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Mike Tollin

Principle, Tollin Productions

Mike Tollin has produced more than a dozen feature films, several award-winning Documentaries, and hundreds of hours of television, and currently has three prime-time television series in production.  His films include Wild Hogs, a comedy for Touchstone Pictures starring John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence and Bill Macy about a group of middle-aged, wannabe bikers, which grossed nearly $250 million at the box office.

Other films produced by Tollin include Coach Carter, Dreamer, Hardball, Varsity Blues, Summer Catch, Big Fat Liar, along with the Tollin-directed Radio and documentary Hank Aaron: Chasing The Dream, which won a Peabody Award and was nominated for an Academy Award.

In television, Tollin has won three Emmy Awards.  He is Executive Producer of Smallville, currently in its eighth season, and One Tree Hill, now in its sixth season. Tollin also produced The Bronx is Burning, an eight-hour mini-series for ESPN about the 1977 Yankees, which premiered in July 2007.  Tollin previously produced seven seasons of Arli$$ for HBO; ABC’s I’m With Her and The Days; What I Like About You for the WB, and several Nickelodeon series, including All That, Kenan & Kel, The Amanda Show, and “Sports Theatre with Shaquille O'Neal”. Tollin is on the Board of Common Sense Media and Children Now, two groups that focus on kids and media; and the Chasing the Dream Foundation, which awards scholarships to underprivileged youth.

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