Speaker Larry Grimaldi
Larry Grimaldi is Senior Vice President of Creative Affairs & Current Programming at Fox Entertainment Studios, where he helps create, develop, and produce entertainment programming in the television movie, scripted series, and independent feature film space. Currently, he and his teams manage a slate of more than three dozen projects in various stages of development and production across many domestic and international networks and streaming services. Grimaldi oversees the Original Movie and Current Series teams and helps strategically drive content creation and co-productions in both
the domestic and global markets.
Previously at Marvista Entertainment, Grimaldi was responsible for more than 85 television and indie films made for, or released by, Netflix, Amazon, Peacock, Disney+, Disney Channel, Discovery+ (with Food Network & HGTV), Hallmark, Lifetime, BET, and OWN, to name a few. Highlights include indie films, Daughter of the Bride, and Perfect Match, the Disney Original Movie, Under Wraps, Amazon’s Christmas Is Canceled, Netflix’s Falling Inn Love, and the independent YA film, Swimming for Gold, which can be seen on Hulu. Grimaldi also most recently served as an executive producer on the E! / Peacock films, Arranged Love, Royal Rendezvous, and Maybe it’s You. Series credits include The Way Home and Chicken Sisters for Hallmark.
Before joining Marvista, Grimaldi was an independent producer for many years and created programming for many networks and streamers, resulting in over 200 hours of commercial, controversial, and entertaining programming. He served as a producer on Rich Kids of Beverly Hills for E Entertainment, as well as multiple seasons of Bravo’s
successful TV series: Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Real Housewives of Orange County.
Grimaldi has also made documentary films including the awarding winning Camp Out, a film centering on a bible camp for Gay Christian kids for MTV Networks, the O Ambassadors for Oprah Winfrey, and the indie doc film, 55 Bucks about impoverished women in Tanzania, Africa.
Besides having a great love for television and film, Grimaldi is also an avid theatergoer, self-proclaimed foodie, world traveler and lover of all things Italian. He graduated from Villanova University and started his career working for veteran film producer Freddie Fields. Grimaldi currently lives in Los Angeles.
Speaking on: Meet a Scripted Executive; Production Partners