Former Warner Bros. film studio chief Jeff Robinov is exploring the idea of creating a new production company with producer Graham King, with possible financing arranged by Steven Mnuchin, the chairman and CEO of OneWest Bank Group and Dune Capital Management, according to industry sources.
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The potential partnership, which is being characterized as one of several proposals being put forth by Robinov in the wake of his June exit from Warner Bros., would seek to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for film production.
With credits including Warners releases The Town, The Departedand Argo, King has a long-standing relationship with Robinov. The two already have met with Sony Pictures chiefs Michael Lynton and Amy Pascal, two longtime Robinov friends, and are arranging meetings with other studios and other potential sources of financing, sources say. Paramount and CAA are on Robinov's upcoming meeting list.
Sony might be a good fit for a new financing entity, though the studio already is in negotiations with a vehicle called Blue Anchor Entertainment that could bring it about $300 million in equity financing over a three-year term. The studio recently brought inTom Rothman, another ousted film studio chief (at 20th Century Fox), to run a revamped TriStar label.
Sony declined to comment.
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