Courtney Solomon
Courtney Solomon (born September 1,1970) is a writer, director, producer, and entrepreneur from Toronto, Ontario. He is responsible for the creation of many franchises and has been involved with production, marketing and distribution of over 80 movies. Life and career. At 19, he formed Sweetpea Entertainment to acquire the film rights to "Dungeons & Dragons". "Dungeons & Dragons" became his first producing and directing project, the film was a box office disappointment Courtney Solomon as owner of Sweetpea Entertainment, was looking to acquire the media rights to a science-fiction property which could be adapted into a television series or  an MMORPG, and in 1996 in exchange for the equity position and media rights to "Traveller", Sweetpea advanced the money to get Imperium Games started as a company to be dedicated solely to "Traveller". He later formed After Dark Films to produce horror, thriller and action titles. He launched it with "An American Haunting", which he wrote, produced and directed, a story based on Tennessee's Bell Witch legend. It opened #2 in US, staying in the top ten films for 6 weeks). This success resulted in a long-term distribution and co-production arrangement with Lionsgate Films. Today, After  Dark owns its own film library of over 80 films. In 2014, Solomon partnered with Mark Canton on a number of films, including "Cake". Other films were "Mr. Church" (Eddie Murphy), "The Comedian" (Robert DeNiro and Leslie Mann), "The Yellow Birds" (Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich, Jack Huston, Jennifer Aniston, Toni Collette) and "Burn Your Maps" (Vera Farmiga and Jacob Tremblay). In 2018, he acquired the rights to and produced the first film based on the novel series "After". The film of the same name was released in April 2019. The sequel, "After We Collided", was released in 2020. In this  same year, he also acquired the rights to the underground comic universe of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers created by Gilbert Shelton in 1968. He also has several films going into production, including "Arthur The King," starring Mark Wahlberg and Red Sonja, based on the character and comic book by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith. Filmography. Producer only