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| Industry | Independent film |
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| Predecessors | Good Machine Propaganda Films |
| Founded | 2002; 24 years ago (2002) |
| Founders | Ted Hope Anthony Bregman Anne Carey Diana Victor |
| Defunct | 2010 (2010) |
| Successor | Double Hope Films |
| Headquarters | , U.S.A. |
| Products | Motion pictures |
This Is That Productions (also known asThis is that corporation) was one of the leading independent featurefilm production companies. Established in 2002, and based inNew York City, the company was founded and fully owned byTed Hope,Anne Carey,Anthony Bregman, and Diana Victor. The four partners previously worked together at the groundbreakingGood Machine, which Ted Hope co-founded in 1991.[1]
The partners at This Is That were responsible for over fifty feature films. In addition to their sevenAcademy Award nominations their films received eighteenIndependent Spirit Award nominations. Three of their films won theGrand Jury Prize at theSundance Film Festival.
In 1981, Hope and Carey met on their first day as undergrad transfer student's to NYU'sTisch School of the Arts; Carey later came on board Good Machine. In 1999, Diana Victor came to run Business Affairs atGood Machine; she has worked with Hope & Carey ever since. WhenGood Machine was sold to Universal, they formed This Is That together.[2][1] The company had a deal withFocus Features for a multi-year, first-look pact.[3] Two years later, the company had signed a deal with Svensk Filmindustri for a three-year output deal inScandinavia.[4]
This Is That's initial production was21 Grams directed byAlejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. The film starsSean Penn,Naomi Watts andBenicio del Toro.
This Is That's second year broughtEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind written byCharlie Kaufman, directed byMichel Gondry, and starringJim Carrey andKate Winslet;The Door in the Floor, based on a novel byJohn Irving, written for the screen and directed byTod Williams, and starringJeff Bridges andKim Basinger; andJohn Waters'A Dirty Shame, produced along with Killer Films.
This Is That's production ofMike Mills'Thumbsucker premiered at the 2005Sundance Film Festival andBerlin International Film Festival. Lou Taylor Pucci was awarded the Special Jury Prize at both festivals for his performance. Another This Is That production in competition at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival was Jeff Feuerzeig's documentaryThe Devil and Daniel Johnston, which won Best Director for a documentary at the festival.
In 2006,Sony Pictures Classics released This Is That'sNicole Holofcener-directedFriends with Money, starringJennifer Aniston,Catherine Keener,Frances McDormand andJoan Cusack. The film, which was the opening night selection at the2006 Sundance Film Festival, was Sony Pictures Classic's highest grossing film that year. Anthony Bregman left along with a co-worker to start his own production companyLikely Story.[5]
2007 was also a busy year for This Is That.The Savages, directed byTamara Jenkins, and starringLaura Linney andPhilip Seymour Hoffman was nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Actress and Best Screenplay.Hal Hartley'sFay Grim premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was also featured at the Sundance, Berlin, London and San Sebastian film festivals. The film starsParker Posey andJeff Goldblum.The Ex, produced with 2929 Entertainment, was written by David Guion & Michael Handelman and directed by Jesse Peretz. The film starsZach Braff,Amanda Peet,Jason Bateman,Charles Grodin andMia Farrow.The Hawk Is Dying, starringPaul Giamatti premiered at Sundance and Cannes.
Fall of 2008 kicked off with the release of This Is That's production,Towelhead, Oscar-winnerAlan Ball's feature film directorial debut, which premiered at both Toronto and Sundance and starsAaron Eckhart,Toni Collette, andMaria Bello. It is the final release by Warner Independent.Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot, written and directed by Tod Harrison Williams and starringSeann William Scott,Gretchen Mol, andJeff Garlin, was released later that year.
In both 2007 & 2008, the This Is That producer team were named toThe Hollywood Reporter's Indie Power List.[citation needed]
This Is That completed production onAdventureland, by writer/directorGreg Mottola (Superbad), which starsJesse Eisenberg,Kristen Stewart,Ryan Reynolds, andBill Hader. The film, a joint effort for Miramax and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, was released in 2009 and earned award nominations at three festivals.
With at least two films being released each year since their creation in 2004, This Is That also made, in association with Likely Story and This Is That's former partner Anthony Bregman,Carriers, written and directed by brothers Alex and David Pastor, andSleep Dealer, a Spanish-language science-fiction romance from writer-director Alex Rivera that won the Best Screenplay award at the2008 Sundance Film Festival.
The company closed its doors in 2010 after having the No. 1 film at the US box office (The American) and the first film to sell that year at theToronto International Film Festival (Super).[6]
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