phoenix pictures
veteran motion picture executive mike medavoy and former columbia pictures entertainment executive arnold w. messer on monday unveiled the formation of their new entertainment
label ,
phoenix pictures .
edward mcgurn (producer) began his association with mike medavoy’s phoenix pictures in 2007, where he currently serves as vice president of production .
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medavoy - - co - founder of orion pictures, producer on such films as
black swan ,
and chief executive of phoenix pictures - - received an outstanding achievement award at the festival, applauded by the city where he was born in 1941 to ukrainian jewish refugees .
the partners stressed that their start - up will be more akin to label companies such as new regency, morgan creek productions and castle rock, which rely on major studios for their distribution than do independent movie companies, such as savoy pictures and samuel goldwyn pictures .
the management of the start - up company, which includes medavoy, messer and former carolco pictures president and current phoenix consultant peter hoffman, will own 30% of phoenix. the remaining 70% will be owned by onex corp. , a canadian airline food and auto parts company, by great britain' s pearson television and sony pictures entertainment, along with two wealthy investors who medavoy and messer declined to name .
mike medavoy will close down phoenix pictures in 2013 following two decades of film production including “black swan, ” “ shutter island, ” “the people vs. larry flynt, ” “the thin red line” and “zodiac. ”
reservation road
star joaquin phoenix at the n. y. premiere .
joaquin phoenix at the n. y. premiere of
walk the line
joaquin phoenix at peta' s 15th anniversary gala and humanitarian awards in hollywood .
joaquin phoenix at the 39th annual country music association awards in n. y .
joaquin phoenix at the n. y. premiere of
buffalo soldiers .
director james gray and joaquin phoenix on the set of
two lovers .
phoenix pictures is one of the premiere entertainment labels in the film business, bringing quality films to audiences around the world. led by mike medavoy and arnie messer, two of the industry’s most respected senior executives, phoenix has established a reputation for consistently developing first - rate projects with some of hollywood’s top creative talent .
joaquin phoenix at the dolce & gabbana party during the 60th international cannes film festival .
welcome to phoenix pictures, one of the premier entertainment labels in the film business, bringing quality films to audiences around the world. led by mike medavoy and arnold messer, two of the industry’s most respected senior executives, phoenix has established a reputation for consistently developing first - rate projects with some of hollywood ’s top creative talent .
monday' s announcement triggered conflicting accounts of how much seed money the phoenix partners have .
joaquin phoenix and director james gray on the set of
we own the night .
spe also has tv rights to phoenix films outside of japan, north america and continental europe .
joaquin phoenix, elle fanning and director terry george on the set of
reservation road .
joaquin phoenix at the west coast opening of works by artist russell young in l. a .
joaquin phoenix at the gq 2005 men of the year awards at mr. chow beverly hills .
mike medavoy is chairman and ceo of phoenix pictures, a member of the usc center on public diplomacy advisory board, and co - author with nathan gardels of american idol after iraq: competing for hearts and minds in the global media age (wiley - blackwell, 2009) .
joaquin phoenix at the premiere of
we own the night
during the 60th international cannes film festival .
` joaquin phoenix at the gala premiere of
walk the line
during the 2005 toronto international film .
a native of lincoln, nebraska, messer is a graduate of harvard law school. he launched his career in the entertainment business as senior counsel at columbia pictures television in 1979. after a stint as vice president of business affairs at viacom international, messer returned to columbia pictures where he served first as senior vice president and later as executive vice president of worldwide business affairs. in 1983, he was named senior executive vice president of tristar pictures and president of its telecommunications group, where he oversaw the business of theatrical production as well as all ancillary marketing and television activities for the company .
phoenix is in production on “what to expect when you’re expecting” and will be the production entity on several other existing phoenix projects such as “the last voyage of demeter, ” which medavoy said is probably the most likely to go into production next. and he’ll continue to work on projects outside the phoenix banner with phoenix president arnie messer, co - presidents bradley fischer and david thwaits and vps christopher trunkey, edward mcgurn and doug mckay .
the company was formed in 1995 by mike medavoy and arnie messer, with partners including sony pictures entertainment, onex, fremantle media and showtime. phoenix ’s first three films were the mirror has two faces, directed by barbra streisand, two - time oscar® winner milos forman’s widely acclaimed the people vs. larry flynt and oliver stone’s u - turn. in 1997 legendary filmmaker terrence malick returned to filmmaking after 19 years with the thin red line for phoenix pictures, which went on to receive seven oscar® nominations: best picture, director, screenplay based on material previously published, cinematography, editing, score and sound. that same year, phoenix produced urban legend, which was the fifth top - grossing film released by columbia / tristar in 1998 .
jeff hoffman serves as a creative executive at phoenix pictures, where he manages the story department and works on a number of the films that are currently in development at the company. before arriving at phoenix, jeff was a chesterfield screenwriting fellow with paramount pictures, a stegner fellow in poetry at stanford university, and a michener fellow at the university of texas, where he received his mfa in writing. his plays have been performed throughout the united states and can be found in anthologies that are published by vintage and samuel french. his first collection of poems, journal of american foreign policy, won the new issues poetry prize and was published in 2011 .
we control over 95% of the gross profits after sony' s [ distribution ] fee and before creative participations ,
messer said .
we' re totally dependent on the performance of the pictures .
mike medavoy will close down phoenix pictures in 2013 following two decades of film production including “black swan, ” “shutter island, ” “the people vs. larry flynt, ” “the thin red line” and “zodiac. ” medavoy told variety on friday that he would shutter the company and sell the library in two years in order to spend more time [ … ]
joaquin phoenix at the photocall for
we own the night
at the palais des festivals during the 60th international cannes film festival .
spe, which will receive a low distribution fee, will have worldwide theatrical and video distribution rights to phoenix' s movies, excluding japan .
ben anderson serves as the executive vice president at phoenix pictures, where he oversees several film, television and new media projects that are currently being developed at the company. throughout his career, ben has been a successful serial entrepreneur and has founded or advised several start - ups in media and fashion. ben’s experience is bolstered by his dual graduate degree honors of having both his j. d. and mba .
showtime was expected to be an investor and to strike a pay tv deal with phoenix, but as of monday afternoon no deal had been completed .
a paramount release of a phoenix pictures production in association with sikelia prods. and appian way. produced by mike medavoy, arnold w. messer, bradley j. fischer, martin scorsese. executive producers, chris brigham, laeta kalogridis, dennis lehane, gianni nunnari, louis phillips. co - producers, joseph reidy, emma tillinger, amy herman. directed by martin scorsese. screenplay, laeta kalogridis, based on the novel by dennis lehane .
prior to joining phoenix, he worked as a line producer and as an assistant director for filmmakers such as david ayer, wim wenders, and werner herzog .
medavoy and messer said that phoenix will not pre - sell any foreign rights to its films except for in japan, where releasing costs are higher than most territories .
its last first - look deal with sony — under which phoenix would supply part of the production costs — expired in 2004, with “the sixth man” the final pic made under that arrangement. phoenix’s business model focuses on putting together packages, taking them to studios and then navigating the development process, even if it takes years .
harry potter and the half - blood prince not only marked rising sun pictures’ biggest contribution to the venerable potter franchise, it was among the largest and most challenging projects of any nature undertaken by the studio. a crew of artists worked for 12 months to deliver more than 250 visual effects shot that collectively amounted to nearly 22 minutes of screen time .
everything else moving in the sequence is cg. “visual effects supervisor tim burke and director david yates gave us the rough boundaries for the sequence and we played with those, ” notes yepes. “it was an overwhelming amount of objects, but we got great reference from tim and his team that included digital pictures and a catalog of every object in the room .
medavoy said the company has a unique arrangement with an international insurance broker that phoenix can use as collateral to secure loans with chemical bank, which will provide a revolving credit line for production financing .
medavoy told variety on friday that he would shutter the company and sell the library in two years in order to spend more time with his family and to focus on passion projects outside the phoenix banner .
the producer’s more - than - four decade hollywood career has encompassed stints as co - chief at united artists, orion and columbia. phoenix, notably, was involved in more than 25 films with the same exec team in place .
phoenix has a domestic network tv licensing agreement with cbs; a distribution agreement with canal plus for continental european tv rights, and a joint venture with pearson tv to produce movies of the week that gives pearson international rights to those projects .
a source close to the deal said spe' s direct equity investment is roughly $ 15 million, with a production financing commitment bringing the total investment to about $ 50 million. spe will contribute a certain percentage of the budget for each phoenix movie .
phoenix will initially concentrate on producing feature films, with the eventual goal of developing a presence in television and in other media. the company will make four movies a year with average budgets of $ 25 - $ 30 million - - with an ultimate target of eight annually. medavoy said the first film will probably begin production early next year .
medavoy and mckay announced a week ago that they had obtained rights to ray bradbury’s “dandelion wine, ” which will be produced outside phoenix. in july, medavoy and mcgurn reached a deal to develop and produce a feature film about the 33 chilean miners rescued from the san jose mine last year, with jose rivera (“motorcycle diaries”) writing the script .
shutter island, directed by martin scorsese and starring leonardo dicaprio, mark ruffalo, ben kingsley and michelle williams, will be in theaters in february 2010. phoenix is currently completing shanghai for the weinstein company, directed by mikael hafstrom, starring john cusack and gong li, and will soon be starting on darren aronofsky’s black swan, starring natalie portman, winona ryder and mila kunis. other feature films in development include a remake of robocop for mgm, and an adaptation of john grisham’s best - selling novel playing for pizza .
phoenix has also produced dick, lake placid, directed by steve miner, whatever it takes, directed by david raynr, mad about mambo, the sequel urban legends: final cut, directed by john ottman, roger spottiswoode’s the 6th day starring arnold schwarzenegger, basic, directed by john mctiernan; holes, based on the award - winning new york times best selling children’s novel, directed by andy davis; in my country, stealth, directed by rob cohen, and all the king’s men, directed by steve zaillian. in 2007 came the independently financed miss potter, directed by chris noonan, pathfinder, directed by marcus nispel, resurrecting the champ, directed by rod lurie, license to wed, directed by ken kwapis and the critically acclaimed zodiac, by david fincher .
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we control $ 500 million of production financing as of today between our equity investors, bank commitment and other deals ,
messer said .
but sources close to the deal said that with a combination of equity, production financing and bank credit, the amount of immediately available money is $ 120 - $ 140 million. that could rise as high as $ 500 million, said one of the sources ,
if they ramp up to eight movies a year and the movies perform well .
the new venture puts medavoy in business with the same company, sony, that ousted him - - albeit under a different management - - in january, 1994 .
“i want to do what excites me and i want to spend more time with my family, since i now have a 13 - year - old son, ” he said. “as always, i’m ready for new challenges. ”
medavoy has been involved in more than 300 films — including seven that have won the best - picture oscar going back to 1975’s “one flew over the cuckoo’s nest. ” he also penned a 2002 biography, “you’re only as good as your next one: 100 great films, 100 good films and 100 for which i should be shot. ”
“i’ve done all kinds of films — ‘terminator, ’ ‘robocop, ’ ‘silence of the lambs, ’ ‘philadelphia’ — so what i can say is that if it’s different, then it intrigues me, ” medavoy told variety two years ago .
medavoy announced in june that he and shanghai film group were teaming on a feature film and a tv miniseries, both set in china during wwii .
medavoy, who was born in shanghai in 1941, lived the first six years of his life there before immigrating to chile and then the u. s .
he also produced the wwii thriller “shanghai, ” which hasn’t yet been released by the weinstein co .
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born to russian - jewish emigrants in shanghai, medavoy’s family moved to chile in 1947, and later to the u. s. his career began at universal studios in the 1960s. since then, in various positions at several hollywood studios, he has overseen the release of many major american films, including one flew over the cuckoo’s nest (1975), rocky (1976), annie hall (1977), platoon (1986), philadelphia (1993), the thin red line (1998), and others .
public diplomacy magazine managing editor lauren madow spoke with medavoy about hollywood’s complex position as a potential diplomatic actor, as well as hollywood’s shifting role on the world stage since the publication of american idol after iraq, in which he wrote: “if culture is on the front line of world affairs in the times to come, then hollywood, as much as silicon valley, the pentagon, or the u. s. state department, has a starring role. ” 1
shanghai – - the shanghai international film festival kicked off saturday night by honoring a native - son turned hollywood producer, mike medavoy .
shanghai has roots for me. my parents lived here for 24 years and this is the place that gave them the safety net they needed ,
said medavoy, who lived in china' s biggest city until he was nearly 7. qin yi, a silver - haired former starlet, presented medavoy with the award. holding the heavy - looking golden goblet, he fumbled a handshake from her outstretched hand .
the 50 years i' ve spent in hollywood all started in cinemas here in shanghai ,
medavoy said, recalling the tears his late father shed upon landing at the city' s airport 15 years ago on a father - son trip to the first shanghai international film festival .
with over 25 feature films to its credit, the company has collaborated with sought after director talents such as martin scorsese, david fincher, darren aronofsky, oliver stone, milos forman, andy davis, bryan singer and terrence malick, as well as some of the industry’s biggest stars, including leonardo dicaprio, robert downey jr. , sean penn, arnold schwarzenegger, john travolta, ben kingsley, kate winslet, john cusack, jude law, renee zellwegger, kirsten dunst, michelle williams, edward norton, samuel l. jackson, robin williams, shia labeouf, jake gyllenhaal, ewan mcgregor, mark ruffalo, sigourney weaver, jennifer lopez, anthony hopkins, jamie foxx, eva mendes, adrien brody, woody harrelson, nick nolte, ian mckellen, barbra streisand and jeff bridges .
sample some of the best american films over the past thirty - five years and there’s a good chance mike medavoy played a role in the success of many of them. from agent to studio chief to producer, he has been involved with over 300 feature films, of which 16 have been nominated and 7 have won best picture oscars®, as well as numerous international film festival awards. medavoy began his career at universal studios in 1964. he rose from the mailroom to become a casting director. in 1965, he became an agent at general artist corporation and then vice president at creative management agency. joining international famous agency as vice president in charge of the motion picture department in 1971, he worked with such prestigious clients as steven spielberg, francis ford coppola, terrence malick, jane fonda, donald sutherland, gene wilder, jeanne moreau, and jean - louis trintignant .
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rsp shows its skills in home repairs, magic tricks and sleight of hand in its most ambitious potter package .
the work represented a breathtaking variety and included shots with hundreds of cg props, fluid simulations, volumetrics, particle effects, character animation, cloth simulations, cg environments, cg set extensions, concept artwork and daunting composites .
the most significant work involved the introduction of professor slughorn (jim broadbent), his transformation from “chair” to human form, and the amazing reassembling of his room. the latter involved approximately 200 cg props, including fragmentary pieces of a grand piano, grandfather clock, a chandelier and a birdcage magically repair themselves in the twinkling of an eye .
“everything is broken apart when harry and dumbledore enter the room as slughorn is hiding from the death eaters. dumbledore realizes it’s a spell and counters it by straightening everything out, ” recalls gregory yepes, rising sun’s visual effects supervisor. “our people did some really clever things for this sequence. there’s a picture frame on the wall that tilts to straighten itself out and that was the only moving practical thing on the set. ”
“some of the bigger pieces were cyber scanned. we also had a lighter on set who acquired tracking and camera match - move data. we modeled low - res versions of every prop so that when we started doing animation layout, we could pick elements from a catalogue and apply pre - designated camera moves. that was carefully driven by tim and david. the whole point was to avoid spending a lot of weeks working on models and textures. there were a lot of layers, especially debris. ”
for professor slughorn’s transformation, artists replaced the actor’s body from the next down with a cg body resembling an overstuffed chair. the chair animation combines the flouncy motion of large upholstery with the gestures of the actor .
another complex scene involved weasleys’ wizard wheezes, a magic shop specializing in practical jokes. rsp created or enhanced many of the shop’s wares including animated logos for shopping bags, ever - bashing boomerangs (that swing back to repeatedly hit the thrower), biting teacups (that transform into teeth), pygmy puffs (small, furry pets), a screaming yo - yo (that shrieks when played with) and dr. filibuster’s fabulous wet - start, no - heat fireworks. the team also produced a small, fire - breathing dragon for a machine that makes roasted nuts .
in several scenes, dumbledore’s hand needed to be replaced with a digital element to show how it had turned blackened and withered the result of a horcrux applied by voldemort. that required careful modeling and extremely fine compositing work to match the muscles and bones of the actor and his subtle hand gestures .
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expert, screw - turning narrative filmmaking put at the service of old - dark - madhouse claptrap ,
shutter island
arguably occupies a similar place in martin scorsese' s filmography as
the shining
does in stanley kubrick' s. in his first dramatic feature since
the departed ,
scorsese applies his protean skill and unsurpassed knowledge of hollywood genres to create a dark, intense thriller involving insanity, ghastly memories, mind - alteration and violence, all wrapped in a story about the search for a missing patient at an island asylum. a topnotch cast headed by leonardo dicaprio looks to lead this paramount release, postponed from its original opening date last fall to feb. 19, to muscular returns in all markets
as kubrick did with stephen king' s novel, scorsese uncustomarily ventures here into bestseller territory that obliges him to deliver certain expected ingredients for the mass audience and adhere to formula more than has been his nature over the years. although
the departed
and
cape fear
come close ,
shutter island
is the film that most forces the director to walk the straight and narrow in terms of carefully and clearly telling a story; if testing himself within that discipline was his intention, this most devoted of cinema students among major american directors gets an
a .
he also chose his material well. dennis lehane' s 2003 novel is quite a few notches above the norm for mass - market popular fiction; ingeniously structured and populated with a rogue' s gallery of intriguing, deceptive characters, the book is a real page - turner, spiked with game - changing twists, which draws upon perfectly legitimate medical, legal, historical and political issues .
it even offers an ending sufficiently ambiguous enough to inspire genuine debate. at its heart, however, it' s still a potboiler, smartly fashioned to yank the reader this way and that while providing a veneer of moral inquiry for respectability' s sake .
the script by laeta kalogridis (an exec producer on
avatar
said to have worked closely with james cameron on developing the project) faithfully hews to the letter and spirit of lehane' s tome, leaving scorsese and his top - drawer collaborators with the largely technical task of crafting a drum - tight suspenser that won' t take on too much water via the many memory flashbacks and surprise developments .
working in a format that recalls the moody, low - budget horror mysteries of the 1940s produced at rko by val lewton - - most pointedly
isle of the dead
and
the seventh victim ,
but in a far more visually vivid and explicit style - - scorsese employs an exquisite modern equivalent of old - fashioned process work to show u. s. marshals teddy daniels (dicaprio) and chuck aule (mark ruffalo) chugging the 11 miles on a ferry between boston and the eponymous island that' s home to ashecliffe hospital
warned by welcoming deputy warden (the excellent john carroll lynch) that the place houses only
the most dangerous, damaged patients ,
the two men get an eyeful of weird, zombie - like inmates doing menial work around an institution that resembles an impenetrable fortress - - because it was built as one, for use during the civil war .
it' s a heavy, deeply ominous place, outfitted by production designer dante ferretti to instill not only menace but also unease and anxiety; it' s deliberately made difficult for teddy and chuck, as well as for the viewer, to understand the proximity of one place to another, to know where one stands literally and figuratively, to decide where it' s safe and where it' s not. cloaking the mood is the pervasive disquiet of the cold war tension of 1954 .
this makes it harder to get a handle on the task at hand, which is finding rachel solando, the murderer of her three children, who somehow escaped from her tiny room, got past guards and presumably made her way out onto the island. the man in charge, dr. cawley (ben kingsley), is elegant, erudite and helpful, albeit only up to a point, and after interviewing staff and patients, teddy and chuck begin to feel they' re on a fool' s errand .
but there are forces that keep the men on the rocky, densely forested island .
teddy, a grizzled world war ii vet tormented by the fiery death of his wife (michelle williams in flashbacks) two years before - - as well as by visions of the corpses he found at dachau upon helping liberate the concentration camp - - finds a cryptic note left by rachel in her room that drives him forward. he may have hidden reasons of his own for sticking around. then there' s a gathering storm, which cuts off telephone and ferry service even before reaching full hurricane - level intensity .
one can rest assured that teddy is not alone in concealing secret motives and agendas. in fact, everyone has them and, beginning an hour in, they are parcelled out in astutely measured doses to keep you hanging on to the very end .
along the way, there are encounters with a brilliant doctor with a suspicious german accent (max von sydow); a perilous descent into the bowels of the notorious ward c, home to the worst of the worst; rising suspicions about what really goes on in this place and accompanying doubt as to whether anyone who arrives on shutter island ever is allowed to leave .
this is high - end popcorn fare adorned with a glittering pedigree by a powerhouse cast and crew. dicaprio appears deeply into his role; a lot is asked of him, physically and emotionally, and his battle - and - tragedy - scarred veteran embodies a tangible anguish. ruffalo is ideally cast as the older but junior agent who takes a lighter approach to serious matters. if this story had been made in the heyday of noir, kirk douglas could have played teddy and robert mitchum would have been a perfect chuck .
kingsley and von sydow bring their smooth confidence to bear on their roles as institution big shots, while jackie earle haley and patricia clarkson score in their individual big scenes .
but the greatest interest lies in the craftsmanship, which is provided in spades by ferretti, cinematographer robert richardson, visual effects and second - unit overseer rob legato, costume designer sandy powell, editor thelma schoonmaker and dozens of others. even when it' s clear scorsese has decided to employ fakery and allow it to be obvious, it' s done with elegance and beauty .
of at least equal interest is the soundtrack, supervised by robbie robertson, which employs mostly modern serious and classical music in the same manner of intelligent sampling that scorsese normally uses rock and borrowed movie compositions. the sudden infusions of discordant, atonal and otherwise unsettling passages by ligeti, penderecki, cage, adams and, more traditionally, mahler, among numerous others, further amplifies the sought - after climate of malignant ambiguity .
camera (deluxe color, panavision widescreen), robert richardson; editor, thelma schoonmaker; music supervisor, robbie robertson; production designer, dante ferretti; supervising art director, robert guerra; art directors, christina wilson, max biscoe; set decorator, francesca lo schiavo; costume designer, sandy powell; sound (dolby digital / dts / sdds), petur hliddal; supervising sound editors, philip stockton, eugene gearty; re - recording mixer, tom fleischman; visual effects supervisor, rob legato; visual effects, the basement, the syndicate, new deal studios; special effects coordinator, r. bruce steinheimer; special visual makeup effects, legacy effects; stunt coordinator, george aguilar; assistant director, joseph reidy; second unit director - camera, legato; casting, ellen lewis, meghan rafferty. reviewed at paramount studios, los angeles, feb. 10, 2010. (in berlin film festival - - noncompeting .) mpaa rating: r. running time: 138 min.
phoenix pictures is an american film production company that has produced films since the late 1990s with features including black swan ( 2010 ) , shutter island ( 2010 ) , the people vs. larry flynt ( 1996 ) , the thin red line ( 1998 ) , and zodiac ( 2007 ) . producers mike medavoy and arnold messer founded phoenix in november 1995 as an independent production company . they acquired financing from onex corporation , pearson television , and sony pictures entertainment . its business model was based on packaging films to present to studios and to then navigate the films ' development . variety said phoenix pictures was one of the few companies to produce more than 25 films with the same executive team in place . 
phoenix pictures is an american film production company that has produced films since the late 1990s with features including black swan (2010), shutter island (2010), the people vs. larry flynt (1996), the thin red line (1998), and zodiac (2007). producers mike medavoy and arnold messer founded phoenix in november 1995 as an independent production company. they acquired financing from onex corporation, pearson television, and sony pictures entertainment. its business model was based on packaging films to present to studios and to then navigate the films' development. variety said phoenix pictures was one of the few companies to produce more than 25 films with the same executive team in place.
phoenix pictures is an american film production company that has produced films since the late 1990s with features including black swan (2010), shutter island (2010), the people vs. larry flynt (1996), the thin red line (1998), and zodiac (2007). producers mike medavoy and arnold messer founded phoenix in november 1995 as an independent production company. they acquired financing from onex corporation, pearson television, and sony pictures entertainment. its business model was based on packaging films to present to studios and to then navigate the films' development. variety said phoenix pictures was one of the few companies to produce more than 25 films with the same executive team in place.