The Film Department is an independent motion picture finance and production company that produces star-driven commercial movies with net budgets between $10 and $45 million. In its first two years of existence, TFD has demonstrated an ability to develop, produce and sell star-driven, moderate-cost, studio-quality films to the marketplace. The Company has assembled a slate of 15 commercial projects worthy of national release including Law Abiding Citizen, starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx (which has earned more than $130 million at the world wide box office to date); The Rebound, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones (recently completed and now targeted for a December 2010 U.S. theatrical release by TFD); and Earthbound, starring Kate Hudson (to be released in the first quarter of 2011).The Company was founded in 2007 by Mark Gill and Neil Sacker, a veteran and widely recognized management team with more than 40 years of combined experience in the film industry. In their previous roles as senior executives, they were responsible for three of the most successful independent films of the past few years—Crash, March of the Penguins and Good Night, and Good Luck—as well as many of the most profitable independent films of all-time including The Talented Mr. Ripley, Frida, In the Bedroom, Under the Tuscan Sun and The Illusionist. Films in which they have had significant involvement as executives and/or producers have earned mor than $1.1 billion at the worldwide box office.