Exclusive: As the FilmNation Entertainment team gathered in Santa Monica this week for the American Film Market, some reflection is in order. It has been 15 years since Glen Basner started the venture. Despite the hardships facing everyone at AFM with strikes and uncertainty, what a different a decade and a half makes. The launch happened in 2008, not the most fortuitous time to launch an indie film finance and production company with global ambitions.
“Back then, Summit and Mandate were the two top companies in the space,” Basner recalled when assessing the opportunity to launch a company back then. “Mandate was sold to Lionsgate and became a U.S. distributor, and Summit started their own U.S. distribution company. There was a hole in the marketplace we thought we could fill, and become that leading American international sales agent for feature films that had no connection to the U.S. distribution world.
“Back then, Summit and Mandate were the two top companies in the space,” Basner recalled when assessing the opportunity to launch a company back then. “Mandate was sold to Lionsgate and became a U.S. distributor, and Summit started their own U.S. distribution company. There was a hole in the marketplace we thought we could fill, and become that leading American international sales agent for feature films that had no connection to the U.S. distribution world.
- 11/2/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Roadshow Films has confirmed it's buying a one-third stake in Us-based producer/international sales agent FilmNation Entertainment for $US18 million.
The alliance will enable FilmNation to significantly grow its development and production slate with the capital going to content creation and/or acquisitions. Existing FilmNation partners will retain ownership positions in the company.
Village Roadshow told the Asx it is funding the purchase from cash reserves. It said the deal, effective January 1, initially will produce small equity-accounted profits before the expected lift in FilmNation's earnings after 2016.
FilmNation handled international sales on David Michod.s The Rover and See-Saw Films' upcoming Life from director Anton Corbijn, the saga of a freelance photographer's unlikely friendship with actor James Dean, starring Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan.
This year Kristina Ceyton, who produced The Babadook with Kristian Moliere, had a six-month attachement with its Los Angeles-based production department, funded by Screen Australia. .
The first...
The alliance will enable FilmNation to significantly grow its development and production slate with the capital going to content creation and/or acquisitions. Existing FilmNation partners will retain ownership positions in the company.
Village Roadshow told the Asx it is funding the purchase from cash reserves. It said the deal, effective January 1, initially will produce small equity-accounted profits before the expected lift in FilmNation's earnings after 2016.
FilmNation handled international sales on David Michod.s The Rover and See-Saw Films' upcoming Life from director Anton Corbijn, the saga of a freelance photographer's unlikely friendship with actor James Dean, starring Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan.
This year Kristina Ceyton, who produced The Babadook with Kristian Moliere, had a six-month attachement with its Los Angeles-based production department, funded by Screen Australia. .
The first...
- 12/18/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Jennifer Lawrence starrer House at the End of the Street gets new images Check out new photos from Relativity Media's House at the End of the Street directed by Mark Tonderai which also stars Elisabeth Shue, Max Thieriot and Gil Bellows. The horror opens in theaters on September 21st and is scripted by David Loucka from the story by Jonathan Mostow. Aaron Ryder, Peter Block and Hal Lieberman produce while Steve Samuels, Anthoni Visconsi II, Dominic Visconsi Jr., Allison Silver, Sonny Mallhi, Ryan Kavanaugh and Tucker Tooley serve as executive producers.
- 8/17/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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