Marc Butan is an American film producer and CEO at MadRiver Pictures, a Beverly Hills, California-based motion picture production company.
During his career, he has served as co-president at Sierra/Affinity, [1] president at Panorama Media, [2] president at 2929 Productions and executive vice president of production at Lionsgate, [3] where he was responsible for overseeing film production for the studio. Butan was previously an investment banker at Kidder, Peabody & Co. and Prudential Financial.
In 2015, he founded MadRiver Pictures to produce star-driven commercial feature films. [4] Since inception, the company has produced James Gray's The Lost City of Z starring Charlie Hunnam; Burr Steers' Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ; Triple 9 starring Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Winslet and Woody Harrelson; Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House starring Liam Neeson and most recently James Gray's Ad Astra starring Brad Pitt.
In 2016, MadRiver Pictures and Vincent Maraval's Insiders joined forces to form an international film sales joint venture, IMR international. [5] In 2021, IMR rebranded to The Veterans. [6]
Butan is a native of Dayton, Ohio and an alumnus of Ohio State University, where he became a member of Phi Kappa Tau.
He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.
Year | Film | Credit |
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1998 | Girl | Co-executive producer |
Desert Blue | Executive producer | |
1999 | The Suburbans | Executive producer |
But I'm a Cheerleader | Executive producer | |
2001 | Get Over It | |
2002 | The Rules of Attraction | Executive producer |
2003 | Confidence | |
Wonderland | Executive producer | |
2004 | The Final Cut | Executive producer |
Godsend | ||
2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck | Executive producer |
2006 | Akeelah and the Bee | Executive producer |
Turistas | ||
The Ex | Executive producer | |
Black Christmas | Executive producer | |
2007 | We Own the Night | |
The Life Before Her Eyes | Executive producer | |
2008 | Two Lovers | Executive producer |
The Burning Plain | Executive producer | |
2009 | The Road | Executive producer |
2012 | Killing Them Softly | Executive producer |
2013 | The Host | Executive producer |
2016 | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | |
Triple 9 | ||
The Lost City of Z | Executive producer | |
2017 | The Zookeeper's Wife | Executive producer |
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | ||
2019 | Ad Astra | Executive producer |
2020 | Worth | |
The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Executive producer | |
2021 | My Son | |
2022 | Armageddon Time | |
2023 | Plane | |
TBA | The Regional Office Is Under Attack | |
TBA | Mutiny |
Year | Film | Role |
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2013 | Snitch | Special thanks |
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