Ben Affleck and Matt DamonS Artistry Have only been around for three years, but in this range the company has created a number of star -clear projects that are designed to create more capital for the artists that actually create them (thus the name). But after bouncing between the distributors and Takes the time to find a home for some of their more ambitious projectsThey have now settled and tied with a studio.
Artists Equity has entered an overall theater feature film treat Sony picturesA three -year agreement that will see Sony Finance and theatrically distribute globally everything that Affleck and Damon’s company develop and produce. Artists Equity will also be able to co -finance individual projects.
The company was founded in response to To give artists a larger proportion of streaming profitsBut they have now landed with a studio in Sony who will connect themselves to theater release for all their titles and do not have their own streamer. No projects according to the current deal were yet announced.
“Artists Equity, short of their existence, has proven remarkably skilled at developing and producing high -quality commercial films,” said Tom Rothman, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group. “This is not a surprise to me because I have known the two creative” professionals from Dover “for many years and always admired their smarts, talent and Moxie. Now that Ben and Matt and their team have stuck to the high bar in the theatrical market, Sony is lucky as hell to cooperate with them.
Affleck Added in a Statement: “It’s enormously Meaningful Landmark for Artists Equity to Be Making Films For Theater Release with Sony Pictures and In Particular with Tom Rothman, with Whom Matt and I Go Back More Than 20 Years. How they are made. In Can’t Think of a Better Partner Than Sony, which is fully in the theatrical Experience, as Artists Equity Seeks to make movies were explicitly intended to be seen in the cinema, with an audience, it is an honor to make movies for the magical dark room.
So far, the majority of Artists Equity’s editions are flowing exclusive, and that will be true for some of their upcoming features. Next for the studio is “RIP”, which is a Netflix action movie with Damon, Affleck, Teyana Taylor and Scott Adkins and is directed by Joe Carnahan. Netflix also releases the next movie to be directed by Affleck, “Animals”, where he also plays with Gillian Anderson, Steven Yeun and Kerry Washington. The studio’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman”, an adaptation of the Broadway musical directed by Bill Condon and with Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna and Tonatiuh, is released by Lionsgate.
Of their previous editions used Amazon MGM the company’s first film “Air” as its Test balloon of kind To see how theater could strengthen the possible release of something that flows down the road. Although the film had a production budget of $ 90 million, it also took so much into its theater driving and also proved a streaming hit. Only “small things like these” with Cillian Murphy and “The Accountant 2” have also received theater runs, while “The Instigators” and “Unstoppable” streams exclusive.
But in Sony’s end, it consistently puts the company in business with big stars such as Affleck and Damon at a time when the theater is due to star clothing, event films.
