EXCLUSIVE: Here in Toronto for the Saturday premier of Knives Out, writer/director Rian Johnson and producer Ram Bergman have launched T-Street, an entrepreneurial new company that will generate or…
, which starred Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis. They then moved to event picture making with, which grossed $1.3 billion worldwide. They are crafting a new film series set within the Star Wars universe, and those plans remain on the boards. They said they were excited by T-Street, because it will give them the opportunity to work with artists they admire, with a company structure that makes it possible to offer equity stakes in hits they hatch.
“There’s a rule we live and die by, that life is too short to work with jerks,” Johnson said. “This is an extension of that philosophy, as we had a great experience withSaid Bergman: “We think we can help them be a good supportive home for filmmakers in movies and television, who can share in the upside. We have the ability to finance movies and shows. Now, we just have to do the work.”
There is no specific formula for the revenue sharing; it will be used selectively on a project by project basis. After a career spent crafting his own vehicles, Johnson said he was eager to broaden.“I always focused on directing my own stuff and never had the producing bug,” he said. “I’m excited to open things up and get the chance to work with talented people and learn from them. In a way, this is very much in the mode of how we’ve always worked, thoughwas different for obvious reasons.
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