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CodeBlack Entertainment
Company typeCorporation
IndustryEntertainment
Founded(2005)
Headquarters
Santa Monica, California, United States
Key people
Jeff Clanagan, CEO, Codeblack Films
Quincy Newell, EVP, Codeblack Films
ProductsMotion pictures
Websitehttp://www.codeblackentertainment.com

Codeblack Films, a division of leading global entertainment company Lionsgate, is a vertically integrated entertainment and new media company focused on providing independent studios, filmmakers, globally-recognized celebrities, intellectual property rights holders and brands operating in the entertainment and sports industries cross platform monetization solutions. Codeblack Films was founded by entertainment industry veteran Jeff Clanagan in 2012

The passion of Codeblack Films executive team is to super serve the global black community and help its content and brand partners access the power of the $1-trillion African American consumer market. The African American population continues to expand both in pure numbers and in buying power and has a major influence on entertainment, technology and media trends. CF's analysis and understanding of the social context of this fast evolving market, values, attitudes, behavior, trends and pre-trends, allow us to position our content and brand partners in the center of influence and develop the best strategy to maximize benefit.

Codeblack Films employs a transmedia approach which involves the discipline of leveraging brands and products across multiple platforms, by creating a diversified portfolio of developed content and technology applications with an overarching brand narrative that is then distributed through both traditional and new media outlets. By establishing a single brand narrative that flows from live performance venues to theatrical exhibition houses to TV to web to mobile devices to game consoles, brands and content are strategically leveraged and positioned to benefit from multiple revenue platforms, consumers and fans enjoy a richer experience and stakeholders realize increased value.

Codeblack Films operational capabilities include; motion picture production and distribution, strategic acquisitions, television programming and syndication, home entertainment, digital distribution, new channel platforms and international distribution and sales.


Partners

Lionsgate Entertainment

Lionsgate is a leading global entertainment company with a strong and diversified presence in motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home entertainment, family entertainment, digital distribution, new channel platforms and international distribution and sales. The Company has built a strong television presence in production of primetime cable and broadcast network series, distribution and syndication of programming and an array of channel assets. Lionsgate currently has 15 shows on more than 10 networks spanning its primetime production, distribution and syndication businesses, including such critically-acclaimed hits as the multiple Emmy Award-winning "Mad Men," "Weeds" and "Nurse Jackie," along with the powerful drama "Boss" and the syndication successes "Tyler Perry's House of Payne," its spinoff "Meet the Browns," "The Wendy Williams Show" and "Are We There Yet?"

Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as the blockbuster first installment of "The Hunger Games" franchise, which has already grossed more than half a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, "The Expendables," "The Lincoln Lawyer," "Cabin In The Woods," "Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family" and "Margin Call." With the January 2012 acquisition of Summit Entertainment, the Company now has the two leading young adult franchises - the blockbuster "Twilight Saga," which has grossed more than $2.5 billion at the worldwide box office, and "The Hunger Games." Recent Summit hits include "Red," "Letters to Juliet," "Knowing," the "Step Up" franchise and the Academy Award-winning Best Picture, "The Hurt Locker."

Lionsgate's home entertainment business is an industry leader in box office-to-DVD and box office-to-VOD revenue conversion rate. Lionsgate handles a prestigious and prolific library of approximately 13,000 motion picture and television titles that is an important source of recurring revenue and serves as the foundation for the growth of the Company's core businesses. The Lionsgate and Summit brands remain synonymous with original, daring, quality entertainment in markets around the world.


Shaq Entertainment

Shaq Entertainment founded by basketball superstar Shaquille O’Neal and entertainment industry vet Jeff Clanagan is a vertically integrated entertainment and new media company. The company has established it self as a leader in the promotion and management of live urban themed stand up comedy events as well as the leading producer and distributor of urban comedy in the television, DVD and digital markets.


Hartbeat Productions

Hartbeat Productions is an entertainment company created by comedian Kevin Hart. The company produces, film, tv, live and digital entertainment for distribution across all digital platforms including theatrical, television, and emerging digital technologies.


AEG

AEG Live, the live-entertainment division of Los Angeles-based AEG, is dedicated to all aspects of live contemporary music performance. AEG Live is comprised of touring, festival, exhibition, broadcast, merchandise and special event divisions, fifteen regional offices and owns, operates or exclusively books thirty-five state-of-the-art venues. The current and recent concert tour roster includes artists such as Taylor Swift, The Black Eyed Peas, Bon Jovi, Usher, Carrie Underwood, Daughtry, Justin Bieber, Leonard Cohen, Wisin & Yandel, Kenny Chesney, P!nk and Paul McCartney. The company is also currently producing productions including Cher at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Supernatural Santana: A Trip Through the Hits at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. AEG Live is also the largest producer of music festivals in North America from the critically acclaimed Coachella Music & Arts Festival to Stagecoach and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival


Original Productions[1]

  • Don't Trip ... He Ain't Through with Me Yet (2006)
  • I Tried (2007)
  • A Good Man Is Hard to Find (2008)
  • President Barack Obama: The Man and His Journey (2009)
  • All Star Comedy Jam (2009)
  • All Star Comedy Jam 2 (2009)
  • Mama, I Want to Sing! (2009)
  • Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy (2009)
  • "DeRay Davis: Power Play" (2010)
  • " Love That Girl (TV Series)" (2010)
  • "Kevin Hart: Seriously Funny" (2010)
  • "Shaquille O'Neal All Star Comedy Jam Live From Dallas" (2010)
  • "Mama I Want to Sing" (2011)
  • "Mike Epps Presents: Live from Club Nokia" (2011)
  • "Aries Spears: Hollywood, Look I'm Smiling" (2011)
  • "Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain" (2011)
  • "Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day" (2012)
  • "Corey Holcomb: Your Way Ain't Working" (2012)
  • "Shaquille O'Neal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam-Live from Orlando (2012)
  • "Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain" (2013)

Distributor Titles[2]

  • Playas Ball (2003)
  • Neo Ned (2005)
  • On the One (2005)
  • Shadowboxer (2005)
  • Bloodline (2005)
  • Constellation (2005)
  • The Salon (2005)
  • Confessions (2006)
  • 500 Years Later (2006)
  • My Brother (2006)
  • Dirty Laundry (2006)
  • Don't Trip – He Ain't Through with Me Yet (2006)
  • Cheech Marin & Friends: Live from South Beach (2006) (TV)
  • Premium (2006)
  • Sinbad Afros and Bellbottoms (2006)
  • Restraining Order (2006)
  • God's Waiting List (2006)
  • Sinbad Nothin' But the Funk (2007)
  • Sinbad Son of a Preacherman (2007)
  • Divine Intervention (2007)
  • Somebody Help Me (2007)
  • Father of Lies (2007)
  • The Box (2007)
  • All About Us (2007)
  • Young Cesar (2007)
  • I Tried (2007)
  • 7eventy 5ive (2007)
  • 4 Life (2007)
  • Dirty Laundry (2007)
  • Sommore: The Queen Stands Alone (2008) (TV)
  • A Good Man Is Hard to Find (2008)
  • Pressure (2009)
  • Cream (2009)
  • Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy (2009)
  • "DeRay Davis: Power Play" (2010)
  • "Kevin Hart: Seriously Funny" (2010)
  • "Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain" (2011)
  • "Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day" (2012)
  • " Free Angela and All Political Prisoners" (2013)
  • "Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain" (2013)

References

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