- Wrote his first full-length screenplay at 15 years.
- Graduated from York University, Toronto, Ontario in June 2006 with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in English and Mass Communication Studies.
- Dressed as "Tyler Durdin", Brad Pitt's character from Fight Club, for his high school 'Formal' (Prom).
- Entered the film industry as a co-op student for Season 1 of Witchblade: The TNT Original Series
- Voted "Most Likely to Be the Next Steven Speilberg" by his high school.
- Wrote a comic strip, "I Am Jack", for the York University paper, Excalibur, for three years that depicted himself as the main character, Mike, and also included ten of his friends and Sean Connery as Mike's arch-nemesis.
- Attended Glenforest Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario.
- He always aspired to be a cartoonist for Disney from early childhood right up until he was 15 when he directed a short 5-minute chase sequence for his Tech class that awarded him and his group members 99%.
- He earned the nickname "Batman" from his High School Football teammates because he always wore a tattered Batman shirt over his equipment at practice.
- His favourite Superhero is "Batman" from DC Comics
- His favourite composers are Thomas Newman, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Howard Shore, Hanz Zimmer, Alexandre Desplat, and Ennio Morricone.
- Personally designs and constructs his own masks for his films and has taught himself monster make-up effects.
- His favourite directors include Alfred Hitchcock, Ridley Scott, Tim Burton, Chris Nolan, Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino.
- Became engaged to De Anna Ienopoli on his 35th Birthday, August 4 2018.
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