Kelly McCormick

KELLY McCORMICK is a visionary producer in the action genre whose critically acclaimed films have grossed over $2.9 billion worldwide. She is best known for producing the box-office smash hits Bullet Train starring Brad Pitt, Nobody starring Bob Odenkirk, Violent Night starring David Harbour, and the neon-noir cult classic Atomic Blonde starring Charlize Theron, as well executive producing Deadpool 2 starring Ryan Reynolds and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham. McCormick is the founder of 87North Productions, alongside her partner and husband David Leitch, which is a world-renowned production, action design company, and a premier stunt training studio with workspace in Hollywood.

Under McCormick’s first-look deal with Universal, 87North’s film The Fall Guy, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, was released globally on May 3, 2024 with McCormick and Leitch producing and Leitch directing. She is also currently in pre-production on With Love starring Ke Huy Quan. In development are Kung Fu starring Donnie Yen, Versus (Universal), Red Shirt (Amazon) starring Channing Tatum, Ruby (Amazon), and sequels for both Violent Night and Nobody. For television, McCormick has several projects in development with Universal including the limited series Hot Air starring Andrew Garfield as the British entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Action, a doc-series centered on Hollywood stunt performers.

Prior to founding 87North, McCormick served as Executive Vice President of Production and Acquisitions at Sierra Affinity, a foreign sales and financing company where she packaged and produced countless projects including Hell or High Water (Academy Award® nominee for Best Picture), Whiplash (Academy Award® nominee for Best Picture and winner of 3 Academy Awards®), Nightcrawler, and Manchester By The Sea (6 Academy Award® nominations including Best Picture). Her past credits as producer also include: Shadow In The Cloud, directed by Roseanne Liang and starring Chloe Moretz; Netflix’s How it Ends, directed by David M. Rosenthal and starring Theo James and Forest Whitaker; and Poms directed by Zara Hayes and starring Diane Keaton and Jacki Weaver.

McCormick is repped by CAA, Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole, and 42West.