RANDALL EMMETT MEGAN ELLISON DAVID ELLISON RICHARD BRANSON and GEORGE FURLA Annapurna Pictures Skydance Prods. Virgin Produced Emmet/Furla Films BACKGROUND: The daughter of Oracle founder and BACKGROUND: Son of Oracle chief Larry Ellison, BACKGROUND: Branson’s fi lm arm, paired up with billionaire Larry Ellison, Megan prefers indies and David’s Skydance is the primary fi nancing partner Relativity Media, is one of the 400 divisions that BACKGROUND: Partnered with Russian oil and real dramas vs. her brother’s penchant for tentpoles, for Paramount, backing four to six fi lms a year. make up the British entrepreneur’s Virgin Group, estate moguls Stepan Martirosyan and Remington although she ponied up $20 million for rights to the Prefers “elevated event entertainment.” Obsessed which also includes airlines, rail, music, mobile, William Chase’s Envision Entertainment to create Terminator franchise. Prefers to keep a low profi le. with fl ying, he’s behind a reboot of “Top Gun”; food, and space-travel businesses. Goal is to a $250 million revolving equity and debt fund to dropped out of USC fi lm school at 23 to fund 30% promote Relativity and its own movies across all back midbudget, star-driven pics. of $60 million-budgeted WWI drama “Flyboys,” his 1. True Grit (Par, 2010) $251 mil of Virgin’s brands. Ranked as Forbes’ 4th richest fi rst fi lm, which crashed and burned. citizen of the U.K. last year; worth $4.2 billion. 1. Rambo (Lionsgate, 2008) $114 mil 2. Passion Play (Image, 2010) $3,700 3. (Magnolia, 2011) 2. Righteous Kill (Overture, 2008) $78 mil Main Street $2,600 1. Mission ... Ghost Protocol (Par, 2011) $654 mil 1. Immortals (Relativity, 2012) $217 mil 3. ( 2. (Par, 2010) Street Kings Fox Searchlight, 2008) $65 mil UPCOMING FILMS: The Wettest County (Aug. 31); Co- True Grit $251 mil 2. Limitless (Relativity, 2011) $162 mil 4. 16 Blocks (WB, 2006) $60 mil gan’s Trade (Sept. 21); Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama 3. Flyboys (MGM, 2006) $18 mil 3. Machine Gun Preacher (Sony, 2011) $1 mil Bin Laden actioner; Bitterroot; Spike Jonze’s un- 5. The Wicker Man (WB, 2006) $36 mil titled dramedy; Mark Boal’s WikiLeaks drama; UPCOMING FILMS: GI Joe: Retaliation (June 29); My UPCOMING FILMS: 21 and Over UPCOMING FILMS: Lay the Favorite; Empire State; Terminator sequels Mother’s Curse (Nov. 2); World War Z (Dec. 21); Freelancers; End of Watch; Broken City; Fire With Star Trek sequel (May 17, 2013); One Shot (Feb. Fire; The Tomb; 2 Guns; Rule #1; Frozen Ground 8, 2013)
JEFF SAGANSKY STEVEN RALES BILL POHLAD TIM HEADINGTON Hemisphere Capital Management Indian Paintbrush River Road FilmDistrict and GK Films
BACKGROUND: The former Sony and CBS exec and BACKGROUND: The billionaire industrialist, worth BACKGROUND: Son of billionaire Carl Pohlad, part BACKGROUND: The Dallas-based oil magnate and partner in Winchester Capital (“The Men Who more than $2.7 billion, is chairman of Washington owner of the Minnesota Twins baseball team; shut- real estate developer formed FilmDistrict in 2010 Stare at Goats,” “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee”) D.C.-based manufacturing conglom Danaher Corp. tered distribution label Apparition in 2010 to focus with Graham King, with whom he’s backed GK launched Hemisphere Tentpole Co-Financing Fund Staffed up Indian Paintbrush with execs from Scott on developing and producing fi lms. One of Forbes’ Films since 2007. Ranked as 420th richest person in 2011 with Jean-Luc De Fanti and Eli Baker to Rudin Prods, Overbrook and Focus Features. 400 richest Americans. in the world at $2.7 billion last year by Forbes. back a portfolio of 12-16 tentpole pics over a fi ve- year period across various studios, starting with 1. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Fox, 2009) $46 mil 1. Brokeback Mountain (Focus, 2005) $178 mil $200 million for the fi rst four fi lms. 1. The Tourist (Sony, 2010) $275 mil 2. Darjeeling Limited (Fox Searchlight, 2007) $35 mil 2. Into the Wild (Par Vantage, 2007) $56 mil 2. Rango (Par, 2011) $246 mil 3. Young Adult (Par, 2012) $18 mil 3. Tree of Life (Fox Searchlight, 2011) $54 mil 1. The Smurfs (Sony, 2011) $564 mil 3. The Town (WB, 2010) $153.5 mil 4. Like Crazy (Par Vantage, 2011) $3.5 mil 4. Lust, Caution (Focus, 2007) $67 mil 2. Adventures of Tintin (Par, 2011) $372 mil 4. Hugo (Par, 2011) $121 mil 5. ( 5. (Summit, 2010) Towelhead Warner Ind., 2008) $676,000 Fair Game $24 mil 5. (WB, 2010) UPCOMING FILMS: Men in Black III (May 25); World Edge of Darkness $82 mil War Z (Dec. 21); The Smurfs 2 UPCOMING FILMS: Jeff Who Lives at Home (March UPCOMING FILMS: Voyage of Time; Genius; The Age UPCOMING FILMS: Argo (Sept 14); World War Z 16); Moon Rise Kingdom (May 16); Seeking a of Miracles; Brian Wilson biopic (Dec. 21); biopic of Freddie Mercury; Home; The Friend for the End of the World (June 22) Vault; Tomb Raider
THOMAS TULL THOMPSON BROTHERS JEFF SKOLL JORDAN SCHUR Legendary Entertainment Cross Creek Pictures Participant Media and DAVID MIMRAN Mimran Schur Pictures BACKGROUND: A fanboy of comicbooks, toys and BACKGROUND: Brothers Timmy, Tommy, Todd, Tyler BACKGROUND: The second employee of eBay, Skoll genre movies, Tull launched Legendary in 2005 by and Bobby (who made their fortune in Louisi- launched Participant in 2004 to make socially rel- BACKGROUND: Schur launched metal band Limp Bi- co-fi nancing “Batman Begins,” as part of a seven- ana from oil and real estate) and the banner’s evant movies and documentaries covering the en- zkit through Flip Records before moving to Geffen year deal with WB. Now also produces fi lms in China president, Brian Oliver, launched Cross Creek with vironment, healthcare, human rights, institutional Records as the music biz’s youngest label head at through Legendary East. Co-owns the Pittsburgh $40 million. It now has three-year, six-pic deal at responsibility, peace and tolerance, and social and 35. Mimran is vice chairman of Breeden Partners’ Steelers, featured in “The Dark Knight Rises.” Universal. economic justice. Partnered with Imagenation Abu $2 billion fund, investor in Milestone Capital Part- Dhabi, Summit Entertainment. ners and Monaco-based industrial food-processing 1. The Dark Knight (WB, 2008) $1 bil 1. Black Swan (2010) $392 mil conglom Eurafrique, Sometra and Cavpa. Shingle 1. (DreamWorks, 2011) $209 mil has co-fi nancing deal with Lionsgate. 2. Inception (WB, 2010) $825.5 mil 2. Ides of March (Sony, 2011) $69 mil The Help 2. (WB, 2011) $137 mil 3. The Hangover Part II (WB, 2011) $581.5 mil 3. The Woman in Black (CBS, 2012) $54 mil Contagion 1. (Lionsgate, 2011) $23 mil 3. ( Warrior 4. Clash of the Titans (WB, 2010) $493 mil Charlie Wilson’s War U, 2007) $117 mil 2. (Overture, 2011) $9.5 mil UPCOMING FILMS: Rush; Arthur Newman, Golf Pro; 4. (WB, 2005) Stone 5. The Hangover (WB, 2009) $467.5 mil Syriana $91 mil Black Mass; Steve McQueen biopic; Boneshaker; 3. Henry’s Crime (Moving Pics, 2011) $205,000 Hellfi re Club; The Creed of Violence 5. The Kite Runner (Par Vantage, 2007) $72 mil UPCOMING FILMS: Wrath of the Titans (March 30); UPCOMING FILMS: Five Against a Bullet; Pawn The Dark Knight Rises (July 20); Jack the Giant UPCOMING FILMS: The Best Exotic Marigold Shop Chronicles; Revenge Wedding; Rapture- Killer (March 22, 2013); Pacifi c Rim (May 10, Hotel (May 4); Last Call at the Oasis; Middle of palooza 2013); Man of Steel (June 14, 2013) Nowhere; Lincoln; Snitch