This Is That Productions
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Formerly | This Is That Productions | |
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Industry | Parent Focus Features (Universal Pictures) | |
Divisions | Likely Story |
This Is That Productions (also known as This is that corporation) was one of the leading independent feature
The partners at This Is That were responsible for over fifty feature films. In addition to their seven
History
In 1981, Hope and Carey met on their first day as undergrad transfer student's to NYU's
This Is That's initial production was 21 Grams directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. The film stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio del Toro.
This Is That's second year brought
This Is That's production of Mike Mills' Thumbsucker premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival. Lou Taylor Pucci was awarded the Special Jury Prize at both festivals for his performance. Another This Is That production in competition at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival was Jeff Feuerzeig's documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston, which won Best Director for a documentary at the festival.
In 2006, Sony Pictures Classics released This Is That's Nicole Holofcener-directed Friends with Money, starring Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand and Joan Cusack. The film, which was the opening night selection at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, was Sony Pictures Classic's highest grossing film that year. Anthony Bregman left along with a co-worker to start his own production company Likely Story.[3]
2007 was also a busy year for This Is That.
Fall of 2008 kicked off with the release of This Is That's production, Towelhead, Oscar-winner Alan Ball's feature film directorial debut, which premiered at both Toronto and Sundance and stars Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, and Maria Bello. It is the final release by Warner Independent. Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot, written and directed by Tod Harrison Williams and starring Seann William Scott, Gretchen Mol, and Jeff Garlin, was released later that year.
In both 2007 & 2008, the This Is That producer team were named to The Hollywood Reporter's Indie Power List.[citation needed]
This Is That completed production on . The film, a joint effort for Miramax and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, was released in 2009 and earned award nominations at three festivals.
With at least two films being released each year since their creation in 2004, This Is That also made, in association with Likely Story and This Is That's former partner Anthony Bregman, Carriers, written and directed by brothers Alex and David Pastor, and Sleep Dealer, a Spanish-language science-fiction romance from writer-director Alex Rivera that won the Best Screenplay award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Closure
The company closed its doors in 2012 after having the No. 1 film at the US box office (The American) and the first film to sell that year at the Toronto International Film Festival (Super).[4]
Staff
- Anne Carey, producer
- Ted Hope, producer
- Diana Victor, Head of Business Affairs
- Shani Geva, Creative Executive
- Josh Stern, Creative Executive
Filmography
- Collaborator (2011)
- Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
- The American (2010)
- Super (2010)
- Carriers (2009)
- Adventureland (2008)
- Sleep Dealer (2008)
- Towelhead (2007)
- The Savages (2007)
- Trainwreck: My Life as an Idoit(2007)
- The Ex(2006)
- Fay Grim (2006)
- The Hawk Is Dying (2006)
- Friends with Money (2006)
- Thumbsucker (2005)
- The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005)
- A Dirty Shame (2004)
- The Door in the Floor (2004)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- 21 Grams (2003)
References
- ^ Filmmaker Magazine(Sep. 14, 2017).
- ^ Ross, Matthew (September 24, 2002). "INTERVIEW: Separation Anxiety? Not For Ex-Good Machiners At 'This is that'". IndieWire. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007.
- ^ "INDUSTRY MOVES: Bregman Leaves This Is That". IndieWire. October 6, 2006. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
- ^ Pond, Steve. "Ted Hope, Anne Carey Shut Doors, Stay in Business," The Wrap (Sept. 28, 2010).
External links
- Article from indieWIRE