Tobin Armbrust

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Tobin A. Armbrust (born 1971)^[1] is an American film producer who works for Exclusive Media, a film production and distribution company. The films he has produced include Firewall (2006), Let Me In (2010), The Woman in Black (2012), End of Watch (2012), Rush (2013), Begin Again (2013), and Dark Places (2014).

A film producer is a person who oversees film production. Either employed by a production company or working independently, producers plan and coordinate various aspects of film production, such as selecting the script; coordinating writing, directing, and editing; and arranging financing.

Firewall is a 2006 American-Australian crime thriller film directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Joe Forte. The film stars Harrison Ford as a banker who is forced by criminals, led by Paul Bettany, to help them steal $100 million. The film was a box office disappointment and received negative reviews from critics.

Let Me In is a 2010 American-British romantic horror film written and directed by Matt Reeves and starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Elias Koteas, and Richard Jenkins. It is a remake of the 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In. The film tells the story of a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a female child vampire in Los Alamos, New Mexico, during the early 1980s.

Career

After completing a bachelor's degree in political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara,^[2] Armbrust entered the film industry by working as a head of acquisitions at several distribution companies, including the French Canal+ Group and the Japanese Pony Canyon.^[3]

University of California, Santa Barbara Public university near Goleta, California, United States and part of the University of California system

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Canal Plus Group SA (Canal+) is a French film and television studio and distributor. It is owned and controlled by Vivendi and has a film library in excess of 5,000 films. Vivendi has sold some parts of Canal Plus to private investors which are still using the name of Canal Plus. It is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the suburbs of Paris.

Pony Canyon Inc., also known by the shorthand form Ponican, is a Japanese company, established on October 1, 1966, which publishes music, DVD and VHS videos, movies, and video games. It is affiliated with the Japanese media group Fujisankei Communications Group. Pony Canyon is a major leader in the music industry in Japan, with its artists regularly at the top of the Japanese charts. Pony Canyon is also responsible for releasing taped concerts from its artists as well as many anime productions and several film productions.

He then worked at Intermedia for seven years as Vice President of business development and of production; he was also a producer for Warner Bros., where he oversaw the development of over 30 films and served as a co-producer of the 2006 thriller film Firewall .^[3] He also ran Thunder Road Pictures with Basil Iwanyk until March 2006, when he was hired by Spitfire Pictures as a co-head of production.^[1]^[3]

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In 2008, he joined Exclusive Media, a British film production and distribution company founded the same year by Guy East and Nigel Sinclair, with whom Armbrust had worked at Intermedia. The first films whose production he oversaw at Exclusive Media were The Woman in Black and End of Watch , both of which were released in 2012 to financial success, followed by the 2013 releases, Parkland and Rush , which performed poorly at the North American box office.^[1]

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The Woman in Black is a 2012 British-American-Swedish-Canadian supernatural horror film directed by James Watkins and written by Jane Goldman. It is the second adaptation of Susan Hill's 1983 novel of the same name, which was previously filmed in 1989. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe in the lead role, alongside Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer, Sophie Stuckey, and Liz White. The plot is set in early 20th-century England and follows a young, recently widowed lawyer who travels to a remote village where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals.

End of Watch is a 2012 American crime drama film written and directed by David Ayer. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as Brian Taylor and Miguel Zavala, two Los Angeles Police Department officers who work in South Los Angeles. The film focuses on their day-to-day police work, their dealings with a certain group of gang members, their friendship with each other, and their personal relationships.

As a producer of Let Me In (2010), he and the film's other producers received a nomination for Best Feature at the Gotham Independent Film Awards.^[4]

The 20th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, presented by the Independent Filmmaker Project, were held on November 29, 2010 and were hosted by Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci. The nominees were announced on October 18, 2010.

With Exclusive Media, he produced Begin Again (2013), The Quiet Ones (2014), A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014), and Dark Places (2014). As of 2014, Armbrust serves as the Exclusive Media's President of Worldwide Production and Acquisitions.^[3]

Begin Again is a 2013 American musical comedy-drama film written and directed by John Carney and starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo. Knightley plays a singer-songwriter who is discovered by a struggling record label executive (Ruffalo) and collaborates with him to produce an album recorded in public locations all over New York City.

The Quiet Ones is a 2014 British supernatural horror film directed by John Pogue. Released theatrically on 10 April 2014 in the United Kingdom and 25 April 2014 in the United States, the film stars Jared Harris as a university professor attempting to prove poltergeists are manifestations of the human psyche and not supernatural beings. The film is loosely based on the Philip experiment, a 1972 parapsychology experiment conducted in Toronto.

A Walk Among the Tombstones is a 2014 American neo-noir action thriller film written and directed by Scott Frank, and based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Lawrence Block. It stars Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour, Brian Bradley, and Boyd Holbrook. The film was released on September 19, 2014. Critical reception was mixed and the film grossed $62 million worldwide.

Personal life

Armbrust is married with two children, and lives and works in Beverly Hills, California.^[1]

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References

1 2 3 4 McClintock, Pamela (November 10, 2013). "Exclusive Media Exec Tobin Armbrust on Art vs. Science of Indie Filmmaking (Q&A)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved October 3, 2014.
↑ "About the Cast" (PDF). Retrieved October 8, 2014.
1 2 3 4 "Executive Profile: Tobin Armbrust". Bloomberg Businessweek . Retrieved October 3, 2014.
↑ "The 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards" . Filmmaker Magazine . Winter 2011. Retrieved November 9, 2014.

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[thr-1] 1 2 3 4 McClintock, Pamela (November 10, 2013). "Exclusive Media Exec Tobin Armbrust on Art vs. Science of Indie Filmmaking (Q&A)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved October 3, 2014.

[2] "About the Cast" (PDF). Retrieved October 8, 2014.

[ibw-3] 1 2 3 4 "Executive Profile: Tobin Armbrust". Bloomberg Businessweek . Retrieved October 3, 2014.

[4] "The 20th Anniversary Gotham Independent Film Awards" . Filmmaker Magazine . Winter 2011. Retrieved November 9, 2014.