Biography
After a single credit on the wonderful, overlooked Disney telemovie
You Ruined My Life (1987), starring
Paul Reiser and
Soleil Moon Frye, producer Dylan Sellers spent the 1990s establishing himself as a production force, and the 2000s building up a fat resumé of glossy and lucrative Hollywood blockbusters. Sellers demonstrated no genre predilection overall, veering fluidly and swiftly from sports dramas to slasher horror to geriatric comedy, and grossing healthy returns in many arenas. His first major effort was the
Wesley Snipes action vehicle
Passenger 57, a nail-biter about a hijacking that found a substantial audience when it premiered in the holiday season of 1992. Despite fascinating content, the producer's next venture -- the enigmatic Paul Auster adaptation
The Music of Chance (1993) -- clocked in as an unmitigated disaster, grossing only a few hundred thousand dollars nationally in an extremely limited release and orienting Sellers toward more commercial material. He received a production credit on the ambitious
Ron Howard social drama
The Paper (1994) and the
Walter Matthau/
Jack Lemmon vehicle
Out to Sea (1997), both of which performed admirably.
Sellers gravitated toward safer and more conventional material in the 2000s, and (perhaps as a result) consistently scored as a box-office topper. His releases included the
Gene Hackman/
Keanu Reeves inspirational sports drama
The Replacements (2000), the serial killer-themed horror movie
Valentine (2001) and -- most profitably -- the multi-installment
Agent Cody Banks series, about a pint-sized super-spy played by
Frankie Muniz. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide