| LATEST AEI DEALS |
AEI, Sundance, & Renegade 38 will partner to produce Teman & Teran, a docu-series following identical twin artists Teman and Teran Evans
AEI has signed a deal with Intelligent Life Productions to develop & produce 6 web series based on its clients properties
Ballantine has sold Noire’s backlist, starting from her forthcoming Unzipped, for audio books to E-1 Music
N. American rights to Lisa McCubbin's The Kennedy Detail sold to Simon and Schuster's Gallery Books
Stuart Connelly has sold a biographical account of Clarence Brown's weekend with Martin Luther King before the "I Have a Dream" speech to Macmillan Palgrave
Turkish rights to Alaya Johnson's forthcoming flappers-era creatures of the night novel, Moonshine, to Pegasus Publishing House by AEI/Baror Int'l
Greek rights to Dracula: The Un-Dead sold to Harlenic Hellas S.A. by Baror International for AEI
Dennis Palumbo’s Mirror Image has sold to Poisoned Pen Press
Darby Roach’s The 3-Second Window has been sold to MorganJames Publishing
AEI has signed a multi-picture deal with Informant Media and Picture Park Entertainment to produce foreign-friendly films in the $3mm-$8mm range
AEI has signed a co production deal with Kerry Valderrama and Elizabeth Ingalls' AWOL films to produce Kerry's second directorial event, "Memories of 100."
Larry Thompson’s The Connection, a legal thriller about the pharmaceutical company, has been sold to Tom Dunne at Thomas Dunne Books
Royce Buckingham’s Demon Keeper sold to Minotauro (Scyla) Publishing House (Spain) by Baror Int'l for AEI
Breaking Ball Films' Scott Abramovitch and Lonny Dubrofsky have acquired feature rights to William F. Diehl's pre-WWII spy novel 27
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MOTION PICTURE FINANCE AND PRODUCTION
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AEI PRODUCTIONS has set up and produced multiple films with major studios, including "Joe Somebody" (Fox, starring Tim Allen), "Life or Something Like It" (Fox, Angelina Jolie), "Gospel Hill" (Fox, Danny Glover), and forthcoming "Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not!" (Paramount, Jim Carrey, directed by Chris Columbus "Harry Potter"); as well as films for television including "Amityville" (NBC), "Shadow of Obsession" (NBC), "The Madam's Family" (CBS) - and forthcoming "The Lost Valentine" (Hallmark Hall of Fame), and "The Kennedy Detail" (Discovery Channel)...
In its AIM co-venture with Informant Media ("Crazy Heart") we now provide or procure matching financing for indie productions from $4-$12 million, currently in casting with "Boobytrap." Properties we consider have talent, director, and/or some equity attached...
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BRAND CREATION AND LAUNCH
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AEI/Finish Line focuses, evaluates, strategizes, & facilitates the launch of new global intellectual property brands. Launch clients include Dream University®, The Thrillionaires®, MonsterMashers, Ripley's Believe-It-or-Not!®, Noire...
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
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AEI began nearly 20 years ago as a literary management company and has now sold hundreds of novels and nonfiction books to publishers (15 bestsellers) - including Steve Alten's Meg, James Michael Pratt's The Last Valentine, Governor Jesse Ventura's I Ain't Got Time to Bleed, Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt's Dracula: The Un-Dead - and set up dozens of client scripts in film and television. We continue to represent intellectual properties on a strategic basis...
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