Derek Frey
Derek Frey is a producer and filmmaker whose career spans more than two decades at the intersection of studio-scale ambition and fiercely independent craft. Working fluidly across animation, live-action, and hybrid story worlds, Frey has built a reputation for visually distinctive, character-driven storytelling—projects where atmosphere and emotion are never an afterthought, but the engine.
Known for steering IP-driven and auteur-led genre films from early development through production and global release, his producing credits read like a modern canon of stylized cinema: Dumbo, Frankenweenie, Big Eyes, Corpse Bride, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Collectively, films he has worked on in a producing capacity have surpassed $2.9 billion at the global box office—yet his creative curiosity continues to pull him toward bold, offbeat work behind the camera as a director, editor, and cinematographer.
Images provided, courtesy of the artist - Behind the Scenes ~ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Photo by Leah Gallo
