ith the studios swinging for the fences on Wtentpoles, a new roster of heavyhitting Hollywood financiers has come to bat to fill the gaps. Bringing diverse interests and deep pockets, these new players are reshaping the pic Bankrollers playing field. It’s moneyball, Hollywood style.

RICHARD BRANSON DAVID ELLISON MEGAN ELLISON GEORGE FURLA and Virgin Produced Skydance Prods. Annapurna Pictures RANDALL EMMETT FUNDS: unknown; worth $4.2 billion FUNDS: $350 mil FUNDS: unknown; Emmet/Furla Films (paid $20 mil for Terminator) BOX OFFICE TO DATE: $380 worldwide; BOX OFFICE TO DATE: $923 mil worldwide; FUNDS: $250 million $163 mil domestic; $392 mil domestic; BOX OFFICE TO DATE: $251 mil worldwide; BOX OFFICE TO DATE: $401 mil worldwide; Average: $54 mil domestic Average: $131 mil domestic $171 mil domestic; Average: $57 mil domestic $198 mil domestic; Average: $22 mil domestic FILM CREDITS: Limitless, FILM CREDITS: True Grit, FILM CREDITS: True Grit, FILM CREDITS: Rambo, Righteous Kill, Machine Gun Preacher, Immortals Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, Flyboys Passion Play, Main Street 16 Blocks, Street Kings

TIM HEADINGTON BILL POHLAD STEVEN RALES JEFF SAGANSKY FilmDistrict and GK Films River Road Indian Paintbrush Hemisphere Capital FUNDS: $300 million+ FUNDS: $65 million (in 2009) FUNDS: unknown; worth $2.7 billion FUNDS: $200 million+ BOX OFFICE TO DATE: $1.1 bil worldwide; BOX OFFICE TO DATE: $380 mil worldwide; BOX OFFICE TO DATE: $103 mil worldwide; BOX OFFICE TO DATE: $936 mil worldwide; $531 mil domestic; Average: $48 mil domestic $128.8 mil domestic; $52.8 mil domestic; $220 mil domestic; Average: $26 mil domestic Average: $10.6 mil domestic Average: $110 mil domestic FILM CREDITS: Hugo, Rango, The Rum Diary, Edge of Darkness, Insidious, The Tourist, FILM CREDITS: Tree of Life, Lust Caution, Into FILM CREDITS: Fantastic Mr. Fox, Young Adult, FILM CREDITS: The Smurfs, World War Z, In the Land of Blood and Honey, Drive the Wild, Fair Game, Brokeback Mountain The Darjeeling Limited, Like Crazy, Towelhead The Adventures of Tintin; Men in Black III

DAVID MIMRAN JEFF SKOLL THOMPSON BROTHERS THOMAS TULL and JORDAN SCHUR Participant Media Cross Creek Pictures Legendary Entertainment Mimran Schur Pictures FUNDS: $250 million FUNDS: $300 million FUNDS: $500 mil (raising another $700 mil) FUNDS: unknown BOX OFFICE TO DATE: $1.1 bil worldwide; BOX OFFICE TO DATE: $515 mil worldwide; BOX OFFICE TO DATE: $5.4 bil worldwide; BOX OFFICE TO DATE: $32.7 mil worldwide; $630 mil domestic; $194 mil domestic; $2.6 bil domestic; Average: $130 mil domestic Average: $20.3 mil domestic Average: $65 mil domestic $15.6 mil domestic; FILM CREDITS: The Dark Knight, 300, Inception, Average: $5.2 mil domestic FILM CREDITS: The Help, Contagion, FILM CREDITS: Black Swan, The Hangover, Clash of the Titans FILM CREDITS: Warrior, Stone, Henry’s Crime An Inconvenient Truth, The Crazies, Food Inc. The Woman in Black, Ides of March