After spending more than a decade building one of the more prolific independent production portfolios in the entertainment industry, Omar Parker, Charles Burt, and Arianna Burt are preparing for what they believe will be the biggest business venture of their careers.
The three entrepreneurs founded Egerton Crescent Productions, widely known as ECP, in 2015 before expanding their operations through Scavengers and Myths Productions. Since then, they have produced more than 50 projects ranging from feature films and television pilots to documentaries and short films. Their work has reached audiences in over 150 countries and earned selections at more than 300 film festivals, including Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, Sitges, and TIFF. Along the way, they have contributed to Emmy Award winning and Academy Award nominated productions while collaborating with performers such as Michael Madsen, Eric Roberts, Barry Bostwick, George Lazenby, Fred Melamed, Forrest Goodluck, Kevin Sorbo, Martin Klebba, Daniel Baldwin, and Tom Sizemore.
Their productions have represented more than $10 million in budgets, with commercial highlights including Camp Pleasant Lake, which spent an extended run among Starz’s Top 10 streaming titles. The company for years prided itself on the motto of “Quality Films, Profitable Production” leading them.
Now the company’s focus is expanding well beyond individual productions.
While their latest feature, The Prince, The Sister & The Serpent, is currently filming, Parker, Charles Burt, and Arianna Burt are simultaneously exploring partnerships to develop a production complex expected to cost between $60 million and $120 million. The phased project would include multiple sound stages and a production town, with negotiations already underway for potential long term agreements with major studios.
“What began as one independent film with a few financial partners eventually became conversations about building something much larger,” Charles Burt said. “Before long we realized we weren’t just producing movies anymore. We were planning the future of a studio.”
Omar Parker believes the move is the logical next chapter.
“In independent film and arthouse, we’ve collected all the Infinity Stones,” he said. “We’ve achieved what we set out to accomplish. The next frontier is bringing that same commitment to quality filmmaking and profitable production into large scale Hollywood production.”
For the founders, their first decade was about mastering independent filmmaking. Their second is about reaching the highest scale of Hollywood production.
