Rob Paris(II)
- Producer
- Executive
Producer Rob Paris began his career as a literary agent at
Agency for the Performing Arts and later joined Creative
Artists Agency where he represented a wide range of award winning
writers, directors and producers. While in the representation business,
Paris packaged and arranged finance for dozens of iconic projects,
including Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Dawson's Creek,
Donnie Darko, One Hour Photo and The Day After Tomorrow, which grossed
over $500 million world wide.
After a decade in the representation business Paris formed Mission Entertainment,
a development fund backed by Comcast/Spectacor CEO Ed Snider. As head of
development he acquired Whip It! a book proposal he packaged and developed as a
directing vehicle for Drew Barrymore. Mandate Pictures and Fox Searchlight
released the film which starred Barrymore, Ellen Page, Kristin Wiig,
Jimmy Fallon and Juliette Lewis.
Paris later launched his company ParisFilm, Inc. and acquired spec screenplay
The Maiden Heist which attracted an ensemble cast of Oscar® winners and
nominees, including Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, William H. Macy
and Marcia Gay Harden. The film was financed by Yari Film Group and
acquired by Sony Pictures Worldwide.
Shortly after, ParisFilm, Inc. launched production on Black List comedy
Dirty Girl with Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Mary
Steenburgen, Dwight Yoakam and Tim McGraw. The Weinstein Company outbid
an aggressive field of buyers at the Toronto International Film
Festival and released the picture in 2011, the same year Daily Variety
placed Rob on its distinguished list of "10 Producers to Watch."
That same year Paris formed Crime Scene Pictures, a finance and production
company backed by private equity from Singapore and Indonesia. Within weeks
of its launch Paris assembled the financing and produced a remake of Gambit
written by Academy Award winners Joel & Ethan Coen and starring Academy Award
winner Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz Alan Rickman and Stanley Tucci. CBS
Films preemptively acquired US distribution rights at the European Film
Market in Berlin.
In 2013 Paris wrapped production on Everly, an action tour de force
starring Academy Award nominee Salma Hayek. Dimension & RADiUS-TWC
preemptively acquired domestic distribution rights at the American
Film Market that same year.
Paris recently returned to the world of horror, producing back to back
films with writer/director Osgood Perkins. The Blackcoat's Daughter sold to
A24 amidst competitive bidding at the Toronto International Film Festival
and I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House was preemptively acquired by
Netflix immediately thereafter.
Agency for the Performing Arts and later joined Creative
Artists Agency where he represented a wide range of award winning
writers, directors and producers. While in the representation business,
Paris packaged and arranged finance for dozens of iconic projects,
including Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Dawson's Creek,
Donnie Darko, One Hour Photo and The Day After Tomorrow, which grossed
over $500 million world wide.
After a decade in the representation business Paris formed Mission Entertainment,
a development fund backed by Comcast/Spectacor CEO Ed Snider. As head of
development he acquired Whip It! a book proposal he packaged and developed as a
directing vehicle for Drew Barrymore. Mandate Pictures and Fox Searchlight
released the film which starred Barrymore, Ellen Page, Kristin Wiig,
Jimmy Fallon and Juliette Lewis.
Paris later launched his company ParisFilm, Inc. and acquired spec screenplay
The Maiden Heist which attracted an ensemble cast of Oscar® winners and
nominees, including Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, William H. Macy
and Marcia Gay Harden. The film was financed by Yari Film Group and
acquired by Sony Pictures Worldwide.
Shortly after, ParisFilm, Inc. launched production on Black List comedy
Dirty Girl with Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Mary
Steenburgen, Dwight Yoakam and Tim McGraw. The Weinstein Company outbid
an aggressive field of buyers at the Toronto International Film
Festival and released the picture in 2011, the same year Daily Variety
placed Rob on its distinguished list of "10 Producers to Watch."
That same year Paris formed Crime Scene Pictures, a finance and production
company backed by private equity from Singapore and Indonesia. Within weeks
of its launch Paris assembled the financing and produced a remake of Gambit
written by Academy Award winners Joel & Ethan Coen and starring Academy Award
winner Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz Alan Rickman and Stanley Tucci. CBS
Films preemptively acquired US distribution rights at the European Film
Market in Berlin.
In 2013 Paris wrapped production on Everly, an action tour de force
starring Academy Award nominee Salma Hayek. Dimension & RADiUS-TWC
preemptively acquired domestic distribution rights at the American
Film Market that same year.
Paris recently returned to the world of horror, producing back to back
films with writer/director Osgood Perkins. The Blackcoat's Daughter sold to
A24 amidst competitive bidding at the Toronto International Film Festival
and I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House was preemptively acquired by
Netflix immediately thereafter.