Jon Turtle

Jon Turtle

History

For 40 years, Jon Turtle has forged a path of success throughout many areas of the entertainment industry, having produced myriad esteemed and popular films for a number of studios and distributors. With more than 125 film productions to his credit, he has produced and financed films from popular action hits, such as Joe Carnahan's 2011 survival .

Profile

Jon Turtle

Movies

Romance & Cigarettes
Co-Producer
Down-and-dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class. Nick is an ironworker who builds and repairs bridges. He's married to Kitty, a dressmaker, a strong and gentle woman with whom he has three daughters. He is carrying on a torrid affair with a redheaded woman named Tula. Nick is basically a good, hardworking man driven forward by will and blinded by his urges.
They Call Me Sirr
Executive Producer
An inspirational story that celebrates the grit, perseverance and talent of Sirr Parker, the star footballer of Locke High School who then went on to play for San Diego Chargers and Cincinnati Bengals.
Freak City
Executive Producer
After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a rebellious young woman is disease-stricken. Upon being admitted to a nursing home, she finds hope in the most unlikely of places...
The Second Arrival
Executive Producer
After Zane Ziminski is found dead five people received envelopes with details of an alien invasion. This group of five includes 3 scientists, Zane's brother Jack, and a reporter. Quickly, the group is down to three and then Jack and Bridget, the reporter. With a small piece of alien technology, they must escape from the aliens, who take human form, and try to convince others that aliens exist.
The Lovemaster
Executive Producer
Standup comic Craig Shoemaker tells the therapist stories of his failed relationships with women (dates, wife etc.)
Rodney Dangerfield's Guide to Golf Style and Etiquette
Executive Producer
It's Rodney at his hilarious and raunchy best as he gets no respect playing a round of golf with a stuffy, serious-minded couple and his blonde and buxom date. With non-stop jokes, Rodney hilariously breaks every rule of etiquette of "the gentleman's game" - impertinently waiting his turn at the tee, taking care of business "when nature calls" on the in between tees, having pizza delivered on the putting green and setting up beach chairs in the sand trap. All the while the frazzled "Golf Marshall" chases him through his round, catching him at every indiscretion. It's delightful, it's uproarious, it's pure Rodney.
Cannes Man
Executive Producer
Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his skills of hype and manipulation to try and turn the cab driver named Frank into the talk of the town. Many celebrities make cameos throughout the film.
Fluke
Executive Producer
Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and comes back to life as a dog. Remembering some of who he was, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time goes by, he remembers more of his life, and realizes he wasn't such a good husband and father.
Cyborg 2
Co-Producer
In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Cyborgs are commonplace, used for anything from soldiers to prostitutes. Casella Reese is a prototype cyborg developed for corporate espionage and assassination. She is filled with a liquid explosive called Glass Shadow. Pinwheel plans to eliminate the entire Kobayashi board of directors by using Casella
Leslie Nielsen's Bad Golf Made Easier
Aggravated Golfer
Leslie Nielsen teaches frustrated rookie golfer Billy how to bend the rules of golf to his advantage.
Leslie Nielsen's Bad Golf Made Easier
Executive Producer
Leslie Nielsen teaches frustrated rookie golfer Billy how to bend the rules of golf to his advantage.
Flight of the Innocent
Executive Producer
The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family's sins.
Dark Angel
Co-Producer
Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner gets killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene...
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
Executive Producer
Alice, having survived the previous installment of the Nightmare series, finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again. This time, the taunting murderer is striking through the sleeping mind of Alice's unborn child. His intention is to be "born again" into the real world. The only one who can stop Freddy is his dead mother, but can Alice free her spirit in time to save her own son?
High Spirits
Associate Producer
When Peter Plunkett's Irish castle turned hotel is about to be repossesed, he decides to spice up the attraction a bit for the 'Yanks' by having his staff pretend to haunt the castle. The trouble begins when a busload of American tourists arrive - along with some real ghosts.
The Big Town
Associate Producer
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.
Second Time Lucky
Producer
In the beginning the Devil made a bet with God. The Devil backed Eve, God backed Adam. What would have happened to love and sex if Adam hadn't taken the bite?