Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and RedBird Capital Gerry Cardinale‘s impartial artist-led studio, Artists Fairness, has signed an general three-year theatrical characteristic movie settlement with Sony Footage.
The deal requires Sony dealing with the worldwide launch of Artists Fairness productions. The Culver Metropolis lot may even finance the movies and deal with all ancillaries, with Artists Fairness having the choice to co-finance particular person initiatives.
Artists Fairness has had a long-running non-exclusive relationship with Amazon MGM Studios on such motion pictures as Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant 2 ($102M world field workplace), Affleck’s Air Jordan Nike film Air ($90M world) and the William Goldenberg directed, Jennifer Lopez starring Prime Video film Unstoppable. These particular options have been choose offers with that studio, along with the Doug Liman directed, Casey Affleck and Damon starring The Instigators with Apple, in addition to the Cillian Murphy drama Small Issues Like These with Lionsgate.
“Artists Fairness, within the quick span of its existence, has confirmed remarkably adept at growing and producing prime quality business movies,” mentioned Tom Rothman, Chairman & CEO of Sony Footage’ Movement Image Group. “This isn’t a shock to me as I’ve identified the 2 inventive ‘Execs from Dover’ for a few years and all the time admired their smarts, expertise and moxie. Now that Ben and Matt and their crew have set their sights firmly on the excessive bar of the theatrical market, Sony is fortunate as hell to be partnering with them. We stay up for making a bunch of hit movies collectively.”
Added Artists Fairness CEO Affleck, “It’s an enormously significant landmark for Artists Fairness to be making movies for theatrical launch with Sony Footage and specifically with Tom Rothman, with whom Matt and I am going again greater than twenty years. Tom has each a deep and abiding love for motion pictures and an understanding of and appreciation for a way they’re made. I can’t consider a greater companion than Sony, which is totally in on the theatrical expertise, as Artists Fairness seeks to make movies expressly meant to be seen within the cinema, with an viewers. It’s an honor to make movies for the magical darkish room the place we come along with strangers to challenge our innermost secrets and techniques onto a display screen, surrendering to a narrative collectively, agreeing to share the identical flickering dream. I’m grateful for the chance to convey motion pictures to a worldwide viewers, with your entire skilled Sony crew.”
Upcoming Artists Fairness releases embrace RIP the Netflix motion film starring Damon, Affleck, Teyana Taylor, and Scott Adkins, directed by Joe Carnahan; Animals a Netflix thriller directed by Affleck starring Affleck, Gillian Anderson, Steven Yeun, and Kerry Washington; and Kiss of the Spider Lady, which was tailored from the seven-Tony Award-winning Broadway musical written and directed by Invoice Condon and stars Diego Luna, Tonatiuh and Lopez. That film world premiered at this yr’s Sundance Movie Competition and was acquired by Roadside Sights, Lionsgate and LD Leisure.
Damon and Affleck shared an unique screenplay Oscar win for Good Will Searching again in 1998. Affleck went on to win a second Oscar for Finest Movement Image for Argo which he starred in and directed.
