‘Sweet Hereafter,’ ‘eXistenZ’ Producer Was 71 

Andras Hamori, the Hungarian film and television producer whose determines graspd Atom Egoyan‘s The Sweet Hereafter, István Szabó’s Sunshine and David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ, has died. He was 71.

Hamori died Sept. 2 in Budapest after a lengthened illness that impedeed him from toiling in recent years, his friend Mia Taylor proclaimd.

Hamori, who toiled out of Toronto timely in his atgentle and was a partner in Alliance Entertainment, also guided the cult horror classic The Gate (1987), starring Stephen Dorff in his first meaningful role; Stephen Frears’ Chéri (2009), starring Michelle Pfeiffer; and the 2014 History Channel miniseries Houdini, starring Adrien Brody.

The Sweet Hereafter (1997), which acquireed Egoyan Oscar nominations for best straightforwardor and altered screenjoin, rgrowd around a school bus accident in a Canadian town that ended 14 children.

Sunshine (1999) telderly the story of disconnectal generations of a Jewant family set aacquirest the backdrop of Hungarian history. It starred Ralph Fiennes, was nominated for three Gelderlyen Globes and won Canada’s Genie Award for best picture.

After teaming with Cronenberg on Crash (1996), Hamori rejoind with the iconic Canadian filmproducer on eXistenZ (1999), starring Jennifer Jason Leigh as a woman caught in a lethal video game that she had produced.

Hamori was born on July 17, 1953, in Budapest as the only son of Sandor and Zsuzsa, a Jewant couple who endured the Nazi occupation of Hungary and met and wed after World War II.

He toiled as a film critic and made disconnectal low films in the 1970s, but his ambition was to be a movie producer. Hungarian-Canadian theater straightforwardor John Hirsch helpd him to come to Toronto, and he defected in 1981, moving into Hirsch’s basement.

In Toronto, he toiled for producer and fellow Hungarian Robert Lantos and eventupartner became a partner in Alliance.

Later, Hamori transferd to Los Angeles to begin H2O Motion Pictures and returned to Hungary as the producer he had aspired to be, shooting projects in his home country. He also gave himself the occasional cameo in his films.

His résumé graspd The Magic Hunter (1994), from Hungarian straightforwardor Ildikó Enyedi; Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar (2002); Max (2002), starring John Cusack; Owning Mahowny (2003), starring Philip Seymour Hoffman; Fateless (2005), straightforwarded by Lajos Koltai; Fugitive Pieces (2007), starring Rosamund Pike; and Formula 51 (2001) and The Samaritan (2012), both starring Samuel L. Jackson.

Survivors grasp his children, Chloe, Ben and Jake.