---
name: "Kevin Scott Frakes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kevin-scott-frakes"
fi1m_id: "kevin-scott-frakes"
imdb_id: "nm0289694"
tmdb_id: 94456
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "17 May 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-21T01:54:23.092665+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."
---

# Kevin Scott Frakes

## Identity

Kevin Scott Frakes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kevin-scott-frakes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kevin-scott-frakes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0289694
- **TMDB ID:** 94456
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289694/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94456

Producer. Born 17 May 1978 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 17 May 1978, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Also known as:** Kevin Frakes, Kevin S. Frakes
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as producer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (3), 2020s 34 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 68 to 67 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Thriller 4, Action 2, Horror 2, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $351m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289694/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94456

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Hereditary*](https://film.one/film/hereditary.md) (83)

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

## Biography

Kevin Scott Frakes is an American film producer and financier. He founded PalmStar Media, a motion picture finance and production company, in 2004. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television Production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2001 and a Master of Business Administration from Yale University in 2004.

Frakes has produced or executive produced a number of films, including *Hereditary* (2018), *John Wick* (2014), *Split* (2017), *Sing Street* (2016) and *Collateral Beauty* (2016).

*Sources: imdb.com, allmovie.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Ice Cream Man* (2026), Fi1m 34, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/ice-cream-man.md)
- *Hereditary* (2018), Fi1m 83, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/hereditary.md)
- *John Wick: Chapter 2* (2017), Fi1m 76, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/john-wick-chapter-2.md)
- *John Wick* (2014), Fi1m 80, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/john-wick.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

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

- *Ice Cream Man* (2026), Executive Producer — Fi1m 34, [page](https://film.one/film/ice-cream-man.md)
- *Night Hunter* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Glass* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Americano* (2018), Executive Producer
- *The Catcher Was a Spy* (2018), Producer
- *Hereditary* (2018), Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/hereditary.md)
- *Dear Dictator* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Submergence* (2018), Executive Producer
- *John Wick: Chapter 2* (2017), Executive Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/john-wick-chapter-2.md)
- *Split* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Collateral Beauty* (2016), Producer
- *True Memoirs of an International Assassin* (2016), Producer
- *31* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Term Life* (2016), Producer
- *The Whole Truth* (2016), Producer
- *Sing Street* (2016), Producer
- *American Ultra* (2015), Producer
- *Jenny's Wedding* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Careful What You Wish For* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Some Kind of Beautiful* (2014), Producer
- *John Wick* (2014), Executive Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/john-wick.md)
- *We'll Never Have Paris* (2014), Executive Producer
- *By the Gun* (2014), Executive Producer
- *Laggies* (2014), Producer
- *The November Man* (2014), Executive Producer
- *Every Secret Thing* (2014), Executive Producer
- *Hateship Loveship* (2014), Executive Producer
- *Parts Per Billion* (2014), Executive Producer
- *Hours* (2013), Executive Producer
- *The Frozen Ground* (2013), Executive Producer
- *Night Train to Lisbon* (2013), Executive Producer
- *Celeste & Jesse Forever* (2012), Executive Producer
- *Veronika Decides to Die* (2009), Executive Producer
- *Premium* (2006), Producer

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