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Infinitum Nihil
TypePrivate
IndustryMotion picture
Founded2004
FounderJohnny Depp
Headquarters
Los Angeles
Key people
Christi Dembrowski
(President)
Sam Sarkar
(Director of Development)
ProductsFilm production
Websiteinfinitum-nihil.com

Infinitum Nihil is an American film production company, founded by Johnny Depp. The company is run by Depp's sister Christi Dembrowski.[1][2] Depp founded the company in 2004 to develop projects where he will serve as actor and/or producer.[3]

History

The Rum Diary, based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson, was released on October 28, 2011, starring Depp as Paul Kemp in a screenplay adapted and directed by Bruce Robinson.[4]

Dark Shadows was released on May 11, 2012. Depp stars in and produces this gothic film based on the Dark Shadows TV series; Tim Burton directs.[4]

The Walt Disney Company has picked up The Night Stalker and a biopic of Paul Revere, both as possible starring vehicles for Depp. He will produce both films with Christi Dembrowski.[5]

It has been announced that the company and Illumination Entertainment will co-produce a biopic of Dr. Seuss, with Depp slated to produce and possibly star.[6]

On February 7, 2012, it was announced that the company will produce a film based on the memoir of the West Memphis Three's Damien Echols. The book (and subsequently, the film) will focus on Echols' experience on death row after being wrongfully convicted for three murders with two friends in 1993. Depp, who is a big supporter of the Memphis Three and proving their innocence, will co-produce the film with Christi Dembrowski, Echols, and his wife, Lorri Davis.[7][8]

In October 2012, it was announced that Depp will start a publishing company sharing the name "Infinitum Nihil" with the production company. It will be part of HarperCollins, and according to Depp will "deliver publications worthy of peoples' time, of peoples' concern, publications that might ordinarily never have breached the parapet."[9]

In January 2013, the imprint company released its first book, House of Earth, written by folk singer Woody Guthrie in 1947.[10] 2015 saw the release of The Unraveled Tales of Bob Dylan by Douglas Brinkley,[11] as well as Narcisa by Jonathan Shaw.[12]

In August 2017, it was announced that Infinitum Nihil would produce a television series based on Funcom's The Secret World IP.[13] In 2017, his production company signed a deal with IM Global.[14]

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The Rum Diary (film)

The Rum Diary (film)

The Rum Diary is a 2011 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Bruce Robinson, based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Hunter S. Thompson. The film stars Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli, Amber Heard, Richard Jenkins, and Giovanni Ribisi.

Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author who founded the gonzo journalism movement. He rose to prominence with the publication of Hell's Angels (1967), a book for which he spent a year living and riding with the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand account of their lives and experiences.

Bruce Robinson

Bruce Robinson

Bruce Robinson is an English actor, director, screenwriter and novelist. He wrote and directed Withnail and I (1987), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the late 1960s, which drew on his experiences as a struggling actor, living in poverty in Camden Town.

Dark Shadows (film)

Dark Shadows (film)

Dark Shadows is a 2012 dark fantasy film based on the gothic television soap opera of the same name. Directed by Tim Burton, the film stars Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Bella Heathcote in a dual role. Christopher Lee has a small role in the film, his 200th film appearance and his fifth and final appearance in a Burton film. Jonathan Frid, star of the original Dark Shadows series, makes a cameo, which was his final screen appearance, as he died shortly before the release of the film. One of the film's producers, Richard D. Zanuck, died two months after its release.

Dark Shadows

Dark Shadows

Dark Shadows was an American gothic soap opera that aired weekdays on the ABC television network from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives, loves, trials, and tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, where a number of supernatural occurrences take place.

The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American multinational, mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney as Disney Brothers Studio; it also operated under the names Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before changing its name to The Walt Disney Company in 1986. Early in its existence, the company established itself as a leader in the animation industry, with the creation of the widely popular character Mickey Mouse, who first appeared in Steamboat Willie, which used synchronized sound, to become the first post-produced sound cartoon. The character would go on to become the company's mascot.

Paul Revere

Paul Revere

Paul Revere was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, Sons of Liberty member, and Patriot. He is best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1861 poem, "Paul Revere's Ride".

Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American children's author and cartoonist. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.

HarperCollins

HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp. The name is a combination of several publishing firm names: Harper & Row, an American publishing company acquired in 1987—whose own name was the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company—together with Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons, acquired in 1989.

Douglas Brinkley

Douglas Brinkley

Douglas Brinkley is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, and professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley is the history commentator for CNN, Presidential Historian for the New York Historical Society, and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair. He is a public spokesperson on conservation issues. He joined the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history in 2007.

Funcom

Funcom

Funcom Oslo AS is a Norwegian video game developer that specializes in online games. It is best known for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) titles Conan Exiles, Age of Conan, Anarchy Online, The Secret World – and The Longest Journey series of adventure games. The company has offices in Oslo, Norway; North Carolina, US; Lisbon, Portugal; Bucharest, Romania; and Stockholm, Sweden. It also had offices in Beijing, Dublin, and Montreal previously. It is now owned by the Chinese media conglomerate Tencent.

The Secret World

The Secret World

The Secret World is a massively multiplayer online role-playing video game set in a modern-day real world under attack from occult forces. Ragnar Tørnquist led development of the initial game for Funcom. The Secret World uses a subscription-optional, buy-to-play business model, requiring players only to buy the game with no additional subscription fees, with additional benefits to those members still paying a subscription.

Filmography

Year Film Director Production company(s) Budget Gross RT
2011 The Rum Diary Bruce Robinson Co-production with FilmDistrict and GK Films. $45 million $23.9 million 50%[15]
Hugo Martin Scorsese Co-production with Paramount Pictures, Entertainment Film Distributors and GK Films. $150 million $185.8 million 93%[16]
2012 Dark Shadows Tim Burton Co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures, Roadshow Entertainment and Village Roadshow Pictures. $150 million $245.5 million 36%[17]
2013 The Lone Ranger Gore Verbinski Co-production with Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. $250 million $260.5 million 31%[18]
2015 Mortdecai David Koepp Co-production with Lionsgate and MWM Studios. $60 million $47.3 million 12%[19]
Black Mass Scott Cooper Co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures, Cross Creek Pictures and RatPac-Dune Entertainment. $53 million $99.8 million 73%[20]
2018 City of Lies Brad Furman Co-production with Miramax.
2018 The Professor Wayne Roberts Co-production with Saban Capital Group and Open Road Films. $1.6 million 10%[21]
2020 Minamata Andrew Levitas Co-production with Metalwork Pictures.

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FilmDistrict

FilmDistrict

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GK Films

GK Films

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Hugo (film)

Hugo (film)

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Martin Scorsese

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Paramount Pictures

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Entertainment Film Distributors

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Dark Shadows (film)

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Mortdecai (film)

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Bibliography
  • House of Earth (2013)
  • See Hear Yoko (2015)
  • Narcisa (2015)
  • The Unraveled Tales of Bob Dylan (2015)
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