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Tom DeSanto (born January 1, 1968) is an American film producer and screenwriter.
DeSanto is a founding writer/producer behind several of the biggest franchises in movie history (X-Men, Transformers). DeSanto's films have grossed more than $5 billion worldwide, with a per-film average of more than $746 million at the box office, in addition to billions more in home video, merchandising, and video games.
After the success of X-Men, DeSanto began working on a reboot of Battlestar Galactica to be developed for Universal Television. The show eventually returned in 2003 but under the direction of Ronald D. Moore.
DeSanto then became part of the creative team for X2: X-Men United, including the continuation of the Phoenix storyline that DeSanto set up in the first film. That same year, he moved towards Transformers, another dormant property. DeSanto brought the idea to his friend and fellow producer Don Murphy. Hasbro gave them the rights for free.
After being rejected by the major studios, DeSanto made a second pass at DreamWorks Pictures. After Steven Spielberg read his treatment, he decided his studio would do the film. DeSanto set the project up with DreamWorks and Paramount, selling his story line and attaching to produce.
The first film grossed over $700 million worldwide. Transformers was the first live-action franchise for DreamWorks and Paramount's largest moneymaking series in its history. DeSanto returned as producer of Revenge of the Fallen in 2009, and the film became the biggest moneymaker of the year with over $800 million in box office alone. DeSanto also produced Dark of the Moon and Age of Extinction, both grossing over $1.1 billion worldwide. The Last Knight, produced by DeSanto as well, earned over $600 million at the box office.
After the Transformers saga had been released, DeSanto then produced Bumblebee, an origin story for one of the characters from the franchise, earning a total of $470 million in box office.
DeSanto has produced several social issue documentaries, including Lost in America, which deals with youth homelessness, and Kidnapped for Christ, which puts a spotlight on abusive evangelical camps for children.
Most Popular Tom DeSanto Trailers
Total trailers found: 20
16 June 2017
Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.
11 September 2024
The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
06 June 2023
When a new threat capable of destroying the entire planet emerges, Optimus Prime and the Autobots must team up with a powerful faction known as the Maximals.
25 June 2014
As humanity picks up the pieces after the battle of Chicago, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history…while an ancient, powerful new menace sets Earth in its crosshairs.
22 November 2018
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken.
10 June 2008
From superheroes to superstars, Hollywood has always turned to comic books for imagination and inspiration.
21 January 2005
'Ringers: Lord of the Fans' is a feature-length documentary that explores how "The Lord of the Rings" has influenced Western popular culture over the past 50 years.
19 June 2009
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
27 June 2007
Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons.
28 June 2011
The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.
28 February 2014
Documentary about the rise of Marvel Studios after their near-bankruptcy in the mid-1990s.
12 September 2012
The We and the I is the heartfelt and comical story of the final bus ride home for a group of young high school students and graduates.
02 July 2000
While Senator Kelly addresses a senate committee about the supposed mutant menace, we learn about the making of the movie, X-Men.
23 October 1998
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal.
23 February 2024
Makeup guru Rose faces hate mail from a rival artist, in addition to dealing with a violent stalker. After falling into a toxic love spiral with Lily, Rose slides down a dangerous rabbit hole of drugs, paranoia and jealousy until she hits an unimaginable rock bottom.
25 November 2003
This title, about the creation of the comic book X-Men, is featured on the DVD for X2.
11 February 2003
A four part documentary on the making of the first X-Men film, from pre-production, to principal photography, to post-production, and reflections on the film before production commenced on the sequel.
13 July 2000
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
27 April 2003
Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col.
