The Halcyon Company

The company was founded by Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson in 2006. Prior to teaming up in Los Angeles, Anderson had a New York and London-based advertising agency, In The Mix, and Kubicek worked as a trader on the American Stock Exchange. Afterward, they produced Cook Off!, a short film mockumentary which won an award at the Aspen Comedy Festival. Halcyon then aimed to get the rights to respected intellectual property.^[1]

In May 2007, Halcyon acquired all of the rights in relationship to the Terminator franchise.^[2][3] These rights include the right to produce any future Terminator films, as well as all future merchandising and licensing rights, certain future revenues derived from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, as well as certain rights in the television project Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and the sole right to produce all future Terminator projects in any new or existing media.^[4] In November 2007, the company created its own video games subsidiary, Halcyon Games and made a video game adaptation of Terminator Salvation.^[5][6] In October 2007, Halcyon acquired the first-look rights to the works of writer Philip K. Dick.^[7] An adaptation of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said was deemed to enter works in 2009.^[8] The arrangement with the production arm of the Philip K. Dick Estate, Electric Shepherd Productions, ended August 2009 due to delayed payments.^[9]

Warner Bros. acquired the North American distribution rights, allowing them to distribute the fourth Terminator film, Terminator Salvation. The film began production in early 2008,^[10] and was released on May 21, 2009. Despite making a healthy profit on the movie, Halcyon filed for bankruptcy in 2009 as a response to a lawsuit from their financier due to payment problems.^[9] Their next film was supposed to be a remake of the film After the Wedding set for a 2011 release.^[11] The rights were put up in a bankruptcy auction,^[12] and acquired on 2010 by Pacificor, a hedge fund company who was the largest creditor in Halcyon's bankruptcy proceedings.^[13][14] The deal erased Halcyon's debts owed to Pacificor and guaranteed Halcyon $5 million for each additional Terminator sequel produced to pay off other outstanding debts.^[13][15]

In 2013, Kubicek and Anderson released In God We Trust, a documentary they directed about Eleanor Squillari, Bernie Madoff's secretary for 25 years and her search for the truth about the fraud.^[16][17][18] That year, they acquired the rights to Beatrix Ost's memory books to release a film adaptation.^[19]

• Cook Off! (2006, short)
• Terminator Salvation (2009)
• In God We Trust (2013)

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