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PAUL GOLDSBY KENNEDY GOLDSBY
Paul Goldsby - Kennedy Goldsby - FILM-BIOGRAPHY
Kennedy Goldsby and Paul Goldsby are the writer/director and producer team of motion picture production company Words, Music, Pictures. Their first release "Love Beat The Hell Outta Me,"(2000) which starred Glenn Plummer (The Day After Tomorrow, The Salton Sea, and Speed) and Terrence Howard (Hustle and Flow, Iron Man, Ray) earned revues in excess of one million dollars at the box office before going on to lucrative release in Cable (BET, Showtime) and Video and DVD. Their follow up effort became - in just its first month of sales - Urban Works Entertaiment's largest grossing film: "Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles," (2004) stars Cliffton Powell (Ray, After Friday) A.J. Johnson (Friday, I Got the Hook Up) and Glenn Plummer. In addition to its initial numbers "Roscoe's..." promises to exceed sales projections for both Cable and Pay-Per-View. They are currently in post production with two feature motion pictures: “If I Tell You I Have to Kill You,” starring Obba Babatunde and Keith David; and “The Trap Door,” starring Obba Babatunde and Tiny Lester.
Between 2006-2007 The Goldsbys produced a slew of commercials for Pit Bull energy drink and Pit Bull energy bars.
In late 2007 Kennedy and Paul wrote, directed, and produced 12 episodes of The Horse Whisperer. Unfortunately it never found a distribution home for broadcast release. Today it remains the best reality television show never before seen.
Paul got his start in the business first as a music producer. Working for A & M and Virgin Records he produced albums for such artists as Lenny Kravitz and The College Boys. It wasn’t long however before he soured on the taste of front office expectations and demands. He felt the pressure of being coerced to produce down to the lowest common denominator and decided that it was time to quit. It was at this critical juncture that he decided to join forces with his brother to produce their first motion picture, “Love Beat the Hell Outta Me” - a movie which centers on how men typically behave during the course of a break-up.
Kennedy’s first break into the motion picture business came when he was still in junior high school. For some unknown reason, my mom bought me an eight millimeter movie camera for a birthday gift. “What am I suppose to do with this,” I thought. Little did Kennedy know, but this simple gift touched off a love affair with movies. Using the projector and the package of films that it came with, Kennedy would watch old movies like Abbott and Costello Meet the Wolfman over and over again.
Nevertheless, the thought of turning his passion into anything more than a hobby never occurred to Kennedy until his high school counselor showed him that motion picture production classes were available for study in many southern California universities and colleges. “When I got out of film school, I thought that I was a film genius and that from that point on there’d be no stopping me.”
Kennedy received his first industry position working as a page for CBS television in Los Angeles. From there he transferred to the mail room, the much storied position from which many legendary careers have been launched. But it was there that Kennedy became disillusioned with the prospect of upward mobility. “My only chance for getting anywhere in the business was to move to the exit.”
Nearly a dozen years later, following a string of full-time jobs that culminated in misery and the heart-break from the torn relationship with his girlfriend of fourteen years, Kennedy struck out on his own.
“I never felt so much pain in my life.” At that very moment Kennedy tossed in his chips, cashed-in his 401k saving, and went for broke. “I decided to make a movie about the break-up, because I figured, if I’m going to go through this much hell, I might as well get paid for it.”
Together Kennedy and Paul attracted the talents of Terrence Howard, Glenn Plummer, the investment capital from daring entrepreneurs and managed to complete their first movie. Since then it has been a rough struggle for the brothers, but not once have they ever looked back.
“It’s weird,” says Kennedy, “but I got a kick out of everything about it; the mechanics of the camera, the way the film is projected by a light through a magnifying lens, the way it’s projected onto a wall, everything down to the way it’s edited. But when I found that I was even drawn into the craft of story telling itself, the actual nuts and bolts of putting together characters and plot into a structure of a movie, that’s when I knew that I was hooked for good.”
“For movie people, it’s always the same. It’s like what famous movie reviewer Pauline Kael once said, “I lost it at the movies.”
“It’s no joke. If you ask me one of the sexiest things you can do in life is to make out at the drive-in.”
Besides their production work, the Goldsbys have brokered distribution deals on behalf of other producers. At Urban Entertainment Paul Goldsby secured the Television rights for Blair Underwood's (LA Law, Set It Off, Riot, etc.,) "The Second Coming." At Lightyear Entertainment, on behalf of its producer, Paul negotiated for the North American Rights for "The Gristle." Operating on behalf of Michael Jenkinsen, formerly head of acquisitions for Twentieth Century Fox, the Goldsbys successfully brokered the deal to distribute "Sista's In the City" through Lightyear over and over again.
Nevertheless the thought of turning his passion
In addition to the equity garnered from these existing properties, the brothers enjoy first-look distribution deals with both Universal Pictures and Warner Brothers, deals that not only enable them to release their own productions, but also which allow them to acquire a slate of motion pictures to be streamlined through their deal.
In addition to the Goldsby brothers, Frank Pinnock serving as Associate Producer, has paved a long road to Hi Point Studios. After helming the Rudy Ray Moore classic, "Return of Dolemite" in 2000 , he went on to direct the ground breaking, high definition feature film "Blues Journey," an unofficial homage to blues recording legendRobert Johnson. Never one to sit still, Francis also co-produced the highly anticipated comedy "Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles." In 2003 he directed a short film entitled "Thursday Child" about an African American male suffering from clinical depression. The short received favorable response and was accepted at the 2003 Pan African Film Festival where it received great reviews. Francis' career has seen him direct music videos, television pilots and numerous films. |
