Hollywood producer and financier Joseph Cohen (“Brokeback Mountain,” “12 Years A Slave,” “Sicario,” “La La Land”) is launching a brand new firm in Hong Kong known as MediaRealm Advisors Asia. It will present consulting providers to Asia-based institutional {and professional} traders seeking to spend money on American Entertainment Investors mainstream Hollywood film initiatives.

He is joined within the enterprise by Hong Kong and Tokyo based mostly Adam Guy Orlebar Garrett. Orlebar is presently chief funding officer at New Asia Ferrell Asset Management, the place he manages a number of media funds, together with a smaller native language Asia style fund for high-net wealth people, and a bigger Hollywood-Asia style fund for institutional traders. As a part of the deal, Orlebar is bringing his bigger Hollywood-Asia movie slate to MRAA.

AEI was based in Los Angeles by Cohen in 1996 to advise each institutional and particular person traders who need to spend money on the media area and to incubate the businesses they finance. The agency caters to all varieties of traders together with senior debt, junior mezzanine debt and fairness traders.

AEI has not too long ago separated its manufacturing and financing companies into two new separate entities, which shall be introduced publicly later this yr.

“I really believe you can make money investing in movies on a systematic basis, but you have to be incredibly selective, incredibly careful and apply rigorous underwriting standards. At AEI over the past nearly three decades we’ve developed a number of proven criteria that need to be met before we’re ever willing to deploy our investors’ capital to ensure their risks are minimized and to maximize their expected returns,” mentioned Cohen.

“The opportunities are definitely there. In addition to the quality projects [Orlebar] is currently packaging for us from Japan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, I remain extremely bullish about the opportunities with prospective partners in China. There remain pools of Chinese capital aggressively looking to partner internationally, as well as high-profile international films that can be partially or largely shot in China. Plus, there are generous programs of incentives in certain parts of the country which lend themselves to huge special-effects films, say. Not only China, but India is another area where we are actively looking for suitable producer partners for local remakes of some of our past Hollywood hits.”

“Jointly setting up MediaRealm Advisors Asia (MRAA) not only allows the larger movie slate I’ve put together to tap into AEI’s tremendous expertise, but also allows us to easily bring awareness of AEI’s own existing high quality movie projects from Hollywood to investors across Asia too,” mentioned Orlebar.

The Hollywood-Asia slate Adam is bringing to AEI consists of three films that are presently being packaged and looking for funding.

“Sentinels” is a excessive idea, live-action adaptation of Australia-based fantasy artist Patrick J. Jones’ motion sci-fi novel a few diversified band of mercenaries invading an alien planet.

Also on the slate is “Shi,” an authentically grounded live-action martial arts adaptation from Hollywood producer Mimi Polk Gitlin “Black Rain”) of comedian artist Billy Tucci’s cult sequence of comics a few Japanese warrioress in New York; and “Tomoe Gozen,” a live-action epic historic warfare biopic trilogy, tailored from Singaporean Jeremy Han’s novel, overlaying the late twelfth century Genpei War interval in Japan.