Studio enters production deal with actor’s production company
(Beverly Hills, CA) Relativity Media has announced it has closed a production deal with actor Channing Tatum and producing partner Reid Carolin’s unnamed production company.
The studio has worked with Tatum on the films Dear John, Fighting, and Haywire. The production pact is for two years and allows Relativity the opportunity to partner on projects that the company develops.
“Channing is an immensely talented actor and incredibly enthusiastic about finding material to produce with Reid. We look forward to working with the two of them over the coming years,” said Relativity’s President of Worldwide Production, Tucker Tooley.
The production company’s first project, which is not part of this new deal, Ten Year, about a high school reunion, starts production in December in New Mexico. Directed by Jamie Linden, writer of Dear John and We Are Marshall, the film stars Tatum, Jenna Dewan, Kate Mara, Brian Geraghty, Chris Pratt and Justin Long. The company’s other projects in development include Contortionist’s Handbook with Greenestreet Films, What’s Left of Us and 11 Minutes. Channing Tatum will next be seen in a comedic turn in Universal’s The Dilemma, followed by his starring role in the Focus Features Roman epic adventure, The Eagle. He will also star in Sony’s The Vow with Rachel McAdams, and he will star opposite Al Pacino and Katie Holmes in Dito Montiel’s Son of No One which will close the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Reid Carolin developed and Associate Produced Stop-Loss, and most recently produced Earth Made of Glass, a documentary about Rwandan President Paul Kagame, recently nominated for a 2011 Producer’s Guild Award for Best Documentary Theatrical Motion Picture. Jenna Dewan will also be a development partner in the company.
Tatum is repped by UTA, Management 360 and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller & Hoberman.
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Relativity Media, LLC is a media and entertainment company that focuses on creating, financing and distributing first class, studio-quality entertainment content and intellectual property across multiple platforms, as well as making strategic partnerships with, and opportunistic investments in, media and entertainment-related companies and assets. Relativity owns and operates Rogue, a company that specializes in the production and distribution of films from new and cutting edge filmmakers. Building upon its foundation of financing and producing films, Relativity has grown to include music, sports and television divisions and the next-generation social network iamrogue.com. Relativity also owns and operates RelativityREAL, Relativity’s television arm, which has become one of the leading suppliers of reality television with more than 20 shows in episodic or pilot. RelativityREAL is run by Tom Forman; his past successes include Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Kid Nation. This year, Relativity acquired the marketing and distribution operations of Overture Films and reached a first of its kind TV pay deal with Netflix.
To date, Relativity has committed to, produced and/or financed more than 200 studio-quality motion pictures through 2014. Released films have accumulated more than $14.0 billion in worldwide box office revenue. Relativity’s recent films include Despicable Me, Salt, Dear John, It’s Complicated, Couples Retreat, The Bounty Hunter, Get Him to the Greek, Robin Hood, Grown Ups, Nanny McPhee Returns, and, most recently, The Social Network, Skyline and Wes Craven’s My Soul To Take in 3D. Upcoming films for Relativity include The Fighter, James Cameron’s Sanctum in 3D, Season of the Witch, Take Me Home Tonight and Immortals. Thirty-two of the company’s films have opened at No. 1 at the box office. Relativity films have earned 43 Oscar® nominations, including nods for Nine, A Serious Man, Frost/Nixon, Atonement, American Gangster and 3:10 to Yuma. Fifty-one of Relativity’s films have each generated more than $100 million in worldwide box-office receipts.
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