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Hiram Garcia
Seven Bucks Productions is an American production company founded by actor Dwayne Johnson and his manager/ex-wife Dany Garcia in 2012. The company is involved in film, television, digital networks, and emerging technologies. It produces a variety of projects, usually directly in relation with Johnson's acting roles, and has grossed $4.6 billion at the box office as of 2024. Its subsidiaries include Seven Bucks Digital Studios and Seven Bucks Creative. History Seven Bucks Productions was founded in 2012 by actor Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia, Johnson's and later manager. Its name is a reference to the amount of money Johnson had in his pocket after he was released from the CFL in 1995, before he signed with WWE in 1996 and became one of the most popular professional wrestlers of all time. Johnson remains the CEO and owner alongside Garcia. In 2017, Garcia's brother Hiram was promoted to the company's president of production, overseeing each of its projects. Other figures includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972), also known by his ring name The Rock, is an American actor and professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on a part-time basis. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, Johnson was integral to the development and success of the WWE, World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) during the Attitude Era. He wrestled for the WWF full-time for eight years before pursuing an acting career. Dwayne Johnson filmography, His films have grossed over worldwide, making him one of the world's List of highest grossing actors, highest-grossing and List of highest-paid film actors, highest-paid actors. He is a co-owner of the United Football League (2024), United Football League, a member of the board of directors of TKO Group Holdings—the parent company of Ultimate Fighting Championship, UFC and WWE—and co-founder of Seven Bucks Productions. After accepting an athletic scholarship to play American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Montecito Picture Company
The Montecito Picture Company, LLC is an American film production company founded in 1998 by film director Ivan Reitman and studio executive Tom Pollock. It is located on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, California, United States, in a building labeled as "Ghost Corps," where the vehicle from Ghostbusters is parked outside. Montecito is a city in California in Santa Barbara County. History The company's predecessor was an entertainment production studio Northern Lights Entertainment, owned by Reitman. It originally started off with a deal at PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. Ultimately, the deal collapsed after Universal Pictures (which Pollock previously ran from 1986-1996) took control of PolyGram's assets and Montecito signed a first look deal with DreamWorks Pictures instead. On March 9, 2000, it extended its pact with writer/director Todd Phillips, after the success of the hit movie '' Road Trip''. After several years at DreamWorks, on February 18, 2009, the compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Bros
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (WBEI), commonly known as Warner Bros. (WB), is an American film studio, filmed entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios Burbank, Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California and the main namesake subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Founded on April 4, 1923, by four brothers, Harry Warner, Harry, Albert Warner, Albert, Sam Warner, Sam and Jack L. Warner, Jack Warner, the company established itself as a leader in the American film industry before diversifying into animation, television, and video games. It is one of the "Major film studios, Big Five" major American film studios and a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). The company is known for its film studio division, the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, which includes Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Castle Rock Entertainment and the Warner Bros. Television Group. Bugs Bunny, a character created for the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Line Cinema
New Line Productions, Inc., Trade name, doing business as New Line Cinema, is an American film production, film and television production company that is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, a division of the Major film studios, "Big Five" film studio Warner Bros., which, in turn, is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). It is headquartered in Burbank, California. The studio was founded on June 18, 1967 by Robert Shaye in New York City, and has been operating as a unit of Warner Bros. Pictures since 2008. After becoming a film studio after acquired by Turner Broadcasting System in 1994, Turner later merged with Time Warner Entertainment (later known as WarnerMedia from 2018 to 2022, and Warner Bros. Discovery since 2022) in 1996, and New Line was merged with Warner Bros. Pictures in 2008. New Line Cinema is currently one of the four live-action film studios within the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, the others being Warner Bros. Pictures, Castle Rock Entert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Peyton
Brad Peyton (born May 27, 1978) is a Canadian filmmaker, best known for directing the Dwayne Johnson star vehicles '' Journey 2: The Mysterious Island'' (2012), '' San Andreas'' (2015), and '' Rampage'' (2018) as well as the Netflix series '' Daybreak'' (2019). Life and career Peyton was born in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He graduated from the Canadian Film Centre.Bill Brioux, "," ''Jam! Showbiz'': Canoe.ca, June 24, 2006, URL accessed 22 January 2007. He first gained fame with a short film and gothic comedy entitled '' Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl'' (2002). The film was initially shown to Peyton's classmates, who clapped in approval. Filmmaker Jeremy Podeswa thus suggested Peyton should also show the film to a lawyer in the film industry in New York. This allowed the film to be distributed among the filmmaking elite. ''Evelyn'' also appeared in the Toronto International Film Festival in 2002. He then created and produced the surreal claymation televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rampage (2018 Film)
''Rampage'' is a 2018 American science fiction monster film directed by Brad Peyton and loosely based on the video game series of the same name by Midway Games, from a screenplay by Ryan Engle, Carlton Cuse, Ryan J. Condal and Adam Sztykiel. The film stars Dwayne Johnson in the lead role, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jake Lacy, Joe Manganiello, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. It follows a primatologist who, along with his leucistic western lowland gorilla friend must stop two other mutated animals. The gorilla has become a raging creature with fluctuating size enhancements as a result of a rogue experiment. The film is the third collaboration between Peyton and Johnson, following '' Journey 2: The Mysterious Island'' (2012) and '' San Andreas'' (2015). Principal photography began in April 2017 in Chicago. The film was released in the United States on April 13, 2018, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film grossed over $428 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Pictures Releasing
Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group (formerly known as the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group until 2013, and abbreviated as SPMPG) is a division of Sony Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment to manage its motion picture operations. It was launched in 1998 by integrating the businesses of Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. and TriStar Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Inc. History The Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group was founded in 1998 as the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, as a current division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, owned by Sony. It has many of Sony Pictures' current motion picture divisions as part of it. Its divisions at that time were Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Triumph Films, Sony Pictures Classics, and Sony Pictures Releasing. On December 8, 1998, SPE resurrected its former animation and television division Screen Gems as a film division of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radar Pictures
Radar Pictures, Inc. is an American motion picture production company that was formed in 1984 by Ted Field, after obtaining the assets of Interscope Communications. History In 2000, Interscope Communications was spun off after Field bought out a share of the company's assets from USA Films and became Radar Pictures, and acquired the use of Interscope's film library in its development slate, as well as its set of features that were slated to be Interscope productions. Ted Field continued to partner with longtime Interscope partner Scott Kroopf at Radar Pictures. In 2001, the company struck a deal with Good Machine International to handle sale of the company's film productions. The deal does not include existing projects that were set up at other studios. The company's first film, ''They'', was released in 2002. Good Machine eventually merged with USA Films and Universal Focus to form Focus Features, which inherited sales of Radar's productions for several years. Also that yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Tolmach Productions
Matthew Tolmach (born 1964)Deadline: "Matt Tolmach Discusses Exit As Sony Pics Prez And Segue To Producing 'Spider-Man'" by Mike Fleming Jr October 29, 2010 is an American film producer and former co-president of production at . Early life Tolmach first became interested in film after hearing stories from his grandfather, producer and film executive |
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Trade name, doing business as Columbia Pictures, is an American film Production company, production and Film distributor, distribution company that is the flagship unit of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Major film studios, "Big Five" film studios and a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony, Sony Group Corporation. On June 19, 1918, brothers Jack Cohn, Jack and Harry Cohn and their business partner Joe Brandt founded the studio as CBC Film Sales Corporation, Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name on January 10, 1924 (operating as Columbia Pictures Corporation until December 23, 1968), went public two years later, and eventually began to use the image of Columbia (personification), Columbia, the female personification of the United States, as its logo. In its early years, Columbia was a minor player in Hollywood, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Kasdan
Jacob Kasdan (born October 28, 1974) is an American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for directing ''Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story'' (2007), ''Bad Teacher'' (2011), ''Sex Tape (film), Sex Tape'' (2014), ''Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle'' (2017), ''Jumanji: The Next Level'' (2019), and ''Red One (film), Red One'' (2024). Early life Jacob Kasdan was born to Meg (née Goldman), a writer, and Lawrence Kasdan, a writer and director, in Detroit. Jacob grew up in a Jewish family with little religious education. His younger brother, Jon Kasdan, also works in the film and television industry as an actor and writer. Career Jake Kasdan has directed nine films. He has also worked in television, most notably with Judd Apatow as a consulting producer and director on ''Freaks and Geeks'' and as a director on ''Undeclared''. He has directed numerous stage productions. He is attached to direct a family film adaption of a John Grisham novel, ''Calico Joe.'' In 2008, Kasdan received his fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
