Name | CBS Films |
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Company logo | |
Type | Subsidiary |
Parent | CBS Corporation |
Foundation | 2007 |
Location city | Los Angeles |
Location country | United States |
Parent | CBS Corporation |
Key people | Amy Baer |
Industry | Motion pictures |
CBS Films is an American film production company founded in 2007, a feature film division of CBS Corporation. CBS Films is located on Wilshire Boulevard in West Los Angeles.
In 2007, following the split from Viacom and Paramount, CBS Corp. announced its plans to get back into the feature film business, launching CBS Films and hiring key executives in the Spring of 2007 to startup the new venture. CBS Films plans to develop and produce four to six movies a year spanning all genres, with production budgets up to $50 million per film. CBS Films is located in West Los Angeles, California.
In mid-September 2008, former Executive Vice President at Columbia Pictures, Amy Baer was officially announced as Chief Executive Officer to CBS Films. Bruce Tobey joined CBS Films as Chief Operating Officer. Debbie Miller, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, joined CBS Films and established a Senior Marketing Team in April 2008, appointing Mimi Slavin to Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning and Promotions, Teri Boggess as Senior Vice President for Creative Advertising, Cherie Crane as Senior Vice President for Media and Research and Maggie Schmidt as Senior Vice President for Publicity.
The studio released its first film, Extraordinary Measures, on January 22, 2010. The film is an inspirational drama starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser, and co-starring Keri Russell, directed by Tom Vaughan and written by Robert Nelson Jacobs. CBS Films released its second film: a romantic comedy The Back-up Plan, starring Jennifer Lopez and Alex O'Loughlin, directed by Alan Poul and written by Kate Angelo. The company will be releasing an edgy teen romance, Beastly starring Vanessa Hudgens and Alex Pettyfer based on the novel "Beastly" written by Alex Flinn. The film was directed by Daniel Barnz.
The Company's development slate includes the Susannah Grant-penned romantic drama I'll Be There, (a remake of the successful Korean film A Moment To Remember); a series of action-thrillers based on the Mitch Rapp character from the bestselling Vince Flynn novels, starting with Consent To Kill; the romantic thriller The Eternals written by Chris Hauty and directed by Jeff Wadlow; The Station, a thriller set against the International Space Station and based on a popular Boom! Studios comic book series; an action-adventure feature adaptation of the long-running TV show Gunsmoke; and a remake of My Fair Lady, based on the classic musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, which is being co-developed with Columbia Pictures.
The pay-cable rights to the new CBS Films' library are held by CBS's premium cable network Showtime, while pay-per-view/on-demand rights are held via Sony Pictures Television. Sony also has foreign theatrical and home entertainment distribution rights for all CBS Films products.
First, dwindling DVD sales and rental rates prove that "the movie business" is not recession-proof, not to mention the difficulty of many studios and producers to raise money in this credit-crunched environment. For some reason, yes, people are still going to the theater, but no exec should think that the "movie business is recession-proof".
Category:Film production companies of the United States Category:CBS Corporation subsidiaries Category:Companies established in 2007 Category:Film distributors
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