Having racked up 130-plus movie credits over a 50-year producing career, Don Carmody has long been known as the Don of Hollywood North by studio bean counters who crunched the numbers and chose to save money by shooting in Canada. Now Carmody, at 75, is ready to leave the stage — or at least Canadian film sets — with a lavish sendoff planned for the 2026 Toronto Film Festival. “The days of me freezing my ass off at 2 o’clock in the morning on a film set are behind me,” Carmody tells The Hollywood Reporter. That’s after Hollywood catapulted him to the status of its most bankable producer in Canada, as he brought over $2 billion worth of…
