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Bold Films
TypePrivate
IndustryFilm production
Television production
Founded2004
FounderMichel Litvak
Headquarters
Key people
  • Gary Michael Walters (CEO)
  • Jon Oakes (SVP, Creative)
ProductsMotion Pictures
Websitehttp://www.boldfilms.com

Bold Films is an American independent film, television and live stage development, production and finance company.[1] Bold was founded in 2004.

Bold's first three films were Slingshot, Come Early Morning and Mini's First Time. In 2006 the company had its first hit, producing and financing the Golden Globe-nominated period piece Bobby, written and directed by Emilio Estevez. In 2009 Bold produced and released Joe Dante's 3D thriller The Hole, which won an award for Best 3D Film at the Venice Film Festival. Roger Ebert called the best use of 3D ever.[2] In 2010 Bold had its first major studio film Legion, which was co-financed and released by Screen Gems, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In 2011 Bold co-produced and co-financed with OddLot Entertainment Drive starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan, for which director Nicolas Winding Refn won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival while also receiving accolades from the BAFTA Awards, The Golden Globes and Academy Awards. In 2014 the company produced and financed Nightcrawler starring Jake Gyllenhaal, and Whiplash with Blumhouse Productions, which received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Other awards nominations for the film include the Spirit Awards, PGA Awards, SAG Awards, and WGA Awards.

The company also produces content for television, including the short-lived ABC series Black Box, and the Syfy series Dominion.

In February 2015, Bold Films opened offices in London, England[3] which Bold Films closed in 2018 after the completion of the UK production "Colette", which starred Keira Knightley and Dominic West. "Colette" was nominated for Best Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards that year.

In 2021, Bold Films produced and financed "The Guilty”, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Jake Gyllenhaal which was released on Netflix. This adaptation of the Sundance Audience Award winning Danish film “Den Skyldige”, was seen by 69 million households in the first 28 days on the platform.[4] Bold Films also produced the Emmy nominated “Oslo” in 2021, which was based on the Tony-winning play of the same name.

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Bobby (2006 film)

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Carey Mulligan

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Cannes Film Festival

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Academy Awards

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Blumhouse Productions

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Black Box (TV series)

Black Box (TV series)

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Dominion (TV series)

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Colette (2018 film)

Colette (2018 film)

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Dominic West

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Antoine Fuqua

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Filmography

Year Film Director
2005 Slingshot Jay Alaimo
2006 Come Early Morning Joey Lauren Adams
Mini's First Time Nick Guthe
Bobby Emilio Estevez
2008 Starship Troopers 3: Marauder Ed Neumeier
Middle of Nowhere John Stockwell
2009 The Hole Joe Dante
2010 Legion Scott Stewart
2011 Drive Nicolas Winding Refn
2013 Heatstroke Evelyn Purcell
Evidence Olatunde Osunsanmi
Only God Forgives Nicolas Winding Refn
2014 Whiplash Damien Chazelle
Nightcrawler Dan Gilroy
2015 Lost River Ryan Gosling
No Escape John Erick Dowdle
2016 Shot Caller Ric Roman Waugh
The Neon Demon Nicolas Winding Refn
2017 Stronger David Gordon Green
2018 Colette Wash Westmoreland
Vox Lux Brady Corbet
2021 The Guilty Antoine Fuqua
Oslo (film) Bartlett Sher
Year Series Creator
2014 Black Box Amy Holden Jones
Dominion Vaun Wilmott

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Come Early Morning

Come Early Morning

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Joey Lauren Adams

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Mini's First Time

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Bobby (2006 film)

Bobby (2006 film)

Bobby is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Emilio Estevez, and starring an ensemble cast featuring Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Laurence Fishburne, Spencer Garrett, Helen Hunt, Joshua Jackson, Anthony Hopkins, Ashton Kutcher, Shia LaBeouf, Lindsay Lohan, William H. Macy, Demi Moore, Martin Sheen, Christian Slater, Sharon Stone, Freddy Rodriguez, Heather Graham, Elijah Wood and Estevez himself. The screenplay is a fictionalized account of the hours leading up to the June 5, 1968, shooting of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles following his win of the 1968 Democratic presidential primary in California.

Emilio Estevez

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Middle of Nowhere (2008 film)

Middle of Nowhere (2008 film)

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Joe Dante

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Legion (2010 film)

Legion (2010 film)

Legion is a 2010 American action horror film directed by Scott Stewart and co-written by Stewart and Peter Schink. The film stars Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Adrianne Palicki, Kate Walsh, and Dennis Quaid. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group acquired most of the film's worldwide distribution rights, and the group opened the film in North America theatrically on January 22, 2010, through Screen Gems.

Drive (2011 film)

Drive (2011 film)

Drive is a 2011 American action drama film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. The screenplay, written by Hossein Amini, is based on James Sallis's 2005 novel of the same name. The film stars Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver. He quickly grows fond of his neighbor, Irene, and her young son, Benicio. When her debt-ridden husband, Standard, is released from prison, the two men take part in what turns out to be a botched million-dollar heist that endangers the lives of everyone involved. The film co-stars Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, and Albert Brooks.

Evidence (2013 film)

Evidence (2013 film)

Evidence is a 2013 crime thriller film directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi and written by John Swetnam. The film stars Torrey DeVitto, Caitlin Stasey, Harry Lennix, Svetlana Metkina, Dale Dickey, Radha Mitchell, and Stephen Moyer and was released by Bold Films on July 19, 2013. It follows two detectives on their investigation of a brutal massacre, with their only leads being recording devices found at the crime scene.

Source: "Bold Films", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, February 25th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bold_Films.

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References
  1. ^ staff. "Bold Films Production Company". Backstage. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
  2. ^ Thompson, Luke. "Joe Dante Tells "The Hole" Truth". Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  3. ^ McGregor, Kirsty (15 February 2015). "Bold Film productions launches new office space". De Vono. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
  4. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (18 October 2021). "Jake Gyllenhaal On Antoine Fuqua Netflix Film 'The Guilty': 69 Million Households, No. 1 In 91 Countries". Deadline. Deadline. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
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