Billionaire Real Estate Developer & Film Distributor Charles S. Cohen Talks Curzon Acquisition, Growing Production Plans & Netflix’s Paris Theater Deal

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EXCLUSIVE: Real estate mogul and indie film distributor Charles S. Cohen, who bought the Landmark Theatre chain 14 months ago, made more waves in the exhibition space late last year when he acquire…

A hundred percent. I’m not a disruptive investor-acquirer. I bought into the experience and the success of the team so everything is business as usual. I look forward to learning more about their business and being as helpful as I can in its operation and expansion.Yes. There a number of theaters that are opening soon.We’ll be talking about these things because I think there’s a natural synergy between acquiring for the U.S. and UK markets.

We’ve done a number of restorations, probably close to a hundred already, and that has included most of Buster Keaton’s library, Merchant Ivory’s library. And recently in the U.S we’ve released a 4K restoration of, which is a classic Ava Gardner and James Mason film. We haven’t dated it yet in the UK, but that’s something that we’re talking about.

There are a number of other restorations coming up, including some of the other Merchant Ivory films. We just re-releasedright now. A few years ago we acquired the Joan Micklin Silver library of five films and we are completing a 4K restoration of her initial successful film Hester Street, so we hope to premiere that later this spring or early summer.: Some of my favourite festival memories are of watching films in the classics strands.

 

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