---
name: "John Cohen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-cohen"
fi1m_id: "john-cohen"
imdb_id: "nm2805697"
tmdb_id: 1011957
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "3 October 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T21:19:10.466271+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# John Cohen

## Identity

John Cohen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-cohen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-cohen
- **IMDb ID:** nm2805697
- **TMDB ID:** 1011957
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2805697/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1011957

Producer. Born 3 October 1976 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 3 October 1976, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 2010–2016
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2805697/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1011957

## Coming up

- *The Angry Birds Movie 3* (2026-12-23), as (voice)

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Despicable Me*](https://film.one/film/despicable-me.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

John Cohen is an American film producer. He produced *Despicable Me* (2010) for Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures. He also produced and co-wrote the story for *The Angry Birds Movie* (2016) and produced its 2019 sequel.

Cohen previously served as Vice President of Production at Twentieth Century Fox Animation, where he worked with Blue Sky Studios on films including *Ice Age* (2002), *Robots* (2005), *Ice Age: The Meltdown* (2006) and *Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!* (2008). He was executive producer on *Hop* (2011), which was based on his original story idea.

*Sources: sonypicturesanimation.com, imdb.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Despicable Me* (2010), Fi1m 74, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/despicable-me.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Angry Birds Movie 3* (2026), as (voice) · Producer
- *The Garfield Movie* (2024), Producer
- *Bad Hamster* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Big Nate* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *Angry Birds: Live Stream* (2019), Producer
- *The Angry Birds Movie 2* (2019), as Eagle Detector (voice) · Producer
- *Rhett & Link's Buddy System* (2016), series, Executive Producer
- *The Angry Birds Movie* (2016), as Johnny Bird (voice) · Producer, Story
- *North* (2014), Foley Artist
- *Hop* (2011), Executive Producer
- *Despicable Me* (2010), Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/despicable-me.md)
- *Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie 2*, Producer
- *The Garfield Movie 2*, Producer
- *Untitled Miraculous Sequel*, Producer
- *Untitled Jack and the Beanstalk Film*, Associate Producer

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