Larry Sanitsky

Larry Sanitsky was born in California. He was graduated from high school, and during college, he was looking to get into the network television business. His first job was to be hired as business affairs on NBC. After a mere successful run, he left NBC in 1981 to join Highgate Pictures, as business affairs, developing long-form television movies, but he left in 1983. Frank Konigsberg and Larry Sanitsky first met in the late 1970s when Konigsberg was running its own production and management company producing several movies on NBC, when Sanitsky himself was business affairs of NBC. His big break came in 1983, he joined Telepictures Productions, and together with Sanitsky, he optioned the rights to Stephen King's "It" for producers Jim Green and Allen Epstein. Both Konigsberg and Sanitsky both served as executive producers for Telepictures Productions, on the soap opera series "Rituals", and the long-form television movies "Wet Gold", "Surviving", "Right to Kill", "As Summers Die", "Strong Medicine" and "Act of Vengeance". In 1986, following the merger of Lorimar and Telepictures, the duo launched The Konigsberg/Sanitsky Company. It signed a non-exclusive production pact with Lorimar-Telepictures. There Konigsberg and Sanitsky produced the long-form television movies "Casanova", "Onassis: The Richest Man in the World", "Dance 'Til Dawn", "Where's the Hell That Gold?!"", "Babycakes", and the most successful of them all, the miniseries "The Tommyknockers" and "It", both based on novels by Stephen King. He also produced the television series "Angel Falls" for CBS, which was a major flop. In 1989, both The Konigsberg/Sanitsky Company, along with fellow TV movie producers The Steve Tisch Company, Michael Jaffe/Spectator Films, The Avnet/Kerner Company, Leonard Hill Films, Von Zerneck/Sertner Films, Steve White Productions and Robert Greenwald Productions, launched Allied Communications Inc., or ACI for short. The company is the distributor on made-for-TV movies and miniseries, produced by Konigsberg and Sanitsky. It was acquired by Pearson Television in 1997. In 1994, both Konigsberg and Sanitsky part ways, the former is starting its own company as an affiliate of ACI, and the latter signed with CBS to become executive vice president. There he oversaw the development for made-for-TV movies, as well as TV series, like "Central Park West", "John Grisham's The Cilent", "Bless This House", "Can't Hurry Love" and "Matt Waters". He resigned in 1995 under the arrival of Leslie Moonves, and both Konigsberg and Sanitsky resumed their relationships. There both Konigsberg and Sanitsky produced "A Loss of Innocence", and the miniseries "Titanic", "The Last Don" and "The Last Don II". In 1998, Konigsberg and Sanitsky part ways again, to launch their own production companies. Among their works the latter's current company is producing are long-form television movies "Final Jeopardy", "The Pennsylvania Miners' Story", "Open House", "Blessings", "A Very Married Christmas", "Riding the Bus with My Sister", "Company Town", "America", "Betty and Coretta" and "Whitney", the mini-series "Covert One: The Hades Factor", and the feature film "Special Correspondents". In 2019, Sanitsky was hit by a lawsuit from Warner Bros., regarding the rights to "IT", which was a claim the former Konigsberg and Sanitsky used while he was running Telepictures when both Konigsberg and Sanitsky secures the rights to "IT" as a miniseries. More recently, Sanitsky was producing a new feature film version of Stephen King's "The Tommyknockers", with Roy Lee and James Wan being involved as producers.