Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
Founded in 2004, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based production, finance and distribution company headed by veteran producer Sidney Kimmel, is focused on financing and producing high-profile, quality filmed entertainment projects for mainstream audiences.
SKE’s diverse slate includes SKE and Screen Gems remake of SKE’s 2007 production of the British comedy Death at a Funeral, which Frank Oz directed and MGM released. The film stars an ensemble cast of primarily black talent headed by Chris Rock, who also co-produced, co-wrote. Other cast members include Loretta Devine, Ron Glass, Danny Glover, Regina Hall, Martin Lawrence, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan, Zoe Saldana and Columbus Short. Neil LaBute directed. Screen Gems released the film in April 2010 to mixed reviews.
SKE, which launched in 2004, financed and/or produced or co-produced 17 motion pictures between 2004 and 2008, including such notable titles as The Kite Runner (2007), United 93, Breach, Lars and the Real Girl, Adventureland, Death at a Funeral, Synecdoche, New York, and Gone (2012).
Recently, the Company has announced the upcoming projects Old Timers (tentatively titled), a feature comedy to be directed by Jon Amiel; the comedy Cloudburst, starring Oscar winning actresses Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker, with production scheduled for a fall start in Nova Scotia. Thom Fitzgerald wrote and will direct the film; and a co-production with Greet Street Films and A Bigger Boat entitled Mixed Blood, a thriller to be directed by Phillip Noyce with Samuel Jackson set to star. Kelly Masterson has adapted the screenplay from the Roger Smith novel of the same name, which was published in mid-2009. In addition, SKE recently acquired the spec script Sunflower, a taught thriller currently out to directors that the Company will co-produce with Vincent Newman Entertainment.
Recently SKE has forged a formal alliance with Nick Meyer’s newly formed company, Sierra Pictures, which will handle all foreign sales and servicing of future SKE titles.
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