Studio 8

Entertainment ProvidersCalifornia, United States51-200 Employees

A FILMMAKER-DRIVEN MEDIA COMPANY
STUDIO 8 is a filmmaker-driven company focused on building longstanding relationships with filmmakers in order to develop, produce and acquire both potential tentpoles and prestige pictures. Studio 8 is funded in partnership with the Chinese investment management firm Fosun Group and with Sony Pictures Entertainment. Studio 8 has secured $1 billion in financing. The company’s initial film projects include Alpha, which is currently in post production with Albert Hughes directing, White Boy Rick, which is currently shooting with Yann Demange directing, and recently released Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk in partnership with Sony’s TriStar Pictures.

STUDIO 8 founder and CEO, Jeff Robinov, previously served as an executive at Warner Bros., climbing the ranks to serve as President of Warner Bros. Pictures Group. Under Robinov’s leadership, the division crossed the billion-dollar mark every year since 2002 in both domestic and international box office. Robinov helped oversee some of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed films and franchises in recent memory, including The Dark Knight trilogy (over $2.4 billion worldwide), The Hangover films (over $1.4 billion worldwide), Inception (over $825 million worldwide), Argo (over $230 million worldwide) which won the best picture Oscar, and Gravity which surpassed $716 million worldwide.

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