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Alcon Entertainment
American film production company
American film production company
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Alcon Entertainment, LLC |
| logo | Alcon Entertainment.svg |
| logo_size | 199px |
| logo_caption | Logo used since 1999 |
| type | Private |
| founders | Andrew Kosove |
| Broderick Johnson | |
| foundation | |
| key_people | Broderick Johnson (CEO) |
| Andrew Kosove (CEO) | |
| Steven Wegner (VP of development) | |
| Scott Parish (CFO) | |
| Kira Davis (former VP of production & marketing) | |
| location_city | Los Angeles, California |
| industry | Film |
| predecessors | Village Roadshow Pictures (library only) |
| divisions | |
| homepage |
Broderick Johnson Andrew Kosove (CEO) Steven Wegner (VP of development) Scott Parish (CFO) Kira Davis (former VP of production & marketing)
Alcon Entertainment, LLC is an American independent film and television production company, founded on January 24, 1997 by film producers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson. Since its establishment, Alcon Entertainment has developed and financed films that are ultimately distributed – in the United States mostly, and internationally on occasion – by Warner Bros. Pictures, following a ten-year motion picture production agreement.
Company
Alcon Entertainment was established on January 24, 1997, being founded by film producers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove, who are the co-CEOs of the company. The company is headquartered on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.
Both Johnson and Kosove presented FedEx founder and chairman Frederick W. Smith with a proposal suggesting that an independent film company, backed by a capitalized individual or company, and aligned with a major studio for an exclusive distribution arrangement would reap profits on copyrighted assets over a set period of time.
On February 18, 1998, Alcon Entertainment set up two greenlight projects, with Warner Bros. distributing a single project. On May 15, 1998, Alcon signed a second deal with Warner Bros. in which Warner Bros. was allowed to distribute the film Lost & Found.
Alcon's first major feature film was the 1999 comedy Lost & Found. In March 2000, following the success of its second film My Dog Skip, Alcon entered into a long-term distribution agreement with Warner Bros. The agreement had Warner Bros. Pictures in charge of worldwide distribution of a minimum of 10 films produced and financed by Alcon over the next five years. The agreement also allowed Warner Bros. Pictures to co-finance certain pictures with Alcon.
Alcon and Warner Bros. Pictures signed a new agreement in February 2006, continuing their eight-year relationship, under which Warner Bros. Pictures would continue to distribute feature films developed and financed by Alcon. Alcon has the option to distribute its pictures internationally through Warner Bros. Pictures, but also has the flexibility instead to pre-sell rights through Summit Entertainment (later Lionsgate). Warner Bros. Pictures and Alcon extended the deal in 2015 which ended in 2019.
On September 28, 2003, Alcon Entertainment had launched its television arm, with an exclusive co-production agreement at television studio Warner Bros. Television.
In 2011, Alcon Entertainment acquired the entire brand and rights to the Blade Runner franchise, which encompasses movies, series, games and other franchise media such as books. On March 8, 2012, Alcon had signed an affiliate production company headed by 2S Films executive Molly Smith, Belle Pictures, to develop film projects.
On October 6, 2016, Alcon opened up a new division titled Alcon Interactive Group which continues Alcon's diversification beyond its core business of financing and producing feature films, having also established in the past years.
After the Village Roadshow Entertainment Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March 2025, Alcon placed a bid of $416.5 million for its library the following month, with it being approved as the new stalking horse bid by Delaware bankruptcy judge Thomas Horan. On June 18, 2025, it was announced that Alcon's stalking horse bid worth $417.5 million had succeeded, giving it rights to VREG's library of 108 films, including intellectual properties, distribution rights, cash flows, overall rights and royalties, as well as its development slate of films and television series. On November 5, 2025, Alcon won the derivative rights to most of VREG's library.
Filmography
| Year | Film title | Distributor | Notes | Budget | Box office | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Lost & Found | Warner Bros. | First film | $30 million | $6,552,255 | |||
| 2000 | My Dog Skip | $6 million | $35,512,760 | |||||
| Dude, Where's My Car? | 20th Century Fox | Uncredited | $13 million | $73,180,723 | ||||
| 2001 | The Affair of the Necklace | Warner Bros. Pictures | International distribution outside Latin America, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, France and Italy by Summit Entertainment | $30 million | $471,210 | |||
| 2002 | Insomnia | Co-produced with Section Eight Productions; international distribution outside France, Germany and Austria by Summit Entertainment | $46 million | $113,714,830 | ||||
| 2003 | Love Don't Cost a Thing | $21 million | $21,924,226 | |||||
| 2004 | Chasing Liberty | $23 million | $12,313,323 | |||||
| 2005 | Racing Stripes | international distribution by Summit Entertainment | $30 million | $90,754,475 | ||||
| The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | Co-produced with Alloy Entertainment, Di Novi Pictures and Martin Chase Productions | $25 million | $42,000,000 | |||||
| 2006 | 16 Blocks | North American distribution only; produced by Millennium Films, Equity Pictures, Nu Image, Emmett/Furla Films, Cheyenne Enterprises, ContentFilm International and The Donners' Company | $55 million | $65,664,721 | ||||
| The Wicker Man | North American distribution only; produced by Millennium Films, Saturn Films, Equity Pictures, Emmett/Furla Films and Nu Image | $40 million | $38,755,073 | |||||
| 2007 | P.S. I Love You | Co-produced with Grosvenor Park Productions; international distribution by Summit Entertainment | $30 million | $156,835,339 | ||||
| 2008 | One Missed Call | Co-produced with Kadokawa Pictures, Equity Pictures and Intermedia | $20 million | $45,847,751 | ||||
| The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 | Co-produced with Alloy Entertainment, Di Novi Pictures and Martin Chase Productions | $27 million | $44,352,417 | |||||
| 2009 | The Blind Side | $29 million | $309,208,309 | |||||
| 2010 | The Book of Eli | Co-produced with Silver Pictures; international distribution by Summit Entertainment | $80 million | $157,091,718 | ||||
| Lottery Ticket | Co-produced with Cube Vision | $17 million | $24,719,879 | |||||
| 2011 | Something Borrowed | Co-produced with 2S Films; international distribution outside France and Italy by Summit Entertainment | $35 million | $60,183,821 | ||||
| Dolphin Tale | $37 million | $95,404,397 | ||||||
| 2012 | Joyful Noise | $25 million | $31,158,113 | |||||
| What to Expect When You're Expecting | Lionsgate | Co-produced with Phoenix Pictures | $40 million | $41.102.171 | ||||
| Chernobyl Diaries | Warner Bros. Pictures | North American, German, Austrian, Spanish and Japanese distribution only; produced by FilmNation Entertainment and Oren Peli/Brian Witten Productions | $1 million | $37,157,648 | ||||
| 2013 | Beautiful Creatures | Co-produced with 3 Arts Entertainment, Belle Pictures; international distribution by Summit Entertainment | $60 million | $60,052,138 | ||||
| Prisoners | Co-produced with 8:38 Productions and Madhouse Entertainment; international distribution outside Australia, New Zealand, Italy and Spain by Summit Entertainment | $46 million | $122,126,687 | |||||
| 2014 | Transcendence | Co-produced with DMG Entertainment and Straight Up Films; international distribution outside China by Summit Entertainment | $100 million | $103,039,258 | ||||
| Dolphin Tale 2 | $36 million | $57,824,533 | ||||||
| The Good Lie | Co-produced with Imagine Entertainment, Black Label Media and Reliance Entertainment; international distribution by Summit Entertainment | $20 million | $2,722,209 | |||||
| 2015 | The 33 | Distribution outside Latin America, the Middle East, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines, Korea and Taiwan only; produced by Phoenix Pictures | $26 million | $24,902,723 | ||||
| Point Break | Co-produced with DMG Entertainment, Ehrman Productions and Babelsberg Studios; international distribution outside Latin America, the U.K., Ireland, China, Japan and the CIS by Lionsgate under Summit Entertainment | $100 million | $131,338,490 | |||||
| 2016 | No Manches Frida | Pantelion Films | Co-produced with Constantin Film | $23,540,937 | ||||
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 | Warner Bros. Pictures / Sony Pictures Releasing International | Co-produced with Columbia Pictures, Thunderbird Films and Scott Free Productions | $150–185 million | $259,239,658 | |||
| Father Figures | Warner Bros. Pictures | Co-produced with The Montecito Picture Company and DMG Entertainment | $25 million | $25,601,244 | ||||
| 2018 | 12 Strong | Co-produced with Black Label Media, Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Torridon Films; international distribution by Lionsgate | $35 million | $62,928,960 | ||||
| 2019 | No manches Frida 2 | Pantelion Films | Co-produced with Constantin Film | url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/No-Manches-Frida-2-(2019)#tab=summary | title=No Manches Frida 2 (2019) -Financial Information | work=The Numbers | access-date=June 11, 2019}} | |
| 2022 | Lullaby | Vertical Entertainment / Stage 6 Films | Co-produced with Envision Media Arts and Heroes and Villains Entertainment | $10 million | ||||
| 2024 | The Garfield Movie | Sony Pictures Releasing | First animated film. Co-produced with Columbia Pictures, DNEG Animation, Prime Focus, One Cool Group Limited, Wayfarer Studios, Stage 6 Films, John Cohen Productions and Andrews McMeel Entertainment | $60 million | $257,211,519 | |||
| 2026 | Practical Magic 2 | Warner Bros. Pictures | Co-produced with Di Novi Pictures, Fortis Films and Blossom Films | |||||
| 2027 | The Garfield Movie 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | Co-produced with Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, DNEG Animation, Prime Focus and John Cohen Productions | |||||
| TBA | I Am Legend 2 | Warner Bros. Pictures | Co-production with Outlier Society, Westbrook Studios and Weed Road Pictures | |||||
| Oceans | Co-produced by LuckyChap Entertainment and Everyman Pictures | |||||||
| Ocean's 14 | co-production with Smokehouse Pictures and 87North Productions | |||||||
| Untitled fifth Matrix film | Co-production with Venus Castina Productions | |||||||
| Untitled third Sherlock Holmes film | Co-production with Silver Pictures, Rideback and Team Downey | |||||||
| Wonka 2 | Co-production with The Roald Dahl Story Company and Heyday Films |
Alcon Television Group
| Year | Title | Network | Notes | Seasons | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Sinatra: All or Nothing at All | HBO | Co-produced with Jigsaw Productions and The Kennedy/Marshall Company | 1 | 2 |
| 2015–2022 | The Expanse | Syfy (2015–2018) | |||
| Amazon Prime Video (2019–2022) | Co-produced with Penguin in a Parka, SeanDanielCo (2015–2018), Just So (2019–2022), Hivemind (2019–2022) and Amazon Studios (2019–2022); distributed by Legendary Television Distribution | 6 | 62 | ||
| 2016–2018 | Ice | Audience | Co-produced with Fuqua Films (2016), Entertainment One, IM Global Television (2016) and Bernero Productions (2018) | 2 | 20 |
| 2017–2022 | Pete the Cat | Amazon Prime Video | Co-produced with Amazon Studios, Appian Way Productions and Surfer Jack Productions; distributed by Cake Entertainment | 41 | |
| 2017 | The Defiant Ones | HBO | Co-produced with Silverback 5150 Productions | 1 | 4 |
| 2021–2022 | Blade Runner: Black Lotus | Adult Swim | |||
| Crunchyroll | Co-produced with Williams Street | 1 | 13 | ||
| 2026 | Hey A.J.! | Disney Jr. | Co-produced with Surfing Giant Studios | TBA | |
| Blade Runner 2099 | Amazon Prime Video | Co-produced with Scott Free Productions, Amazon MGM Studios, and Sony Pictures Television | TBA | TBA |
Alcon Interactive Group
| Year | Title | Developer(s) | Platform(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 VR - Memory Lab | Magnopus | Oculus |
| 2018 | Blade Runner: Revelations | Seismic Games | Google Daydream |
| 2021 | In My Shadow | Playbae | Windows |
| Blade Runner: Rogue | Next Games | iOS | |
| 2022 | Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition | Nightdive Studios | Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One |
| 2023 | The Expanse: A Telltale Series | Telltale Games | |
| Deck Nine Games | Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S | ||
| TBA | Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth | Annapurna Interactive | Windows, TBA |
| TBA | The Expanse: Osiris Reborn | Owlcat Games | Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S |
Music
In 2014, Alcon partnered with Sleeping Giant Media to form ASG Music Group. ASG is a full service music company and record label. In 2017, ASG released the Blade Runner 2049 soundtrack, produced by Grammy nominated producer Michael Hodges, Kayla Morrison and Ashley Culp, with Epic Records. The album reached No. 1 on the Billboard Soundtrack Sales Charts.
References
References
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- (21 October 2017). "'Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab' is an Intriguing VR Adventure".
- (17 May 2018). "How Blade Runner: Revelations' Sound Brings the Neo-Noir World to Life in VR".
- "Step into the Shadows in Heartfelt Puzzle Game In My Shadow".
- (15 June 2017). "Next Games partners with Alcon Entertainment on Blade Runner 2049 mobile game".
- "Next Game's Blade Runner: Rogue available in the first main market".
- "Nightdive Studios and Alcon Entertainment Digitally Re-Release Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition on PC and Consoles".
- (12 March 2020). "Classic 'Blade Runner' Video Game to be Restored for Consoles, Steam (Exclusive)".
- (2023-07-21). "The Expanse: A Telltale Series Reveals Archangel Bonus Episode Trailer; Releasing Fall 2023".
- (2023-06-29). "Wake up! There's a new Blade Runner game coming from Annapurna Interactive". Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
- (18 April 2014). "Alcon, Sleeping Giant Launch ASG Group to Drive Down Music Cue Costs".
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