ABOUT


Who the hell do I think I am?


Todd was born in Queens, NY, and started screaming about movies before he could talk.

At age 2, he demanded his mom wheel him to the local movie theater just to stare at the marquee (true story). He went to Emerson College, won awards (like Panavision’s New Filmmakers Prize), and eventually moved to LA, where he directed high-concept music videos and accidentally got famous in Asia for a prank show he wrote, directed and edited for MTV Asia described as “Jackass with better lighting and also subtitles.” At 28, Todd directed A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, a groundbreaking stoner holiday comedy shot in 3D. He followed it with The Final Girls, a meta-horror comedy which opened SXSW and is beloved by Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, and Sam Raimi. His rom-com satire Isn’t It Romantic starred Rebel Wilson and proved he could outwit genres while still charming critics.

When he’s not making movies, he’s making everything else: directing pilots (Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin, Glamorous), making viral content for Lil Nas X and CNN, crafting commercials for Tanqueray, Ketel One, VRBO and The Oscars.

For kids, he wrote a meditation book published by Simon & Schuster called Your Mind Makes Thoughts Like Your Butt Makes Farts, which somehow nobody stopped him from titling -- and oh, he started an orange soda brand called TIZZ—initially a joke, but now an actual thing people drink.

Currently, he’s developing projects with Adam Sandler, Colin Firth, and Nick Offerman.