India's TikTok ban already gave Triller 40 million new app downloads ... Triller announced it’s hosting a three-day digital music festival called “Co-Trilla Quarantine Sessions." Despite the popular opinion that Hollywood has run out of new ideas, some movies still arrive on screens without precedent. Publicity Listings For the most part, money has become hard to find in Hollywood, even for men like Ron Howard. Kavanaugh claims that Relativity turns more than 90 percent of the raw material it buys into finished product, an almost ridiculous level of efficiency. Which means that if you see a movie sometime in the next twelve months, it's even money that it's been financed at least partly by Kavanaugh through his company, Relativity Media, LLC. Being for sale is good for business, apparently. Their persistence means that the computers can't always be trusted. Earlier this year, Relativity bought Rogue, Universal's horror imprint, and it will also put out a dozen of its own films — "single pictures," in the local lexicon — next year. The chances are good that Howard has come here, like many of the people who come here, looking for money. Just another million-dollar decision. Originally named Jack Konitz, the son of Holocaust survivors, he changed his surname to Kavanaugh as an adult, and Ryan and his siblings were born with that surname. "Do you know how many people saw The Assassination of Jesse James?" In recognition of his dedication to helping inner-city youth, Kavanaugh was presented with the Sheriff's Youth Foundation Community Champion Award. While his industry rivals focuses on box office, the Relativity Media chief has his eyes on profits. "He wasn't lying," he says. All Rights Reserved. "We're just not going to take big risks. "But the fact is, we'll never be perfect. Warner Bros. has been known to dip into his kitty, and so has Marvel. "What I first see is a bunch of numbers," says Ramon Wilson, Relativity's thirty-year-old executive vice-president of business development. "Everything has to run on the principle of profit," Kavanaugh says. Every year, the six major studios shell out for hundreds, if not thousands, of pitches, scripts, and books, sometimes for millions of dollars a throw; on average, each studio will turn only eleven of those ideas into movies. © 2020 Forbes Media LLC. "We'll never let creative decisions rule our business decisions. He is one of the most watched billionaires of all time. Fame found Josh Richards quickly thanks to his antics, dancing and good looks. Kavanaugh asks, referring to one of his most beautiful early efforts. The author has been making the Hollywood rounds and has spent the last several minutes dropping the names of the famous directors he has met. (Kavanaugh seems unimpressed: He has 10,476 numbers stored on his phone; later, when he goes to the Chateau Marmont for dinner, it takes maybe sixty seconds for Baz Luhrmann to appear out of the foliage and give him a hug.) © 2020 Forbes Media LLC. "I wish every movie was 100 percent," Kavanaugh says. The company reportedly couldn't come up with the cash to pay off debts of at least $320 million. Now Kavanaugh needs to decide exactly how much of a savior he's willing to be. He says he doesn't care about awards, but he knows his movies have been nominated for precisely thirty-seven Oscars. One of America's newest billionaires, Ryan Kavanaugh. Ryan Kavanaugh was founder and CEO at Relativity Media, which was engaged in multiple aspects of entertainment, including film and television financing; production and distribution; music publishing; sports management and digital media.Relativity produced, distributed or structured financing for more than 200 motion pictures generating over $17 billion in worldwide box-office revenue and earning 60 Oscar® nominations.