Who is Nick Reed ?

In my opinion, one of the most visionary Hollywood people. Meeting Nick Reed can be a turning point in your career. This is not a presumption, it is something that I’ve experienced four years ago when I met Nick in Bucharest.

“Nicholas Reed, Advisor is the Head of the Motion picture Literary Department at International Creative Management, Inc., a talent and literary agency, specializing in creators of intellectual properties. After leaving school he pursued a career in Aviation when he joined the British Royal Navy as a pilot. He then joined a marketing company, Belou Communications- which after its first twelve months in operation was voted the runner-up Best New Business of the Year by The Independent newspaper. During his time there he worked in strategic marketing for clients such as Kodak, Fed-Ex, and several government organizations. After moving to the United States in 1992, he was cast by Steven Spielberg to play Robin Williams’ father in the film HOOK and then later cast by Francis Ford Coppola to play a small role in DRACULA. Intrigued by Hollywood, he joined ICM in an effort to understand the making of movies. Working with writers, directors, and actors, he … Read More »

Nick Reed (left) Leifur B. Dagfinnson, and Jan Korbelin recently visited Finland to scout for filming locations in Helsinki and Finnish Lapland.

Wild scenery in Lapland, advance technology, and security major advantages in competition

By Jussi Ahlroth

The beach sand of Iwo Jima is black in the Clint Eastwood film Flags of our Fathers. The reason for this is the volcanic earth.

However, the beach is not in the Pacific. The film was shot in Iceland.

Leifur B. Dagfinnson is the founder of Iceland’s largest production service company. He brings foreign film productions to Iceland. Business is good. For instance, scenes for films such as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Batman Begins, as well as two James Bond films, and Stardust, which comes out later this year, have all had scenes shot in Iceland.

So what about Finland? Certainly, says Jan Korbelin, producer of the Oscar-winning Crash. “The movie business constantly needs places that have not been seen.”

Korbelin, Dagfinnson, and Nick Reed, main agent of ICM, the largest manager office of the film business, visited Finland to scout locations in Helsinki and Lapland.

So things are on the move?

“There are no concrete plans yet”, Korbelin says.

Film production services are a business that Finland is stepping into.

The … Read More »

Save the world. Pass Math. Get the girl.

Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) seems like a typical teenager – he loves skateboarding, hates math, his mom drives him crazy, and he feels like a complete idiot around girls. But Cody has a really big secret even his family and best friends don’t know: he’s actually an elite undercover agent for the CIA.

Cody is living every kid’s dream life. Specially trained at a top-secret facility disguised as summer camp, Cody can drive like a stuntman, jump-kick like a pro, and has an arsenal of totally cool gadgets – plus, his boss is the unbelievably hot Agent Ronica Miles (Angie Harmon). But when he gets his first assignment, Cody discovers he has to befriend high school dreamgirl Natalie Connors (Hilary Duff) in order to spy on her father, a scientist developing a deadly fleet of Nanobots with the power to destroy the planet. The problem? The CIA spent $10 million training Cody, but they didn’t teach him how to talk to girls.

Packed with effects and elaborate stunts, Agent Cody Banks chronicles Cody’s adventures as he navigates the dangerous, high-tech world of international spy work while also doing his chores to avoid getting grounded. From … Read More »