Today, Cooney focuses on two core businesses: studio facilities and content development. The production studios are based in Atlanta and Wilmington, NC with a new studio scheduled to open in Miami in fall, Cooney became the chief executive officer of First Look Studios in Under his leadership, the studio became the heartbeat of the East Coast film industry. The North Carolina incentive and the newly constructed Stage 10, a 37, sq ft, column-free sound stage, lured blockbuster film productions.
Cooney is an innovator with a career that includes milestones such as leading talented creative teams that directed and produced Clio award winning Coke, Volkswagen, Alka Seltzer campaigns and facility operation for day-time dramas. He is well-respected for his foresight and ability to anticipate new trends in order to adapt to the fluid and evolving entertainment industry.
After more than 50 years as an industry leader, his focus is now TV and Film facility development and ownership. He joined Columbia Pictures in and served in a number of administrative positions before being named the Executive Vice President of the Screen Gems division in Sensing a new horizon in technology, Mr. Cooney ushered Columbia Pictures into what was then the newly emerging world of video tape. An early innovator in the industry, Mr. When the commercial television segment declined following advertising agency consolidation and acquisition by corporations, Mr.
It was a partnership that lasted more than 25 years. And when that segment of the industry began to disappear in the 90s, Mr. Cooney seized the opportunity to become a production facility owner supplying infrastructure and crew for a client base that included Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony, Disney and more that needed to expand beyond studio facilities in California, which at the time was running out of production space. What followed was the building of multiple large, state-of-the-art sound stages, including a massive water tank, in Wilmington, NC, one of the largest in the country.
Cooney acquired a sprawling studio complex of 50 acres complete with beautiful Spanish mission style buildings and expanded the lot by building four new large sound stages to attract bigger projects.
Cooney is active in the community. I Fund Foundation. Cooney is also a member of the executive committee of the board of Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center for 25 years and has served as its Chairman for 15 years. Over the years, Mr. Cooney has held numerous seats on governmental and private industrial planning organizations and committees. Harris, Kathryn November 25, January 30, Harris, Kathryn September 2, Retrieved August 8, January 11, Manners, Dorothy August 21, Albuquerque Journal.
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The Brothers. Two Can Play That Game. The Mothman Prophecies. Resident Evil. Breakin' All the Rules. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid. Resident Evil: Apocalypse. European distribution only; co-production with Sunrise , Toho and Triumph Films. The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Underworld: Evolution. When a Stranger Calls. The Covenant. Resident Evil: Extinction. Under new management, the studio assumed a new name, Screen Gems.
The name was derived from an early Columbia Pictures slogan, "Gems of the Screen", itself a takeoff on the song " Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean ". Jimmy Bronis, Mintz's production manager became the studio head, but was shortly replaced by Mintz's brother-in-law, George Winkler.
After this, Columbia decided to "clean house" by ousting the bulk of the staff including Winkler and hiring creative cartoonist, Frank Tashlin. Cartoons previously Leon Schlesinger Productions. Animators, directors, and writers at the series included people such as Art Davis, Sid Marcus, Bob Wickersham, and, during its latter period, Bob Clampett.
Like most studios, the Screen Gems studio had several established characters on their roster. However, the most successful characters the studio had were The Fox and the Crow , a comic duo of a refined Fox and a street-wise Crow.
Screen Gems is also notable for being, in an attempt to keep costs low, the last American animation studio to stop producing black and white cartoons. The final black-and-white Screen Gems shorts appeared in , over three years after the second-longest holdouts Famous Studios and Leon Schlesinger Productions.
During that same year, the studio shut its doors for good, though their animation output continued to be distributed until The Screen Gems cartoons were only moderately successful when compared to those of Disney , Warner Bros. Magoo series, were major critical and commercial successes. In , Screen Gems was revived to serve as the television subsidiary of Columbia, producing and syndicating several popular shows see below and also syndicating Columbia Pictures' theatrical film library to television, including the wildly successful series of two-reel short subjects starring The Three Stooges in the late s.
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