Spyglass Entertainment is an American film production company, co-founded by Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum in 1998. The studio was founded with an investment from European media conglomerates Kirch Group and Mediaset, and a five-year distribution deal with The Walt Disney Company. It is currently owned by Cerberus Capital Management.
Spyglass has released films with all 6 major film studios: Walt Disney Pictures (Underdog), Universal Pictures (The Dilemma), Paramount Pictures (Star Trek), Columbia Pictures (Memoirs of a Geisha), 20th Century Fox (The Happening), and Warner Bros. (Invictus).
Barber and Birnbaum serve as co-CEOs, while Jonathan Glickman serves as the current President of Production. Jeffrey Chernov was once a production executive at Spyglass Entertainment.
On December 20, 2010, the founders of Spyglass Entertainment, Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, became co-Chairs and co-CEOs of the holding company of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which had recently at that time emerged from bankruptcy. Since then, Spyglass' operation has been scaled back, though Barber and Birnbaum will continue to operate it through the handling of its library. The studio now produces only a handful of films per year.
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