Brightlight Pictures

hideThis article has multiple issues. Please help or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (November 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article contains content that is written like an advertisement. Please help by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. (May 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Brightlight Pictures Inc. is a Canadian film production and television production company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

History[]

Brightlight's Chairman, Shawn Williamson,^[1] has produced more than 90 productions in the last 15 years and over 35 productions since launching Brightlight in 2001, including White Noise starring Michael Keaton, which has grossed over $100 million since its worldwide theatrical release in 2005. Recently, Williamson has worked as a producer on the feature film Horns starring Daniel Radcliffe, for Mandalay Pictures and Red Granite Pictures; 50/50 starring Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; and The Company You Keep, a Sony Pictures Classics release for spring 2013 directed by Robert Redford and starring Redford and Shia LaBeouf.

Brightlight also developed, packaged and produced Mr. Hockey, The Gordie Howe Story in partnership with Inferno Pictures and Balwin Entertainment for the CBC and Hallmark Channel. Other feature producing credits include The Possession starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick for Mandate Pictures and Lions Gate Films; White Noise 2: The Light starring Nathan Fillion and Katee Sackhoff with Gold Circle Films; In the Name of the King starring Jason Statham; 88 Minutes starring Al Pacino; The Wicker Man starring Nicolas Cage for Nu Image/Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films; Slither with Gold Circle Films and Universal and Apollo 18 for The Weinstein Company. Brightlight also produced Possession starring Sarah Michelle Gellar for the Yari Film Group; Passengers starring Anne Hathaway for Mandate Pictures and the feature film Far Cry, based on the video game of the same name.

Brightlight's television credits include the TV series Saved for TNT and Fox 21; and About a Girl for MTV's TeenNick Network and Global Television. Brightlight also produced the CTV/Space Channel series Stormworld, an Australian/Singaporean/Canadian Treaty co-production shot in Perth, Broome, Singapore and Vancouver.

Brightlight's UK/Canada feature co-production Fifty Dead Men Walking starring Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess and Kevin Zegers had its world premiere as a Gala Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2008 and was released theatrically in the summer of 2009. Brightlight also produced Frankie & Alice starring Halle Berry and Stellan Skarsgard and the feature film Gunless, a comedy western co-produced with Niv Fichman's Rhombus Media and distributed by Alliance Films starring Paul Gross, Sienna Guillory and Graham Greene.

Brightlight Pictures productions[]

This article contains a list of works that does not follow the Manual of Style for lists of works (often, though not always, due to being in reverse-chronological order) and may need cleanup. Please if you can. (May 2021)

• Firefly Lane (2021)
• The Barbarian and the Troll (2021)
• Julie and the Phantoms (2020)
• Elsewhere (2018)
• Status Update (2018)
• Summer of 84 (2018)
• Haters Back Off (2016)
• Second Chance (2016)
• Colossal (2016)
• The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2015)
• Rush (2014)
• Witches of East End (2013)
• Horns (2013)
• Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story (2013) (TV)
• Profile for Murder (2013) (TV)
• The Trainer (2013) (TV)
• The Company You Keep (2012)
• Delete (2012) (TV)
• In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds (2011)
• BloodRayne: The Third Reich (2011)
• Shooting Gunless (2010) (TV)
• Raging Boll (2010)
• Gunless (2010)
• Frankie & Alice (2008)
• The Final Storm (2008)
• The Guard (2008) (TV)
• Rampage (2008)
• The Thaw (2008)
• Stormworld (2008) (TV)
• Mistresses (2008) (TV)
• Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
• Far Cry (2008)
• About A Girl (2008)
• Postal (2007)
• They Wait (2007)
• American Venus (2007)
• BloodRayne II: Deliverance (2007)
• A.M.P.E.D. (2007) (TV)
• White Noise 2: The Light (2007)
• Slither (2006)
• Saved (2006) (TV)
• Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (2006)
• In the Name of the King (2006)
• The Wicker Man (2006)
• 88 Minutes (2006)
• BloodRayne (2006)
• Edison (2005)
• How to Make a Canadian Film (2005)
• The Long Weekend (2005)
• Marker (2005) (TV)
• Alone in the Dark (2005)
• White Noise (2005)
• Johnny Tootall (2005) (TV)
• Severed: Forest of the Dead (2005)
• Pink Ludoos (2004)
• Going the Distance (2004)
• Lies Like Truth (2004)
• Cable Beach (2004) (TV)
• Mob Princess (2003) (TV)
• Alienated (2003) (TV)
• House of the Dead (2003)
• Punch (2002)
• Try Seventeen (2002)

References[]

External links[]

• Brightlight Pictures at IMDb
• Brightlight Pictures official website