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Hollywood casts spell on son of Gaddafi
By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles
Published: February 8 2010 02:00 | Last updated: February 8 2010 02:00
Saadi Gaddafi, the son of Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi, has financed his first US film, joining the long list of investors to fall under Hollywood's spell, which range from Japanese electronics groups to oil barons to soft drinks companies.
Mr Gaddafi has backed The Experiment , a remake of a German thriller that will be released this year and stars a pair of Oscar winners, Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker.
Mr Gaddafi is one of a handful of Middle Eastern investors entering an industry that is desperate for new funding.
The private equity groups and hedge funds that dominated film investing in recent years fled in the wake of the financial crisis.
Mr Gaddafi is the main equity backer of Natural Selection, one of the producers of The Experiment , which has $100m to spend on film investments.
"At a time when financing has really dried up for most of the film business, we find ourselves able to make things happen," Matty Beckerman, chief executive of Natural Selection, told the Financial Times.
The company will invest in films with budgets of about $15m, but Mr Beckerman said it was considering projects costing as much as $40m.
The Experiment , which the company co-financed with Inferno Distribution, cost $12m to make. Production has started on Natural Selection's second film, Isolation , which stars Eva Amurri, the daughter of Oscar winner Susan Sarandon.
Mr Beckerman, a former music industry executive, travelled to the Middle East to raise funding last year. He quickly found a like-minded partner in Mr Gaddafi, who he says is a true "film fan".
Given past tensions between Libya and the west, Mr Beckerman acknowledged that Mr Gaddafi's Hollywood investment could generate controversy.
"It's something we've talked about very openly," he said. "But we're trying to make a good commercial product that has nothing to do with politics."
Hollywood casts spell on son of Gaddafi
By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles
Published: February 8 2010 02:00 | Last updated: February 8 2010 02:00
Saadi Gaddafi, the son of Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi, has financed his first US film, joining the long list of investors to fall under Hollywood's spell, which range from Japanese electronics groups to oil barons to soft drinks companies.
Mr Gaddafi has backed The Experiment , a remake of a German thriller that will be released this year and stars a pair of Oscar winners, Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker.
Mr Gaddafi is one of a handful of Middle Eastern investors entering an industry that is desperate for new funding.
The private equity groups and hedge funds that dominated film investing in recent years fled in the wake of the financial crisis.
Mr Gaddafi is the main equity backer of Natural Selection, one of the producers of The Experiment , which has $100m to spend on film investments.
"At a time when financing has really dried up for most of the film business, we find ourselves able to make things happen," Matty Beckerman, chief executive of Natural Selection, told the Financial Times.
The company will invest in films with budgets of about $15m, but Mr Beckerman said it was considering projects costing as much as $40m.
The Experiment , which the company co-financed with Inferno Distribution, cost $12m to make. Production has started on Natural Selection's second film, Isolation , which stars Eva Amurri, the daughter of Oscar winner Susan Sarandon.
Mr Beckerman, a former music industry executive, travelled to the Middle East to raise funding last year. He quickly found a like-minded partner in Mr Gaddafi, who he says is a true "film fan".
Given past tensions between Libya and the west, Mr Beckerman acknowledged that Mr Gaddafi's Hollywood investment could generate controversy.
"It's something we've talked about very openly," he said. "But we're trying to make a good commercial product that has nothing to do with politics."
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