Group Quinta
Quinta Communications was created in 1990, arising from the meeting between Silvio Berlusconi and Tarak Ben Ammar, the latter having decided to increase his activities as producer and financial investor in the media, motion pictures and television, after heading for nearly fifteen years Carthago Films, and produced or coproduced some fifty films under its label.
Presided by Tarak Ben Ammar, Quinta is an integrated audiovisual group with an international dimension, divided today into three main branches: Quinta Industries, Quinta Distribution and Quinta Communications.
It offers the profession a very broad range, from studio postproduction to distribution, as well as financing, television in France and in Italy, and every different type of editing.
Quinta Communications
Since its creation in 1990, Quinta Communications, the parent company of the Group, has multiplied investments in the sectors of production and distribution, as well as in the audiovisual industry in the broad sense.
It was thus that Quinta coproduced with Lux Vide, which owns a significant interest in, great televised series such as The Bible or Jesus of Nazareth for France, Italy and all international territories.
For motion pictures, before the three great coproductions with Dino de Laurentiis (Decameron, The Last Legion, Young Hannibal), Tarak Ben Ammar and Quinta had produced in 2002 Brian de Palma's thriller, Femme fatale.
In parallel, Quinta Communications has increased its strategic investments in motion pictures and television.
In Tunisia, his country of origin, Tarak Ben Ammar built the studio stages Empire d'Hammamet (with Lux Vide) where was shot part of the shoot of The Last Legion as well as many TV movies.
He now offers at the Gammarth site a complete postproduction line baptised LTC-Gammarth.
Tarak Ben Ammar led to full completion an agreement announced in Cannes in 2005 with the Weinstein brothers, by entering along with his partner TF1 the Weinstein Company with an investment of 30 million euros each, to be the European headquarters of the new American studio. The start of a new adventure which was to see significant developments over the coming months and years.
The agreement signed by Patrick le Lay and Tarak Ben Ammar with brothers Bob and Harvey Weinstein marks the continuation of their joint audiovisual development in France and Europe.
Tarak Ben Ammar, in association with TF1, holds, through the companies Europa TV and Prima TV, a host of channels and frequencies. This strategic investment places the Group in an excellent position to take part in the rapid expansion of new digital technologies.
Discover Empire Studios: see the video Contact: Quinta Communications 16, avenue Hoche 75008 PARIS Phone: + 33 (0)1 40 76 04 54
Quinta Distribution
Tarak Ben Ammar, CEO of the Group Quinta, decided to add to his technical pole a distribution company in February 2004.
His first acquisition was Mel Gibson's international blockbuster, The Passion of the Christ, which beat attendance records worldwide, from the United States (7th top receipts of all time) to Europe.
The following film, Mixed Marriage by Alexandre Arcady topped over 250,000 entries in France.
After several American films, such as The In-Laws, starring Michael Douglas, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, with Antonio Banderas, or City by the Sea, top-billing Robert de Niro, Quinta Distribution sold some 2,600,000 tickets at the Box-Office over just its first ten months of activity.
For year 2007, Quinta Distribution's slate already distinguishes itself with its very handsome line-up: from Chromophobia by Martha Fiennes, screened at the closing of the Cannes Film Festival and starring Penelope Cruz and Kristin Scott Thomas, to Decameron for the first months of the year, without forgetting The Last Legion starring Ben Kingsley and Colin Firth, as well as the highly awaited Young Hannibal: Behind the Mask starring Gaspard Ulliel and Gong Li, depicting early days of the monster Hannibal Lecter and the roots of evil already gnawing away at him.
Other coming film: La source aux larmes ("The Spring of Tears") by Pierre Boutron, with its shoot slated for 2007 in Spain, near Grenada, about death of renowned Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca at the darkest hours of Franco's dictatorship.
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