Big Beach (company)

Big Beach, LLC
Formerly called
Big Beach Films
Private
Industry Motion picture
Founded 2004 (2004)
Founder
Headquarters 648 Broadway (7th Floor), New York City, New York 10012, United States
Number of locations
2
Key people
  • Marc Turtletaub
  • Peter Saraf
Services
Owner
  • Marc Turtletaub
  • Peter Saraf
Divisions Television
Subsidiaries Beachside Films
Website www.bigbeach.com

Big Beach is an American independent production company founded in 2004 by Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf,[1] based in New York City. It is best known for their lower-budget comedy-drama films, including the 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine.

History

The company began when Turtletaub and Saraf co-produced the 2005 film Everything Is Illuminated. The new company then took over production duties on two films that had been developed by Turtletaub's previous production company, Deep River Studios: Duane Hopwood and Sherrybaby in 2005 and 2006.[1]

In 2014, Big Beach launched a television division of the company that is headed by former IFC executive, Dan Pasternack.[2] In 2015, the company opened a Los Angeles-based office that is headquartered next to their subsidiary, Beachside.[3]

Filmography

Films

Big Beach has produced or co-produced the following films:[4]

Year Film Co-producer Distributor Release date Budget (USD) Box Office (USD)
2005 Everything Is Illuminated None. Warner Independent Pictures 16 September 2005 $7 million $3.6 million
Duane Hopwood IFC Films 11 November 2005 $1 million (est) N/A
2006 Little Miss Sunshine Bona Fide Productions

Deep River Productions

Third Gear Productions

Fox Searchlight Pictures 26 July 2006 $8 million $100.5 million
Sherrybaby Elevation Filmworks

Red Envelope Entertainment

IFC Films 8 September 2006 $2 million $600K
2007 Chop Shop None. Entertainment One Films 27 February 2007 N/A $200K
2008 Is Anybody There? Heyday Films

BBC Films

Optimum Releasing 7 September 2008 N/A $3.3 million
Sunshine Cleaning HanWay Films Overture Films 13 March 2009 $5 million $16.6 million
2009 Away We Go Neal Street Productions Focus Features 5 June 2009 $17 million $14.9 million
2010 Lucky None. N/A 24 January 2010 N/A N/A
Jack Goes Boating Overture Films

Relativity Media

17 September 2010 N/A $620K
2011 Our Idiot Brother Likely Story The Weinstein Company

Miramax

26 August 2011 $5 million $25.9 million
2012 Safety Not Guaranteed Duplass Brothers Productions FilmDistrict 8 June 2012 $750K $4.4 million
2013 The Kings of Summer Low Spark Films CBS Films 31 May 2013 N/A $1.3 million
2015 About Ray InFilm Productions The Weinstein Company 12 September 2015 N/A N/A
2016 Me Him Her None. Filmbuff 4 March 2016 N/A N/A
Loving Random Films

Augusta Films

Tri-State Pictures

Focus Features 4 November 2016 N/A N/A

Television

Year Title Number of seasons Co-producer Director Distributor
2015 New Timers 2 None. Matt Porter

Charlie Hankin

Comedy Central

Theatre

Release Year Title Director Author In-production
2005 Of Mice and Men Anna D. Shapiro John Steinbeck No
2008 Sleepwalk with Me Seth Barrish Mike Birbiglia No
2015 Sylvia Daniel J. Sullivan A. R. Gurney Yes

References

  1. 1 2 Fleming, Michael (September 21, 2004). "Turtletaub surfs Big Beach with Saraf". Variety.
  2. Littleton, Cynthia (9 July 2014). "Big Beach Films Launches TV Division Headed by IFC's Dan Pasternack". Variety. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  3. Hipes, Patrick (30 November 2015). "Indie Producer Big Beach Opens L.A. Outpost". Deadline. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  4. Big Beach: Movies
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