Larry Kasanoff

Larry Kasanoff, Chairman/CEO of Threshold Entertainment Group, as a studio head or producer, makes movies, animated movies, and theme park/location based entertainment attractions.

He is the Producer or Executive Producer of MORTAL KOMBAT, including three Number One films, a television series, an animated TV series, a platinum (million selling) soundtrack, and a live tour starting at RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, with a new Mortal Kombat movie coming Summer ’26.

Larry is Executive Producer of the box office smash film, TRUE LIES, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and directed by James Cameron. TRUE LIES is one of the first Western hit movies in China as well.

As President and Co-Founder of Lightstorm Entertainment,  Larry supervised production, marketing, publicity and merchandising for the four time Academy Award winning hit, TERMINATOR 2 JUDGMENT DAY, directed by James Cameron.

He is Executive Producer of the movies, STRANGE DAYS and BLUE STEEL, both directed by Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow.

Larry – as a Producer or Studio head – has made over 200 feature films, including DIRTY DANCING, which has the number one multi artist soundtrack in history, and Academy Award winning Best Picture, PLATOON. He has raised well over a billion dollars in the film business.

He makes animated movies, including LEGO STAR WARS THE EMPIRE STRIKES OUT, and BOBBLEHEADS THE MOVIE, starring CHER. He recently announced a new venture in animation, THE CARTOON COALITION, which brings together a team of animation superstars to embrace new technology and combine it with creative story telling.

Larry makes location based entertainment, or theme park, attractions, including STAR TREK THE BORG EXPERIENCE, MARVEL SUPERHEROES 4D, and THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF SPIDERMAN.

In the music world, Larry has produced or packaged video projects with MICHAEL JACKSON, THE ROLLING STONES and ELTON JOHN. For TERMINATOR 2, he produced MTV’s top fan video of the year, “You Could Be Mine,” with GUNS ‘N ROSES.

He produced and directed the feature documentary, MINDFULNESS: BE HAPPY NOW, starring Zen Master THICH NHAT HANH and Deepak Chopra, available on Amazon.

He is the published author of two books: A TOUCH OF THE MADNESS – How to Be More Innovative by Being a Little Crazy (BenBella Books via Penguin Random House), and a book of photography, MALIBU BLONDE (Edition Skylight), #1 on Amazon. Both available on Amazon.

Larry speaks all over the world  (China, Spain, Africa, Israel, the US),on innovation, motivating his audiences to embrace their inner ‘madness’ to pursue excellence in creativity. He does this with entertaining stories from his life in the movie and entertainment businesses.  This works for companies in tech, gaming, entertainment, consumer products and even banking. It is also the subject of his book, A TOUCH OF THE MADNESS. His talks are not the same old thing, and are most often graded by audiences as ‘inspiring and fun.’

Larry has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Cornell University.

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