Company type | Public |
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Industry | Motion pictures |
Predecessor | Northern Lights Entertainment [1] |
Founded | 1998 |
Founders |
Tom Pollock Ivan Reitman |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Amie Karp (president) |
The Montecito Picture Company is a film production company that was founded by Tom Pollock and Ivan Reitman. [2] It is located on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, California, United States. Montecito is a city in California in Santa Barbara County.
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The company's predecessor was an entertainment production studio Northern Lights Entertainment, owned by Reitman. [1] It originally started off with a deal at PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. [3] Ultimately, the deal was in a dispute after Universal took control of the PolyGram assets [2] and signed a first look deal with DreamWorks Pictures instead. [4] On March 9, 2000, it extended its pact with writer/director Todd Phillips, after the success of the hit movie Road Trip. [5]
After several years at DreamWorks, on February 18, 2009, the company signed a first-look deal with Paramount Pictures. [6] The deal was ended on March 16, 2013; [7] and in 2015 the company moved into offices on the Sony lot. Tom Pollock died in August 2020, and Ivan Reitman died in February 2022.
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