C2 Pictures | |
Predecessor: | Carolco Pictures Cinergi Pictures |
Successor: | The Halcyon Company |
Fate: | Dissolved |
Location: | Santa Monica, California, United States |
Type: | Private |
Industry: | Entertainment |
Founder: | Mario Kassar Andrew G. Vajna |
Products: | Motion pictures, television series and video games |
C2 Pictures was an American independent media-entertainment company, it specialized in film and television production.
The company was established in 1998 by Carolco Pictures co-founders Andrew G. Vajna (who had formed Cinergi Pictures until it folded in this same year) and Mario Kassar.[1] In 1999, VCL Communications and Toho-Towa were attached as partners on the then-upcoming feature film .[2] The company assigned Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the right to co-produce Basic Instinct 2.[3] Both sequels were co-produced by international backer Intermedia.[4]
The company's first production was action comedy film I Spy (2002). Though this film was the company's first, Kassar and Vajna's initial purpose for forming the new company was to resurrect the Terminator franchise.[5] In 2008, the company fell into dormancy and eventually was dissolved.[6]
Release Date | Title | Director(s) | Production partner(s) | Distributor(s) | Budget | Box office | |
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November 1, 2002 | I Spy | Betty Thomas | Columbia Pictures, Tall Trees Productions, Sheldon Leonard Productions | Sony Pictures Releasing | $70 million[7] | $60.3 million | |
July 2, 2003 | [8] | Jonathan Mostow | Columbia Pictures,[9] Intermedia Films | Warner Bros. Pictures , Sony Pictures Releasing | $187.3 million ($167.3 million excluding production overhead) | $433.3 million[10] | |
March 31, 2006 | Basic Instinct 2 | Michael Caton-Jones | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Intermedia Films | Sony Pictures Releasing | $70 million | $38.6 million[11] | |
November 10, 2006 | Children of Glory | Krisztina Goda | N/A | Bunyik Entertainment | N/A | N/A |