Todd Grodnick

Founder & Producer at Merrill Entertainment - A Todd Grodnick Production

MERRILL ENTERTAINMENT (A Todd Grodnick Production) 2024: ME has redeveloped a Western, CALL ME HENRY by Leon & Michelle Brumby that depicts the true life of Henry McCarty a young boy who travels out west from NY with his family only to be accused and his survival as outlaw who never intended to be known as Billy the Kid. The development and pitching of a several Dramatic TV series: "MANIPULATOR" with writer/co-producer Charlie Forray based on the control of world power by the USA and a private section of the government. "PLAYING THE GAME" when a new first time female DA changes how the law was being practiced in NYC by controlling the conglomerates from violating the law. A Comedy Television series with NYC Comedian Jen Kay, MIXED NUTZ, brings two siblings living together from opposite sides of the economic tracks, discovery a mutual lifestyle. Sam finds a job delivering mail for police detectives in NYC, Sam's quirky sense of living draws her to assisting on the cases. Creating a Drama series with NCIS EP Charles Floyd Johnson based on real life Broadway Understudies & Swings. ME is developing and producing a dramatic feature based on the Japanese Americans soldiers serving undercover for the U.S. in WWII called M.I.S. Our feature film, DETOURS, a Romantic/Comedy/Adventure written by Abbey Cleland is being re-developed to an old retired lawyer assisting a same age women both using old fashioned ways to rescue her life and change each other.

As a member of the Directors Guild of America, Todd worked production on both studio and independent features and television: 20th Fox: Die Hard 2, In the Line of Fire, The Osterman Weekend, Man With One Red Shoe, L.A. Law, Hooperman Paramount Pictures: Two Jakes, and Star Trek II-The Wrath of Kahn Warner Bros.: Lethal Weapon, Lois & Clark-The Adventures of Superman, Gabriel’s Fire HBO: Blind Justice Viacom: Sabrina:The Teenage Witch, Diagnosis Murder, Little Witches Columbia: I Dream of Jeannie 15 Years Later, T.J. Hooker, Hart to Hart, Fantasy Island.

What started out as a high school student film has developed into a career for Todd — in which he has supported his independent producing with 25 years of experience by his work on features and television in the Studio system and Independents.

Member:
(PGA) Producers Guild of America Member
(DGA) Directors Guild of America
Studied at the University of Southern California, USC