How C2 Motion Picture Group Is Quietly Putting $100M+ Into Paramount Tentpoles & Jodie Comer’s New Thriller, While Trying To Avoid “Cautionary Tales”
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: C2 Motion Picture Group has quietly put more than $100M into four Paramount movies in the past 12 months: Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts, Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves and Babylon.
The LA-based financier-producer is now in talks with the studio to potentially invest in double that number of movies. In the past 18 months, C2 has also fully financed indie movies including Jodie Comer starrer The End We Start From, Michael Keaton dramedy Goodrich, Samara Weaving horror Azrael, and thriller Longlegs with Nicolas Cage.
The company was set up by Jason Cloth and Dave Caplan. Cloth is the founder of Creative Wealth Media, which with former partner Bron notably had a co-fi slate deal with Warner Bros and backed movies including Joker.
Caplan recently produced and directed hip-hop documentary The DOC, and previously produced on a string of TV series including ABC Family’s Monica The Medium.
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