Stuart Ford On Why New Glen Powell, Chris Pine & Anna Kendrick Movies Are Launching Without Interim Agreements, Roland Emmerich’s Mega-Budget TV Series & The Future For AGC
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: LA-based Brit Stuart Ford has operated at the sharp end of international film sales and movie financing for more than two decades.
The AGC Studios boss and former IM Global chief has produced or distributed films with directors and actors including Martin Scorsese, Julia Roberts, Liam Neeson, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Depp, Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, Nicole Kidman, Roland Emmerich and Madonna.
The sands of indie film financing are forever shifting but Ford and his collaborators were set a new challenge this fall when it came to launching three AGC-backed completed features amid the two Hollywood strikes: Richard Linklater’s Venice and Toronto title Hit Man starring Glen Powell, and Toronto movies The Woman Of The Hour and Poolman, the directorial debuts of Anna Kendrick and Chris Pine, respectively.
In a wide-ranging interview conducted late last week, we spoke to the one-time entertainment attorney and Miramax exec about the journeys of these three projects, why they don’t have interim agreements (this is the first time someone has spoken on the record about the challenges and opportunity that conscious choice poses), re-teaming with Roland Emmerich on huge budget TV series Those About To Die, and what the future holds for AGC. RELATED: Sean Penn, Dakota Johnson, Finn Wolfhard, Viggo Mortensen, Maya Hawke, Nicolas Cage Among A-Listers Expected At The Toronto Film Festival Thanks To Interim Agreements Since the interview, Deadline has subsequently reported that Kendrick and Pine won’t be at TIFF and that Powell is unlikely to be promoting at fall festivals either. DEADLINE: It’s a challenging time.
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