About Exclusive Media Group

Chris Ball

Chris Ball is Exclusive Media Group's Co-Chairman and President of Newmarket Films. Prior to joining Exclusive Media, Ball co-founded Newmarket Films in 1994 and acted as COO of that company until December 2009 when Exclusive Media acquired Newmarket. 

As Co-founder (with William Tyrer) and COO of Newmarket Films, Ball helped oversee the growth of the company from a private film finance company to one of the preeminent producers and distributors of independent film in the world. By 1998, having been involved in the financing of over 75 features such as Bryan Singer's The Usual Suspects, Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, and the Wachowski's debut Bound, Tyrer and Ball had built a creative team and expanded into production, with the groundbreaking Christopher Nolan classic, Memento. 

Newmarket's distribution arm was created by Ball and Tyrer to theatrically release Memento in the US. The company followed up this release with the distribution of a surprising string of critical and box office successes that sound like a roll call of great indie cinema: Donnie Darko, Whale Rider, Monster, Downfall and The Passion Of The Christ.

Newmarket, whilst perhaps best known for its distribution of hit independent films, also continued to produce and co-produce films such as The Mexican, Cruel Intentions, The Skulls, Prom Night and The Prestige.

During Ball's time at Newmarket, he oversaw sixteen straight years of profitability and the development of the company into a leading producer and distributor of independent film. Ball also helped build Saturn Home Entertainment (partly owned by Newmarket), a profitable video and TV distribution company. At the time of sale to Exclusive, the Newmarket library consisted of interests in more than 250 titles. 

Prior to founding Newmarket, Ball spent fifteen years in the banking industry with Lloyds Bank and Daiwa Bank. He guided the respective film financing divisions of those banks into becoming highly profitable areas.

SELECTED CREDITS:

• Prom Night (2008) (executive producer)
• The Prestige (2006) (executive producer)
• Cruel Intentions 3 (2004) (executive producer)
• The Skulls III (2003) (executive producer)
• Stark Raving Mad (2002) (executive producer)
• Wish You Were Dead (2002) (executive producer)
• The Skulls II (2002) (executive producer)
• All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live! (2001) (executive producer)
• The Mexican (2001) (executive producer)
• Donnie Darko (2001) (executive producer)
• Cruel Intentions 2 (2000) (executive producer)
• Memento (2000) (executive producer)
• The King Is Alive (2000) (executive producer)
• The Skulls (2000) (executive producer)
• A Better Way to Die (2000) (executive producer)
• Mad Cows (1999) (executive producer)
• All the Rage (1999) (executive producer)
• Rogue Trader (1999) (executive producer)
• Cruel Intentions (1999) (executive producer)
• Splendor (1999) (executive producer)
• Velvet Goldmine (1998) (executive producer)
• Mrs. Dalloway (1997) (executive producer)
• Twelfth Night (1996) (executive producer)

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