Movie Market Veterans Start Ashland Hill Media Finance

A trio of veteran movie financiers and producers are launching a new venture.

Joe Simpson, Simon Williams and Jonathan Bross are teaming up on Ashland Hill Media Finance, a film and Tv financing venture, backed by an alternative investment fund with belongings under administration of $1.85 billion. From its workplaces in Santa Monica and London, Ashland Hill expects to near upwards of 25 specials in the up coming 12 months, with options to even further expand its functions outside of the U.S. and U.K. later on this calendar year. The enterprise will also purchase legal rights and deal initiatives for its personal generation pipeline.

“We are the new and considerably-required supply of reputable, adaptable and fast funding for the film and Tv set marketplaces,” Simpson explained. “We help the producers, filmmakers and storytellers of the earth convert their visions into reality.”

The original slate of Ashland Hill-financed films incorporates: Philip Noyce’s motion-thriller “Fast Charlie” starring Pierce Brosnan, Morena Baccarin and James Caan, which just wrapped principal photography in Louisiana and is represented at Cannes by Foresight Unrestricted. In addition, the enterprise has also backed the tech thriller “57 Seconds,” directed by Rusty Cundieff, starring Josh Hutcherson and Morgan Freeman, which will be represented by Highland Film Group. It is also funding Marcus Adams’ shark thriller “Deep Anxiety,” starring Mãdãlina Ghenea and Ed Westwick. The motion picture lately wrapped in Malta with Amazing Images handling revenue.

Williams promised that “we are expert, productive and we get practical specials accomplished on time.”

With Bross adding: “We’re constructive, creative difficulty-solvers who system to create extensive-phrase interactions as a result of belief, integrity and mutual respect. We intend to improve quickly”

As its 1st use, the group tapped award-winning producer Joe Jenckes as senior vice president of output. Among his numerous credits, Jenckes is most effective-known for his function on the Oscar-nominated economical thriller “Margin Contact.” Other credits incorporate the Daniel Radcliffe drama “Kill Your Darlings” and Amazon Studios’s 2021 accurate-criminal offense series “Between Black and Blue.”

For the previous 9 years, Williams served as financial commitment director at a U.K.-based investment administration business and served as govt producer on around 45 films. Through his tenure he was concerned in closing investments of more than $750 million.

Bross has a few a long time of knowledge in non-public credit card debt, movie finance and movie output. In 2017, he started Argonaut Entertainment Companions in the U.S.

Simpson is a movie financier and producer who, over the past three years, has managed investments in more than 25 films with blended budgets exceeding $350 million. His the latest credits include “Honest Thief” starring Liam Neeson and “SAS: Pink Notice” starring Sam Heughan and Ruby Rose. Prior roles consist of a stint as vice president of strategic internet marketing at MGM.