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Ex-Paramount Exec Adam Goodman Reinvents the Production Company

Photo of Anne Thompson By Anne Thompson | Thompson on Hollywood Mon Nov 02 16:02:53 EST 2015

Streamlined micro-budgets with in-production testing are part of Dichotomy's plan.
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Adam Goodman
Adam Goodman
Before DreamWorks graduate Adam Goodman left his gig as president of the Paramount Pictures film group in February, he was always invested in exploring new ways to finance, produce and release movies. Goodman wants to try some of these ideas out at his new production company Dichotomy, which is interested in backing digital projects using streamlined production technology in a wide range of genres, from microbudgets to bigger-scale movies. 


This new, presumably more efficient low-budget model will finance a myriad of genres over time, in increments. Dichotomy would advance $2 million for 20 days of production, reports Kim Masters in The Hollywood Reporter. During a hiatus the filmmakers would test materials with audiences before moving forward to finish the movie with another $1 million for another five days. Then another test and possibly more investment up to a $5-million budget cap.

Goodman learned some tricks from Universal-based Jason Blum, who released his "Paranormal Activity" series via Paramount and keeps his budgets below $5 million. In today's multi-platform universe, squeezing profits is most possible when budgets are low. 

Dichotomy has a first look deal at Paramount, and is seeking more financing to add to what it has raised so far.

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Born and raised in Manhattan, Anne Thompson grew up going to the Thalia and The New Yorker and wound up at grad Cinema Studies at NYU. She worked at United Artists and Film Comment before heading west as that magazine's west coast editor. She wrote for the LA Weekly, Sight and Sound, Empire, The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly before serving as West Coast Editor of Premiere. She wrote for The Washington Post, The London Observer, Wired, More, and Vanity Fair, and did staff stints at The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. She eventually took her blog Thompson on Hollywood to Indiewire. She taught film criticism at USC Critical Studies, and continues to host the fall semester of “Sneak Previews” for UCLA Extension.

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