Based in Santa Monica, California, Myriad Pictures is a leading independent entertainment company specializing in production, financing and worldwide distribution of feature films and television programming. Helmed by President and CEO Kirk D’Amico, the company holds an impressive and diverse library of critically acclaimed art house and commercially successful mainstream filmed programming. Mr. D’Amico has been named one of the Top 50 independent producers in the annual list published by The Hollywood Reporter, and is a member of the Board of Directors of IFTA.
Current Myriad projects include the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award-winner happythankyoumoreplease, written, directed by and starring Josh Radnor (from television’s “How I Met My Mother”), also starring Kate Mara and Malin Akerman; Every Day, starring Liev Schreiber, Helen Hunt and Carla Gugino, which World Premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival; Dino Mom, an animated feature from one of the producers of the popular Rugrats films; Good Neighbours, a noirish thriller from the director of The Trotsky and starring Scott Speedman and Jay Baruchel; the comedy Elektra Luxx, with an all-star cast including Carla Gugino, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Adrianne Palicki, Emmanuel Chriqui, Marley Shelton and Timothy Olyphant, and Horton Foote’s last script, Main Street, starring Colin Firth, Ellen Burstyn, Orlando Bloom, Patricia Clarkson and Amber Tamlyn.
Film projects recently announced that will soon be going into production include Margin Call, a Wall Street-thriller staring Kevin Spacey, Star Trek’s Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci and Carla Gugino; The Genesis Code, starring Hayden Christensen and Paz Vega; The Cup, director Simon Wincer’s true story of the Melbourne Cup race starring Brendan Gleeson, and A Great Education, starring Emma Robert, Kevin Zegers, William Mosely and Sir Ben Kingsley.
In the last few years Myriad has entered the domestic distribution arena. In 2008 the company released Mother of Tears, classic horror film director Dario Argento’s long-anticipated sequel to his witches trilogy, starring Asia Argento and Udo Kier. In spring 2010 Myriad theatrically released the thriller The Cry of the Owl, based on the book by Patricia Highsmith and starring Julia Stiles and Paddy Considine. The DVD will be released through Paramount Home Entertainment this summer.
In 2009 Myriad was proud to support the Academy Award® campaign for director Bruno Barreto’s Last Stop 174, which was Brazil’s Official Selection to the 2009 Academy Awards® in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
Myriad’s extensive library includes; Kinsey, starring Liam Neeson, The Good Girl, starring Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal, Little Fish, starring Cate Blanchett, Factory Girl, starring Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce, Death Defying Acts, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce, Serious Moonlight, starring Meg Ryan, Tim Hutton and Kristen Bell, Not Forgotten, starring Simon Baker and Paz Vega, the Van Wilder trilogy and Jeepers Creepers 2.
May 2010