Daniel Cook
Chicago, IL (USA)
Role(s):
Founder/Owner/Principal
Mystery Box Media, LLC
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Location:
Chicago
Industry:
Entertainment
Year Founded:
2008
Number Employees:
1-10 people
Description:
A film production and film industry contracting and consulting venture including award-winning former employees and contractors of Warner Brothers, Batman, Jerry Springer, Dick Clark, Hee Haw, Love Connection, and ad agency creatives serving fortune 500 clients.
Emmy Nominees, Best Directors, Successful, Proven Entrepreneurs. It's all in this Box.
A company with two divisions:
PRODUCTIONS: Currently developing new talent by producing experimental short films for festival distribution. Aims to produce commercially successful features, television programming, and television advertising.
And CONTRACTING AND CONSULTING:
Likely the more sustainable portion of the business venture, C&C will use assets developed by PRODUCTION division to provide specialized production and production support services to the feature film, television, industrial, and commercial production industry in Chicago and throughout the Midwest. Services will include Production, Equipment Rental, Casting, Location Scouting, Administrative Services, Design/Build, Picture Vehicles, Staffing, Talent Referrals, Sourcing, Resource Databases and other specialty services as needs and opportunities present.
Why we are attractive:
Ability to attach high-profile, name talents if financial means are available. We've worked on high-profile projects. With the proper funding we have a proven ability to attach talents to projects.
Proven ability to build companies. We've done it before. We'll do it again.
Strong, pre-existing relationships and connections within our market.
Lean and mean. A business with very little overhead and the ability to expand instantly to accommodate a large production, account or contract.
Based in a strong, growing market for our product and service.
Based in an area with a large, well trained human resource pool.