Film Industry Veterans Launch Ashland Hill Media Finance (EXCLUSIVE)
A trio of veteran film financiers and producers are launching a new enterprise.
Joe Simpson, Simon Williams and Jonathan Bross are teaming up on Ashland Hill Media Finance, a movie and Television funding undertaking, backed by an alternate financial commitment fund with belongings less than administration of $1.85 billion. From its places of work in Santa Monica and London, Ashland Hill expects to shut upwards of 25 deals in the subsequent 12 months, with ideas to additional increase its functions beyond the U.S. and U.K. afterwards this 12 months. The enterprise will also obtain rights and bundle assignments for its personal production pipeline.
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“We are the new and substantially-necessary resource of reliable, adaptable and speedy funding for the movie and Television marketplaces,” Simpson said. “We help the producers, filmmakers and storytellers of the world turn their visions into reality.”
The first slate of Ashland Hill-financed movies involves: Philip Noyce’s motion-thriller “Fast Charlie” starring Pierce Brosnan, Morena Baccarin and James Caan, which just wrapped principal images in Louisiana and is represented at Cannes by Foresight Unlimited. In addition, the organization has also backed the tech thriller “57 Seconds,” directed by Rusty Cundieff, starring Josh Hutcherson and Morgan Freeman, which will be represented by Highland Film Group. It is also financing Marcus Adams’ shark thriller “Deep Worry,” starring Mãdãlina Ghenea and Ed Westwick. The film just lately wrapped in Malta with Amazing Photos managing income.
Williams promised that “we are knowledgeable, productive and we get sensible deals completed on time.”
With Bross adding: “We’re constructive, resourceful trouble-solvers who approach to create lengthy-term interactions by way of trust, integrity and mutual respect. We intend to grow quickly”
As its first retain the services of, the group tapped award-winning producer Joe Jenckes as senior vice president of output. Amid his various credits, Jenckes is greatest-recognized for his perform on the Oscar-nominated money thriller “Margin Contact.” Other credits incorporate the Daniel Radcliffe drama “Kill Your Darlings” and Amazon Studios’s 2021 accurate-criminal offense series “Between Black and Blue.”
For the past nine a long time, Williams served as financial commitment director at a U.K.-based investment decision administration corporation and served as executive producer on more than 45 films. Throughout his tenure he was concerned in closing investments of more than $750 million.
Bross has a few decades of knowledge in non-public personal debt, film finance and movie generation. In 2017, he started Argonaut Enjoyment Associates in the U.S.
Simpson is a movie financier and producer who, around the previous a few many years, has managed investments in above 25 films with combined budgets exceeding $350 million. His current credits consist of “Honest Thief” starring Liam Neeson and “SAS: Red Notice” starring Sam Heughan and Ruby Rose. Prior roles contain a stint as vice president of strategic promoting at MGM.
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