David Levien is an American screenwriter, novelist, director, and producer. Best known as the co-writer of Ocean's Thirteen, and Rounders Levien has also produced films such as The Illusionist and The Lucky Ones. As a novelist, he has published City of the Sun and Where the Dead Lay with Random House. Levien studied at the University of Michigan.
Each season of this anthology series explores a story that rocked the business world to its core and changed culture. The first season tells the story of Uber, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful and most destructive unicorns.
Release Date: 2022-02-27
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 72
Explore the relationships between exclusive escorts and their clients, for whom they provide far more than just sex. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price.
Release Date: 2016-04-10
Department: Writing
Job: Original Film Writer
Episode Count: 37
Vote Count: 411
In 1970s New York, jaded record exec Richie Finestra tries to resurrect his failing label and fractured personal life while keeping his finger on the pulse of the city's new sound.
Release Date: 2016-02-14
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 215
A complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance. Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmaneuver the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series.
Release Date: 2016-01-17
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 32
Vote Count: 921
Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the façade lie depression and disillusionment that send her careening into a secret world of reckless compulsion. Only very real danger will force her to face the painful root of her destructiveness and its crumbling effect on those she loves.
Release Date: 2015-10-23
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 116
A look at the improbable run of Jimmy Connors at the 1991 U.S. Open and how he became a polarizing and provocative personality who helped make tennis a high-octane spectator sport.
Release Date: 2013-10-29
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 7
When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur.
Release Date: 2013-09-24
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1239
30 for 30 is the title for a series of documentary films airing on ESPN, its sister networks, and online highlighting interesting people and events in sports history. This currently includes four "volumes" of 30 episodes each, a 13-episode series under the ESPN Films Presents title in 2011–2012, and a series of 30 for 30 Shorts shown through the ESPN.com website. The series has also expanded to include Soccer Stories, which aired in advance of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and audio podcasts. This entry refers to the main Volumes of the series presented by ESPN
Release Date: 2009-10-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 35
A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.
Release Date: 2009-09-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 319
Chelsea is an in-demand call girl whose $2,000 an hour price tag allows her to live in New York's lap of luxury. Besides her beauty and sexual skill, Chelsea offers her clients companionship and conversation, or, as she dubs it, "the girlfriend experience." With her successful business and a devoted, live-in boyfriend, Chelsea thinks she has it made... until a new client rocks her world.
Release Date: 2009-05-22
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Character: David
Vote Count: 305
The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S.
Release Date: 2008-09-26
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 169
Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring down Willy Bank along with everything he's got. Even if it means asking for help from an enemy.
Release Date: 2007-06-05
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 6398
With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crown prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector.
Release Date: 2006-08-18
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 4940
Young poker players must navigate their past along with the best players in the world to win.
Release Date: 2005-02-17
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 3
A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.
Release Date: 2004-04-02
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1522
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, who uses illegal means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense. But when juror Nicholas Easter and his girlfriend Marlee reveal their ability to sway the jury into delivering any verdict they want, a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game begins.
Release Date: 2003-01-16
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1297
An attorney leaves his high-priced firm to work for the less fortunate.
Release Date: 2003-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Out of work TV cameraman Ron Kobelski is approached by his formerly reclusive neighbor Walter Ohlinger. Ohlinger claims that he was the mysterious "second gunman" that shot and killed President Kennedy. Ohlinger has kept quiet all these years, but has decided to tell his story now that he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Kobelski is skeptical of his neighbor's story, after his investigations provide ambiguous answers. His attitude changes, however, after he receives threatening messages on his answering machine, and spots shadowy figures in his backyard. Is Ohlinger telling the truth? Or is there a bigger conspiracy at work?
Release Date: 2002-10-10
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 23
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
Release Date: 2001-11-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 356
A young reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
Release Date: 1998-09-11
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1744
Frank Machianno, aka Frankie Machine, is pulled back into a criminal life he already retired from when he finds himself caught in a double-cross between two rival syndicates.
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
An adaptation of the crime/suspense novel 'City of the Sun' by David Levien.
Department: Writing
Job: Writer