Film Business Veterans Start Ashland Hill Media Finance

A trio of veteran movie financiers and producers are launching a new venture.

Joe Simpson, Simon Williams and Jonathan Bross are teaming up on Ashland Hill Media Finance, a film and Television funding venture, backed by an alternate expense fund with belongings under management of $1.85 billion. From its offices in Santa Monica and London, Ashland Hill expects to near upwards of 25 bargains in the following 12 months, with strategies to further more develop its operations beyond the U.S. and U.K. later this yr. The corporation will also receive rights and offer projects for its very own creation pipeline.

“We are the new and considerably-desired resource of trustworthy, versatile and fast financing for the movie and Tv markets,” Simpson claimed. “We aid the producers, filmmakers and storytellers of the world turn their visions into reality.”

The preliminary slate of Ashland Hill-financed movies contains: Philip Noyce’s motion-thriller “Fast Charlie” starring Pierce Brosnan, Morena Baccarin and James Caan, which just wrapped principal photography in Louisiana and is represented at Cannes by Foresight Endless. In addition, the firm has also backed the tech thriller “57 Seconds,” directed by Rusty Cundieff, starring Josh Hutcherson and Morgan Freeman, which will be represented by Highland Film Group. It is also financing Marcus Adams’ shark thriller “Deep Concern,” starring Mãdãlina Ghenea and Ed Westwick. The film lately wrapped in Malta with Excellent Photos managing sales.

Williams promised that “we are expert, effective and we get reasonable deals accomplished on time.”

With Bross incorporating: “We’re constructive, artistic difficulty-solvers who system to build lengthy-term relationships via believe in, integrity and mutual regard. We intend to mature quickly”

As its very first seek the services of, the team tapped award-winning producer Joe Jenckes as senior vice president of manufacturing. Amongst his various credits, Jenckes is most effective-recognized for his function on the Oscar-nominated economic thriller “Margin Contact.” Other credits involve the Daniel Radcliffe drama “Kill Your Darlings” and Amazon Studios’s 2021 legitimate-criminal offense series “Between Black and Blue.”

For the past nine many years, Williams served as investment decision director at a U.K.-based mostly expense administration organization and served as executive producer on around 45 films. During his tenure he was associated in closing investments of about $750 million.

Bross has three many years of practical experience in private financial debt, film finance and film production. In 2017, he established Argonaut Entertainment Associates in the U.S.

Simpson is a movie financier and producer who, around the earlier a few yrs, has managed investments in in excess of 25 movies with merged budgets exceeding $350 million. His the latest credits consist of “Honest Thief” starring Liam Neeson and “SAS: Purple Notice” starring Sam Heughan and Ruby Rose. Prior roles involve a stint as vice president of strategic marketing at MGM.