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n. (escape artist English)
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Escape Artists Productions, LLC, commonly known as Escape Artists and distinct from Escape Artists, Inc. (pod caster), is an independently financed motion picture and television production company with a first look non-exclusive deal at Sony Pictures Entertainment, headed by partners Steve Tisch, Todd Black, and Jason Blumenthal. In 2001, Todd Black and Jason Blumenthal’s Black & Blu merged with the Steve Tisch Company to form Escape Artists.
The first produced movie under the Escape Artists banner was A Knight's Tale, starring Heath Ledger in 2001. In the fall of 2005, Escape Artists released The Weather Man, directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Caine. Their next film, The Pursuit of Happyness, directed by Gabriele Muccino and starring Will Smith, was released in December 2006 and earned over $300 million in worldwide ticket sales, as well as best actor Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Will Smith. Seven Pounds, another Gabriele Muccino-directed film starring Will Smith, was released in December 2008. In 2009, Escape Artists released the Alex Proyas thriller Knowing, starring Nicolas Cage, and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, directed by Tony Scott and starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta. Their latest project entitled, The Back-Up Plan, directed by Alan Poul and starring Jennifer Lopez, was released through CBS Films in April 2010.
The company's production office is located in the Astaire Building on the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California.
Escape Artists is a post-punk band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed 1981 in Haderslev, Sønderjylland. They have played several gigs with notable Danish punk/post-punk bands Sods and Kliche. The band split in 1984, but reformed in 2006.
After regrouping in 2006 with the original lineup, the band released a self financed vinyl, Ashes & Debris EP, in 2011.
Escape Artists is a motion picture and television production company
Escape Artists may also refer to:
- Escape Artists, Inc., a speculative fiction podcast production company
- Escape Artists Motion Pictures, producer of Tamil language films
- Escape Artists (Austrian band)
- Escape Artists (Danish band)
Escape Artists is a female-fronted Austrian pop punk band from Vienna and Lower Austria.
Usage examples of "escape artists".
And the longtime status of skateboarders as an oppressed ethnic group means that by now all of them are escape artists of some degree.
Murdering escape artists fit the bill to what went down yesterday.
Since they were escape artists of no mean ability, twice he had had to track and lead them back to camp from forays of their own devising.
I'm trying to figure out a way to put the goats up, but you know they're little escape artists—.
Hollis had been mesmerized by this book, and only wished he had the guts to let himself be buried alive, and pull off the kind of escape reserved only for the best of escape artists.