For more than 33 years, writer-director-producer Robert Meyer Burnett has been sharing his love of genre entertainment by taking fans “behind the scenes” of some of the world’s greatest movies.
Biography
Creative Director/Partner
Beginning his career in the summer of 1989 as the Art Department Production Assistant on New Line Cinema’s LEATHERFACE: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, Robert Meyer Burnett has weathered 36 years in the Entertainment Industry. He’s probably best known for directing, co-writing and editing the award-winning cult favorite FREE ENTERPRISE, starring Emmy winners Eric McCormack and William Shatner.
As a filmmaker, he developed and produced MGM’s AGENT CODY BANKS and its sequel, AGENT CODY BANKS 2: DESTINATION LONDON, Warner Premiere and Dark Castle Entertainment’s THE HILLS RUN RED, and the upcoming WHITE DEVILS. The recent FORBIDDEN TANGO, currently streaming on a multitude of platforms, which he both produced and edited, was actually blessed by Pope Francis back in 2021. Quoted in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Francis said, “I was pleased to learn of the film…which is intended to foster the values of fraternal solidarity and peace on a global level. It is my hope that this effort will serve the common good of the human family by furthering a spirit of mutual dialogue and respect for all persons. Upon all involved in the production of the film, I invoke abundant divine blessings.”
Burnett also directed and edited five episodes of HBO/Cinemax’s pulp anthology series FEMME FATALES. He also specialized in editing and post supervising numerous micro-budget features by first time directors.
For twenty years, Burnett also produced award-winning content for DVD and Blu Ray special editions. Working for all the major studios, Burnett created documentary features for such notable titles as THE USUAL SUSPECTS, SPIDER-MAN, TRON, X-MEN, X2, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE TWO TOWERS, THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, SUPERMAN RETURNS, SHOOT ‘EM UP, STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE, and the two-time Saturn Award-winning Blu-ray restoration of the complete STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION series.
Since 2015, Burnett has continued to appear as an expert Industry pundit on many entertainment-related YouTube channels. In 2018, he started his own channel, The Burnettwork, the home of the Imagination Connoisseurs of the Post-Geek Singularity, which currently has over 65,000 subscribers and almost 12 million views.
Robert Meyer Burnett (06-2024)
ICU Creative Director and Co-Founding Partner Robert Meyer Burnett
Rob Burnett alt (06-2024)
Creative Director and Partner, Robert Meyer Burnett
RMB at the TRUE NOIR session
Director-producer Robert Meyer Burnett in a recording session for TRUE NOIR: The Assassination of Anton Cermak (June 2024)
Rob departing ShuttlePod
RMB as a Funko Pop (INSET)
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