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Tom Holland Launches Billy17: A New Era in Filmmaking
Tom Holland and Harry Holland Launch Groundbreaking Production Company to Transform Storytelling and Support Emerging Talent, Continuing Their Eight-Year Partnership with Sony Pictures.
So it seems everyone’s favourite Friendly Neighbourhood Spidey actor, Tom Holland, has got himself a producing deal that he has inked with Sony Pictures to get his newly-fledged production banner, Billy17, launched. He set it up alongside his brother, Harry Holland, and Will South.
In this day and age, it has been common practice at a certain stage of their career for an actor to be a producer and have either a holdings company that takes care of their brand or finances, or run their secret empire and dominate the world with their charm just kidding — a production company and do what they want in showbiz: create films and run merch.
Every actor, their mum and pop— save perhaps their nan — seems to have a production company these days. Idris Elba has Green Door Pictures, Michael Fassbender owns DMC Film, Margot Robbie runs LuckyChap Entertainment, Letitia Wright leads (3.16) Three Sixteen Productions, and Leonardo DiCaprio operates Appian…
