Umedia's in House Production Teams Operate in 5 Locations Development
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3 OVERVIEW FOUNDED STAFF 2004 160 BRUSSELS LONDON LOS ANGELES PARIS VANCOUVER PRODUCTION FINANCING VFX & FINISHING 4 OVERVIEW EU FILM TOP 5 PRODUCTION GROUP 30-40 $110M FILMS FINANCED & TURNOVER PRODUCED ANNUALLY $500M 370 INVESTED FILMS FINANCED THROUGH AND IN-HOUSE FUNDS PRODUCED 5 FILMOGRAPHY Starring Aaron Eckhart and Olga Directed by François Kurylenko Ozon with Jérémie Starring Lily James, Renier and Marine Vacth Directed by Olivier Christopher Plummer Dahan with Nicole and Jai Courtney Kidman, Tim Roth Directed by Julio Soto Starring Idris Elba and Gemma Arterton Winner of 5 Academy Awards Directed by Paul Starring Benicio Grossing over $75M at Verhoeven, starring del Toro and Josh the box office Carice van Houten and Hutcherson Directed by Lisa Azuelos, Matthias Schoenarts starring Sveva Alviti and Jean-Paul Rouve Starring Keanu Reeves Directed by Jalil Lespert with Pierre Niney and Guillaume Gallienne 6 FILMOGRAPHY CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2017 L’AMANT DOUBLE Official competition (Marine Vacth, Jérémie Renier) AFTER THE WAR Un certain regard CANNES FILM FESTIVAL (Jean-Marc Barr, Barbora Bobulova) 4 AWARDS 20 AWARDS OTEZ-MOI D’UN DOUTE Quinzaine des réalisateurs 19 nominations 62 nominations (Cécile de France, François Damiens) 5 AWARDS 3 AWARDS 8 AWARDS 11 nominations 6 nominations 15 nominations 7 PRODUCTION DEVELOP FEATURES $7M - $40M RANGE 30 - 40 FILMS FINANCE ANIMATION ACROSS ALL PER YEAR PRODUCE TV GENRES UMEDIA’S IN HOUSE PRODUCTION TEAMS OPERATE IN 5 LOCATIONS PRODUCTION FINANCE UMEDIA DEVELOPMENT SUBSIDIARIES • Umedia Development Fund • A dozen in-house Senior • Ability to finance 40-50% of • Be-FILMS: leading TV • Development Executives Production Executives/ a production budget production company based in Los Angeles and Producers across our offices • Umedia Development Fund • Nexus Factory: one of London supported by production • Umedia Belgian Tax Shelter Belgium’s leading feature • Packaging teams Fund and animation companies • In-house Counsel and • Umedia Equity Fund Business Affairs • Physical Production Department • In-house PR and Marketing Department 8 IN PRODUCTION I KILL GIANTS by Oscar winner Anders WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY? by Tommy SUBMERGENCE by Wim Wenders with Walter with Zoe Saldana Wirkola with Glenn Close, Noomi Rapace, James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander Willem Dafoe Jo Voets Jo WHERE HANDS TOUCH by Amma Asante OVERDRIVE by Antonio Negret with Ana de DEEP by Julio Soto (Belle, A United Kingdom) Armas and Scott Eastwood BLACK 47 by Lance Daly with Hugo Weaving SWIMMING WITH MEN by Oliver Parker JOURNEY’S END by Saul Dibb with Sam Claflin, and Jim Broadbent (Importance of Being Earnest) Toby Jones, Paul Bettany and Asa Butterfield 9 FINANCING ONE-STOP SHOP IN EUROPE • Leading producer & financier with over 370 films produced & financed • Unparalleled expertise in co-production and financing structures across the EU 1. IN-HOUSE FUNDS 2. DETERMINES OPTIMAL STRUCTURE • Umedia Development Fund • Maximises financing available • Umedia Tax Shelter Fund • Increases creative & production value > Largest in Belgium (€40M per annum) • Optimizes soft components and their combinations > Invests 40%+ of Belgian spend > up to 25% of budget • Umedia Equity Fund - 5 to 20% budget COMBINED FINANCING AVAILABLE FOR 40-50% OF THE PRODUCTION BUDGET 10 I KILL GIANTS Directed by Academy Award Winner Anders Walter • CAST: Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, Madison Wolfe. • PRODUCERS: Umedia, Chris Columbus/1492 Pictures (Harry Potter), M&M Productions, XYZ (The Raid), Man of Action (Big Hero 6). • LOGLINE: Barbara Thorson is a misfit, who battles the monsters in her life, both real and imagined. Umedia acquired, financed & produced the project, including: • Restructured the project as a Belgian-Irish co-production. • Oversaw all production and VFX ($3M+VFX budget). • Completed the packaging of the project and negotiated all talent and crew contracts. • Invested 20% of the budget via the Umedia Equity Fund, with additional finance from the Umedia Tax Shelter Fund, with 50% total structured finance. • Led on the financial closing with Ingenious. • Secured the Irish production partner. • Advanced the pre-production finance. • Managing final delivery and responsible to the completion bond. 11 VFX & FINISHING SERVICES OFFERED VFX FINISHING Budgeting Dailies Previsualization Conform Design Color Grading On-set supervision Deliverables / Mastering 2D & 3D VFX Remote Services CURRENT PROJECTS I Kill Giants Hello Destroyer La Promesse de l’aube Chasing Evel What Happened to Monday Juggernaut Marseille Sweet Virginia Frantz 35 FILMS IN 2016 12 VFX & FINISHING BRUSSELS • VFX Studio located in the heart of Brussels • Market Leader • 80 VFX artists • +- 20 films per year PARIS • VFX Studio located in the heart of Paris • Led by Thierry Delobel • 20-30 VFX artists • +- 15 films per year VANCOUVER (newly opened) • VFX and Finishing Studio in downtown Vancouver • Led by Academy Award Nominee, Peter Muyzers • 35 VFX Artists • Integrated approach incorporating high-quality VFX services with the finishing requirements of post production By combining the Umedia Equity Fund with the Umedia Tax Shelter AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE Fund, Umedia is capable of financing an important part of the VFX VFX BUDGET FINANCED budget. The financing opportunity is reviewed on case-by-case basis. 13 WORD FROM THE CEO ADRIAN POLITOWSKI CEO UMEDIA NADIA KHAMLICHI CEO UMEDIA 14 WORD FROM THE CEO My associate, Nadia Khamlichi and I, have strived to build a company that is a fun place to work as well as a well-oiled, efficient organisation. A corporation with soul and heart incarnated by passion " for both cinema and entrepreneurship. Every morning, I wake up driven by these two passions and looking forward to be working with a smiling and stellar team. Beyond passion, fun and efficiency, you can expect two important modus operandi working with Umedia. Firstly, we work without ego. We have made mistakes and we have owned up to these and learned valuable lessons. And as we go forward, we are also prone to make mistakes. If ever we make any, we will tackle them, by facing them in transparency and with accountability. Secondly, we have built Umedia, since its inception 13 years ago, with a long-term vision; we seek to collaborate in a manner where there is a true win-win, so as to create a long-term, mutually beneficial relation. I have wanted to work in films since the age of 16. I am grateful to be living my dream. I have seized all the opportunities presented to me and tried to make most of them. However, a lot of people in the world are not presented with the same opportunities. We are the happy few. And it is both Nadia’s and my conviction that Umedia has to play a larger role in society by having a positive impact on many souls. To sum it up, we believe that in business, as in life, the way you do anything, is the way you do everything. Strength & Honour, ADRIAN POLITOWSKI " 15 CONTACT PRODUCTION AND FINANCING LOS ANGELES Peter Bevan – EVP of Production [email protected] PARIS Martin Metz – SVP of Production [email protected] BRUSSELS Gilles Waterkeyn - EVP of Production [email protected] Bastien Sirodot – SVP of Production [email protected] Tatjana Kozar - Associate Producer [email protected] Cédric Iland - Belgian Coproduction manager [email protected] Maxime Housiaux - General Manager Umedia Belgium [email protected] 16 CONTACT PRODUCTION AND FINANCING LONDON Iwona Sellers - Head of Development Nessa McGill - Head of Legal & Business Affairs [email protected] [email protected] VFX GLOBAL BRUSSELS Marc Henry de Frahan - CEO VFX & Finishing Global Nora Berecoechea - Business Manager [email protected] [email protected] VANCOUVER PARIS Peter Muyzers - CEO VFX & Finishing Vancouver Thierry Delobel - Artistic director [email protected] [email protected] Kimberlee Alexander - Head of Sales and Marketing Mikael Tanguy - VFX supervisor [email protected] [email protected] FINISHING VANCOUVER Dave Hollingsworth - Head of Finishing [email protected] 17 www.umedia.eu.