Penney Finkelman Cox

Penney Finkelman Cox was born in 1951. She is a producer and assistant director, known for The Prince of Egypt (1998), Shrek (2001) and Snakes on a Plane (2006). She is married to Jim Cox. They have two children.

Early life
In 1985, she moved to Walt Disney Studios where she was responsible for establishing the production entities to create and animate Roger Rabbit, Tim Burton's The Nightmare before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. She was also instrumental in helping PIXAR establish itself as a digital film entity to create Toy Story. In addition to working on up to twenty studio films a year, her responsibilities included overseeing traditional animation as well as Theme Park Films.

Career
Always attracted to new challenges, Finkelman Cox helped build the animation division of DreamWorks Studios from scratch and was instrumental in the purchase of PDI, helping to build it into a digital effects theatrical giant. Finkelman Cox produced DreamWorks' first traditionally animated feature, The Prince of Egypt and followed that up with the computer animated Antz, which marked the first feature from PDI/DreamWorks. In 2001, Finkelman Cox served as an executive producer on the computer animated blockbuster box office hit, Shrek, which won the first Academy Award for best-animated film.

Other works
From 2002-2009 she began a new division Sony Pictures Animation where she served as Senior Executive Vice President. The new animation division for Sony Studios required hiring personnel and building a new animation company to rival DreamWorks, Disney and Pixar in quality. During her tenure she developed and produced the hit comedies Open Season, Surf's Up, and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, she also purchased and developed the 2012 hit Hotel Transylvania.

Personal life
Finkelman Cox and her producing partner Sandra Rabins have an independent production entity, Patchwork Productions, which executive produced the 2007 feature film Snakes on a Plane. Currently Patchwork Productions is developing several projects with studios in Japan and China, with the first movie releasing in 2016.

Producer

 * Broadcast News (1987) - (co-producer)


 * Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) - (producer)


 * Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990) - (producer)


 * V.I. Warshawski (1991) - (executive producer)


 * I'll Do Anything (1994) - (executive producer)


 * 'Til There Was You (1997) - (producer)


 * Antz (1998) - (executive producer)


 * The Prince of Egypt (1998) - (producer)


 * Joseph: King of Dreams (2000) - (executive producer)


 * Shrek (2001) - (executive producer)


 * Snakes on a Plane (2006) - (executive producer)

Thanks

 * The Road to El Dorado (2000) (special thanks)


 * Chicken Run (2000) (special thanks)


 * Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) (special thanks)