JONATHAN MEISNER (Producer) is a film producer and talent manager from Washington, D.C. Meisner has managed the career of actor Dave Bautista from the conception of his WWE career to a globally recognized and accomplished actor, starring in some of the most successful franchises of all time. Meisner met Bautista in 1988 while in college in DC and became his manager in 1999, the year before Bautista started wrestling professionally.
Meisner produced his first feature, Bushwick, in 2017. The film starred Bautista and Brittany Snow as a war veteran and 20-year-old Brooklynite, respectively, who must depend on each other to survive when a U.S. based military force invades their Brooklyn neighborhood. The film made its international debut at the Cannes Film Festival and had its domestic premiere at the Sundance Film festival that same year.
Meisner has produced Kickboxer: Vengeance, starring Bautista and Jean-Claude Van Damme, Final Score with Bautista and Pierce Brosnan, the international hit Master Z: The I
JONATHAN MEISNER (Producer) is a film producer and talent manager from Washington, D.C. Meisner has managed the career of actor Dave Bautista from the conception of his WWE career to a globally recognized and accomplished actor, starring in some of the most successful franchises of all time. Meisner met Bautista in 1988 while in college in DC and became his manager in 1999, the year before Bautista started wrestling professionally.
Meisner produced his first feature, Bushwick, in 2017. The film starred Bautista and Brittany Snow as a war veteran and 20-year-old Brooklynite, respectively, who must depend on each other to survive when a U.S. based military force invades their Brooklyn neighborhood. The film made its international debut at the Cannes Film Festival and had its domestic premiere at the Sundance Film festival that same year.
Meisner has produced Kickboxer: Vengeance, starring Bautista and Jean-Claude Van Damme, Final Score with Bautista and Pierce Brosnan, the international hit Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy, and Escape Plan: The Extractors, an action thriller and third in its franchise starring Bautista, Sylvester Stallone, 50 Cent, and Jaime King.
In 2019, Meisner and Bautista formed Dream Bros Entertainment, which produced the upcoming My Spy, starring Bautista in the title role of a hardened CIA operative who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
Meisner currently resides in Washington, D.C.
