Tim Story
Directing
- Born
- March 13, 1970 (age 56) · Los Angeles, California, USA
Timothy Kevin Story (born March 13, 1970) is an American film director. He is best known for Barbershop (2002), Fantastic Four (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), and the Ride Along franchise. He has been nominated for two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Directing in a Feature Film/Television Movie in 2006 and 2013. He is a Los Angeles native and the founder of The Story Company, a production company co-founded with his future wife, Vicky, in 1996. He is the first African-American film director to have grossed over one billion USD at the box office.
Known for
Fantastic Four
June 29, 2005
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
June 13, 2007
Tom & Jerry
February 10, 2021
Ride Along
January 7, 2014
Shaft
June 14, 2019
Ride Along 2
January 14, 2016
Taxi
October 6, 2004
Think Like a Man
April 20, 2012
Think Like a Man Too
June 20, 2014
Barbershop
April 1, 2002
The Pickup
July 27, 2025
72 HOURS
July 20, 2026
Behind the camera29
- 202672 HOURS Director, Producer
- 2025The Pickup Producer, Director
- 2023Dashing Through the Snow Executive Producer, Director
- 2023The Blackening Director, Producer
- 2023Praise This Producer
- 2021Tom & Jerry Director, Executive Producer
- 2019Shaft Director, Executive Producer
- 2016Kevin Hart: What Now? Director
- 2016Ride Along 2 Director
- 2014Think Like a Man Too