Belle Avery
Producer, The Meg 2 (2023)
About Speaker
Having worked in the global entertainment industry for 25+ years, Belle Avery is a creative producer who understands the business with optioning, financing, banking covenants, and distribution agreements. Avery has consulted with leading global financial institutions & companies including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, IMAX, Maurebeni of Japan & many other private banks private banks as well as developed film funds with spends of over $1.4B in Hollywood. Avery’s entertainment career started in editing and copywriting at an award-winning boutique trailer house in the film industry. Avery later wrote and directed independent films, “Innocent Obsession” , “Malevolence”, based on the assassination of Martin Luther King, which Paramount distributed and “Grizzly Park”. Avery produced My Sexiest Year and The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam. Avery adapted two important novels, In Search of Sugihara and Man’s Fate. In Search of Sugihara is an adaptation of Professor Hillel Levin’s novel about an elusive Japanese diplomat who risked his life to rescue 10,000 Jews during the Holocaust., the documentary about Sugihara won the Academy Award. Man’s Fate an adaptation of the famous Andre Malraux novel about human suffering during the Chinese Revolution. Avery also produced Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead with Academy Award winner Sidney Lumet directing, the film won the coveted American Film Institute Award. Avery developed and produced “The MEG” which she optioned from best selling author Steve Alten and then strategically developed as a co-production with China / Gravity Pictures/CMC -- putting together the financing and distribution for the project -- before taking it to Warner Bros. for a worldwide distribution deal (Ex-China). THE MEG was the blockbuster hit of 2018 summer and is the most successful US/China co-production bringing in global revenues of over $530m at the box office. Avery developed and produced with Gravity Pictures “The Curse of Turandot” directed by legendary Director Xiaolong Zheng. Belle produced MEG 2 THE TRENCH, the sequel to THE MEG, which was released August 4, 2023 with approximately 400m in global box office revenues. Avery is currently developing The Loch, another Steve Alten novel to go into production in 2023 and 18 Seconds, a sci-fi thriller written by global Best Selling Author George Shuman.