Since the early 1980s, Chubb has worked in Los Angeles as a producer and senior production executive supervising the development and production of several dozen films in addition to his own. From 1988 to 1992, he worked at Pressman Film Corp., from 1994 to 2003 at Alphaville, and at Michael London's Groundswell Productions from 2006 to 2007. Currently, Chubb is a producer on his own account through ChubbCo,[3] working in a wide variety of financing and distribution environments.
Prior to his work in the film business, Chubb also built a small business in New York publishing fine art photography.
Previously, he was executive producer on Ed Harris's Appaloosa,[1] based on the Robert Parker novel, starring Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger and Jeremy Irons (WB/New Line, 2008); Michael Almereyda's "Tonight at Noon," starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lauren Ambrose, Connie Nielsen and Rutger Hauer; and Alex Proyas's The Crow, starring Brandon Lee, which Miramax released in 1994.[8] He was associate producer on the Taviani brothers' Good Morning, Babylon.[1]
Between 2012 and 2014, Chubb was executive producer of five films: I Nostri Ragazzi, an Italian adaptation of the Koch novel, directed by Ivano De Matteo, which premiered at the 2014 Venice Film Festival; Het Diner, a Dutch adaptation of the Koch novel written and directed by Menno Meyjes (2012); Flying Home, an English-language film from Belgian writer-director Dominique DeRudddere starring Jamie Dornan (2012); and Parts Per Billion, by writer-director Brian Horiuchi, starring Frank Langella, Gena Rowlands, Rosario Dawson, Josh Hartnett, and Penn Badgely (2012).[1] In 2022 and 2024 he executive-produced two new adaptations of "The Dinner," from Brazil and South Korea.
Television
In television he was executive producer of five films: The National Tree[1] for Hallmark in 2009, Banshee (Oxygen Network, 2006), Everyday People[1] (HBO Films, 2004),[9]Don't Look Back for HBO in 1996, and Avalanche for Fox in 1994; and was an executive producer of the four-hour mini-series Attila for Studios USA and the USA Network, which aired 2001.[10]
Digital publishing
While continuing his movie and television work, in 2011 he partnered with Ron Martinez, founder and CEO of Invention Arts LLC, to create Aerbook, a digital publishing environment for authors and creators to make, publish and share media-rich, optionally interactive ebooks and apps designed for the fast-growing tablet marketplace.[11] The company pivoted to enabling digital commerce in media-rich streams and was sold to Ingram Content Group in 2015.
Other work
From 1999 to 2010, Chubb was the executive director of the Eggleston Artistic Trust, managing the career and business of the distinguished American artist and photographer, William Eggleston. In 2008 he produced "William Eggleston’s ‘Stranded in Canton,’" a documentary created by Robert Gordon from Eggleston’s videotapes originally shot in 1973.
