D.J. Caruso

D.J. Caruso is an American film and television director and producer.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/ He began a career in television and soon moved into the film industry as a producer and second unit director.http://www.music.msn.net/celebrities/celebrity-biography/dj-caruso/ http://www.top10films.co.uk/archives/3701

Caruso began working on features, and, with his work influenced by noir and Hitchcock, directed the thrillers The Salton Sea and Taking Lives.http://www.music.msn.net/celebrities/celebrity-biography/dj-caruso/ http://www.ugo.com/movies/dj-caruso-interview Caruso directed the DreamWorks features Disturbia and Eagle Eye in 2007 and 2008, both starring Shia LaBeouf. His film I Am Number Four is scheduled to be released in 2011.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/ According to MSN, Caruso was a lifelong movie lover who decided on a career in the entertainment industry in his youth.http://www.music.msn.net/celebrities/celebrity-biography/dj-caruso/

Caruso was a Pepperdine University graduate beginning his film career as a production assistant when he became an associate producer on the 1991 film The Hard Way, starring James Woods and Michael J. Fox.http://www.music.msn.net/celebrities/celebrity-biography/dj-caruso/ He worked behind the scenes in various roles to produce films such as Point of No Return (1993), Drop Zone (1994) and Nick of Time (1995). His directorial debut was on the short-lived television series VR.5 in 1995, and he went on to direct episodes of Martial Law in 1999 and Dark Angel in 2001.http://www.music.msn.net/celebrities/celebrity-biography/dj-caruso/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/ In 2002, Caruso directed episodes of Robbery Homicide Division, The Shield and Smallville, and his first feature film.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/

Neo-noir crime film The Salton Sea starred Val Kilmer as a former jazz musician who explores a world of drugs and crime to find his wife's murderer.http://www.music.msn.net/celebrities/celebrity-biography/dj-caruso/ While critics praised the direction and cinematography, the 2002 film had only moderate box-office results.http://www.music.msn.net/celebrities/celebrity-biography/dj-caruso/ In 2004, Caruso directed his second feature film, Taking Lives, a serial killer thriller starring Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke.http://www.music.msn.net/celebrities/celebrity-biography/dj-caruso/ In 2006, he directed more episodes of The Shield, and released Disturbia in 2007 and Eagle Eye in 2008. Both films starred Shia LaBeouf.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/ Dreamworks announced in 2010 that Caruso would helm their next big adaptation, I Am Number Four.http://www.dreamworksstudios.com/news/d-j-caruso-directing-james-frey-book-i-am-number-four

• 2011: I Am Number Fourhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 2008: Eagle Eyehttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 2007: Disturbiahttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 2002-2006: The Shield (TV series)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 2005: Two for the Moneyhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 2005: Over There (TV series)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 2004: Taking Liveshttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 2002: Robbery Homicide Division (TV series)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 2002: The Salton Seahttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 2002: Smallville (TV series)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 2001: Going to California (TV series)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 2001: Dark Angel (TV series)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 1999: The Strip (TV series)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 1999: Mind Prey (TV movie)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 1999: Martial Law (TV series)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 1998: Buddy Faro (TV series)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 1998: Black Cat Run (TV movie)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 1997: Cyclops, Baby http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 1996: High Incident (TV series)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/
• 1995: VR.5 (TV series)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0142286/

"It's a tough movie to make, but I wanted to make a cool science fiction movie with a character that I really liked and it was a movie about identity, so I never really thought about "bigger" (or) "smaller." "Eagle Eye" ended up being a big movie, it was just a big movie and I knew it was a big movie. This one, I say "smaller"... in the mid-50s of a budget is not a small movie, but nowadays, for a movie and the expectations of the movie, it's not a huge movie. But I never really look at size or scope, it's just if I'm moved by the story. For me, if I love the main character, then I'm going to be interested,"—Interview with Edward Douglas and talking about Eagle Eye at comingsoon.net on October 11, 2010http://www.comingsoon.net/news/interviewsnews.php?id=70548

"Well, you know, I am slightly paranoid. There is a bit of tweaked paranoia in me at all times. It's not so much a mistrust of the government, but in the digital world I just feel like everything we do is so accessible now. In my hometown of Pasadena, they have these parking meters now you don't put money in; you kind of scan your credit card. And so I told my wife, that this is just one more way someone can know exactly where I was, and exactly what time. So yeah, I have a slight bit of paranoia there,"—Interview with Jordan Hoffman on December 18, 2008http://www.ugo.com/movies/dj-caruso-interview

"We did a lot of research, particularly with books. We had Robert Ressler, who is one of the guys who came up with Silence of the Lambs and the true stories, he was our technical advisor on this picture. He gave me, I think, 50 books to read. It was like getting into the mind of a serial killer. We had a two-day course with Angie (Jolie) and I where we basically had a profiler come in and show us photographs and say, “Alright, tell me who you think the killer is and why.” We’d either be way off or right on,"—Interview from the world premiere of Taking Lives, by About.com guide Rebecca Murrayhttp://movies.about.com/cs/takinglives/a/tklvdc31604.htm