cameraman
04-07-06, 04:46 PM
Seems CTE has been busy afterall. Nelson" car has the film production company A Bird and a Bear Entertainment on the side. Wellbox is on the cowling.
According to IMDb they have made 4 movies.
The Cleaner (2006)
Back to School (2006)
Flash (2005)
Johnson Family Vacation (2005)
You can't link directly to Champweb anymore
Look at HotDaug's pictures here Link to photo (http://www.champweb.net/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=3227)
Actually Cedric owns A Bird and a Bear Entertainment....
In addition to endorsement deals with McDonald's and Budweiser, he co-owns A Bird and a Bear Entertainment, a production firm that recently inked a three-year, multimillion-dollar deal with MGM. In the deal, MGM has the rights to first refusal on any projects with Bird and a Bear in return for an undisclosed seven-figure sum. The 2-year-old company's first effort was the feature film Johnson Family Vacation. With a budget of $13 million, the film grossed $31 million at the box office. Cedric and business manager Eric Rhone hammered out an arrangement with MGM that should net their firm as much as $5 million from the $10 million to $15 million anticipated from the movie's DVD sales.
Back-end deals like these, however, can be complicated and risky. "Your front end is determined by the value that you feel you add to the film -- that you know where it's going to land right off the top. Up-front payment is negotiated early on, but Bird and Bear gambled that its first film would be a profitable one and opted for less cash up front in return for a portion of the DVD sales -- the back end," Cedric explains. "The risk is that if the film is unsuccessful, it won't generate enough in the box office or in video sales to generate back-end residuals. This [film] paid off."
For Cedric, the route to entrepreneurship was about control and ownership. "That was the reason Bird and a Bear was formed; in order to develop some films, develop some ideas, to have a certain Cedric The Entertainer kind of energy to them," says the comedian. "We can control the style of the movie and its content and its characteristics. Often, especially as African Americans, [we're] accused of doing things on-screen that [are] considered buffoonery or something to that nature. Well, that's really determined by the writers and the powers -- the people writing the check."
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According to IMDb they have made 4 movies.
The Cleaner (2006)
Back to School (2006)
Flash (2005)
Johnson Family Vacation (2005)
You can't link directly to Champweb anymore
Look at HotDaug's pictures here Link to photo (http://www.champweb.net/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=3227)
Actually Cedric owns A Bird and a Bear Entertainment....
In addition to endorsement deals with McDonald's and Budweiser, he co-owns A Bird and a Bear Entertainment, a production firm that recently inked a three-year, multimillion-dollar deal with MGM. In the deal, MGM has the rights to first refusal on any projects with Bird and a Bear in return for an undisclosed seven-figure sum. The 2-year-old company's first effort was the feature film Johnson Family Vacation. With a budget of $13 million, the film grossed $31 million at the box office. Cedric and business manager Eric Rhone hammered out an arrangement with MGM that should net their firm as much as $5 million from the $10 million to $15 million anticipated from the movie's DVD sales.
Back-end deals like these, however, can be complicated and risky. "Your front end is determined by the value that you feel you add to the film -- that you know where it's going to land right off the top. Up-front payment is negotiated early on, but Bird and Bear gambled that its first film would be a profitable one and opted for less cash up front in return for a portion of the DVD sales -- the back end," Cedric explains. "The risk is that if the film is unsuccessful, it won't generate enough in the box office or in video sales to generate back-end residuals. This [film] paid off."
For Cedric, the route to entrepreneurship was about control and ownership. "That was the reason Bird and a Bear was formed; in order to develop some films, develop some ideas, to have a certain Cedric The Entertainer kind of energy to them," says the comedian. "We can control the style of the movie and its content and its characteristics. Often, especially as African Americans, [we're] accused of doing things on-screen that [are] considered buffoonery or something to that nature. Well, that's really determined by the writers and the powers -- the people writing the check."
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