Jarblum Entertainment Group

JARBLUM ENTERTAINMENT GROUP (“JEG”) is an independent production company which develops, finances and arranges for distribution of motion picture and television projects.

Director Jon Poll with Robert Downey Jr. on the set of their new comedy, Charlie Bartlett.	Its first project, through JEG’s affiliate Texon Entertainment, Inc., was the comedy Charlie Bartlett, starring Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey, Jr. and Hope Davis, which was released nationwide in February 2008 by MGM. See the trailer at www.charliebartlett-themovie.com.

Ido Port and Alfred Molina	William Jarblum, the CEO of JEG, is the coproducer of Little Traitor, a coming of age story set at the eve of Israel’s independence in 1947, starring Alfred Molina. The movie is based on the Amos Oz novel Panther in the Basement. The movie has been screened at several film festivals and won the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature at the Palm Beach Film Festival and at the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival. Having completed its theatrical run it is currently available on certain VOD systems, will be on Showtime in September 2011 and generally available on DVD and Netflix starting in October 2011. Please go to www.thelittletraitor.com to view the trailer and for current information.

Jarblum Entertainment Group was a consultant to the producers of The Dukes, a film starring Robert Davi, Chazz Palminteri and Peter Bogdanovich. The movie is about the members of a 1960’s Doo Wop group who have fallen on hard times and what lengths they will go to in order to survive. The Dukes was featured in the Premiere Section of the Rome Film Festival on October 23, 2007. The movie was released in late 2008 in New York and Los Angeles. See the trailer at www.thedukes-movie.com.

Jarblum Entertainment Group is a producer and William Jarblum is an Executive Producer of Faded Memories, a film written by Anne-Sophie Dutoit when she was 14 and directed by and starring Anne-Sophie when she was 16. The myspace page for the film can be found at: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2085239475
The following is a link to various media coverage: http://annesophiefilms.com/AnneSophieLinks.aspx

William Jarblum is Executive Producer of Cloudburst. The film is written, directed and produced by Thom Fitzgerald and will be presented and distributed by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. The movie stars Academy Award® winners Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck) and Brenda Fricker (My Left Foot). The story follows two women who have been lovers for 30 years but have to “break out” of a nursing facility to get married in Canada. They pick up a young male hitchhiker who sidetracks them. The world premiere will be at The Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia in September. On September 23 Cloudburst will be the Gala Opening Night Film at the Edmonton International Film Festival.

JEG is the producer with Dahooma Productions and William Jarblum is the executive producer of the comedy Paddyville, starring Eric Stoltz, Donal Logue, who is also directing, and Gilles Marini. It will be produced by Peggy Cafferty. We are expecting to start filming in the summer of 2011 in Toronto.

JEG and William Jarblum are producing with Accolade Films and Lynda Cope in London the action drama Underpass based on the best selling nonfiction book Gideon’s Spies by Gordon Thomas. Underpass is a different take on the Princess Diana Paris car crash, suggesting that the crash might not have been an accident but that Princess Di was not the target. The story is based on Thomas’ account of the incident in his book about the Mossad. John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, Stakeout, WarGames, Bird on a Wire, etc. and numerous television episodes (The Event, Psych, Criminal Minds, In Plain Sight, Heroes, etc.)) is attached as the director. The film is in development.

JEG has numerous other projects in various stages of development.

For further information contact us at info@jarblumfilms.com.