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Cory Weisman (born Chicago, Illinois December 30, 1962) is an American entertainment industry executive, former Hollywood A-List Talent Agent, and emerging tech entrepreneur who packages and produces Holographic 3D content and display activations, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Immersive Experience Productions for the Global Entertainment and Retail markets.

As Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Weisman Worldwide Entertainment Inc., located in Beverly Hills, CA, Weisman creates rare and exclusive business opportunities for performing artists, estate rights holders, agents, managers, production companies and technology developers to create unique entertainment and experiential content.

With decades of Hollywood industry experience and relationships, his company also provides Film Production Services and has put together an all-star team of numerous high profile Hollywood producers. Weisman Worldwide has numerous film and television projects in development and pre- production.

Before focusing on holographic entertainment production and emerging technology, Weisman was a senior agent at International Creative Artists Management (ICM), representing many high-profile clients. Weisman spent many years at ICM where he worked with some of the most influential actors, directors, and producers in Hollywood. He continuously evolved his strategies by creating and brokering unprecedented deals that combined talent, animation and the latest content delivery platforms. He resigned from ICM and went on to create a strategic alliance with his former clients and associates and formed Weisman Worldwide Entertainment, Inc.

Early life and education

Weisman was born in Chicago Illinois. He graduated from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication, with minors in both Public Relations and Journalism. While attending SIU, he took a music business program affiliated with Nashville’s Country Music Industry elites. Through that program, Weisman secured a year-long internship with Sound Seventy Concert Productions, Owned by Concert promoter giant Joe Sullivan and Country legend Charlie Daniels.

Career

During his college years, Weisman became a live music promoter and talent manager, securing his first recording and publishing deal with Roadrunner Records (International) and Shrapnel Records (Domestic) while attending school. During the same period, he also established strong venue and club relationships in the Midwest including Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis and Nashville TN. His passion for music and his entertainment experience led immediately after graduation to a marketing and record promotion position at the pioneer House Music label Trax Records.

His role included radio promotion and servicing Midwest distribution to record chain retailers and one-stops in the Midwest. That job led to a National talent buyer and GM position for the newly renovated and nationally acclaimed Riviera Theater and International Amphitheater, both in Chicago.

Around the same time, MTV was becoming increasingly influential, and Weisman collaborated with the MTV Network, local music promoters, and artists’ agents to contract major music acts for performances in the Chicago metropolitan area. All of the top touring acts during that era either frequented or performed at these venues, Including Madonna, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, Iggy Pop, INXS, Bon Jovi, Depeche Mode, Robert Plant, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, Split Enz to name a few.

In 1991 he moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a junior agent at a boutique talent agency and swiftly rose through the ranks. At this time, feature animation films experienced a massive surge of production and resulting popularity. Disney was no longer the only Animation studio competing for the family demographic. Weisman saw a niche business organically growing when no major agency was paying much if any attention to the new boom in Feature Animation. He identified his vision of the future industry growth, and was awarded the opportunity to create and run a new division, servicing Animation Studios, Television Animation, and Digital distribution of traditional content.

He quickly became known as the leading expert in packaging A-list live-action talent with feature and television animation studio productions. His clients included, Jodie Foster, Tommy Lee Jones, Meg Ryan, Steve Martin, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rosie O’Donnell, Mel Gibson, Ann Bancroft, James Woods, Jim Belushi, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeff Goldblum, Chazz Palminteri, and Joe Pantoliano to name a few.

Some of the major studio projects that he packaged talent deals for include Toy Story 1&2 (PIXAR), Babe (UNIVERSAL), Space Jam (WB), Homeward Bound 2 (DISNEY), All Dogs Go To Heaven (MGM ), Hunchback Of Notre Dame DISNEY), Mulan (DISNEY), Antz (DREAMWORKS) , The Prince of Egypt (DREAMWORKS), SHREK (DREAMWORKS) ICE AGE (FOX), the Rugrats Television and Film Franchise (NICKELODEON / PARAMOUNT) and King of The Hill (FOX).

In 2000, Weisman left ICM to form Weisman Worldwide Entertainment, Inc., Hollywood’s first New Media Agency where he developed relationships between talent, movie studios, and technology companies primarily in Silicon Valley. “The vision was to create a bridge between the talent, traditional production houses, and technology elements to create opportunities for all in the ever-expanding entertainment technology convergence space,” Weisman was quoted in Daily Variety.

In 2005, with the market slowing, less activity in the convergence arena became more the trend. Weisman re-focused on his prior business of talent buying and concert promotion with stints in NYC at the Loewe’s Paradise Theater and in 2010 through 2014 in South Florida, primarily focusing on the emergence of EDM and HIP-HOP. He booked all the top talent in these genres, from Steve Aoki, Afrojack, Borgore, Excision, Rick Ross, Snoop Dogg, Meek Mill and Lil Wayne to name a few.

In 2014, Weisman recognized another surge of new technologies dominating the production industry with the emergence of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and particularly the Hologram performance of iconic Hip-Hop legend Tupac Shakur that played live at Coachella Music Festival. The world was changed forever. These new platforms were a clear sign it was time to return to Hollywood and once again focus on his business vision and goals.

Upon relocating back to the Hollywood infrastructure, he met a European entrepreneur, who had recently licensed hologram tech rights for North America from the patent owners, MUSION DAS HOLOGRAM.

Weisman was offered a position as VP of Business Development, and was charged with securing estate rights and venues to tour and distribute hologram entertainment. After almost 4 years of travelling the world and building strong relationships in the robust and emerging tech marketplace, he knew it was time to re-launch the Weisman Worldwide brand, and provide marketing solutions in all verticals of business, combining Experiential Content, Holograms, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality. Holographic Entertainment Technology.

In 2018 Weisman Worldwide opened offices in Beverly Hills and London uniquely positioned to broker talent and production deals that utilize all the latest customized emerging technology, which Daily Variety described as “a consultancy that offers a direct conduit between tech firms and traditional entertainment companies looking to develop new-media and marketing strategies.

As Weisman explains, the company is not locked into one patent or technology, as our clientele are some of the worlds’ best companies providing the back end tech for highly visible marketing and Entertainment solutions. “We often integrate multiple companies and tech for the ultimate immersive consumer experience. Our projects span from holographic artist performances at live concert venues [including Live, Pre-Recorded, and Digital Resurrection] to virtual reality and Augmented Reality applications, (including trade shows, museums, sports arenas, art installations, retail displays, etc) and therefore the deals and services we provide now are truly at the forefront of the fast-paced entertainment technology industry.”

Notable Partners and Clients at startup of the Weisman Worldwide Brand in 2nd Quarter 2018 include: MDH HOLOGRAM – (World’s leading 3D Hologram Providers) LEVIATHON – (GLOBAL LEADER in DIGITAL and DISPLAY Design), TRIVVER – One of a kind Patented App providing brand and marketing extensions to VR and AR advertising), DREAM NO MORE STUDIOS - (Leading CGI, Hologram production, Gaming and Augmented Reality Developers), and Relativity VR (360 Video and VR providers to major concert tours).