Kelley Feldsott Reynolds
Ms. Reynolds is the President of Reynolds Entertainment. Ms. Reynolds began her career in the entertainment industry with ITC Entertainment Group, an independent UK film and television company, where she served as Director of Development and Acquisitions. She continued on as a development executive for PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, which acquired and restructured ITC into PolyGram Television. During her tenure at PolyGram/ITC, Ms. Reynolds developed and acquired numerous film and television projects, including "The Last Seduction," "Tom & Viv," and the NBC mini-series, "A Woman of Independent Means."
Ms. Reynolds co-founded Reynolds Entertainment in 1997. In her five years as an independent producer, Ms. Reynolds has developed and produced a number of diverse film and television projects in the U.S. and abroad. She produced the theatrical motion picture, "The Unsaid," starring Andy Garcia (filmed in Canada), and executive produced the Dutch thriller, Soul Assassin, starring Skeet Ulrich, Kristy Swanson and Rena Owen (filmed in Holland). Ms. Reynolds co-produced the HBO World Premiere movies, "Retroactive" a sci-fi thriller starring James Belushi, and "Murder In Mind" a psychological thriller starring Nigel Hawthorne and Mary Louise Parker. She also co-executive produced the Disney television movie about Robin Hood's daughter entitled, "Princess of Thieves," with Granada Entertainment and ABC Networks (filmed in Romania).
In addition to developing and producing film and TV projects for Reynolds Entertainment, Ms. Reynolds has also obtained financing and distribution for outside productions. For example, Ms. Reynolds was instrumental in securing distribution and co-production financing for the Alec Baldwin-hosted talk show, "Raw Footage," which aired on the Independent Film Channel. Ms. Reynolds has represented international producers seeking distribution or selling their entertainment libraries in the U.S. She is an experienced participant at all the major television and film markets and festivals, including AFM, Cannes, MIFED, MIPCOM, NATPE, Sundance, and Toronto, and is a frequent lecturer at the University of California at Los Angeles and at many other entertainment courses and seminars.
Email: kfr@reynoldsent.com
Company History
Reynolds Entertainment was originally formed as Channing Films in 1996 by Kelley Feldsott-Reynolds and Simon Channing-Williams, who has produced the films by acclaimed British director, Mike Leigh, including "Secrets & Lies," which garnered a 1996 Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. The company's objective was, and continues to be, the production of high quality, reasonably budgeted independent feature films with international appeal. The company initially began developing motion picture projects in the $2 to $3 million range, and also collaborated on projects for network and cable television.
In 1999, Patrick Reynolds replaced Mr. Channing-Williams as co-member and the company officially became Reynolds Entertainment. The company began to evolve into other areas of the entertainment business, including sales and talent representation, to generate additional revenue. This diversification also served to extend and solidify its working industry relationships both in the U.S. and abroad. Reynolds Entertainment possesses the expertise to acquire, develop, finance, produce and distribute all manner of projects across the media spectrum and is positioned to thrive in changing business climates and to capitalize on technological developments in the industry.
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Patrick Reynolds
Mr. Reynolds is the Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer of Reynolds Entertainment. In his capacity as CEO/COO, he administers the company’s business and legal affairs, including project financing, business development, contract negotiation and corporate maintenance. Mr. Reynolds’ experience in the entertainment and legal fields stretches over twenty years, and he has been instrumental in forming international co-productions and in accessing film funds, subsidies and equity investment for Reynolds Entertainment’s film and television projects.
Mr. Reynolds began his career in the entertainment industry during his college years at the University of Notre Dame, serving as a production assistant for NBC Sports and covering NCAA basketball throughout the Midwest. Upon graduation in 1984, Mr. Reynolds became a Commercial Traffic/Operations Coordinator at KNBC-TV in Burbank, California, while continuing his production duties with NBC Sports West Coast. In 1987, he was hired as Manager of Comedy Development at Columbia Pictures Television, where he was responsible for acquiring and developing material and comedic performers for potential television pilots and other comedy programming.
After graduating from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles in 1992, Mr. Reynolds practiced for four years as a civil litigator, handling cases that included motion picture net profit and copyright ownership claims. Mr. Reynolds returned to an in-house entertainment position as Director of Distribution for PolyGram Television, where he was charged with licensing the U.S. television and non-theatrical rights for all PolyGram product, including such films as "Fargo," "The Game," and the Oscar-winning documentary, "When We Were Kings," and movies-of-the week and television specials such as "Andrea Bocelli: A Night in Tuscany." Mr. Reynolds also assisted PolyGram during its acquisition by Universal Studios by overseeing integration of the 1000+ title Epic library.
In 1999, Mr. Reynolds became Director of Business & Legal Affairs for E! Entertainment Television, where he handled the legal evaluation of E!'s cable and internet programming, which included product distributed over the E! channels worldwide, the Style Network and the E! Online website. Mr. Reynolds transacted new business deals with E! partners and licensees throughout the world and serviced existing partnerships in Latin America and Europe. He was also instrumental in the negotiation of wireless and interactive deals and online content-sharing agreements with such companies as Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL.
Since 1992, Mr. Reynolds has negotiated deals on behalf of many independent directors, writers and actors and has acted as legal counsel on many motion picture and television productions. He has represented several international producers in their business endeavors in Hollywood, including serving as General Counsel for Oasis Productions, a production company affiliated with Oasis Pictures, a Toronto-based international sales and distribution company.
Mr. Reynolds holds Irish citizenship and is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Los Angeles. He also represents Irish Screen, a non-profit organization he created, which hosts screenings of Irish movies and other cultural events.
Email: pfr@reynoldsent.com
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