Avalanche! Entertainment

For over a decade, Avalanche! Entertainment operated on the leading-edge of media trends. Its complementary business groups included: * Media finance, production and distribution; * Strategic advisory services to private equity groups and major studios; and * National TV and digital campaigns for major brands. Avalanche was backed, in part, through first look deals at Warner Bros and Catch 23 Entertainment. Its 25+ produced projects, often geared toward teen and young-adult audiences, generated hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue, and range from one of the most successful teen movies in history, "She’s All That," to thought-provoking documentaries, such as its collaboration with Halle Berry, "For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots," which won the NAACP Image Award. The company also successfully launched one of the first direct-to-consumer film distribution services that combined television direct response advertising with turnkey DVD fulfillment. And it advised major media companies (such as Warner Bros, Disney, Miramax, MTV and others) on digital distribution strategies, including acting as lead advisor on Universal Studios’ and J.P.Morgan’s $300+ million, multi-film co-financing fund -- one of the first major co-financing deals of the era. Avalanche's brands group was a prolific producer of TV campaigns, branded entertainment and music videos for clients such as Six Flags, Dupont, Warner Bros., New Line Cinema and many others. Avalanche's team and many of its entertainment projects were merged into A Happy Place LLC to create a partnership with members of the pop music group *NSYNC at the height of their popularity that combined teen-focused movies with teen-focused music and soundtracks.