Exclusive: Former Universal Pictures Distribution and Marketing EVP John C. Hall has joined the team at American-European media fund Apx Group, as it continues to restructure and expand ahead of a planned listing on the New York Stock Exchange later this year.
Hall has been appointed special consultant to the Board of Directors and Head of the Marketing and Distribution Committee of the board of directors of Apx Group.
The Los Angeles-based executive will work directly with Apx Group’s London-based Global CEO, Shelley Hammond and the freshly announced Director of Distribution and Acquisition Anthony Buckner.
The group said the appointment is part of a strategic restructuring as it prepares for its expected listing on New York Stock Exchange.
“John is a brilliant addition to the Apx Group. He brings vast experience – especially with companies which are fast developing and existing on the outside realms of the norm and becoming game changers in their field,...
Hall has been appointed special consultant to the Board of Directors and Head of the Marketing and Distribution Committee of the board of directors of Apx Group.
The Los Angeles-based executive will work directly with Apx Group’s London-based Global CEO, Shelley Hammond and the freshly announced Director of Distribution and Acquisition Anthony Buckner.
The group said the appointment is part of a strategic restructuring as it prepares for its expected listing on New York Stock Exchange.
“John is a brilliant addition to the Apx Group. He brings vast experience – especially with companies which are fast developing and existing on the outside realms of the norm and becoming game changers in their field,...
- 3/22/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: American-European media fund Apx Group has appointed film industry veteran Anthony Buckner as Director of Film and Television Distribution and Acquisition, to head up a new department created as it continues its international expansion drive.
This new department will operate from Apx Group’s head office in Twickenham Film Studios in London, with Buckner working alongside CEO Shelley Hammond, who also heads up its UK production subsidiary Herd International Productions.
Buckner was previously Head of Sales at Mel Gibson and Bruce Davey’s Icon Entertainment International and then Kaleidoscope Film Distribution and has also worked with companies such as Magnolia Pictures and Gfm Films. In 2021, he launched his own company Buckstop Films.
The first project to be handled by Buckner and his team is Wish Dragon 2, the sequel to Sony Pictures Animation and Tencent Picture’s Shanghai-set 2021 film Wish Dragon which debuted internationally on Netflix in 2021.
Apx Group...
This new department will operate from Apx Group’s head office in Twickenham Film Studios in London, with Buckner working alongside CEO Shelley Hammond, who also heads up its UK production subsidiary Herd International Productions.
Buckner was previously Head of Sales at Mel Gibson and Bruce Davey’s Icon Entertainment International and then Kaleidoscope Film Distribution and has also worked with companies such as Magnolia Pictures and Gfm Films. In 2021, he launched his own company Buckstop Films.
The first project to be handled by Buckner and his team is Wish Dragon 2, the sequel to Sony Pictures Animation and Tencent Picture’s Shanghai-set 2021 film Wish Dragon which debuted internationally on Netflix in 2021.
Apx Group...
- 3/20/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
American-European Media Fund Apx Group has completed the acquisition of a 50% stake in the UK’s Twickenham Film Studios.
The 120-year-old facility in South West London has hosted a slew of classic titles across its history including The Italian Job and A Hard Day’s Night, as well as big-budget productions such as Bohemian Rhapsody and Top Gun: Maverick more recently.
The acquisition is the latest major addition to Apx Group’s global network of studios ahead of its planned public listing on the New York Stock Exchange later this year.
Under the operation, Apx Group will rebrand its global network of studios with the Twickenham Studios name.
The parties have also agreed on an accelerated expansion plan to acquire additional studios and land suited for studio construction in Europe and the US, all under the branding of Twickenham Studios.
The equity structure of this transaction was made together with Apx...
The 120-year-old facility in South West London has hosted a slew of classic titles across its history including The Italian Job and A Hard Day’s Night, as well as big-budget productions such as Bohemian Rhapsody and Top Gun: Maverick more recently.
The acquisition is the latest major addition to Apx Group’s global network of studios ahead of its planned public listing on the New York Stock Exchange later this year.
Under the operation, Apx Group will rebrand its global network of studios with the Twickenham Studios name.
The parties have also agreed on an accelerated expansion plan to acquire additional studios and land suited for studio construction in Europe and the US, all under the branding of Twickenham Studios.
The equity structure of this transaction was made together with Apx...
- 3/13/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
U.S.-Europe media fund Apx Group has acquired a 50% stake in London’s Twickenham Film Studios.
The move comes weeks after Twickenham Studios chair Sunny Vohra acquired a 6.95% stake in the Apx Group for more than $70 million, reflecting a market cap of $1.1 billion for Apx, which is planning a public listing on New York Stock Exchange later this year.
Apx and Twickenham did not disclose the financial value of the deal.
As part of the acquisition, Apx Group will rebrand its global network of studios with the Twickenham Studios name. The parties have also agreed on an accelerated expansion plan to acquire additional studios and land suited for studio construction in Europe and the U.S., all under the Twickenham Studios brand.
The equity structure of the transaction is made together with Apx Group’s and U.K. partner and production arm Herd International Productions and the partners Shelley Hammond,...
The move comes weeks after Twickenham Studios chair Sunny Vohra acquired a 6.95% stake in the Apx Group for more than $70 million, reflecting a market cap of $1.1 billion for Apx, which is planning a public listing on New York Stock Exchange later this year.
Apx and Twickenham did not disclose the financial value of the deal.
As part of the acquisition, Apx Group will rebrand its global network of studios with the Twickenham Studios name. The parties have also agreed on an accelerated expansion plan to acquire additional studios and land suited for studio construction in Europe and the U.S., all under the Twickenham Studios brand.
The equity structure of the transaction is made together with Apx Group’s and U.K. partner and production arm Herd International Productions and the partners Shelley Hammond,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
London-based businessman Sunny Vohra, chairman of Twickenham Film Studios, has acquired a 6.95 percent stake in Apx Group, a New York-, Los Angeles- and London-based film, media and entertainment fund owned by a group of private financiers from the U.S., Italy, Spain and the U.K.
The deal for the stake signals a £950 million ($1.14 billion at Thursday’s exchange rate) market capitalization for Apx, led by CEO Shelley Hammond, which is planning a public listing on the New York Stock Exchange later this year, the company said.
His investment of more than $70 million is in Class A shares, which come with voting rights, issued by Apx parent Apx Corp., meaning Vohra “becomes one of the main shareholders of Apx Group,” the firm highlighted. “In addition, Vohra joins the board of directors and (its) acquisition committee.” It added: “The terms and conditions of this transaction reflect a market cap of £950 Million for Apx Group,...
The deal for the stake signals a £950 million ($1.14 billion at Thursday’s exchange rate) market capitalization for Apx, led by CEO Shelley Hammond, which is planning a public listing on the New York Stock Exchange later this year, the company said.
His investment of more than $70 million is in Class A shares, which come with voting rights, issued by Apx parent Apx Corp., meaning Vohra “becomes one of the main shareholders of Apx Group,” the firm highlighted. “In addition, Vohra joins the board of directors and (its) acquisition committee.” It added: “The terms and conditions of this transaction reflect a market cap of £950 Million for Apx Group,...
- 3/1/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Apx Group has snapped up production company Burning Wheel’s development slate for a six-figure sum, Variety has confirmed.
The exact figure was not disclosed.
As part of the deal, Burning Wheel, who recently produced Danny Boyle’s biopic “Creation Stories,” will effectively be fully absorbed into Apx.
Altogether, the slate includes over 20 projects, both features and episodic. Among them are “American Tabloid,” a drama series about the U.S. press co-created by best-selling authors Bret Easton Ellis, pictured above, and Irvine Welsh (“Trainspotting”), an as-yet untitled project being developed with the Bram Stoker Estate and writer director Bruce Robinson (“The Rum Diary”) and another untitled project with writer Lily Robinson.
Apx intends to develop the slate alongside its U.K. subsidiary Herd International, which will include completing many of the distribution deals already in the works with U.S. networks.
“I am absolutely delighted that we have been given...
The exact figure was not disclosed.
As part of the deal, Burning Wheel, who recently produced Danny Boyle’s biopic “Creation Stories,” will effectively be fully absorbed into Apx.
Altogether, the slate includes over 20 projects, both features and episodic. Among them are “American Tabloid,” a drama series about the U.S. press co-created by best-selling authors Bret Easton Ellis, pictured above, and Irvine Welsh (“Trainspotting”), an as-yet untitled project being developed with the Bram Stoker Estate and writer director Bruce Robinson (“The Rum Diary”) and another untitled project with writer Lily Robinson.
Apx intends to develop the slate alongside its U.K. subsidiary Herd International, which will include completing many of the distribution deals already in the works with U.S. networks.
“I am absolutely delighted that we have been given...
- 2/6/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Shelley Hammond has been tapped as the new global Cep for American-European entertainment fund the Apx Group ahead of its upcoming planned merger and IPO.
Hammond was previously working in Apx’s U.K. division. In her new role she will ensure Apx’s network continues to expand in new territories as well as working on the company’s positioning and driving forward projects that are in development and in production. She will continue to support and develop the slate of film and episodic productions alongside her U.K. partners at Herd Productions, an Apx Global subsidiary.
Hammond will also head up Apx’s merger and acquisition committee which was set up in anticipation of a planned IPO through a merger in New York. In this role she will be tasked with coordinating major acquisitions to enable Apx to fit the pubic market.
“Apx has an incredibly talented team and...
Hammond was previously working in Apx’s U.K. division. In her new role she will ensure Apx’s network continues to expand in new territories as well as working on the company’s positioning and driving forward projects that are in development and in production. She will continue to support and develop the slate of film and episodic productions alongside her U.K. partners at Herd Productions, an Apx Global subsidiary.
Hammond will also head up Apx’s merger and acquisition committee which was set up in anticipation of a planned IPO through a merger in New York. In this role she will be tasked with coordinating major acquisitions to enable Apx to fit the pubic market.
“Apx has an incredibly talented team and...
- 1/12/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Apx Group, the New York-based U.S./European media and entertainment fund, has inked a deal with Black Deer Entertainment to set up a joint venture and fund worth €400 million (398 million).
Black Deer Entertainment is the London/Dubai-based producton and financing company previously known as Amg.Media Group. It is headed by Poya Shohani and Christopher Hurley.
Shohani founded Amg.Media and was group CEO while Hurley is an entrepreneur and producer.
The joint venture will administrate the €400 million over a five-year period. The fund will be put towards an independent VFX department to service film and episodic productions made within the Apx network.
Apx’s London subsidiary Herd International Productions will oversee the Jv, which will be managed by Herd’s Adi Cohen and Shelley Hammond in addition to Shohani and Hurley.
“We are very excited at our new collaboration with Apx Group and their great worldwide team,” said Shohani. “We have already identified major animation,...
Black Deer Entertainment is the London/Dubai-based producton and financing company previously known as Amg.Media Group. It is headed by Poya Shohani and Christopher Hurley.
Shohani founded Amg.Media and was group CEO while Hurley is an entrepreneur and producer.
The joint venture will administrate the €400 million over a five-year period. The fund will be put towards an independent VFX department to service film and episodic productions made within the Apx network.
Apx’s London subsidiary Herd International Productions will oversee the Jv, which will be managed by Herd’s Adi Cohen and Shelley Hammond in addition to Shohani and Hurley.
“We are very excited at our new collaboration with Apx Group and their great worldwide team,” said Shohani. “We have already identified major animation,...
- 10/28/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
New York and London-based American-European entertainment fund Apx Group has appointed Andy Capper as chief operating officer and head of North American operations.
He will oversee strategic and financial coordination of Apx’s North America activity as well as business activities across the European divisions. He will also oversee North American-originating financing activity, integrating Blockchain technology and new opportunities, especially those related to Apxcoin, which Apx launched in July.
Capper will also work closely with London production company Herd, which was formed earlier this year by Shelley Hammond, Ben Dillon, Hollie Richmond and Iggy Ellis, who merged Burning Wheel Productions and The Engine Room.
Herd is currently developing its slate of film and TV content, with the first production due to start shooting this winter.
Capper was previously at Vice Media, where he was chief editor and senior director, helping shape the Vice Media business philosophy. He helped start Vice’s U.
He will oversee strategic and financial coordination of Apx’s North America activity as well as business activities across the European divisions. He will also oversee North American-originating financing activity, integrating Blockchain technology and new opportunities, especially those related to Apxcoin, which Apx launched in July.
Capper will also work closely with London production company Herd, which was formed earlier this year by Shelley Hammond, Ben Dillon, Hollie Richmond and Iggy Ellis, who merged Burning Wheel Productions and The Engine Room.
Herd is currently developing its slate of film and TV content, with the first production due to start shooting this winter.
Capper was previously at Vice Media, where he was chief editor and senior director, helping shape the Vice Media business philosophy. He helped start Vice’s U.
- 8/22/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
New York and London-based TV and film investment fund Apx Group has partnered with L.A.’s Decentralized Pictures (Dcp) on a crypto currency scheme to help finance projects by up and coming directors.
The initiative is being unveiled at Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival.
Apx, which is headed by American-Israeli businessman Adi Cohen, has become active recently in the universe of NFTs and crypto currency.
The fund, which recently formed a U.K.-based division called Herd Productions with a starting budget of €100 million (105 million), will collaborate with Dcp — a non-profit headed by Leo Matchett and Mike Musante — to offer selected filmmakers awards totalling €5 million through Dcp’s Web3 structure.
Winning helmers and their projects will also be enabled by Apx’s network of production facilities in Europe and the U.S. “The awards will be granted by Dcp and its structure and will be closely guided by leading directors and filmmakers,...
The initiative is being unveiled at Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival.
Apx, which is headed by American-Israeli businessman Adi Cohen, has become active recently in the universe of NFTs and crypto currency.
The fund, which recently formed a U.K.-based division called Herd Productions with a starting budget of €100 million (105 million), will collaborate with Dcp — a non-profit headed by Leo Matchett and Mike Musante — to offer selected filmmakers awards totalling €5 million through Dcp’s Web3 structure.
Winning helmers and their projects will also be enabled by Apx’s network of production facilities in Europe and the U.S. “The awards will be granted by Dcp and its structure and will be closely guided by leading directors and filmmakers,...
- 8/5/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The New York-based fund is teaming up with Augusto Pelliccia and other Italian partners to invest in the local film and TV sector. Last week, New York-based outfit Dcr Finance Corp confirmed that it has secured a $500 million deal to bolster film and TV production in Malta. The outfit, headquartered in the Trump Building on Wall Street, has purposely created a consortium of studios and firms ready to invest in the small Southern European island's audiovisual sector. Dcr, whose team includes veteran producers Adi Cohen and Mark Damon, has announced that the deal was enabled by the advantageous local tax rebate, which can cover up to 40% of the production budget spent in the country. In detail, the consortium includes several Italian companies and is headed up by Augusto Pelliccia (Catharsys or The Afina Tales of the...
Mark Damon’s Dcr Finance Corp. has signed a deal to provide $65 million in financing for a new version of “Sinbad” with production set to begin in early 2020, Variety has learned exclusively.
Dcr, a media financing fund headed by Damon, Adi Cohen and Jordi Rediu, will unveil details to potential buyers at the American Film Market, which opens Nov. 6 in Santa Monica, Calif.
The funds will be mostly spent in Georgia through partners Len Gibson and Wayne Overstreet, of Go Media. The overall budget is expected to be around $120 million. Enrico Ballarin, whose credits include “Star Wars: Episode II” as a unit manager, will executive produce. “Sinbad” will be directed by Francesco Lucente, who also wrote the screenplay.
Dcr announced a deal in August with Atlanta-based Go Media Productions to join a private placement as a lead investor and provide up to $150 million in exchange for the investment being channeled...
Dcr, a media financing fund headed by Damon, Adi Cohen and Jordi Rediu, will unveil details to potential buyers at the American Film Market, which opens Nov. 6 in Santa Monica, Calif.
The funds will be mostly spent in Georgia through partners Len Gibson and Wayne Overstreet, of Go Media. The overall budget is expected to be around $120 million. Enrico Ballarin, whose credits include “Star Wars: Episode II” as a unit manager, will executive produce. “Sinbad” will be directed by Francesco Lucente, who also wrote the screenplay.
Dcr announced a deal in August with Atlanta-based Go Media Productions to join a private placement as a lead investor and provide up to $150 million in exchange for the investment being channeled...
- 10/29/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Isabela Merced get cast opposite Jason Momoa, “Starbright” gets financing and Afm announces its speakers.
Casting
Isabela Merced, formerly Isabela Moner, has come on board to portray the daughter of Jason Momoa in his upcoming revenge thriller “Sweet Girl” for Netflix.
Momoa will play a devastated man who vows to bring justice to the people responsible for his wife’s death while protecting his daughter, who is the only family he has left. “Sweet Girl” is written by Gregg Hurwitz, Philip Eisner and Will Staples. Brian Mendoza will direct. Momoa, Brad Peyton and Jeff Fierson are producing for Netflix.
Merced starred as the lead in Paramount’s “Dora and the Lost City of Gold,” which grossed more than $60 million domestically. Production of the “Sweet Girl” will take place in Pittsburgh.
Merced, who recently changed her name from Isabela Moner to honor her late Peruvian grandmother,...
Casting
Isabela Merced, formerly Isabela Moner, has come on board to portray the daughter of Jason Momoa in his upcoming revenge thriller “Sweet Girl” for Netflix.
Momoa will play a devastated man who vows to bring justice to the people responsible for his wife’s death while protecting his daughter, who is the only family he has left. “Sweet Girl” is written by Gregg Hurwitz, Philip Eisner and Will Staples. Brian Mendoza will direct. Momoa, Brad Peyton and Jeff Fierson are producing for Netflix.
Merced starred as the lead in Paramount’s “Dora and the Lost City of Gold,” which grossed more than $60 million domestically. Production of the “Sweet Girl” will take place in Pittsburgh.
Merced, who recently changed her name from Isabela Moner to honor her late Peruvian grandmother,...
- 10/22/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, the Austin Film Festival selects a Terrence Malick title, “A Day Without a Mexican” gets a sequel and Dcr Finance signs a first-look deal.
Festival Screening
The Austin Film Festival will screen Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life,” which won the Francois Chalais and Ecumenical Jury awards at the Cannes Film Festival.
Starring August Diehl and Valerie Pachner, the film follows the true story of an Austrian farmer who refused to yield to Nazi forces in World War II. Fox Searchlight will open “A Hidden Life” on Dec. 13.
The festival, which runs Oct. 24-31, is also screening the Harriet Tubman biopic “Harriet,” written by Kasi Lemmons and Gregory Allen Howard and starring Cynthia Erivo, Joe Alwyn, and Janelle Monáe. Aff will also screen “The Truth” from writer/director Hirokazu Koreeda, starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, and Ethan Hawke, and the world premiere of the documentary feature “Cowboys,...
Festival Screening
The Austin Film Festival will screen Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life,” which won the Francois Chalais and Ecumenical Jury awards at the Cannes Film Festival.
Starring August Diehl and Valerie Pachner, the film follows the true story of an Austrian farmer who refused to yield to Nazi forces in World War II. Fox Searchlight will open “A Hidden Life” on Dec. 13.
The festival, which runs Oct. 24-31, is also screening the Harriet Tubman biopic “Harriet,” written by Kasi Lemmons and Gregory Allen Howard and starring Cynthia Erivo, Joe Alwyn, and Janelle Monáe. Aff will also screen “The Truth” from writer/director Hirokazu Koreeda, starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, and Ethan Hawke, and the world premiere of the documentary feature “Cowboys,...
- 8/24/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Mark Damon’s Dcr Finance Corp., co-headed with financer Adi Cohen, has received a $150 million investment from Go Media Productions for Georgia projects, Variety has learned exclusively.
Damon, whose credits include “2 Guns” and “Lone Survivor,” made the announcement Monday with Cohen. The deal calls for Atlanta-based Go Media Productions to join a private placement as a lead investor and provide up to $150 million in exchange for the investment being channeled back into the Georgia film industry. Len Gibson and Wayne Overstreet are the Go Media principals.
Most of the post-production will take place in Georgia, and Cohen told Variety that the funding should lead to new studio and post-production facilities along with training programs that will include significant hiring of personnel.
“It is indeed a great opportunity for Dcr to have visionaries like Go Media as part of the Dcr team and a major investor in the fund,” Cohen and Damon said.
Damon, whose credits include “2 Guns” and “Lone Survivor,” made the announcement Monday with Cohen. The deal calls for Atlanta-based Go Media Productions to join a private placement as a lead investor and provide up to $150 million in exchange for the investment being channeled back into the Georgia film industry. Len Gibson and Wayne Overstreet are the Go Media principals.
Most of the post-production will take place in Georgia, and Cohen told Variety that the funding should lead to new studio and post-production facilities along with training programs that will include significant hiring of personnel.
“It is indeed a great opportunity for Dcr to have visionaries like Go Media as part of the Dcr team and a major investor in the fund,” Cohen and Damon said.
- 8/19/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, financing has been secured for a Nicolas Cage police drama, feature drama “Topside” is unveiled and the late Tom Snyder is getting a tribute from his daughter.
Financing Completed
Dcr Finance Corp. has signed a deal to complete the financing for Nicolas Cage’s upcoming crime drama “10 Double Zero.”
The project, which begins shooting on July 29 in Louisiana, is directed by Christian Sesma (“Vigilante Diaries”) from a script he co-wrote with “Green Book” writer Nick Vallelonga about a pair of officers who set out to avenge the killings of several fellow officers in a public shootout with bank robbers. As they get closer to solving the crime, they find themselves the targets of a conspiracy in the ranks of the police force.
“10 Double Zero” was unveiled in May during the Cannes Film Festival with Wonderfilm and Ton of Hats producing. Dcr Finance...
Financing Completed
Dcr Finance Corp. has signed a deal to complete the financing for Nicolas Cage’s upcoming crime drama “10 Double Zero.”
The project, which begins shooting on July 29 in Louisiana, is directed by Christian Sesma (“Vigilante Diaries”) from a script he co-wrote with “Green Book” writer Nick Vallelonga about a pair of officers who set out to avenge the killings of several fellow officers in a public shootout with bank robbers. As they get closer to solving the crime, they find themselves the targets of a conspiracy in the ranks of the police force.
“10 Double Zero” was unveiled in May during the Cannes Film Festival with Wonderfilm and Ton of Hats producing. Dcr Finance...
- 7/19/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Mark Damon receives an investment from Cinevideotech, Hollywood publicists set their awards show, Rob Zombie’s “3 From Hell” and a 9/11 documentary “You Are Here” get release dates.
Investment
Mark Damon’s Dcr Finance Corp., co-headed with financer Adi Cohen and producer Jordi Rediu, has received a $25 million investment from Cinevideotech Inc., Variety has learned exclusively.
The fund’s first investment will be the P&a for Vietnam War drama “The Last Full Measure,” which Roadside Attractions will release on Oct. 25. The film stars Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, with Ed Harris and Samuel L. Jackson and is directed by Todd Robinson. Damon produced “The Last Full Measure” through his Foresight banner and is also handling worldwide sales.
Film entrepreneur Egon Stephan heads Cinevideotech. Damon’s credits include “2 Guns” and “Lone Survivor.”
The deal was orchestrated and brokered by 444 Film Group and Financing Dreams Today founder,...
Investment
Mark Damon’s Dcr Finance Corp., co-headed with financer Adi Cohen and producer Jordi Rediu, has received a $25 million investment from Cinevideotech Inc., Variety has learned exclusively.
The fund’s first investment will be the P&a for Vietnam War drama “The Last Full Measure,” which Roadside Attractions will release on Oct. 25. The film stars Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, with Ed Harris and Samuel L. Jackson and is directed by Todd Robinson. Damon produced “The Last Full Measure” through his Foresight banner and is also handling worldwide sales.
Film entrepreneur Egon Stephan heads Cinevideotech. Damon’s credits include “2 Guns” and “Lone Survivor.”
The deal was orchestrated and brokered by 444 Film Group and Financing Dreams Today founder,...
- 7/2/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Dcr Finance Corp backing feature project with director.
Dekel Berenson’s short film Anna, which is premiering in Competition at Cannes this year, is being developed into a feature by New York and La-based media fund Dcr Finance Corp.
The short, a Ukraine-uk-Israel co-production, follows an aging single mother living in war-torn Eastern Ukraine who is desperate for change. Lured by a radio advertisement, she goes to party with a group of American men who are touring the country, searching for love. Svetlana Alekseevna Barandich played Anna.
Berenson is in an advanced stage of writing the feature script and will also direct.
Dekel Berenson’s short film Anna, which is premiering in Competition at Cannes this year, is being developed into a feature by New York and La-based media fund Dcr Finance Corp.
The short, a Ukraine-uk-Israel co-production, follows an aging single mother living in war-torn Eastern Ukraine who is desperate for change. Lured by a radio advertisement, she goes to party with a group of American men who are touring the country, searching for love. Svetlana Alekseevna Barandich played Anna.
Berenson is in an advanced stage of writing the feature script and will also direct.
- 5/19/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive. Music entrepreneur Mike Amoia is joining the film and TV investment efforts at Dcr Finance Corp., a New York-based film and media fund founded by Adi Cohen, Mark Damon and Jordi Rediu.
Amoia, who founded Mibe Music Co. — which controls rights to more than 100,000 tracks with over 2700 independent songwriters, composers, talents and artists — has also been a music producer and angel investor. He will join Dcr’s $100 million private placement as a lead investor and head Dcr’s music investment committee along with Mibe partner Peter Zepina. Amoia and Zepina will determine Dcr’s decisions about buying into films and TV projects involving music and publishing rights.
The participation by the Mibe duo brings the total raise by Dcr to more than $19 million and the firm is set to wrap up two more significant investment deals over the next four weeks. All placement funds will be earmarked to finance...
Amoia, who founded Mibe Music Co. — which controls rights to more than 100,000 tracks with over 2700 independent songwriters, composers, talents and artists — has also been a music producer and angel investor. He will join Dcr’s $100 million private placement as a lead investor and head Dcr’s music investment committee along with Mibe partner Peter Zepina. Amoia and Zepina will determine Dcr’s decisions about buying into films and TV projects involving music and publishing rights.
The participation by the Mibe duo brings the total raise by Dcr to more than $19 million and the firm is set to wrap up two more significant investment deals over the next four weeks. All placement funds will be earmarked to finance...
- 5/16/2019
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Dcr Finance Corp has launched a a $100 million film and media fund that will be used to finance small to midsize films across Europe and the U.S., with the goal to help filmmakers complete their movies and land distribution.
The first pic to receive funds will be Roadside Attractions’ The Last Full Measure, the upcoming Todd Robinson Vietnam War drama based on a true story and starring Sebastian Stan. Dcr will invest in the P&A for the pic, which has an October 25 release date after Roadside acquired the film in Toronto.
The film is produced by Foresight Unlimited chairman Mark Damon, who will now join the Dcr board along with producer Jordi Rediu. Dcr Finance Corp, a New York- and Los Angeles-based media finance firm that specializes in equity investments and entertainment funding, was founded by venture capitalist Adi Cohen, who also a producer on Last Full Measure.
The first pic to receive funds will be Roadside Attractions’ The Last Full Measure, the upcoming Todd Robinson Vietnam War drama based on a true story and starring Sebastian Stan. Dcr will invest in the P&A for the pic, which has an October 25 release date after Roadside acquired the film in Toronto.
The film is produced by Foresight Unlimited chairman Mark Damon, who will now join the Dcr board along with producer Jordi Rediu. Dcr Finance Corp, a New York- and Los Angeles-based media finance firm that specializes in equity investments and entertainment funding, was founded by venture capitalist Adi Cohen, who also a producer on Last Full Measure.
- 4/30/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Fund launched with Dcr Finance Corp.
The Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab (Jsfl) and Us-based Dcr Finance Corp have launched a $5m fund for projects over the next five years.
The Dcr Fund for Excellence in Films will award three prizes totalling around $500,000 to both pitched and work-in-progress project during the Jsfl every July. These will be comprised of 80% investments and 20% grants.
Two prizes will be awarded via an international jury to works in progress and a further prize will be presented to a project in development. The Fund said the amount invested in a project will depend on...
The Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab (Jsfl) and Us-based Dcr Finance Corp have launched a $5m fund for projects over the next five years.
The Dcr Fund for Excellence in Films will award three prizes totalling around $500,000 to both pitched and work-in-progress project during the Jsfl every July. These will be comprised of 80% investments and 20% grants.
Two prizes will be awarded via an international jury to works in progress and a further prize will be presented to a project in development. The Fund said the amount invested in a project will depend on...
- 2/13/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
In today’s film news roundup, “Vice” wins in Capri, Ninet Tayeb is starring in “Tell Me Why I Don’t Like Mondays,” and Chen Kaige’s “Legend of the Demon Cat” gets U.S. distribution.
Capri Awards
“Vice” has won four awards at the Capri-Hollywood International Film Festival, including best picture, best supporting actress for Amy Adams, and the editing and makeup awards.
Alfonso Cuaron won best director for “Roma,” which also won best foreign language film and for best production design. “A Star Is Born” received awards for best sound editing, best sound mixing and best original song.
Two awards went to “The Wife”: best actress for Glenn Close and best supporting actor for Jonathan Pryce. “First Man” won for best visual effects and best original score. Writing awards went to “Green Book” for best original screenplay, and “BlacKkKlansman,” for best adapted screenplay. Marcello Fonte won the...
Capri Awards
“Vice” has won four awards at the Capri-Hollywood International Film Festival, including best picture, best supporting actress for Amy Adams, and the editing and makeup awards.
Alfonso Cuaron won best director for “Roma,” which also won best foreign language film and for best production design. “A Star Is Born” received awards for best sound editing, best sound mixing and best original song.
Two awards went to “The Wife”: best actress for Glenn Close and best supporting actor for Jonathan Pryce. “First Man” won for best visual effects and best original score. Writing awards went to “Green Book” for best original screenplay, and “BlacKkKlansman,” for best adapted screenplay. Marcello Fonte won the...
- 1/3/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Roadside Attractions is planning a wide 2019 theatrical release for Todd Robinson’s The Last Full Measure. The distributor has acquired U.S. rights on the Vietnam drama that stars Avengers: Infinity War‘s Sebastian Stan along with Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Peter Fonda, Diane Ladd, Amy Madigan, Jeremy Irvine and Bradley Whitford.
The film recounts an untold story about the heroism of American soldiers in Vietnam. Irvine plays William Pitsenbarger, an Air Force medic who saved over 60 men in one of the harshest battles of the Vietnam War. Offered the chance to escape on the last helicopter out of the combat zone, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend the lives of his fellow soldiers. Twenty years later, his comrade in arms (Hurt) and father (Plummer) seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman (Stan) and other surviving veterans of the battle to finally procure him...
The film recounts an untold story about the heroism of American soldiers in Vietnam. Irvine plays William Pitsenbarger, an Air Force medic who saved over 60 men in one of the harshest battles of the Vietnam War. Offered the chance to escape on the last helicopter out of the combat zone, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend the lives of his fellow soldiers. Twenty years later, his comrade in arms (Hurt) and father (Plummer) seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman (Stan) and other surviving veterans of the battle to finally procure him...
- 9/6/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Roadside Attractions has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the Vietnam War drama “The Last Full Measure.”
The big attraction here is a starry cast that includes Sebastian Stan in a non-Avengers role, and “War Horse’s” Jeremy Irvine. They’re supported by a horde of Oscar winners and nominees that includes Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Peter Fonda, Diane Ladd and Amy Madigan. The company plans to release the film theatrically in early 2019.
Todd Robinson (“Phantom”) directs the film, which tells the true story of William Pitsenbarger (played by Irvine), an Air Force medic who saved over 60 men in one of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam. Instead of getting helicoptered out of the combat zone, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to try to save more of his fellow soldiers. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger’s comrade in arms (Hurt) and father (Plummer) team up with an investigator...
The big attraction here is a starry cast that includes Sebastian Stan in a non-Avengers role, and “War Horse’s” Jeremy Irvine. They’re supported by a horde of Oscar winners and nominees that includes Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Peter Fonda, Diane Ladd and Amy Madigan. The company plans to release the film theatrically in early 2019.
Todd Robinson (“Phantom”) directs the film, which tells the true story of William Pitsenbarger (played by Irvine), an Air Force medic who saved over 60 men in one of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam. Instead of getting helicoptered out of the combat zone, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to try to save more of his fellow soldiers. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger’s comrade in arms (Hurt) and father (Plummer) team up with an investigator...
- 9/6/2018
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Jeremy Irvine plays Air Force media William Pitsenbarger.
Roadside Attractions has picked up Us rights from ICM Partners and Foresight Unlimited to Todd Robinson’s The Last Full Measure starring Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Jeremy Irvine, Ed Harris and Diane Lane.
Stan plays a military investigator who helps Vietnam veterans build a case for the posthumous award of the Congressional Medal of Honor to William Pitsenbarger (Irvine), a heroic Air Force medic who saved more than 60 lives during battle. Peter Fonda, Amy Madigan, and Bradley Whitford round out the key cast.
Roadside Attractions plans a wide theatrical release...
Roadside Attractions has picked up Us rights from ICM Partners and Foresight Unlimited to Todd Robinson’s The Last Full Measure starring Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Jeremy Irvine, Ed Harris and Diane Lane.
Stan plays a military investigator who helps Vietnam veterans build a case for the posthumous award of the Congressional Medal of Honor to William Pitsenbarger (Irvine), a heroic Air Force medic who saved more than 60 lives during battle. Peter Fonda, Amy Madigan, and Bradley Whitford round out the key cast.
Roadside Attractions plans a wide theatrical release...
- 9/6/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Bcl Finance Group, a fund headed by Adi Cohen, Michael Bassick and Michael Laundon, has signed a deal to complete the financing of political legal drama “Roe v. Wade.”
The film finished shooting in July. Bcl Finance made the announcement on Tuesday, with U.S. Senate beginning confirmation hearings on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh’s views on abortion are expected to be a major component of those hearings.
Bcl Finance said it anticipates a wide U.S. release in winter. The company said “Roe v. Wade” is the “untold” story of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that found that a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman’s decision to have an abortion.
The film stars Jon Voight as Chief Justice Warren Burger, Robert Davi as Justice William Brennan, Stacey Dash as National Right to Life president Mildred Mildred Jefferson,...
The film finished shooting in July. Bcl Finance made the announcement on Tuesday, with U.S. Senate beginning confirmation hearings on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh’s views on abortion are expected to be a major component of those hearings.
Bcl Finance said it anticipates a wide U.S. release in winter. The company said “Roe v. Wade” is the “untold” story of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that found that a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman’s decision to have an abortion.
The film stars Jon Voight as Chief Justice Warren Burger, Robert Davi as Justice William Brennan, Stacey Dash as National Right to Life president Mildred Mildred Jefferson,...
- 9/4/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Bcl Finance Group has signed a deal to complete the financing package for the horror movie “Superstition — The Rule of Three’s” with Ingenious Media.
Bcl Finance is a New York film finance fund headed by financiers Adi Cohen, Michael Bassick (“American Made”), and producer and financier Michael Laundon. The company will provide $3.3 million as part of the deal.
“Superstition — The Rule of Three’s” has wrapped production in Georgia and will complete filming in Louisiana. The cast includes Amanda Cerney, Shad Moss, Ludacris, Lauren Alysa McClain, Terayle Hill, Taylour Paige and Tyga.
The story takes place after two unrelated deaths occur on a university campus, with a co-ed and her friends unwittingly pulled into participating in the Dead Pool — an online game based on the superstition that death comes in threes, in which students place bets on who will die next. What starts as an immature joke soon turns to terror,...
Bcl Finance is a New York film finance fund headed by financiers Adi Cohen, Michael Bassick (“American Made”), and producer and financier Michael Laundon. The company will provide $3.3 million as part of the deal.
“Superstition — The Rule of Three’s” has wrapped production in Georgia and will complete filming in Louisiana. The cast includes Amanda Cerney, Shad Moss, Ludacris, Lauren Alysa McClain, Terayle Hill, Taylour Paige and Tyga.
The story takes place after two unrelated deaths occur on a university campus, with a co-ed and her friends unwittingly pulled into participating in the Dead Pool — an online game based on the superstition that death comes in threes, in which students place bets on who will die next. What starts as an immature joke soon turns to terror,...
- 5/12/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid -- Venture capital fund CA Capital Markets announced Wednesday the launch of pan-European entertainment platform Regal Entertainment Corporation, with offices in New York, Barcelona and Munich.
Regal Entertainment Corporation, with €150 million ($224.5 million) in start-up capital, will focus on entertainment in three cultural regions in Europe: Spanish speaking territories with its headquarters in Barcelona, the German speaking territories with its regional headquarters in Munich and the overseeing English speaking territories through its corporate headquarters in New York.
According to CA founder Adi Cohen, "Regal's philosophy is aimed at controlling the financial process of film making from development and production to distribution and theatrical releases. Regal has achieved this by acquiring or in the process of acquiring production and distribution arms in its various territories and theater complexes, through which it will launch theatrical releases."
The announcement comes as Regal inks a deal to acquire 75% of Barcelona-based art house producer Zip Films.
Regal Entertainment Corporation, with €150 million ($224.5 million) in start-up capital, will focus on entertainment in three cultural regions in Europe: Spanish speaking territories with its headquarters in Barcelona, the German speaking territories with its regional headquarters in Munich and the overseeing English speaking territories through its corporate headquarters in New York.
According to CA founder Adi Cohen, "Regal's philosophy is aimed at controlling the financial process of film making from development and production to distribution and theatrical releases. Regal has achieved this by acquiring or in the process of acquiring production and distribution arms in its various territories and theater complexes, through which it will launch theatrical releases."
The announcement comes as Regal inks a deal to acquire 75% of Barcelona-based art house producer Zip Films.
- 11/18/2009
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
San Sebastian, Spain -- U.S. venture capital fund GC Financial Group has acquired a 25% stake in Barcelona-based Zip Films for €3.7 million, giving it a foothold in Spain from which to launch a European expansion.
"Now we have a base in Europe to take advantage of the financing structure for independent films," GC managing partner Adi Cohen said Thursday. "Zip is our base with the Spanish-speaking film industry, and gives us a place to launch our European entertainment operation."
Cohen said GC would be looking to buy another film company in Germany as part of its strategy.
"In the last 10 years most independent films were financed out of Europe," Cohen said. "We're looking to be in the center of the process, instead of at the end of the food chain."
GC gives Zip access to a $22.4 million in revolving credit as the newly teamed entity looks to become what Cohen calls a "Pan-European,...
"Now we have a base in Europe to take advantage of the financing structure for independent films," GC managing partner Adi Cohen said Thursday. "Zip is our base with the Spanish-speaking film industry, and gives us a place to launch our European entertainment operation."
Cohen said GC would be looking to buy another film company in Germany as part of its strategy.
"In the last 10 years most independent films were financed out of Europe," Cohen said. "We're looking to be in the center of the process, instead of at the end of the food chain."
GC gives Zip access to a $22.4 million in revolving credit as the newly teamed entity looks to become what Cohen calls a "Pan-European,...
- 9/24/2009
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Al Pacino, who has long been interested in tackling the character of Napoleon, is on tap to play the French emperor in a screen adaptation of Staton Rabin's children's book "Betsy and the Emperor."
Gc Corp., the venture capital fund headed by Adi Cohen and Joseph Grinkorn, has picked up rights to the project that had been held by the Bob Yari Co. Gc, which will secure financing, has assigned "Betsy" to Killer Films, with plans to begin filming in late autumn.
John Curran ("The Painted Veil") is attached to direct from a screenplay by Brian Edgar.
Producing are Killer Films' Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler as well as Zvi Howard Rosenman, Colleen Camp and Fonda Snyder. Cohen and John Wells will serve as exec produce.
Killer, Curran and Pacino are repped by CAA. Rosenman, Snyder and Rabin are repped by Lynn Pleshette for this project, and Camp is repped by Gersh.
Gc Corp., the venture capital fund headed by Adi Cohen and Joseph Grinkorn, has picked up rights to the project that had been held by the Bob Yari Co. Gc, which will secure financing, has assigned "Betsy" to Killer Films, with plans to begin filming in late autumn.
John Curran ("The Painted Veil") is attached to direct from a screenplay by Brian Edgar.
Producing are Killer Films' Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler as well as Zvi Howard Rosenman, Colleen Camp and Fonda Snyder. Cohen and John Wells will serve as exec produce.
Killer, Curran and Pacino are repped by CAA. Rosenman, Snyder and Rabin are repped by Lynn Pleshette for this project, and Camp is repped by Gersh.
- 4/7/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Looks like Killer Films might once again position themselves in one of those uncomfortable situations where they embark on a project knowing that there is another similar project floating around. Recently I had discussed how they might lose in the first to get the Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg biography out there (their John Krokidas-directed Kill Your Darlings is going up against Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein's Howl) and now they have set up another fatal scenario – it all depends on whether financiers/producers Adi Cohen and Joseph Grinkorn’s Gc Corp. have really been able to acquire “all film and stage adaptation rights” as stated by Variety. Problem is that Killer Film's Betsy and the Emperor might be going up against Napoleon and Betsy – a project pegged with a 2010 start date after actress Emma Watson completes the Deathly Hallows part I and II. Watson would play the titular role of Betsy Balcombe.
- 4/7/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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