Company Profile

Kalahari Pictures is the film production company of Michael Murphey.

Kalahari Pictures is unique among the South African services companies in that it pools the expertise of a highly experienced veteran US movie producer, to form a company that understands the needs and concerns of foreign producers better than most.

Michael Murphey

Michael Murphey is an American feature-film and television producer with over twenty years of experience behind him. He has produced over thirty film and television projects, including two on Variety’s list of Hollywood’s top grossing movies, “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street II”.

Michael Murphey first came to South Africa in 1994 to produce “Kickboxer 5” and has since returned to film various other projects including “From Dusk Till Dawn – The Hangman’s Daughter” and “Texas Blood Money” for Miramax. Most recently he co-produced “The Triangle” for Electric Entertainment and the SciFi Channel and produced “The Librarian – The Return to King Solomon’s Mine” for Electric Entertainment and TNT.

Murphey previously served as the representative of the completion bond company, Film Finances, on numerous large-budget feature films shot in Sub-Saharan Africa.