Guy East

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Guy East
Occupation
  • Film producer[1]
  • Sales agent[1]

Guy East is a British film producer and sales agent, and the founder of Majestic Films International, InterMedia and Spitfire Pictures.

Career

East attended the University of Exeter as a student of English and law.[2] In 1985, he became the British president of the American Film Marketing Association.[2] Three years later,[3] he started a venture called Majestic Films International, which handled the distribution of Dances with Wolves, Driving Miss Daisy and others.[2][3] Also during the late 1980s, he worked with Goldcrest Films and Carolco.[2]

East stayed at Majestic until 1995.[3] In 1996, after selling Majestic,[4] he teamed up with Nigel Sinclair as founder and co-chairman of InterMedia.[2][3] The two men went on to form Spitfire Pictures in 2003 (well after InterMedia merged with Mortiz Bormann's Pacifica),[2][3][4] and joined the staff of a revived Hammer Films in 2007.[2] Both Spitfire and Hammer fused into a new entity, Exclusive Media Group, in 2008.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 De Winter, Helen (2006). "Take 9: Guy East and Tony Sinclair". '...What I Really Want to Do Is Produce': Top Producers Talk Movies & Money. Macmillan. p. 156. ISBN 0-571-21744-3. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 "Executive Board: Guy East". Exclusive Media Group. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eyre, Richard; Wood, Charles (2002). "Guy East (Executive Producer)". Iris: A Screenplay. Bloomsbury. p. 124. ISBN 0-7475-6067-6. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Minns, Adam; Goodridge, Mike (21 December 2001). "Guy East & Nigel Sinclair set to depart Intermedia". Screen Daily (Emap Ltd). Retrieved 10 February 2012.

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