Alcon Entertainment

Alcon Entertainment is a U.S.-based independent film production and financing company founded in 1997 by Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson. Its activities center on the development, financing, production, and rights-related exploitation of feature films, generally in cooperation with distributors, production partners, and other media companies for the U.S. and international markets. Its film work has covered drama, commercial genre films, and family entertainment. Known associated titles include Alpha Dog, The Blind Side, The Martian, Prisoners, and Blade Runner 2049. The company also has a notable profile in science-fiction cinema through its involvement with projects connected to the Blade Runner franchise. Publicly available information is insufficient to establish its full current business scale, ownership structure, and operating status in detail.

Alcon Entertainment was founded in the United States in 1997 by Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, with a business centered on the development, financing, and production of independent films. Its projects have covered multiple genres and have generally reached theatrical and international markets through cooperation with outside distributors and production partners. Films associated with the company include Alpha Dog, The Blind Side, The Martian, and Prisoners. The company gained additional international visibility in the 2010s through its involvement with Blade Runner 2049. Because sufficiently detailed primary-source information is not available, this entry does not attempt to reconstruct every organizational change, investment arrangement, or recent project in the company's history.

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• Alpha Dog2006

  A crime drama associated with Alcon's early independent film production and financing activities.

• The Blind Side2009

  A sports and coming-of-age drama that became one of Alcon's notable commercially oriented film projects.

• The Martian2015

  A space-survival science-fiction film with Alcon involved in production-related work, illustrating the company's participation in large-scale commercial genre films.

• Prisoners2013

  A mystery crime drama representing Alcon's involvement in adult-oriented genre films and filmmaker-driven projects.

• Blade Runner 20492017

  A sequel in the Blade Runner science-fiction franchise, and one of Alcon's most internationally recognizable production and rights-related projects.

1. Alcon Entertainment official website