Not exact matches
His newest company, Silver Pictures Entertainment, is a partnership
with veteran producer Joel Silver to produce and
finance feature
films, and television and digital content.
Originally launched
with a focus on
film, Indiegogo pivoted to include funding for literally anything and is becoming known for
financing personal and cause - related campaigns such as that for the bullied bus monitor, which raised over $ 700,000.
For me, I'm older and I've dealt
with this whether it was in the
film industry, publishing, or
finance.
You can find yourself in a room
with people who are
financing the
film who don't watch movies themselves.
The confidentiality settlement reportedly paid to an adult -
film star who said she had an affair
with Donald Trump years before he became president may have violated campaign
finance laws, a watchdog group alleged Monday.
Born in Taipei, Taiwan and raised in Plano, Texas, Eugene received a BA in
finance with honors and a minor in
film studies from the University of Texas in 2013, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.
During a raid last month, FBI agents seized records about Cohen's clients and personal
finances — including documents related to money that Cohen paid adult -
film star Stormy Daniels to remain silent about an alleged decade - old affair
with Trump.
Filmmaker Steve Cowan posted full transcripts of his interviews
with Cuomo and Maffei on the
film's website, which include Maffei's observation he supports public campaign
finance «because it means the only people we'll have to worry about in our day are the taxpayers and constituents in our district, and that's what we're supposed to do.»
People familiar
with the investigation have said prosecutors are also investigating whether Cohen violated campaign
finance law by working to squelch damaging information about Trump before the November 2016 election, including
with a $ 130,000 payment to adult -
film actress Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.
Comprised of interviews
with finance types, individuals involved in the escort business, as well as Spitzer himself, Gibney's
film traces the former New York Governor's career from his start as an attorney general determined to take down corruption on Wall Street, to his status as a political joke after he was forced to resign for patronizing the Emperor's Club VIP escort service.
The professions of my participants were also diverse and included a surgeon, career educators, social justice activists, a FEMA rep (perfectly timed
with Hurricane Irma a mere 400 miles away), an international
finance expert, a former department of justice employee, lawyers, an actor /
film - maker and producer, an occupational therapist, and of course a an actor and yoga teacher.
A decade ago it was unimaginable to make a
film without major
financing, but now given the nature of new media and available technology, independent filmmakers can tell their stories
with a limited budget.
Financed, produced, directed and starring Oscar - winner Robert Duvall, this
film is a down - home yet very grittty at times story of a disgraced preacher on the run from the police after beating his soon - to - be ex-wife's new boyfriend
with a baseball bat at a baseball game.
Some of the idiocy that is being poked at for laughs doesn't seem so strange when you look at YouTube comments and E! Many of the things that are wrong
with this
film stem from the fact that it is very low budgeted and didn't get much
financing from its studio.
It's easy to see why this piffle had to be independently
financed - no
film company executive in its right mind would have touched it
with a barge pole.
That, combined
with the number of companies who helped
finance the
film through product placement, made this movie a no - brainer.
In honor of the
film's May 17th limited theatrical release, Chan took the time to run through all her feats from finding and working
with Lin to securing
financing, ensuring «33 Postcards» is a standout
film, and more.
With Haywire — his 23rd full length feature — he takes another stylistic left turn this being an independently
financed, relatively low budget B - movie style action
film of which a large portion was
filmed in Dublin back in 2010.
As well as writing and directing, Meyers will also produce the
film with Erika Olde under her Black Bicycle Entertainment, the company which is
financing the project.
She is currently Director of Digital, TV and Video Sales at Protagonist Pictures, an international
finance, production, and sales company
with a proven track record in outstanding
films and commercial successes.
She has helped
finance and distribute
films within production companies and in concert
with international sales agents both in France and England.
German started work on the
film in 1992, but
with the financial crisis that dominated post-Soviet Russia ran into
financing difficulties soon after.
Walker, a Sundance award - winning documentarian
with two Oscar nominations, made a deal
with Broad Green shortly before the 2015 Cannes
Film Festival to
finance her new
film, a sequel to Wim Wenders» 1999 hit «Buena Vista Social Club.»
Director Jeremy Saulnier's horror - thriller «Green Room» — which Broad Green
financed but did not release, selling the movie to A24 — premiered at the 2015 Cannes
Film Festival's Directors» Fortnight, but only after a lengthy dispute
with Broad Green over sending the
film to the festival at all.
Not until a
film hits the ground does a studio realize a fix is needed, and
finance sources inform us that
with Last Knight «s reported production cost of $ 217M and a global take of $ 604M, it's generating a small loss.
The next crop of movies coming
with Irish government
financing include «A Storm in the Stars,» a Mary Shelley biopic starring Elle Fanning; «The Breadwinner,» an animated
film coming out of Moore's Carton Saloon
with Angelina Jolie as an executive producer; Sheridan's latest «Secret Scripture,» starring Rooney Mara; and Whit Stillman's «Love & Friendship,» due in May.
SKE will
finance and produce the
film with Plan B Entertainment, which has Academy Award - celebrated
films «The Big Short,» «Selma,» «12 Years A Slave» and «The Departed» to its credit.
The
film's one main target is campaign
finance reform, which is enough to align it
with Hollywood's left leanings but not a divisive enough topic to turn off viewers.
Universal
financed the
film with Film4 / DNA.
Focus Features holds worldwide rights to the
film and is
financing production
with Film4.
The
film then depicts Melvin's life afterward, his on - again, off - again romance
with his kooky stripper wife, Lynda, and his troubles
with finances mostly caused by his own negligent nature.
Fortunately, writer - director Scott Cooper found
financing for Hostiles, a
film with much more on its mind than the pitfalls of the well - worn, currently not - often - attempted genre that in this case tries to make a case for racial understanding against all odds.
Payne said it was difficult on every level — writing,
financing, editing — and also addressed the lukewarm reviews it was met
with upon opening late last year, suggesting that its ambitious narrative may have been too much to fit into the framework of a single
film.
This is his fifth collaboration
with star Leonardo DiCaprio, but marks just his second feature shot digitally and combines a loosely mob - inflected story
with a topical, high -
finance setting, and so overall the
film promises to deliver an exciting blend of the old and the new from the director.
Many movie buffs know how John Ford made a deal
with low - budget «B» picture studio Republic Pictures to
finance his dream project The Quiet Man in exchange for making another of his popular «Calvary»
films, Rio Grande.
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.
Tense to an almost Hitchcockian degree, funny without sacrificing the stakes, gorgeously atmospheric, and lean enough to never outstay its welcome, the
film suggests that Saulnier is the real deal in a way that «Murder Party» never suggested, and the
film's success must be especially gratifying given that he
financed it mostly
with his savings.
The
film shot over eight weeks in Los Angeles,
with financing coming from multiple parties.
The
film was set to co-star THE GREY's Frank Grillo,
with the director looking at Russell Crowe or a reuniting
with Liam Neeson for the lead, but the studio
financing the project wanted a more action - orientated effort and were pushing for Bruce Willis as the antihero.
After success
with The Office, Extras and Derek, actor - comedian Ricky Gervais is returning to his most iconic role of David Brent for the feature
film Life On the Road, which has now secured
financing.
Screen Daily reports that Millennium Films is producing and
financing London Has Fallen,
with Focus Features onboard to distribute the
film in the U.S. Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, and Radha Mitchell will reprise their roles from the first
film,
with the story now revolving around a plot to strike London during the funeral of the British Prime Minister.
Exhibit, Kirin Media and Longzhilin are
financing the
film with Chris Ferguson of Oddfellows and Michael Baker of Bunk 11 producing.
August: Osage County and Philomena weren't expected to show up [here], but Fruitvale Station and Lee Daniels» The Butler seem like natural fits for the producers to acknowledge, what
with one being a breakout
film with real world political heft, and the other a surprise box office smash that took A LOT of producer wrangling to get
financed and made.
Fast - forward to last year,
with financing in place, the filmmaker began
filming her debut feature Mustang in late October
with Connie Britton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Gideon Adlon, Josh Stewart, Jason Mitchell and Bruce Dern in tow.
Shot in Northern Ireland the
film was
financed by The Fyzz Facility, BFI and Northern Ireland Screen in association
with Goldcrest.
When no suitable distribution deal materialized during the fest and the months afterward, the duo decided to take advantage of the Sundance Institute's brand new Artist Services program, which helps Sundance alumni (they had «12th and Delaware» at the fest in 2010)
with financing, distribution and promotion for their
films.
Some of the other facts included the manner in which Hitch
financed Psycho (mortgaged the house) when no studio would give him the
financing for a mere horror
film, and the lack of support from Paramount in releasing it (to two theaters,
with little to no marketing — that was dreamt up by Hitch).
But Pixar wanted a deal similar to the ones George Lucas have
with 20th Century Fox for the Star Wars prequels, namely that Pixar would
finance its own
films with budgets around $ 80 million and take 100 percent of the profits, and pay Disney a distribution fee.
One filmmaker will be awarded full
financing to produce her short
film, along
with the support of Tribeca Studios to make the project, and the four other projects will each be awarded grant funds to continue the development of their
films.
Self -
financed by Wiseau in 2003 for an estimated $ 6 million, «The Room» grossed $ 1,800 in its initial two - week Los Angeles run,
with one early review stating, «Watching this
film is like getting stabbed in the head.»