It's not hard to see a path where the number of faith -
based films financed by major studios increase.
Not exact matches
When Braff couldn't secure traditional
financing for the
film, he appealed to the fan
base he'd built up over nine seasons of Scrubs, asking them to donate cash so he could make the movie exactly as he wanted it made.
His next
film Inherent Vice,
based on the Thomas Pynchon novel of the same title, will reportedly start
filming this month having recently received
financing from Warner Bros..
OddLot Entertainment is a Los Angeles -
based film and television production company that develops, produces,
finances and arranges distribution for quality, commercial properties for both the domestic and international markets.
Producer Cathleen Sutherland along with her producer / colleagues Susan Kirr and Brandon Dickerson set out to make a
film based on an Icelandic novel some years ago, but the project fell through when
financing disappeared.
She is the Vice President of MUNDIAL, a Mexico City -
based international
film sales joint venture between prolific Hollywood production
financing and distribution company IM GLOBAL and CANANA, one of Latin America's top production and independent distributors.
He is the co-founder of Big Beach, a New York —
based independent
film - production and
financing company.
The
films nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards are selected
based on the following criteria: original, provocative subject matter; uniqueness of vision; economy of means with particular attention paid to total budget and individual; and percent of independent
financing.
Big Beach Founded in 2004 by Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf, Big Beach is a New York —
based company that produces and
finances independent
films, documentaries and works for stage.
At 60, the great auteur was at the height of his fame and yet was unable to convince Paramount to
finance his next
film, «Psycho,» a story
based on Robert Bloch's lurid novel about a serial killer.
The
film came close to production with Philip Kaufman directing and David Strathairn starring, only for
financing to fall apart, but it got her a job on another factually -
based space movie, «Capture The Flag,» as well as a third, Neil Armstrong biopic «First Man» at Universal.
A similar ersatz, too - late populism motors The Big Short — the movie begins with a quote from Mark Twain — though the cognitive dissonance it produces is even more dizzying than that generated by The Other Guys «closing credits: The handful of fact -
based finance guys the
film tracks, who saw that the economy was headed for calamity and made billions of dollars while millions of people lost homes and jobs, are held up as conscience - bearers.
An award - winning screenwriter I had recommended was hired and he did an AWESOME job on the movie adaptation, the line producer determined the budget
based on the screenplay, 100 % of the
financing for
film production has been secured, the list the producer wanted me to compile of possible actors for principle roles had been submitted; and just last week, the conceptual artist gave me a sneak peek of the preliminary visuals we might incorporate into the movie.
As a mobile space it is designed to fit into wherever it happens to be, and visitors during its week in Edinburgh could also catch an array of works by US sculptor John Chamberlain at Inverleith House; a fascinating and characteristically uncompromising show by the German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven at Talbot Rice; and two
films by the London -
based artist Beatrice Gibson at Collective addressing the global
finance system.
Represented a U.S. bank in an arbitration proceeding against an international
film distributor
based in Germany with respect to the
financing of multiple motion pictures
The Boies / Schiller
Film Group, a small
film finance company started by law firm founder David Boies and Zack Schiller (son of law firm co-founder Jonathan Schiller), is fronting the cash needed for comedy movie
based on reality show «COPS.»
Some of our notable entertainment and media attorneys are: John Quinn, General Counsel of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who has also represented entertainment and media clients in a number of high profile cases; Kathleen Sullivan, the former Dean of Stanford Law School, First Amendment scholar, and nationally renowned appellate advocate, who heads the firm's appellate practice group; Bob Raskopf, an expert in the sports, entertainment and media bars in New York, who is perhaps best known for his work on behalf of professional sports leagues and teams, newspapers and publishers; Claude Stern, who has represented a broad array of leading software developers, videogame manufacturers, online publishers and other media clients in all forms of intellectual property litigation, including copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark, and licensing disputes; Bruce Van Dalsem, who has tried and resolved disputes for studios, producers and performing artists in the
film, television, music and
finance businesses, securing a top five verdict in California
based on the misappropriation of a
film library; Gary Gans, an expert litigator in motion picture
financing, production and distribution disputes, as well as copyright and idea theft cases, who has been named in 2012 by The Hollywood Reporter as one of America's «Top Entertainment Attorneys;» Jeff McFarland, who has litigated entertainment related cases for more than 20 years, including cases involving motion picture and television series profits, video game licenses, idea theft and the «seven year rule;» and Michael Williams, who represents a satellite exhibitor and other media clients in trademark, copyright, patent, antitrust and other commercial litigation.
The company's Wilshire Avenue office suite is also the home of Breitbart News and a movie production company called Glittering Steel, which helped
finance the
films «Torchbearer,» starring «Duck Dynasty» star Phil Robertson, and «Clinton Cash,» a documentary
based on the book by Peter Schweizer.