Marc Butan is an American film producer and CEO at MadRiver Pictures, a

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-based motion picture production company. During his career, he has served as co-president at Sierra/Affinity, president at Panorama Media, president at

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and executive vice president of production at

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, where he was responsible for overseeing film production for the studio. Butan was previously an investment banker at Kidder, Peabody & Co. and Prudential Financial. In 2015, he founded MadRiver Pictures to produce star-driven commercial feature films. Since inception, the company has produced James Gray's '' The Lost City of Z'' starring Charlie Hunnam; Burr Steers' ''

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''; '' Triple 9'' starring

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, Kate Winslet and

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; '' Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House'' starring

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and most recently James Gray's '' Ad Astra'' starring Brad Pitt. In 2016, MadRiver Pictures and Vincent Maraval's Insiders joined forces to form an international film sales joint venture, IMR international. In 2021, IMR rebranded to The Veterans. Butan is a native of

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and an alumnus of

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, where he became a member of

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Filmography

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Butan, Marc Businesspeople from Dayton, Ohio Film producers from Ohio Ohio State University alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American chief executives