilliard, Paxton Singleton, and Violet McGraw in The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
      The Haunting of Hill House
      8.5
      TV Mini Series
      • first assistant director
      • 2018
    • J.K. Simmons in Counterpart (2017)
      Counterpart
      8.0
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • 2018
    • Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones, and Rene Russo in Just Getting Started (2017)
      Just Getting Started
      4.6
      • first assistant director: Los Angeles
      • 2017
    • Jenna Ortega in Stuck in the Middle (2016)
      Stuck in the Middle
      6.4
      TV Series
      • first assistant director (as Janell Sammelman)
      • 2017
    • Kaitlin Olson, Carla Jimenez, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Thomas Barbusca, and Jack Stanton in The Mick (2017)
      The Mick
      7.8
      TV Series
      • first assistant director (as Janell Sammelman)
      • 2017

    Additional Crew

    • James Cromwell, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, Theresa Russell, Tobey Maguire, Ted Raimi, Thomas Haden Church, Joe Virzi, Elizabeth Banks, Mike Alexander, Frank Anello, Becky Ann Baker, Dylan Baker, Elya Baskin, Joe Bays, Andre B. Blake, Bruce Campbell, Craig Castaldo, Terrell Clayton, Alan Cohn, Grant Curtis, Robert Curtis Brown, Gregg Daniel, Walt Dohrn, Dean Edwards, Hal Fishman, James Franco, Anne Gartlan, Lucy Gordon, Topher Grace, Rosemary Harris, Bryce Dallas Howard, Andrew James Jones, Ron King, Mark Kubr, Stan Lee, Tim Maculan, Sonya Maddox, Joe Manganiello, Danny Mann, Carolyn Neff, Bill Nunn, Ayesha Orange, Edward Padilla, Michael Papajohn, John Paxton, Alyssa Lakota, Timothy Patrick Quill, Emilio Rivera, Cliff Robertson, Bill E. Rogers, Shade Rupe, J.K. Simmons, Peter Sohn, Ev Depaolis, Steve Valentine, Marc Vann, Jennifer Weston, Keith Woulard, Dan Callahan, Jeshua Vargas, Gary Flamik, Mageina Tovah, Claudia Katz Minnick, Toni Wynne, April Parker Jones, Martha Millan, Margaret Laney, Christina Cindrich, Dawn Marie Anderson, Reynaldo Gallegos, Natali Jones, Sincerely A. Ward, Nick Vlassopoulos, Gerald Bunsen, Jim Coope, David Backus, Vanessa Ross, Aimee Miles, Natalie McNeil, Jen Oda, Perla Haney-Jardine, Dan Cummings, Kristi Clainos, Brittany Krall, David Collihan, Joseph O'Brien, Peter Donato, Rogelio T. Ramos, Linda Lee, Graig F. Weich, Arne Starr, Liam Stone, Ray Wineteer, Samantha Ressler, Stella Stark, Julie Jei, Derrick 'Phoenix' Thomas, Michael Ciesla, Tiffany L. Baker, La Rivers, Tanya Bond, Tony Besson, Kristin Somo, Brigid Turner, Ramon Adams, Marc C. Cancassi, Silq Webster, Anya Avaeva, Bernadette Lords, Bria Roberts, Sandrine Marlier, Jhing, Kellie Aiken, Abbey Skinner, Anjelia Pelay, Crystal Marie Denha, Kathryn Bryding, Michael McLaughlin, Nick Poltoranin, Paul Edney, Chuck Gerena, Arick Salmea, Kevin Fung, Christopher Stadulis, Jennifer Sparks, Carol Chaikin, Lorne Raimi, Emma Raimi, Taylor Hemhauser, Austin Hendrickson, Nasir Stewart, Jessi Collins, Menachem Mendel Boymelgreen, Henry Raimi, Vance Hammond, Logan Fry, Daniel Shafer, Dan Maysen, Cesar Di Parra, Eric Shackelford, Veronica, Amy V. Dewhurst, Robert Myers, Samantha Kelly, Vanessa Reseland, Sujeilee Candele, Irina Costa Jelinek, Christopher Jude, Halla, Brianna Leann Florian, Tiffany Ashley Florian, Amanda Florian, Laura McDavid, Tony Galtieri, Jimmy Star, Natalie Fabry, John Crann, Angelis Alexandris, Trenton Willey, Marmee Regine Cosico, Shaun Patrick Flynn, Brian Hopson, Tajna Tanovic, Aija Terauda, Daniel Mignault, Pierangeli Llinas, Philip Vaiman, Luis Rosa, A.J. Adelman, Fredrick Weiss, Donn R. Nottage, Don Pravda, Keith Fausnaught, Claude Jay, Tia Latrell, Kadrolsha Ona Carole, Michele-Nanette Miller, Emily Eckes, Tom Coughlin, Austin Rospert, Karen Schiff Freeman, and Roger Petan in Spider-Man 3 (2007)
      Spider-Man 3
      6.3
      • production assistant (uncredited)
      • 2007
    • Ziyi Zhang in Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
      Memoirs of a Geisha
      7.3
      • production assistant (as Janell Sammelman)
      • 2005
    • Val Kilmer, Robert Downey Jr., and Michelle Monaghan in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
      Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
      7.5
      • production assistant (as Janell Sammelman)
      • 2005
    • Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Don Cheadle, Woody Harrelson, and Naomie Harris in After the Sunset (2004)
      After the Sunset
      6.2
      • set production assistant (as Janelle Sammelman)
      • 2004
    • Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina, and Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man 2 (2004)
      Spider-Man 2
      7.5
      • production assistant (as Janell Sammelman)
      • 2004
    • Torque (2004)
      Torque
      4.1
      • key set production assistant
      • 2004
    • Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac, Tony Cox, and Brett Kelly in Bad Santa (2003)
      Bad Santa
      7.0
      • set production assistant
      • 2003
    • Christopher Walken, Seann William Scott, Rosario Dawson, and Dwayne Johnson in The Rundown (2003)
      The Rundown
      6.7
      • staff set production assistant
      • 2003
    • Mischa Barton, Adam Brody, Ben McKenzie, and Rachel Bilson in The O.C. (2003)
      The O.C.
      7.6
      TV Series
      • set production assistant
      • 2003–2007
    • Ben Affleck, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jennifer Garner, and Colin Farrell in Daredevil (2003)
      Daredevil
      5.3
      • additional set production assistant
      • 2003
    • Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Penélope Cruz, and Luke Wilson in Masked and Anonymous (2003)
      Masked and Anonymous
      5.3
      • additional set production assistant (uncredited)
      • 2003
    • Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright, Adrien Brody, and Katie Holmes in The Singing Detective (2003)
      The Singing Detective
      5.4
      • production assistant
      • 2003
    • Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy in Just Married (2003)
      Just Married
      5.5
      • set production assistant
      • 2003
    • Jason Lee and Tom Green in Stealing Harvard (2002)
      Stealing Harvard
      5.1
      • key set production assistant: re-shoots
      • 2002
    • Phone Booth (2002)
      Phone Booth
      7.1
      • key set production assistant (as Janell Sammelman)
      • 2002

    Production Manager

    • Tom Hiddleston in Glorious Purpose (2023)
      Loki
      8.2
      TV Series
      • unit production manager: additional photography
      • 2021

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      • Janel; Sammelman

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