Joseph Cohen Launches MRAA, Asian Entertainment Investment Advisory Firm (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Hollywood producer and financier Joseph Cohen (“Brokeback Mountain,” “12 Years A Slave,” “Sicario,” “La La Land”) is launching a new company in Hong Kong called MediaRealm Advisors Asia.
It will provide consulting services to Asia-based institutional and professional investors looking to invest in American Entertainment Investors mainstream Hollywood movie projects.
He is joined in the venture by Hong Kong and Tokyo based Adam Guy Orlebar Garrett. Orlebar is currently chief investment officer at New Asia Ferrell Asset Management, where he manages several media funds, including a smaller local language Asia genre fund for high-net wealth individuals, and a larger Hollywood-Asia genre fund for institutional investors.
As part of the deal, Orlebar is bringing his larger Hollywood-Asia film slate to MRAA. AEI was founded in Los Angeles by Cohen in 1996 to advise both institutional and individual investors who want to invest in the media space and to incubate the companies they finance.
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