Ortwin Freyermuth
| Ortwin Freyermuth | |
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| Residence | U.S. |
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Entertainment lawyer Film producer |
Ortwin Freyermuth is a German American entertainment lawyer and film producer.[1][2] He is mostly noted for having been the CEO of film production company Capella Films[2][3] and for producing the 1997 director's cut version of Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot.[4][5]
Biography
Ortwin Freyermuth is the brother of German journalist and author Gundolf S. Freyermuth.[6] He studied law at the University of Göttingen and at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he completed his Master degree with a thesis on film distribution and copyright law in 1986.[2][7] In the early 1990s, he was part of a group of German film producers who pioneered a new business model, acquiring the production and distribution rights for several Hollywood films with both financial and popular success.[2][3] After having previously served as a legal advisor to Chris Roberts' Ascendant Pictures[8] and other production companies, he founded Cloud Imperium Games with Roberts in 2011[9] to create the video game Star Citizen.[10][11]
Academic Works
- Deutsch, Erwin; Schneider-Freyermuth, Ortwin; Koenig, Ulrich (January 1985). Die Vervielfältigung von Filmen durch Hochschulen und ihre Einrichtungen : rechtliche Probleme untersucht am Beispiel des IWF- Filmverleihs (in German). Berlin; Tokyo: Springer (published 1985). ISBN 978-3-540-15728-1. OCLC 38444169.
- Ortwin S Freyermuth (1986). Film distribution and modern video technology : the shift of motion picture distribution into the private sphere and its impact on copyright protection (Thesis (LL. M.)). Los Angeles: University of California. OCLC 16163525.
Filmography
Producer
- 1991: Shattered (co-producer)
- 1991: The Nutt House (executive producer)
- 1993: The Real McCoy (executive producer)
- 1993: Carlito's Way (executive producer)
- 1994: Body Shot (executive producer)
- 1997: Das Boot (producer – director's cut)
- 2011: The Ledge (executive producer)
Legal Services
- 1988: Burning Secret (special consultant)
- 1990: The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Great Chapter (production executive)
- 2003: 11:14 (additional legal services)
- 2003: Monster (legal services - as Ortwin Freyermuth Esq.)
- 2005: Havoc (legal services)
- 2005: Lord of War (legal advisor: Ascendant Pictures)
- 2006: Ask the Dust (legal services: Freyermuth & Associates)
- 2006: Lucky Number Slevin (legal services: Freyermuth & Associates, Inc. - as Ortwin Freyermuth Esq.)
- 2013: 2 Guns (financing legal services: Freyermuth & Associates, Inc. for Foresight Unlimited - as Ortwin Freyermuth Esq.)
References
- ↑ "State Bar of CA :: Ortwin Sam Freyermuth". calbar.ca.gov (Membership Record). The State Bar of California. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Barth, Ariane (14 June 1993). Augstein, Rudolf et al., ed. "Hier ist was von Wildwest. SPIEGEL-Redakteurin Ariane Barth über die Deutschen in Hollywood (Teil III: Produzenten)". Der Spiegel (in German) (Hamburg: SPIEGEL-VERLAG, RUDOLF AUGSTEIN GMBH & CO. KG) (24/1993): 125, 128–129. ISSN 0038-7452. OCLC 4927901. Archived from the original on 15 March 2010. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Yonover, Neil S. (25 February 1994). "Capella finds the right pitch". Variety (Los Angeles; New York: Penske Business Media) (February 25th, 1994). ISSN 0042-2738. OCLC 1768958. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ↑ Archibald, Kevin (5 May 2000). "Das Boot". Imagine Games Network (Review). IGN Entertainment. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ↑ "Das Boot (1981) - Release Info". IMDB. Archived from the original on 7 December 2003. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ↑ Freyermuth, Gundolf S. (March 1994). "Quellennachweise und Danksagungen". Spion unter Sternen: Lauschangriffe auf Hauptdarsteller (in German) (1st ed.). Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag. p. 231. ISBN 978-3-86-153068-8. OCLC 243774854. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Freyermuth, Ortwin S (1986). Film distribution and modern video technology : the shift of motion picture distribution into the private sphere and its impact on copyright protection (Thesis (LL. M.)). Los Angeles: University of California. OCLC 16163525.
- ↑ "The Team". Ascendant Pictures. n.d. Archived from the original on 8 February 2009. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ↑ Kubba, Sinan (11 September 2012). "Wing Commander creator returns to gaming, unveils new project next month". Joystiq. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ↑ Nezik, Ann-Kathrin (4 August 2014). "Der 49-Millionen-Dollar-Mann". Der Spiegel (in German) (Hamburg: SPIEGEL-VERLAG, RUDOLF AUGSTEIN GMBH & CO. KG) (32/2014). ISSN 0038-7452. OCLC 4927901. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ↑ "About us". Cloud Imperium Games. 2014. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.