Millennium Films, West Coast Film Partners Enter $100M Co-Finance Pact

CANNES (May 19, 2012) — Millennium Films has signed a $100 million co-financing/co-production agreement with West Coast Film Partners. The agreement runs for three years and calls for the parties to co-finance two to three wide-release feature films per year. The first movie West Coast will co-finance and co-produce is ?White House Taken,? directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Gerard Butler. It?s an action movie about a U.S. Secret Service agent who has fallen from grace ? until the White House is attacked and taken over by a team of North Koreans armed with extraordinary technology. Everything the Pentagon throws at the problem fails. But our hero knows the building like nobody else, and is the last chance we have to save, not only the President, but the entire country. The deal was put together by Millennium President Mark Gill and West Coast CEO Klay Shroedel. ?We?re very excited to be working with Klay and his team at West Coast,? said Millennium Chairman Avi Lerner. ?Clearly, they have financing expertise. But also the movies they want to make are very much in line with the direction we?re taking our company today.? ?The team at Millennium impressed us with their commercial sensibilities and their willingness and ability to get movies made,? Shroedel said. ?At a time when so many companies in the film business are retrenching, these guys are expanding. We share their optimism about the potential for growth and success in ... Read More »

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