Английская Википедия:Gravitas Ventures

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox company Gravitas Ventures is an film distribution company owned by Anthem Sports & Entertainment. The company was founded by Nolan Gallagher in Los Angeles, California in 2006 and moved its headquarters to Cleveland, Ohio in 2019. It focuses on the distribution of Independent feature films and documentaries.

History

Gravitas Ventures, an independent film distributor, was founded in Los Angeles, California by Nolan Gallagher in 2006. The company releases and promotes independent feature films and documentaries, offering films to theaters and as “Video on Demand” (VOD) to screening services such as Amazon Prime, Hulu, Paramount Plus, Apple iTunes, Vudu, Google Play, Vimeo, Netflix, and Gravitas Movies The company has become one of the US's biggest providers of independent VOD. The company's films come in all forms: traditional movie theater, transactional VOD like traditional cable, telco, satellite and online platforms; subscription and ad-sponsored VOD. Gravitas releases around 400 films per annum; its library contains 2,400 titles.

The Los Angeles Business Journal recognized the company as the #3 fastest-growing private company in 2012, where it was #4 fastest-growing in 2011. In 2019 the company moved its headquarters to Cleveland, Ohio.

In 2021 Gravitas Ventures' film The Mole Agent was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary.

2017 acquisition

In 2017, the content division of the German broadcast company ProSiebenSat.1, Red Arrow Entertainment, purchased a majority position in Gravitas with an agreement to move to complete ownership in the future. Gravitas remains independent, but works in cooperation with Red Arrow International, the company's distribution group. Red Arrow management said the combination of content generation, distribution and capacity to finance and own projects was motivation for the purchase. They planned to make “significant investments” in global film and television projects. Gravitas management and staff remained with the company.

2021 acquisition

On November 16, 2021, Gravitas was acquired by Canadian media company Anthem Sports & Entertainment for $73 million in a cash and stock deal.

Current

In 2022, the new company released the horror movie All Eyes starring Jasper Hammer and Ben Hall and directed and written by the Greenlee brothers. The movie was produced by Homefront Pictures. In 2023, they released the British documentary The Other Fellow about the lives of real men who are named James Bond, written and directed by Matthew Bauer.

Premium video on demand

In 2020, the company entered into Premium Video on Demand (PVOD) offering, The Secret: Dare to Dream, with Katie Holmes and John Lucas, inspired by Rhonda Byrne's popular 2006 best-selling novel. The company originally obtained North American rights to The Secret, which was scheduled for an April 17, 2020 theatrical release on a thousand screens. Gravitas mostly distributes movies through digital channels, though some films get released in theatrical venues nationwide. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns closed theaters that spring, delaying The Secret's release until July 2020, when it appeared as a PVOD on streaming services like Amazon, iTunes, Comcast and Vudu.

Other PVOD releases followed including Our Friend, starring Casey Affleck, Dakota Johnson and Jason Segel, and Queen Bees, starring Ellen Burstyn, Ann-Margret, Loretta Devine and James Caan. The company released The King's Daughter, starring Pierce Brosnan, Kaya Scodelario, Benjamin Walker, Fan Bingbing and William Hurt on January 21, 2022, exclusively in over 1,000 theaters.

Select filmography

2010s

Release date	Film Title	Notes
March 23, 2012	October Baby
February 18, 2014	Don't Pass Me By
March 21, 2014	Stay
July 18, 2014	Among Ravens
August 1, 2014	Shock Value
February 6, 2015	Lovesick
February 13, 2015	Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
May 29, 2015	I Believe in Unicorns
July 1, 2016	Buddymoon
August 26, 2016	Ace the Case
September 23, 2016	Total Frat Movie
December 9, 2016	Slash
June 2, 2017	All About the Money
July 14, 2017	Battle Scars
September 15, 2017	Easy Living
November 3, 2017	Bad Match
November 17, 2017	Almost Friends
December 12, 2017	Thrill Ride
January 12, 2018	Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game
April 2018	Desolation
June 1, 2018	All Summers End
July 20, 2018	Broken Star
July 27, 2018	Snapshots
August 31, 2018	An Actor Prepares
September 28, 2018	At First Light
October 5, 2018	Bayou Caviar
October 25, 2018	The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man
November 9, 2018	Lez Bomb
January 4, 2019	Being Rose
January 11, 2019	Against the Clock
May 24, 2019	Assimilate
August 16, 2019	Already Gone
December 6, 2019	The Mandela Effect
December 20, 2019	Santa Fake

2020s

Release date	Film Title	Notes
January 31, 2020	Coda
March 6, 2020	Becoming
March 10, 2020	I Hate the Man in My Basement
April 17, 2020	Bad Therapy
April 24, 2020	Braking for Whales
May 26, 2020	I Will Make You Mine
May 29, 2020	End of Sentence
June 30, 2020	Skyman
July 17, 2020	Easy Does It
August 11, 2020	The Dark End of the Street
September 25, 2020	All Roads to Pearla
September 25, 2020	Foster Boy
October 9, 2020	Faith Based
October 30, 2020	Blackjack: The Jackie Ryan Story
November 27, 2020	Princess of the Row
December 4, 2020	Elyse
December 15, 2020	Paint
December 18, 2020	Bad Impulse
January 8, 2021	Grizzly II: Revenge
February 19, 2021	The Violent Heart
March 12, 2021	Insight
March 23, 2021	One and the Same
March 26, 2021	Spiked
May 28, 2021	Welcome Matt
June 4, 2021	Chasing Wonders
July 30, 2021	Fully Realized Humans
August 13, 2021	Charming the Hearts of Men
September 21, 2021	The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
September 24, 2021	Lone Wolf
November 24, 2021	The Shuroo Process
November 26, 2021	An Intrusion
December 17, 2021	Last Words
January 21, 2022	The King's Daughter
February 1, 2022	Home
March 22, 2022	The Institute
July 1, 2022	Most Guys Are Losers
August 12, 2022	Mack & Rita
October 21, 2022	Where Are You
December 2, 2022	What Remains
February 17, 2023	The Integrity of Joseph Chambers
February 24, 2023	Who Are You People
March 7, 2023	ReBroken
June 2, 2023	Padre Pio
June 9, 2023	Heroes of the Golden Masks
December 5, 2023	Fireline
January 2, 2024	The Mummy Murders
January 4, 2024	DarkGame
January 30, 2024	There is A Monster
March 19, 2024	Bardejov
March 26, 2024	Handle With Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew