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Big Beach, LLC
FormerlyBig Beach Films
TypePrivate
IndustryMotion picture
Founded2004; 19 years ago (2004)
Founder
Headquarters648 Broadway (7th Floor), ,
Number of locations
2
Key people
Services
Owner
  • Marc Turtletaub


DivisionsTelevision
SubsidiariesBeachside Films
Websitewww.bigbeach.com

Big Beach is an American independent production company founded in 2004 by Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf,[1] based in New York City. It is best known for their lower-budget comedy-drama films, including the 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine.

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Production company

Production company

A production company, production house, production studio, or a production team is a studio that creates works in the fields of performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, comics, interactive arts, video games, websites, music, and video. These groups consist of technical staff to produce the media, and are often incorporated as a commercial publisher. Generally the term refers to all individuals responsible for the technical aspects of creating a particular product, regardless of where in the process their expertise is required, or how long they are involved in the project. For example, in a theatrical performance, the production team has not only the running crew, but also the theatrical producer, designers and theatrical direction.

Marc Turtletaub

Marc Turtletaub

Marc Jay Turtletaub is an American film producer and former president and CEO of The Money Store.

Peter Saraf

Peter Saraf

Peter Saraf is an American film producer whose feature film credits include Adaptation (2002), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Our Idiot Brother (2011), and The Kings of Summer (2013). In 2004, he co-founded the film production company Big Beach with Marc Turtletaub; the two ran the company and produce most of their films through it until Saraf left in 2021.

New York City

New York City

New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), New York City is the most densely populated major city in the United States and more than twice as populous as Los Angeles, the nation's second-largest city. New York City is located at the southern tip of New York State. It constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. by both population and urban area. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities, and over 58 million people live within 250 mi (400 km) of the city. New York City is a global cultural, financial, entertainment, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care and life sciences, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, and is sometimes described as the capital of the world.

Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American tragicomedy road film and the feature film directorial debut of the husband–wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer Michael Arndt. The film stars Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and Alan Arkin, as members of a family taking the youngest to compete in a child beauty pageant. It was produced by Big Beach Films on a budget of US$8 million. Filming began on June 6, 2005, and took place over 30 days in Arizona and Southern California.

History

The company began when Turtletaub and Saraf co-produced the 2005 film Everything Is Illuminated. The new company then took over production duties on two films that had been developed by Turtletaub's previous production company, Deep River Studios: Duane Hopwood and Sherrybaby in 2005 and 2006.[1]

In 2014, Big Beach launched a television division of the company that is headed by Robin Schwartz. In 2015, the company opened a Los Angeles-based office that is headquartered next to their subsidiary, Beachside.[2]

In June of 2022, Big Beach announced a number of new projects including the upcoming films Tropical Gothic and Out of My Mind.[3] In February, 2022, Big Beach moved its headquarters to their Los Angeles-based offices and laid off a number of New York-based staff. This came after Saraf had already "quietly" left Big Beach in 2021.[4]

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Everything Is Illuminated (film)

Everything Is Illuminated (film)

Everything Is Illuminated is a 2005 American biographical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Liev Schreiber and starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hütz. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer, and was the debut film of Liev Schreiber both as a director and as a screenwriter.

Duane Hopwood

Duane Hopwood

Duane Hopwood is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Matt Mulhern, and starring David Schwimmer, Janeane Garofalo, Judah Friedlander, John Krasinski and Steve Schirripa. After being featured in the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005, it later had a limited theatrical release in November 2005. The film's plot centers on the title character (Schwimmer), an alcoholic whose life is spiraling downward rapidly after his divorce from Linda (Garofalo).

Sherrybaby

Sherrybaby

Sherrybaby is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Laurie Collyer. Screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2006, the film received a limited release in the United States on September 8, 2006.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles

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Out of My Mind (film)

Out of My Mind (film)

Out of My Mind is an upcoming American drama film based on the novel Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper. It directed by Amber Sealey and written by Daniel Stiepleman. The film stars Phoebe-Rae Taylor, Rosemarie DeWitt, Luke Kirby and Judith Light.

Filmography

Films

Big Beach has produced or co-produced the following films:[5]

Year Film Co-producer Distributor Release date Budget (USD) Box Office (USD)
2005 Everything Is Illuminated None. Warner Independent Pictures 16 September 2005 $7 million $3.6 million
Duane Hopwood IFC Films 11 November 2005 $1 million
2006 Little Miss Sunshine Bona Fide Productions
Deep River Productions
Third Gear Productions
Fox Searchlight Pictures 26 July 2006 $8 million $100.5 million
Sherrybaby Elevation Filmworks
Red Envelope Entertainment
IFC Films 8 September 2006 $2 million $600K
2007 Chop Shop None. Entertainment One Films 27 February 2007 $200K
2008 Is Anybody There? Heyday Films
BBC Films
Optimum Releasing 7 September 2008 $3.3 million
Sunshine Cleaning HanWay Films Overture Films 13 March 2009 $5 million $16.6 million
2009 Away We Go Neal Street Productions Focus Features 5 June 2009 $17 million $14.9 million
2010 Lucky None. N/A 24 January 2010
Jack Goes Boating Overture Films
Relativity Media
17 September 2010 $620K
2011 Our Idiot Brother Likely Story The Weinstein Company
Miramax
26 August 2011 $5 million $25.9 million
2012 Safety Not Guaranteed Duplass Brothers Productions FilmDistrict 8 June 2012 $750K $4.4 million
2013 The Kings of Summer Low Spark Films CBS Films 31 May 2013 $1.3 million
2015 3 Generations InFilm Productions The Weinstein Company 12 September 2015 $5 Million $680,351
2016 Me Him Her None. Filmbuff 4 March 2016
Loving Random Films
Augusta Films
Tri-State Pictures
Focus Features 4 November 2016 $9 Million $12.9 Million
2018 Puzzle Olive Productions Sony Pictures Classics 27 July 2018
2019 The Farewell Ray Productions
Depth of Field
Kindred Spirit
A24 12 July 2019
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Tencent Pictures TriStar Pictures 22 November 2019
2021 Land Focus Features 12 February 2021
2022 Don't Make Me Go De Line Pictures Amazon Studios 15 July 2022

Television

Year(s) Title Seasons Creator(s) Network
2015 New Timers 2 seasons, 9 episodes Matt Porter
Charlie Hankin
Comedy Central
2018 Vida 3 seasons, 22 episodes Tanya Saracho Starz
Sorry for Your Loss 2 seasons, 20 episodes Kit Steinkellner Facebook Watch
2021 Nuclear Family 1 season, 3 episodes Ry Russo-Young HBO

Theatre

Release Year Title Director Author In-production
2005 Of Mice and Men Anna D. Shapiro John Steinbeck No
2008 Sleepwalk with Me Seth Barrish Mike Birbiglia No
2015 Sylvia Daniel J. Sullivan A. R. Gurney No

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Everything Is Illuminated (film)

Everything Is Illuminated (film)

Everything Is Illuminated is a 2005 American biographical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Liev Schreiber and starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hütz. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer, and was the debut film of Liev Schreiber both as a director and as a screenwriter.

Duane Hopwood

Duane Hopwood

Duane Hopwood is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Matt Mulhern, and starring David Schwimmer, Janeane Garofalo, Judah Friedlander, John Krasinski and Steve Schirripa. After being featured in the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005, it later had a limited theatrical release in November 2005. The film's plot centers on the title character (Schwimmer), an alcoholic whose life is spiraling downward rapidly after his divorce from Linda (Garofalo).

IFC Films

IFC Films

IFC Films is an American film production and distribution company based in New York. It is an offshoot of IFC owned by AMC Networks. It distributes mainly independent films under its own name, select foreign films and documentaries under its Sundance Selects label and genre films under its IFC Midnight label. It operates the IFC Center.

Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American tragicomedy road film and the feature film directorial debut of the husband–wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer Michael Arndt. The film stars Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and Alan Arkin, as members of a family taking the youngest to compete in a child beauty pageant. It was produced by Big Beach Films on a budget of US$8 million. Filming began on June 6, 2005, and took place over 30 days in Arizona and Southern California.

David T. Friendly

David T. Friendly

David T. Friendly is an American film producer best known for co-producing the 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Chop Shop (film)

Chop Shop (film)

Chop Shop is a 2007 American drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Ramin Bahrani. The film tells the story of a twelve-year-old street orphan living and working in Willets Point, an area in Queens, New York, filled with automobile repair shops, scrapyards and garbage dumps.

Is Anybody There?

Is Anybody There?

Is Anybody There? is a 2008 British drama film starring Michael Caine and directed by John Crowley. It was written by Peter Harness and produced by David Heyman, Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf. The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival under its original title Is There Anybody There? It garnered a nomination from the London Film Critics' Circle for Bill Milner as the Young British Performer of the Year.

Heyday Films

Heyday Films

Heyday Films Ltd. is a British film studio founded in 1996 by producer David Heyman in London, England, and currently headquartered in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The studio made its feature film debut with the production of Ravenous in 1999, and is best known for producing the Harry Potter film series, based on the popular fantasy novels of the same name by author J. K. Rowling.

HanWay Films

HanWay Films

HanWay Films is an independent British international sales, distribution and marketing company specializing in theatrical feature films.

Away We Go

Away We Go

Away We Go is a 2009 American comedy-drama directed by Sam Mendes and written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida. The film's two leads are John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph. It is Mendes's first film without Thomas Newman's collaboration.

Neal Street Productions

Neal Street Productions

Neal Street Productions is a British film, television and theatre production company founded by Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris and Caro Newling in 2003.

Focus Features

Focus Features

Focus Features LLC is an American film production and distribution company, owned by Comcast as a division of Universal Pictures, which is itself a division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. Focus Features distributes independent and foreign films in the United States and internationally.

Source: "Big Beach (company)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 23rd), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Beach_(company).

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References
  1. ^ a b Fleming, Michael (September 21, 2004). "Turtletaub surfs Big Beach with Saraf". Variety.
  2. ^ Hipes, Patrick (30 November 2015). "Indie Producer Big Beach Opens L.A. Outpost". Deadline. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  3. ^ Grobar, Matt (2022-06-14). "Big Beach to Produce Period Allegory 'Tropical Gothic' from 'Lingua Franca' Director Isabel Sandoval". Deadline. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  4. ^ Donnelly, Matt (2022-02-17). "Big Beach Hit With Layoffs, Shutters New York Headquarters (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  5. ^ Big Beach: Movies
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