| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Entertainment |
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| Headquarters | , U.S. |
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| Services | Film Production Television Production |
Number of employees | 8 [1] |
| Website | amasiaentertainment |
Amasia Entertainment is a Los Angeles based entertainment company founded in 2012 by Michael A. Helfant and Bradley Gallo. It specializes in film and television production.
Prior to Amasia Entertainment, both Helfant and Gallo were a part of the production company Troika Pictures, where the two first started working together. Previously, Michael Helfant served as President/COO of Marvel Studios overseeing live-action and animation productions and helped to launch the first slate of Marvel self-financed films including Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk . Bradley Gallo began his career as an independent filmmaker with the comedy-drama Magic Rock . After graduating from Columbia University he went on to work at CNN and produced such shows as Anderson Cooper 360 and American Morning before getting hired at Troika Pictures as the Head of Production and Development. [2] [3]
Amasia Entertainment was founded in 2012 by film veteran Michael A. Helfant and Bradley Gallo. They hired Josh Sathre as production executive in 2016 [2] and in February 2017, Amasia Entertainment announced that it would start a television division led by Tracy Mercer. [4]
Amasia marked its first theatrical release with the Halle Berry thriller, The Call . In 2016, the company financed and produced the action-comedy film Mr. Right. [5] Their following non-theatrical releases included Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum's Careful What You Wish For, Vincent Masciale's "Fear, Inc," and David Gleeson's Don't Go. In August 2017, it was announced that Amasia Entertainment would co-produce Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage's drama Them That Follow with Gerard Butler's production company, G-Base. [6] The film stars Alice Englert, Walton Goggins, Thomas Mann, Olivia Colman, Lewis Pullman, Jim Gaffigan and Kaitlyn Dever. It made its world premiered to favorable reviews in the Dramatic Competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
In September 2019, Amasia began development on Dark Shadows: Reincarnation, a follow-up to the 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows , with Mark B. Perry as writer. [7]
In March 2017, Amasia Entertainment obtained the film adaptation rights to Emil Ferris' graphic novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters for Columbia Pictures. [8]
In September 2019, filming began on the Amasia Entertainment produced feature drama, Wild Mountain Thyme, with John Patrick Shanley as director. The film stars Emily Blunt and is currently in post-production. [9]
In January 2020, Amasia acquired the rights to produce The Green Hornet reboot, and on April 16, 2020, Universal Pictures agreed to distribute the film. [10] [11]
| Year | Film | Director | Release date | Gross box office (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | The Call | Brad Anderson | March 14, 2013 | $68.5 million [12] |
| 2015 | The Road Within | Gren Wells | April 17, 2015 | $41,760 [13] |
| 2016 | Mr. Right | Paco Cabezas | April 7, 2016 | $607,595 [14] |
| 2016 | Careful What You Wish For | Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum | June 10, 2016 | Video On Demand |
| 2016 | Zedd: True Colors | Susan Bonds Alex Lieu | June 2, 2016 | Video On Demand |
| 2016 | Fear, Inc. | Vincent Masciale | October 21, 2016 | Video On Demand |
| 2018 | Don't Go | David Gleeson | October 26, 2018 | Video On Demand |
| 2019 | Them That Follow | Britt Poulton Dan Madison Savage | August 2, 2019 | $172,952 [15] |
| 2020 | Wild Mountain Thyme | John Patrick Shanley | December 11, 2020 | $5.5 million [9] |
| Year | Film | Director | Release date | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TBA | Breakout | RZA | [16] | |
| Fate | Brad Anderson | [17] | ||
| The Green Hornet and Kato | [10] [11] | |||
| My Favorite Thing Is Monsters | [8] [18] |
| Year | Name | Air date | Number of seasons | Number of episodes | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TBA | Dark Shadows: Reincarnation [7] | TBA | TBA | TBA | The CW |
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