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Raffaella De Laurentiis (Executive Producer)

The daughter of legendary filmmaker Dino De Laurentiis and the highly acclaimed Italian actress Silvana Mangano, Raffaella grew up surrounded by the film business.  Knowing early on that she wanted to be a producer, her father hired her at 15 as an assistant in props and set dressing on one of his films.  He knew that if she was serious about her career aspirations, she must understand the function of each position on a film set.

From there she rose rapidly, working on Luchino Visconti’s Ludwig, a period tale of a mad Bavarian king that starred her mother, Helmut Bergher, and Romy Schneider, as well as Hurricane, her father’s epic film that involved building massive sets and accommodations in Tahiti.  The intensive production experience led to her next film Beyond The Reef, filmed also in Tahiti utilizing the same sets and new hotel and marked her first credit as a producer.

In 1981, De Laurentiis produced the highly successful Conan The Barbarian for Universal, which launched the acting career of Arnold Schwarzenegger and 4 years later, made the sequel, Conan The Destroyer.  Other credits for the talented producer include David Lynch’s Dune, shot in Mexico City, and Tai-Pan, the first American film to be made in China.  Following Tai-Pan, she spent about 18 months as head of production at the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group.  During that period, De Laurentiis supervised numerous films for D.E.G., such as Weeds, Crimes Of The Heart, Hiding Out, Earth Girls Are Easy and Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

Eager to get back to “hands-on” production Work, De Laurentiis formed Raffaella Productions in 1987, producing Prancer, Time Bomb and Trading Mom with Sissy Spacek and Anna Chlumsky.

When she made Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story in 1993, it marked the beginning of her association with director Rob Cohen and has led to their continued collaboration on Dragonheart with Dennis Quaid and Daylight with Sylvester Stallone for which she served as executive producer.  Among her other executive producer credits are Ron Howard’s Backdraft and several movies for television, including the action-packed Vanishing Son series.
In 1997, De Laurentiis produced Kull the Conqueror, which marked the feature film debut of director John Nicolella and star Kevin Sorbo.  Filmed in Slovakia and Croatia, this marked De Laurentiis’ second production in Eastern Europe.  She then remained in the United States for her next two projects, first The Guardian, a television pilot directed by Rob Cohen for Universal/NBC, on which she was executive producer, followed by the action film, Black Dog, directed by Kevin Hooks and starring Patrick Swayze.

De Laurentiis returned to Slovakia in 1999, producing Dragonheart: A New Beginning, a direct-to-video sequel to Dragonheart, directed by Doug Lefler, and again in 2001 to executive produce the NBC miniseries, Uprising, with Jon Avnet.  Uprising stars LeeLee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight and Donald Sutherland.

Also in 2001, she returned to her love of family fare and executive produced Prancer Returns, a direct-to-video sequel to her holiday film, Prancer, directed by Joshua Butler and starring John Corbett, Stacy Edwards and Jack Palance.

In 2004, De Laurentiis continued her association with Jon Avnet on the visual effects laden feature film, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, as Executive Producer.  Helmed by first-time director, Kerry Conran, the retro sci-fi adventure stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Angelina Jolie. 

Most recently, De Laurentiis reunited with director Doug Lefler to produce the Roman epic, The Last Legion. The film was shot in Tunisia and Slovakia and stars Colin Firth, Sir Ben Kingsley, and the queen of Bollywood, Aishwarya Rai.

Ryan Kavanaugh (Executive Producer)

Ryan Kavanaugh is the founder, CEO and a principal of Relativity Media, LLC, a financing, consulting and production company that structures slate financing for both major studios and independent production entities as well as produces and finances its own productions. According to Seth Lubov of Bloomberg News, "Kavanaugh is one of the pre-eminent middlemen between hedge funds and Hollywood."  Having created structures that have financed $7 billion of total film production budgets to date, Kavanaugh is credited with establishing and growing the recent wave of structured finance off balance sheet transactions within the filmed entertainment marketplace. 

In 2004 Kavanaugh created and implemented a first of its kind structure for Marvel Entertainment, which was later named structured finance deal of the year, and was provided an investment grade rating and wrapped by Ambak.  Prior to that, Kavanaugh wrote the business plan for French distributor Exception Wild Bunch, created their financial structures and raised both their production and operating capital.  Exception today is one of the largest foreign sales companies and French distributors, having done over two hundred films including Sin City and the recent Pan's Labyrinth. 

Kavanaugh also introduced the first "hedge fund capital" to the filmed entertainment marketplace through a $525 million transaction with Warner Brothers.  Since then, he has been responsible for creating first of their type transactions with Sony and Universal.  In its most recent deal with Sony, Relativity will finance a minimum of 45 pictures (which Kavanaugh will also executive produce) over the next 5 years. Relativity has deals with virtually every studio (either single picture or slate deals) including: Sony, Universal, MGM, Warner Brothers, Paramount, The Weinstein Company and Lionsgate.

Kavanaugh has produced (or financed) over 35 major feature films, including Talladega Nights, Ghost Rider, Pursuit Of Happyness, 300, Holiday, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, 3:10 to Yuma (staring Russel Crow and Christian Bale), American Gangster (staring Denzel Washington and Russel Crow), The Forbidden Kingdom (marking the first time Jackie Chan and Jet Li will be fighting each other in a feature film) and Zohan (the new Adam Sandler film) to name a few.

Jill Goldsmith of Variety wrote of Kavanaugh, "His co-financing deals are the most successful ever in Hollywood. He's been amazingly proactive, and is the envy of many on Wall Street involved in the business.”  Details Magazine this year named him the twenty-sixth most influential man under forty-two and said Kavanaugh “is literally saving Hollywood's ass”.

Amy Wallace of Portfolio magazine recently wrote, “Hollywood and Vine will always be the most famous corner in the history of the film business.  But the future of movies is now being constructed at an imaginary intersection: Hollywood and Wall Street.  At this crossroads, no one directs more traffic than Ryan Kavanaugh...in fact, Kavanaugh is Los Angeles' answer to Gordon Gekko, the corporate raider at the centre of Wall Street, one of his favourite movies.  Like Gekko, Kavanaugh is quick-witted and relentless, and believes devoutly in the primacy of making money.

In 2002, Kavanaugh formed Relativity Management, which managed such high profile clients as Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney's Section 8 Productions, and Robert Evans.  The company had ten managers and boasted over two hundred clients.

Prior to his work with Relativity, at the age of 22, Kavanaugh started a venture capital company, which raised and invested over $400 million of equity in a number of venture and private equity transactions.