American Zoetrope

American Zoetrope

Type	Production company
Industry	Motion pictures Television
Founded	December 12, 1969 (1969-12-12)
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, United States
Key people	Francis Ford Coppola George Lucas
Owner	Roman Coppola Sofia Coppola
Website	zoetrope.com

American Zoetrope (also known as Zoetrope Studios from 1979 until 1990) is a privately run American film studio, centred in San Francisco and founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas.

Opened on December 12, 1969,^[1] American Zoetrope was an early adopter of digital filmmaking, including some of the earliest uses of HDTV. The studio has produced not only the films of Coppola (including Apocalypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Tetro), but also George Lucas's pre-Star Wars films (THX 1138), as well as many others by avant-garde directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, Wim Wenders and Godfrey Reggio.

Four films produced by American Zoetrope are included in the American Film Institute's Top 100 Films. American Zoetrope-produced films have received 15 Academy Awards and 68 nominations.

American Zoetrope is located in the Sentinel Building

Formation

Initially located in a warehouse on Folsom Street, the company's headquarters have since 1972^[2] been in the historic Sentinel Building, at 916 Kearny Street in San Francisco's North Beach neighbourhood.

Coppola named the studio after a zoetrope he was given in the late 1960s by the filmmaker and collector of early film devices, Mogens Skot-Hansen. "Zoetrope" is also the name by which Coppola's quarterly fiction magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story, is often known.

American Zoetrope is now owned entirely by Coppola's son and daughter, directors Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola.^[3]

Zoetrope Virtual Studio

It also administers the Zoetrope Virtual Studio, a complete motion picture production studio for members only. Launched in June 2000 after more than four years work, it brings together departments for screenwriters, directors, producers and other filmmaker artists, plus new departments for other creative endeavours, offering e-collaborative tools. Filmmaker members can workshop a wide range of film arts, including music, graphics, design and film & video.

Filmography

American Zoetrope / Zoetrope Studios filmography
Date	Film	Director	Company	Credit	Notes
000000002017-01-01-00002017	Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral	Victor Salva	American Zoetrope	Production Company
000000002016-01-01-00002016	Joshy	Jeff Baena	American Zoetrope	Production Company
000000002014-01-01-00002014	Life After Beth	Jeff Baena	American Zoetrope	Production Company
000000002013-01-01-00002013	The Bling Ring	Sofia Coppola	American Zoetrope	Production Company
000000002012-01-01-00002012	A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III	Roman Coppola	American Zoetrope	Production Company
000000002012-01-01-00002012	On the Road	Walter Salles	American Zoetrope	Production Company
000000002011-01-01-00002011	Twixt	Francis Ford Coppola	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000002010-01-01-00002010	Somewhere	Sofia Coppola	American Zoetrope	Production Company
000000002009-01-01-00002009	Tetro	Francis Ford Coppola	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000002007-01-01-00002007	Youth Without Youth	Francis Ford Coppola	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000002006-01-01-00002006	Marie Antoinette	Sofia Coppola	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000002006-01-01-00002006	The Good Shepherd	Robert De Niro	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000002004-01-01-00002004	Kinsey	Bill Condon	American Zoetrope	Production Company (uncredited)	^[4]
000000002003-01-01-00002003	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000002003-01-01-00002003	Jeepers Creepers 2	Victor Salva	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000002002-01-01-00002002	Pumpkin	Anthony Abrams and Adam Larson Broder	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000002002-01-01-00002002	Assassination Tango	Robert Duvall	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000002001-01-01-00002001	Jeepers Creepers	Victor Salva	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000002001-01-01-00002001	No Such Thing	Hal Hartley	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000002001-01-01-00002001	Suriyothai	Chatrichalerm Yukol	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001999-01-01-00001999	The Florentine	Nick Stagliano	American Zoetrope	Production Company
000000001999-01-01-00001999	The Virgin Suicides	Sofia Coppola	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001999-01-01-00001999	The Third Miracle	Agnieszka Holland	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001999-01-01-00001999	Sleepy Hollow	Tim Burton	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001998-01-01-00001998	Moby Dick	Franc Roddam	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001997-01-01-00001997	The Rainmaker	Francis Ford Coppola	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001997-01-01-00001997	Buddy	Caroline Thompson	American Zoetrope	Production Company (as An American Zoetrope Production)	^[4]
000000001997-01-01-00001997	The Odyssey	Andrei Konchalovsky	American Zoetrope	Production Company (as American Zoetrope San Francisco)	^[4]
000000001996-01-01-00001996	Jack	Francis Ford Coppola	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001995-01-01-00001995	Haunted	Lewis Gilbert	American Zoetrope	Production Company
000000001995-01-01-00001995	My Family	Gregory Nava	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001994-01-01-00001994	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	Kenneth Branagh	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001994-01-01-00001994	Don Juan DeMarco	Jeremy Levin	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001993-01-01-00001993	The Secret Garden	Agnieszka Holland	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001992-01-01-00001992	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Francis Ford Coppola	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001992-01-01-00001992	Wind	Carroll Ballard	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001991-01-01-00001991	Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse	Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001990-01-01-00001990	The Godfather Part III	Francis Ford Coppola	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company	^[4]
000000001989-01-01-00001989	Wait Until Spring, Bandini	Dominique Deruddere	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company	^[4]
000000001987-01-01-00001987	Tough Guys Don't Dance	Norman Mailer	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company
000000001987-01-01-00001987	Gardens of Stone	Francis Ford Coppola	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company	^[4]
000000001987-01-01-00001987	Barfly	Barbet Schroeder	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company	^[4]
000000001986-01-01-00001986	Peggy Sue Got Married	Francis Ford Coppola	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company	^[4]
000000001985-01-01-00001985	Seven Minutes in Heaven	Linda Feferman	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company
000000001985-01-01-00001985	Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters	Paul Schrader	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company	^[4]
000000001984-01-01-00001984	The Cotton Club	Francis Ford Coppola	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company	^[4]
000000001983-01-01-00001983	The Outsiders	Francis Ford Coppola	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company	^[4]
000000001983-01-01-00001983	Rumble Fish	Francis Ford Coppola	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company	^[4]
000000001983-01-01-00001983	The Black Stallion Returns	Robert Dalva	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company	^[4]
000000001982-01-01-00001982	The Making of 'One from the Heart'	Tony St. John	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company
000000001982-01-01-00001982	Hammett	Wim Wenders	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company	^[4]
000000001982-01-01-00001982	One from the Heart	Francis Ford Coppola	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company/Distributor	^[4]
000000001982-01-01-00001982	The Grey Fox	Phillip Borsos	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company	^[4]
000000001982-01-01-00001982	The Escape Artist	Caleb Deschanel	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company	^[4]
000000001980-01-01-00001980	Kagemusha	Akira Kurosawa	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company	^[4]
000000001980-01-01-00001980	Sauve qui peut (la vie)	Jean-Luc Godard	Zoetrope Studios	Production Company	^[4]
000000001979-01-01-00001979	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola	Omni Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]^[5]
000000001974-01-01-00001974	The Conversation	Francis Ford Coppola	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001974-01-01-00001974	The Godfather Part II	Francis Ford Coppola	American Zoetrope	Production Facilities Furnished Through (as American Zoetrope San Francisco)	^[4]
000000001973-01-01-00001973	American Graffiti	George Lucas	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001971-01-01-00001971	THX 1138	George Lucas	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]
000000001969-01-01-00001969	The Rain People	Francis Ford Coppola	American Zoetrope	Production Company	^[4]^[6]

Cafe Zoetrope at ground level of the building

Cafe Zoetrope

In the building lobby Coppola operates a small Italian café, Cafe Zoetrope, featuring Inglenook Estate wine and memorabilia from his films.^[7]

The neighborhood is well known for its cafes and its writers. Coppola wrote much of the screenplay for The Godfather in the nearby Caffe Trieste and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books is located across the street from the Sentinel Building.

References

↑ Fog City Mavericks. Starz, Englewood, CO, USA. June 15, 2011. Television.
↑ "American Zoetrope: Films". www.zoetrope.com. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
↑ Coppola stated this in an interview with Harry Knowles for Ain't It Cool News published on May 8, 2007.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 "American Zoetrope: Films", zoetrope.com. Retrieved 2012-10-24.
↑ Zoetrope Studios [us]
↑ American Zoetrope [us]
↑ Cafe Zoetrope

External links

Official website
Zoetrope All-Story – The website of the quarterly fiction magazine
Cafe Zoetrope – The website of Cafe Zoetrope

Francis Ford Coppola

Films directed	The Bellboy and the Playgirls (1962) Tonight for Sure (1962) Battle Beyond the Sun (1962) Dementia 13 (1963) You're a Big Boy Now (1966) Finian's Rainbow (1968) The Rain People (1969) The Godfather (1972) The Conversation (1974) The Godfather Part II (1974) Apocalypse Now (1979; Redux, 2001) One from the Heart (1982) The Outsiders (1983) Rumble Fish (1983) The Cotton Club (1984) Captain EO (1986) Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) Gardens of Stone (1987) Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) New York Stories (segment "Life Without Zoë", 1989) The Godfather Part III (1990) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Jack (1996) The Rainmaker (1997) Youth Without Youth (2007) Tetro (2009) Twixt (2011)

Written only	Is Paris Burning? (1966) This Property Is Condemned (1966) Patton (1970) The Great Gatsby (1974)

Produced only	American Graffiti (1973) The Junky's Christmas (1993) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) Don Juan DeMarco (1995) Lani Loa – The Passage (1998) The Florentine (1999) The Virgin Suicides (1999)

Enterprises	American Zoetrope Zoetrope: All-Story Rubicon Estate Winery Francis Ford Coppola Presents

George Lucas filmography

Director

Feature	THX 1138 (1971) American Graffiti (1973) Star Wars (1977) Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Short	Look at Life (1965) Herbie (1965) Freiheit (1966) 1:42.08 (1966) The Emperor (1967) Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town (1967) Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967) 6-18-67 (1967) Filmmaker (1968) Bald: The Making of THX 1138 (1971, uncredited)

Writer

Feature	THX 1138 (1971) American Graffiti (1973) Star Wars (1977) The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Return of the Jedi (1983) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Willow (1988) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Radioland Murders (1994) Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008, uncredited) Red Tails (2012, uncredited) Strange Magic (2015)

Short	Look at Life (1965) Herbie (1965) Freiheit (1966) 1:42.08 (1966) The Emperor (1967) Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town (1967) Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967) 6-18-67 (1967) Filmmaker (1968) Captain Eo (1986) Star Tours (1987, uncredited)

Only producer

The Rain People (1969, production associate)
More American Graffiti (1979)
Kagemusha (1980, international version)
Body Heat (1981, uncredited )
Twice Upon a Time (1983)
Latino (1985, uncredited )
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
Labyrinth (1986)
Howard the Duck (1986)
Powaqqatsi (1988, documentary)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
The Land Before Time (1988)

Television

Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984)
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985)
Star Wars: Ewoks (1985-1986)
Star Wars: Droids (1985-1986)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992-1996)
Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003-2005)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008-2014)
Star Wars Detours (Shelved)

Cinema of the United States

Films	Films by year

Awards and events	National Board of Review Award (1909) Academy Awards (1929) New York Film Critics Circle (1935) National Society of Film Critics Award (1966) Critics' Choice Movie Awards (1996) Los Angeles Film Critics Award (1975) Golden Globe Awards (1944) Guild Awards Directors Guild of America Awards (1936) Writers Guild of America Awards (1951) Screen Actors Guild Awards (1995) Producers Guild of America Awards (1962) Golden Raspberry Awards (1981) Hollywood Film Awards (1997)

Theaters	Movie theater chains

Industry by state	Alaska Arizona Connecticut Florida Georgia Hawaii Louisiana Michigan North Carolina New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Virginia

Industry by city	Atlanta Baltimore Chicago Cleveland Jacksonville Kansas City Los Angeles (Hollywood) Las Vegas Lone Pine Long Island Monument Valley New York City Harlem Palm Springs Pittsburgh Riverside San Diego Seattle Sonora Stamford Vasquez Rocks

Organizations	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences American Society of Cinematographers Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Miscellaneous	Box office AFI's 100 Years... National Film Registry Classical Hollywood cinema New Hollywood List of living actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood List of surviving silent film actors

Film studios in the U.S. and Canada

Majors	20th Century Fox Columbia Pictures Paramount Pictures Universal Pictures Walt Disney Studios Warner Bros.

Mini-majors	Amblin Partners CBS Films Lionsgate Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Open Road Films Relativity Media STX Entertainment The Weinstein Company

Independent studios	3D Entertainment A24 Alcon Entertainment Anchor Bay Films Broad Green Pictures Drafthouse Films Entertainment One Films Freestyle Releasing Hasbro Studios Icon Productions Image Entertainment Imagine Entertainment IMAX Pictures Lakeshore Entertainment Magnolia Pictures Mandalay Pictures MarVista Entertainment Miramax Montecito Picture Company Morgan Creek Productions Picturehouse Regency Enterprises Revolution Studios RKO Pictures Roadside Attractions Samuel Goldwyn Films Village Roadshow Pictures Walden Media WWE Studios

Independent financers	Annapurna Pictures Cross Creek Pictures Legendary Entertainment LStar Capital Media Rights Capital New Regency Productions Participant Media RatPac Entertainment Red Granite Pictures Skydance Media TSG Entertainment Worldview Entertainment

Producer-owned independents	1492 Pictures American Zoetrope Bad Hat Harry Productions Bad Robot Productions Blinding Edge Pictures Blumhouse Productions Bryanston Pictures Crystal Sky Pictures Di Bonaventura Pictures Flower Films Fuzzy Door Productions Good Universe Happy Madison Productions ImageMovers Jim Henson Pictures Lightstorm Entertainment Kennedy/Marshall Company Platinum Dunes Sidney Kimmel Entertainment Silver Pictures

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