Cary Murnion
BiographyCary Murnion and Jonathan Milott met at Parsons School of Design, where they teamed up to run a cutting edge animation, design, and advertising firm and began to explore filmmaking together. Their early collaborations pushed the boundaries of taste, technique, form, and humor. One of their first short films premiered at SXSW, which parlayed into feature filmmaking.
Their directorial feature film debut, 'Cooties', starring Elijah Wood and Rainn Wilson, premiered at The Sundance Film Festival. Cooties, distributed by Lions Gate, is available on VOD.
'Bushwick', their second feature film, starring Dave Bautista and Brittany Snow, premiered in the U.S. at The Sundance Film Festival and premiered Internationally at Cannes Director's Fortnight. Watch it on Netflix!
Cary and Jon's latest film is 'Becky', starring Kevin James, Lulu Wilson, Joel Mchale, and Amanda Brugel. This film was accepted and scheduled to premiere at 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and was released in theaters and drive-ins, becoming the number one movie at the US box office.
In the role of director
Becky (07/06/2020)
A teenage girl fights back against a gang of neo-nazis in Becky. Becky (Lulu Wilson) is a bullied high school student, who has a strained relationship with her father Jeff (Joel McHale) after the death of Becky’s mother. During a trip to the family cottage, Becky is not happy to find out that they have […]
Cooties (23/09/2015)
Prepubescent school children get turned into blood-thirsty zombies in the horror-comedy Cooties. Clint Hadson (Elijah Wood) is an aspiring novelist, who has recently returned to his hometown of Ft. Chicken, Illinois, where is gets a job to substitute at the local elementary school. It is there he is reunited with his old crush Lucy McCormick (Alison Pill), while […]