Courtney Solomon (born September 1,1970) is a writer, director, producer, and entrepreneur from

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. He has been involved with production, marketing and distribution of over 80 movies.

Life and career

At 19, he formed Sweetpea Entertainment to acquire the film rights to "Dungeons & Dragons". ''

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'' became his first producing and directing project, the film was a box office disappointment Courtney Solomon as owner of Sweetpea Entertainment, was looking to acquire the media rights to a science-fiction property which could be adapted into a television series or an MMORPG, and in 1996 in exchange for the equity position and media rights to ''

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'', Sweetpea advanced the money to get Imperium Games started as a company to be dedicated solely to ''Traveller''. He later formed

After Dark Films After Dark Films is an American independent film production and distribution company founded by Courtney Solomon and Allan Zeman in 2006. History The company is the organizer for the annual independent horror film festival ''After Dark Horro ...

to produce horror, thriller and action titles. He launched it with ''

An American Haunting ''An American Haunting'' is a 2005 supernatural horror film written and directed by Courtney Solomon and starring Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, James D'Arcy, and Rachel Hurd-Wood. The film was previewed at the AFI Film Festival on November 5, ...

'', which he wrote, produced and directed, a story based on

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legend. It opened #2 in US, staying in the top ten films for 6 weeks). This success resulted in a long-term distribution and co-production arrangement with

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. Today, After Dark owns its own film library of over 80 films. In 2014, Solomon partnered with

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on a number of films, including ''

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''. Other films were ''Mr. Church'' (

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), ''The Comedian'' (

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and

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), ''The Yellow Birds'' (

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) and ''Burn Your Maps'' (

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and

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). In 2018, he acquired the rights to and produced the first film based on the novel series ''

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''. The film of the same name was released in April 2019. The sequel, ''

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'', was released in 2020. In this same year, he also acquired the rights to the underground comic universe of the

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created by

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in 1968. He also has several films going into production, including ''Arthur The King,'' starring

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and

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, based on the character and comic book by

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and Barry Smith.

Filmography

Producer only * '' Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God'' (2005) * ''

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'' (2007) * '' Universal Soldier: Regeneration'' (2009) * '' The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations'' (2009) * '' Slaughter'' (2009) * '' Perkins' 14'' (2009) * ''

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'' (2009) * '' Prowl'' (2010) * '' The Task'' (2011) * ''

Seconds Apart ''Seconds Apart'' is a 2011 American horror film directed by Antonio Negret and starring Orlando Jones, Edmund Entin, and Gary Entin. Plot Four friends are seen at a high school house party drinking and gossiping in a private room. Their fun ...

'' (2011) * ''

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'' (2011) * '' Fertile Ground'' (2011) * '' 51'' (2011) * '' Scream of the Banshee'' (2011) * ''

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'' (2012) * '' Bullet to the Head'' (2012) * ''

Dragon Eyes ''Dragon Eyes'' is a 2012 American martial arts film starring Cung Le and Jean-Claude Van Damme. It was directed by John Hyams. In New Orleans, a mysterious man looks to unite two warring gangs against the lawmen who have been using them to adva ...

'' (2012) * ''

El Gringo ''El Gringo'' (Bad Yankee) is a 2012 American action film directed by Eduardo Rodríguez, produced by After Dark Films, written by Jonathan Stokes, and starring Scott Adkins, Christian Slater and Yvette Yates. Plot Following an ambush in which ...

'' (2012) * '' The Philly Kid'' (2012) * '' Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning'' (2012) * '' Stash House'' (2012) * ''

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'' (2013) * ''

Enemies Closer ''Enemies Closer'' is a 2013 American thriller film directed by Peter Hyams and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Tom Everett Scott, Orlando Jones and Linzey Cocker. In it, a former Navy SEAL is marked for death by the mourning brother of a comrad ...

'' (2013) * ''Ritual'' (2013) * ''Murder in the Dark'' (2013) * ''

'' (2014) * ''

Re-Kill ''Re-Kill'' is 2015 American horror film directed by Valeri Milev and written by Michael Hurst. It stars Scott Adkins, Bruce Payne, and Daniella Alonso as members of paramilitary group tasked with hunting down and destroying zombies after an out ...

'' (2015) * ''Bastard'' (2015) * ''The Wicked Within'' (2015) * ''Wind Walkers'' (2015) * ''

Mr. Church ''Mr. Church'' is a 2016 American drama film directed by Bruce Beresford and written by Susan McMartin. The film stars Eddie Murphy as the title character with Britt Robertson, Xavier Samuel, Lucy Fry, Christian Madsen and Natascha McElhone al ...

'' (2016) * ''

Burn Your Maps ''Burn Your Maps'' is a 2016 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jordan Roberts, based on the short story of the same name by Robyn Joy Leff. The film stars Vera Farmiga, Jacob Tremblay, Suraj Sharma, Ramón Rodríguez, Virginia Ma ...

'' (2016) * '' The Comedian'' (2016) * ''

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'' (2017) * '' Nightmare Cinema'' (2018) * '' The Woman in the Window'' (2021)

References

External links

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