5/30/2023 0 Comments Book on the sackler family![]() ![]() “I realized I didn’t love films as much as I loved business,” he says, noting that his ambition is to “build really, truly, big businesses” and that “it’s so clear that unless you’re coming to the table with billions and billions of dollars to spend on movies, it’s so difficult to create a major studio.” Soon, though, he turned his attention to media investing. (Sackler isn’t the only family member involved in the film business his cousin Madeleine is a noted director whose documentary about prison life, HBO’s It’s a Hard Truth Ain’t It, received an Emmy nomination in 2020.) ( THR described the movie upon its 2012 release as “crackling” it scooped up prizes at Sundance and Berlin.) Two years later, he backed Jenny Slate’s acclaimed comedy Obvious Child, which landed a pair of Independent Spirit Award nominations, and in 2015 he bought into Gothic-horror The Witch, which helped launch the pre- Queen’s Gambit career of Anya Taylor-Joy. “It helped put us on the map,” he says of the project, which provided an early screen role for Letitia Wright. ![]() ![]() Rooks Nest’s first film, which Sackler fully produced, was Sally El Hosaini’s debut My Brother the Devil, about two London siblings who become low-level drug dealers. ![]()
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