Bill Holderman
Birthdate: April 16, 1977 (49 Years Old)
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
Bill Holderman (birthname: William Holderman) is a veteran Hollywood producer who has branched into directing and writing. After working behind the scenes as producer and associate producer on the production side under Robert Redford’s Wildwood banner, including for Wildwood movies like Redford’s Lions for Lambs (2007) and The Conspirator (2010), Holderman co-wrote (with Michael Arndt, based on Bill Bryson’s book) and produced A Walk in the Woods (2015), starring Redford, Nick Nolte, and Emma Thompson, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, and grossing $37.4 million globally on an $8 million budget.
Holderman produced writer-director Elizabeth Chomko’s family drama, What They Had (2018), with Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster, Blythe Danner, and Josh Lucas. Holderman’s first feature as co-writer (with Erin Simms) and director was the hit comedy, Book Club (2018), starring Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen, and earning a notable $104.4 million worldwide gross on a $10 million budget.
Holderman switched to producing only for another major feature with Redford as star for writer-director David Lowery’s droll true-crime comedy, The Old Man and the Gun (2018), co-starring Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, and Tom Waits, and released by Fox Searchlight, grossing $17.8 million worldwide. Holderman parlayed the success of Book Club into the sequel, Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023), with the main cast returning and which Holderman wrote and directed.
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Previous (2)
- 2023 |
Book Club: The Next Chapter
Follows the new journey of four best friends as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had.
- 2018 |
Producer
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- 2023 |
Book Club: The Next Chapter
Follows the new journey of four best friends as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had.
- 2018 |
What They Had
Bridget returns home at her brother's urging to deal with her ailing mother and her father's reluctance to let go of their life together.
- 2018 |
- 2015 |
A Walk in the Woods
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends, Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte).
- 2011 |
The Conspirator
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
Writer
Previous (3)
- 2023 |
Book Club: The Next Chapter
Follows the new journey of four best friends as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had.
- 2018 |
- 2015 |
A Walk in the Woods
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends, Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte).
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