American Zoetrope
Type | Production company |
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Industry | Motion pictures Television |
Founded | December 12, 1969 |
Headquarters | San Francisco, California , United States |
Key people | Francis Ford Coppola George Lucas |
Owner | Roman Coppola Sofia Coppola |
Website | zoetrope |
American Zoetrope (also known as Zoetrope Studios from 1979 until 1990) is a privately run American film production company, centered in San Francisco, California and founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas.
Opened on December 12, 1969,[1] the studio has produced not only the films of Coppola (including Apocalypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Tetro), but also George Lucas's pre-Star Wars film (THX 1138), as well as many others by avant-garde directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, Wim Wenders and Godfrey Reggio. American Zoetrope was an early adopter of digital filmmaking, including some of the earliest uses of HDTV.
Four films produced by American Zoetrope are included in the American Film Institute's Top 100 Films. American Zoetrope-produced films have received 15 Academy Awards and 68 nominations.
Formation[]
Initially located in a warehouse on Folsom Street, the company's headquarters have since 1972[2] been in the historic Sentinel Building, at 916 Kearny Street in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood.
Coppola named the studio after a zoetrope he was given in the late 1960s by the filmmaker and collector of early film devices, Mogens Skot-Hansen. "Zoetrope" is also the name by which Coppola's quarterly fiction magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story, is often known.
In 1980, the company became Zoetrope Studios, and it was decided that they would be planning on to producing and distributing films, in the same way the later DreamWorks studio did.[3]
American Zoetrope is now owned entirely by Coppola's son and daughter, directors Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola,[4] while a majority of the film library is now owned by Lionsgate (with some exceptions, for example, Bram Stoker's Dracula, which is currently owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment).
Zoetrope Virtual Studio[]
It also administers the Zoetrope Virtual Studio, a complete motion picture production studio for members only. Launched in June 2000 after more than four years work, it brings together departments for screenwriters, directors, producers and other filmmaker artists, plus new departments for other creative endeavours, offering e-collaborative tools. Filmmaker members can workshop a wide range of film arts, including music, graphics, design and film & video.[1]
Filmography[]
Feature films[]
Year | Title | Director | Company | Credit | References |
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1969 | The Rain People | Francis Ford Coppola | American Zoetrope | Production Company | [5][6] |
1971 | THX 1138 | George Lucas | [5] | ||
1972 | The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola | [5] | ||
Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Distributor | [5] | ||
1973 | American Graffiti | George Lucas | Production Company | [5] | |
1974 | The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola | [5] | ||
The Godfather Part II | Francis Ford Coppola | Production Facilities Furnished Through (as American Zoetrope San Francisco) | [5] | ||
1977 | Perfumed Nightmare | Kidlat Tahimik | Distributor | [5] | |
Hitler: A Film from Germany | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Omni Zoetrope | Distributor | [5] | |
1979 | Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | Production Company | [5][7] | |
The Black Stallion | Carroll Ballard | [5] | |||
1980 | Sauve qui peut (la vie) | Jean-Luc Godard | Zoetrope Studios | Production Company/Distributor | [5] |
Kagemusha | Akira Kurosawa | Production Company | [5] | ||
1982 | Parsifal | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Distributor | [5] | |
The Escape Artist | Caleb Deschanel | Production Company | [5] | ||
Passion | Jean-Luc Godard | Production Company/Distributor | [5] | ||
The Grey Fox | Phillip Borsos | Production Company | [5] | ||
Koyaanisqatsi | Godfrey Reggio | ||||
The Making of 'One from the Heart' | Tony St. John | ||||
Hammett | Wim Wenders | [5] | |||
One from the Heart | Francis Ford Coppola | Production Company/Distributor | [5] | ||
1983 | The Outsiders | Francis Ford Coppola | Production Company | [5] | |
Rumble Fish | Francis Ford Coppola | [5] | |||
The Black Stallion Returns | Robert Dalva | [5] | |||
1984 | The Cotton Club | Francis Ford Coppola | [5] | ||
1985 | Seven Minutes in Heaven | Linda Feferman | |||
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | Paul Schrader | [5] | |||
1986 | Peggy Sue Got Married | Francis Ford Coppola | [5] | ||
1987 | Tough Guys Don't Dance | Norman Mailer | |||
Gardens of Stone | Francis Ford Coppola | [5] | |||
Barfly | Barbet Schroeder | [5] | |||
1988 | Tucker: The Man and His Dream | Francis Ford Coppola | |||
1989 | Wait Until Spring, Bandini | Dominique Deruddere | [5] | ||
1990 | The Godfather Part III | Francis Ford Coppola | [5] | ||
1991 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper | American Zoetrope | [5] | |
1992 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Francis Ford Coppola | [5] | ||
Wind | Carroll Ballard | [5] | |||
1993 | The Secret Garden | Agnieszka Holland | [5] | ||
1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Kenneth Branagh | [5] | ||
Don Juan DeMarco | Jeremy Leven | [5] | |||
1995 | Haunted | Lewis Gilbert | |||
My Family | Gregory Nava | [5] | |||
1996 | Jack | Francis Ford Coppola | [5] | ||
1997 | The Rainmaker | Francis Ford Coppola | [5] | ||
Buddy | Caroline Thompson | Production Company (as An American Zoetrope Production) | [5] | ||
1999 | The Florentine | Nick Stagliano | Production Company | ||
The Virgin Suicides | Sofia Coppola | [5] | |||
The Third Miracle | Agnieszka Holland | [5] | |||
Sleepy Hollow | Tim Burton | [5] | |||
2001 | Jeepers Creepers | Victor Salva | [5] | ||
CQ | Roman Coppola | [5] | |||
No Such Thing | Hal Hartley | [5] | |||
Suriyothai | Chatrichalerm Yukol | [5] | |||
2002 | Pumpkin | Anthony Abrams and Adam Larson Broder | [5] | ||
Assassination Tango | Robert Duvall | [5] | |||
2003 | Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola | [5] | ||
Jeepers Creepers 2 | Victor Salva | [5] | |||
2004 | Kinsey | Bill Condon | Production Company (uncredited) | [5] | |
2006 | Marie Antoinette | Sofia Coppola | Production Company | [5] | |
The Good Shepherd | Robert De Niro | [5] | |||
2007 | Youth Without Youth | Francis Ford Coppola | [5] | ||
2009 | Tetro | Francis Ford Coppola | [5] | ||
2010 | Somewhere | Sofia Coppola | |||
2011 | Twixt | Francis Ford Coppola | [5] | ||
2012 | A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III | Roman Coppola | [5] | ||
On the Road | Walter Salles | [5] | |||
2013 | Palo Alto | Gia Coppola | [5] | ||
The Bling Ring | Sofia Coppola | [5] | |||
2014 | Life After Beth | Jeff Baena | [5] | ||
2015 | A Very Murray Christmas | Sofia Coppola | [5] | ||
Last Days in the Desert | Rodrigo García | [8] | |||
2016 | Paris Can Wait | Eleanor Coppola | [5] | ||
Joshy | Jeff Baena | [5] | |||
2017 | The Beguiled | Sofia Coppola | [5] | ||
2020 | Love Is Love Is Love | Eleanor Coppola | [9] | ||
On the Rocks | Sofia Coppola | [10] | |||
2021 | Mainstream | Gia Coppola | [11] |
Television series[]
Year | Title | Creator | Company | Credit | Network | Notes | References |
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1990 | The Outsiders | characters by: S.E. Hinton developed by: S.E. Hinton Joe Byrne Jeb Rosebrook |
Zoetrope Studios | Production Company | Fox | co-production with Papazian-Hirsch Entertainment | |
1997 | The Odyssey | Andrei Konchalovsky based on Odyssey by: Homer |
American Zoetrope | Production Company (as American Zoetrope San Francisco) | NBC | miniseries; co-production with Hallmark Entertainment | [5] |
1998 | Moby Dick | Anton Diether Franc Roddam Benedict Fitzgerald based on Moby-Dick by: Herman Melville |
Production Company | USA Network | miniseries; co-production with Nine Network Australia and USA Pictures | [5] | |
1998-2001 | First Wave | Chris Brancato | Sci-Fi Channel | co-production with Sugar Entertainment | [5] | ||
2003 | Platinum | John Ridley Sofia Coppola |
UPN | co-production with The Greenblatt/Janollari Studio, International Famous Players Radio Picture Corporation and Eye Productions | [12] | ||
2004-2007 | The 4400 | René Echevarria Scott Peters |
USA Network | co-production with Renegade 83, Viacom Productions (season 1), Paramount Network Television (season 2) and CBS Paramount Network Television (seasons 3-4) | |||
2014-2018 | Mozart in the Jungle | based on Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music by: Blair Tindall developed by: Roman Coppola Jason Schwartzman Alex Timbers Paul Weitz |
Amazon Video | co-production with Depth of Field, Picrow and Amazon Studios | [5] |
Cafe Zoetrope[]
In the building lobby Coppola operates a small Italian café, Cafe Zoetrope, featuring Inglenook Estate wine and memorabilia from his films.[13]
The neighborhood is well known for its cafes and its writers. Coppola wrote much of the screenplay for The Godfather in the nearby Caffe Trieste and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books is located up Columbus Avenue from the Sentinel Building.
References[]
- ^ Fog City Mavericks. Starz, Englewood, CO, USA. June 15, 2011. Television.
- ^ "American Zoetrope: Films". www.zoetrope.com. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
- ^ "Forerunner to Dreamworks, Coppola's risky Zoetrope Studios bucked system". Variety. November 11, 1997. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- ^ Coppola stated this in an interview with Harry Knowles for Ain't It Cool News published on May 8, 2007.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq "American Zoetrope: Films", zoetrope.com. Retrieved 2012-10-24.
- ^ American Zoetrope [us]
- ^ Zoetrope Studios [us]
- ^ "Last Days in the Desert". Cinefex. Retrieved June 16, 2019.
- ^ Goldsmith, Jill (March 3, 2020). "Tribeca Sets Feature Lineup Of Films For 2020 Fest". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
- ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (January 15, 2019). "Sofia Coppola And Bill Murray To Reteam For 'On The Rocks', Apple & A24's First Film". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
- ^ McNary, Dave (October 30, 2018). "Film News Roundup: Andrew Garfield Joins Gia Coppola's Romance Movie 'Mainstream'". Variety. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
- ^ Stanley, Alessandra (April 14, 2003). "TELEVISION REVIEW; 'Dynasty,' with a Hip-Hop Beat". The New York Times.
- ^ "Cafe Zoetrope". Archived from the original on May 25, 2013. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
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