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Ryan Colin Kavanaugh (born December 4, 1974) is an American businessman, film producer and film financier. He is the founder and current CEO of Relativity Media. Through Relativity, he has financed more than 200 films representing more than $17 billion in revenue (earning the nickname "Billion Dollar Producer"). He is credited as of April 19, 2014 as the producer of 61 films and known for creating a new "Moneyball" model of film finance. Relativity filed for bankruptcy in 2015.
He was named by Variety as 2011's "Showman of the Year" and was #22 on the Fortune "40 Under 40" list. He was #19 on the Forbes 2013 list of youngest billionaires, and he entered an investment partnership with Ron Burkle. He is active in philanthropy and was named a Hollywood Humanitarian by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Kavanaugh was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles, California, where he was raised in the Brentwood neighborhood and attended Brentwood High School. His mother, Leslie Levin, is a real estate broker, and his father, Jack Konitz, a dentist turned businessman, was born in Germany and later changed his surname to Kavanaugh before his son's birth. After attending UCLA, Kavanaugh founded a small venture capital firm, which struggled in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and was eventually wound up.
Relativity Media LLC (sometimes written as RelativityMedia and Relativity) is an American media company located in Beverly Hills, California. Founded in 2004 by Lynwood Spinks and Ryan Kavanaugh, the studio was the third largest mini-major film studio in the world up until entering into bankruptcy on July 30, 2015. Its full scale film studio acquires, develops, produces and distributes films. The company's partners and financial institutions have invested $20 billion as of 2012 in entertainment investments with partners such as Citibank, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and others. Relativity Media also works in fashion, sports, digital and music.
On July 30, 2015, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California after lawsuits and missing loan payments.
The studio was founded by Ryan Kavanaugh and Lynwood Spinks in 2004 as a middleman company arranging multi-film slate deals with studios then arranging financial support through banks. Relativity Media would receive film equity, producer's credit and a fee. Initially, Stark Investments, a Wisconsin-based hedge fund, funded the company's single-picture business. By 2007, these investors stopped making movie-finance deals. Elliott Management, a $16 billion New York–based hedge fund run by Paul Singer, then took a minority share of the company plus access to around $1 billion in capital and a revolving credit line.
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Ryan Kavanaugh, CEO of Relativity Media talks with Jenelle Riley about his history in the film business, the philosophy of Relativity, being a content engine and launching their new Mad Vine platform. http://bit.ly/VarietySubscribe
Ryan Kavanaugh is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Relativity, a next-generation studio that has financed nearly 200 motion pictures, generated over $22 billion in worldwide box office revenue, and earned 73 Oscar nominations. But Relativity is more than just a film studio—it is also one of the largest suppliers of unscripted television in the U.S. and a growing source of scripted programming. In his keynote address, Kavanaugh will take the MIPCOM audience behind the scenes of an emerging major studio that is breaking down the walls between Film and TV and revolutionizing the model for financing, producing, and distributing television around the world. In the process, he will share Relativity's unique approach to financing and developing film properties—and how his studio leverag...
Wrap editor in chief Sharon Waxman brings TheGrill interview format to Relativity CEO and founder Ryan Kavanaugh on the occasion of his company's 10th anniversary. The interview takes place in Relativity's office in Beverly Hills in May 2014, just ahead of the Cannes Film Festival. Read the story: http://bit.ly/1gH0QO3 Subscribe: http://bit.ly/1cASiEi Follow us on Twitter @thewrap Like us on Facebook: fb.com/thewrap
Hollywood’s latest evangelist blew into town without a film degree or a single production credit, but armed with abundant smarts, a knack for salesmanship and buckets of charm. Even Ryan Kavanaugh’s shock of red hair assured he got noticed in any room he entered. Eleven years later, Relativity Media’s CEO stands on the brink of bankruptcy, a key lender is calling him a “con man” and suing for fraud, and other creditors are pushing for the 40-year-old entrepreneur to be shown the door. While Kavanaugh scrambles to find a savior, the company’s 350 employees are preparing for the worst, with a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing expected as early as this week. http://variety.com/2015/film/news/relativity-financial-troubles-ryan-kavanaugh-1201549697/ http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by...
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Have you heard of Ryan Kavanaugh? Maybe not. But you have definitely heard of the films that his studio, Relativity Media, have produced. The films include Out of the Furnace, Oculus, Beyond the Lights, House at the End of the Street, Limitless, The Season of the Witch, Immortals, and many others. It was founded in 2004 and quickly became the third largest mini-major film studios in the world. But sadly, the studio filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy since its liabilities approached $1.2 billion and assets stood at about $560 million. Kavanaugh was known for creating “the model,” a monte carlo model that designed to predict the odds of a given film being successful. Kavanaugh also executed the finance deal for Marvel Studios which later created the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He had also create...
Relativity Media the digital-age entertainment company that claimed clever financing and data analysis could unlock the secret to box office riches filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday against a swarm of disgruntled investors and other creditors. The Chapter 11 filing came after weeks of failed scrambling by CEO Ryan Kavanaugh to find new partners or lenders to help him cover more than $300 million of debt and to preserve his place atop the company he founded 11 years ago. Thursday’s action represented a dramatic fall from grace for the high-flying Kavanaugh, a San Fernando Valley native who had been depicted over the years as reinvigorating a staid Hollywood establishment with both his savvy investing and his extravagant lifestyle. A hearing in bankruptcy court is scheduled to take pl...
In this exclusive interview, Ryan Kavanaugh, Founder and CEO of next-generation studio Relativity, shares his views on the great divide in the television industry between traditional broadcasters and cord-cutters. At MIPTV, the world's market & creative forum for content on every screen, 11,000 participants from no less than 100 countries, gather every year to network, kick-start their projects, discover new recipes for success and finalise business deals. The event takes place in Cannes, France, in April. Make sure you're there too! More at http://www.miptv.com MIPCOM, with 13,000 participants, 4,400 buyers and 1,700 exhibiting companies on 5 exhibition floors, is the world's entertainment content market. It takes place in Cannes, France, in October. More at http://www.mipcom.com. Stay...
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Relativity Media CEO Ryan Kavanaugh discusses how big studios have to adapt business models to take advantage of new technologies at CES 2014. http://bit.ly/VarietySubscribe Courtesy of the Variety Entertainment Summit 2014
Univision President Cesar Conde, Relativity Media CEO Ryan Kavanaugh & United Talent Agency CEO Jeremy Zimmer discuss the ever changing media business at Fortune's 2013 Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen Colorado
This is the keynote address from Relativity Media's CEO Ryan Kavanaugh at the Variety Entertainment Summit at the CES 2014.
Convergence: A New Model for Brand - Content Partnerships at Massive: The Advertising and Marketing Summit with Ryan Kavanaugh (Relativity Media), Bonin Bough (Mondelez Inc.), Angela Courtin (Dentsu Aegis Network U.S.), Eric O'Toole (Danone Waters of America), Jim Plante (Pathway Genomics), and Danny Stepper (Madvine - A Relativity Company) at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. The panel was moderated by Andrew Wallenstein of Variety.
Speakers: Doug Barry, Managing Director, Selby Ventures Ryan Kavanaugh, Founder and CEO, Relativity Media Tom Rogers, CEO, TiVo Michael White, President, Chairman and CEO, DirecTV Moderator: Andrew Morse, Head, Bloomberg Television U.S. The proportion of households with a cable or satellite television subscription is declining for the first time. About 3 million Americans have already cancelled their service, including more than half a million in the last few months. These "cord-cutters" are joined by a new group -- the "cord-nevers." A full 83% of new households choose to live without pay TV, contributing to the apparent collapse of the cable/satellite industry's financial model. Yet most of these households are still avid entertainment consumers. How is the new content being deliv...
Speakers: Joe Cerrell, Director, Europe and Middle East, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Ryan Kavanaugh, Founder and CEO, Relativity Media Nanxi Liu, CEO, Enplug, Inc.; Founder, Nanoly Bioscience Geoff McGrath, Managing Director, McLaren Applied Technologies Saad Mohseni, Chairman and CEO, Moby Group Moderator: Karen Finney, Host, "Disrupt with Karen Finney," MSNBC
Hollywood moguls, Ryan Kavanaugh, Tom Ortenberg and Howard Cohen discuss the challenges of releasing independent film during the competitive Awards Season.
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Forbes 400 Summit interview with Ryan Kavanaugh
In this exclusive interview, Ryan Kavanaugh, Founder and CEO of next-generation studio Relativity, explains why he considers that "movies are the greatest pilots ever known". Based on that theory, his company was able to turn the underperforming movie Catfish into a hit TV show. At MIPTV, the world's market & creative forum for content on every screen, 11,000 participants from no less than 100 countries, gather every year to network, kick-start their projects, discover new recipes for success and finalise business deals. The event takes place in Cannes, France, in April. Make sure you're there too! More at http://www.miptv.com MIPCOM, with 13,000 participants, 4,400 buyers and 1,700 exhibiting companies on 5 exhibition floors, is the world's entertainment content market. It takes place i...
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Univision President Cesar Conde, Relativity Media CEO Ryan Kavanaugh & United Talent Agency CEO Jeremy Zimmer discuss the ever changing media business at Fortune's 2013 Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen Colorado
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Ryan Kavanaugh is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Relativity, a next-generation studio that has financed nearly 200 motion pictures, generated over $22 billion in worldwide box office revenue, and earned 73 Oscar nominations. But Relativity is more than just a film studio—it is also one of the largest suppliers of unscripted television in the U.S. and a growing source of scripted programming. In his keynote address, Kavanaugh will take the MIPCOM audience behind the scenes of an emerging major studio that is breaking down the walls between Film and TV and revolutionizing the model for financing, producing, and distributing television around the world. In the process, he will share Relativity's unique approach to financing and developing film properties—and how his studio leverag...
Convergence: A New Model for Brand - Content Partnerships at Massive: The Advertising and Marketing Summit with Ryan Kavanaugh (Relativity Media), Bonin Bough (Mondelez Inc.), Angela Courtin (Dentsu Aegis Network U.S.), Eric O'Toole (Danone Waters of America), Jim Plante (Pathway Genomics), and Danny Stepper (Madvine - A Relativity Company) at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. The panel was moderated by Andrew Wallenstein of Variety.
Hollywood moguls, Ryan Kavanaugh, Tom Ortenberg and Howard Cohen discuss the challenges of releasing independent film during the competitive Awards Season.
Immortals is a 2011 American epic fantasy-action-adventure film directed by Tarsem Singh Directed by Tarsem Singh Produced by Gianni Nunnari Mark Canton Ryan Kavanaugh Written by Vlas Parlapanides Charley Parlapanides Starring Henry Cavill Stephen Dorff Luke Evans Isabel Lucas Kellan Lutz Freida Pinto Daniel Sharman Mickey Rourke Music by Trevor Morris Cinematography Brendan Galvin Edited by Wyatt Jones Stuart Levy Production company: Relativity Media Virgin Produced Rogue Distributed by Relativity Media Release dates November 11, 2011
On this episode of AMC Mail Bag (Saturday April 11th 2015) we take the following viewer emails: Jonathan Hazelwood writes: Love the show, loving phase 3. Keep up the great work. You guys have talked about the infancy of DC's cinematic universe. Do you think its too early for something like Suicide Squad, especially since we haven't seen some of the heroes that put these guys in prison? For instance, shouldn't we be seeing this new Joker in a Batman movie? Brittney Bailey writes: Hey AMC gang, writing from North Carolina here! I love the show! My question is do you think Mad Max will bomb at the box office? The trailers look amazing yet I have seen little to no promotion for it. I really don't think that anyone who doesn't actively follow movie news even knows that this movie exists. I ju...
Speakers: Joe Cerrell, Director, Europe and Middle East, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Ryan Kavanaugh, Founder and CEO, Relativity Media Nanxi Liu, CEO, Enplug, Inc.; Founder, Nanoly Bioscience Geoff McGrath, Managing Director, McLaren Applied Technologies Saad Mohseni, Chairman and CEO, Moby Group Moderator: Karen Finney, Host, "Disrupt with Karen Finney," MSNBC