User:Madison Jones (Producer)

Phillip Madison Jones (July, 1958) was born in New York City. He elected to use his middle name (Madison) professionally. Madison Jones is an American film and television executive, producer, and Co-Chairman and CEO of de Passe Jones Entertainment Group with entertainment industry veteran Suzanne de PasseSuzanne de Passe. The iDream Company (“TIDC”) is an entertainment content provider that sources, develops, acquires, and produces a variety of high quality television, motion picture, theater, new media, and print content. It is located in Los Angeles.

Madison is also producing a motion picture based on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. with Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Pictures. http://www.dreamworksstudios.com/ He also discovered hot new screenwriter Billy Majestic and is producing a slate of his films with Mark Ordeskyhttp://www.amberentertainment.com/about/index.html Executive Producer of blockbuster film series, The Lord of the Rings.

Madison formed a joint venture with legendary Hollywood producer Suzanne de Passe called de Passe Jones Entertainment and is currently producing a slate of films and Television shows. Together they produced President Barak Obama’s 2009 Inaugural Commander in Chief Ball. He was nominated for an Emmy as Executive Producer of Our Friend Martin with DIC/Disney and animated special utilizing the voices of Oprah Winfrey, John Travolta, James Earl Jones, Samuel Jackson and many other top names. He is Executive Producer of a new pilot for FOX Network called “Becoming KK Jones”.

Madison entered the entertainment industry at an early age working for HBO and Time, Inc in many divisions before accepting an offer from the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr. to help develop its global licensing program. Madison founded IPM, Intellectual Properties Management to handle the myriad of requests for use of Dr. King’s name, image, likeness, copyrighted works and rights of publicity. He was able to build the King licensing program into a global business with thousands of high quality licenses to use the name, image, likeness, copyrighted works, and rights of publicity of Dr. King in conjunction with hundreds of top companies from Apple Computer, Coke, American Airlines, Microsoft, McDonalds, General Mills, IBM, Kraft General Foods, and hundreds of others.

In the late nineties, he negotiated an historic multi-million dollar deal with Time Warner to re-release several of Dr. King’s books, speeches, and sermons including The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. which received the Grammy for best spoken word of the audio book version. He was the architect of the deal to sell the King Papers Collection to Morehouse College for $32 million.

COMPANY LIST: Over the course of his business career, Madison Jones has negotiated and closed licensing deals with the following companies.

20th Century Fox 40 Acres and A Mule Film Works A & E Television Networks ABC 20/20 ABC News ABC Sports Aetna African-American Family Press African-American Voices of Triumph American Airlines American Family Press Anheuser Busch Apple Arista Records AT&T Worldwide Atlanta Journal and Constitution Atlanta Hawks Bank of America/Ketchum Advertising BBC Documentaries BBC Television Bell Atlantic Best Buy BET BET Holdings Black Heritage Black Heritage Greetings Black Heroes Black Star Blockbuster Video Bob Rogers: BRC Imagination Boston Celtics Boston Globe Boys and Girls Clubs of America Bristol Myers Squibb Budweiser Buena Vista Home Entertainment Burrell Group Carsey Werner Chevrolet Chic-Fil-A City of Dallas CNN Productions Coca Cola Corning, Inc. Cronkite Ward Dallas Mavericks Dallas Morning News Delta Deutsch Bank/Bank One DreamWorks Duke University ESPN Inc Federal Express Ford Motor Co. Fortune Magazine Fox Broadcasting/Who Killed MLK? Fox Sports Net obo The Best Damn Sorts Show Period Franklin Covey General Mills Georgia Power Getty Images Grammar Productions Harcourt Brace Harpo Productions Harvard Community Health HBO Hitachi Media Pro IBM Interactive Illinois State University Image Bank Intrepid Pictures IPM/Time Warner Kansas City Star Kraft General Foods Life Magazine Lockheed Martin Corp Loyola College Mark Gordon Company Martha Stewart Living Matlock & Assoc obo Dell McDonald’s/Burrell McDougal Littell McGraw Hill Michael Jackson Microsoft Miller Brewing Company MTV Nashville Symphony National Geographic Navy NBC Sports News Hour with Jim Lehrer NFL Nick News Nike Olympics (1996) Oprah Magazine Paisley Park Paramount Pictures Parker Music Group Payless ShoeSource PBS Promo Penguin Books – Calendar Pepsi Philadelphia Tribune Phillip Morris USA Putnam/Riverhead Books Prentice Hall Radio One Boston Radisson Carlson Company Readers Digest Red Lobster Reuters TV Rhino Records Rich’s Department Store Scholastic Network/ I Had A Dream Showtime Simon and Schuster Smithsonian Institute Smithsonian Japanese Festival Exhibit SMU Sony BMG Sony Music Sony Pictures Classics Soundworks International Southern Bell Southern Scholarship Foundation Starwood Hotels State Farm TAFT Target Texas A&M The Economist The History Channel Time Broadcasting Systems Time-Warner Today Show Touchstone Pictures Toyota Turner Broadcasting Turner Sports TV Land U.S. Information Service U.S. Postal Service United Airlines United Negro College Fund United States Postal Service Universal Music Group Universal Pictures Universal Studios Universal Television University of Arizona University of California Berkeley University of Michigan University of Minnesota University of Missouri USA Today Valparaiso University VH1 Vibe Warner Brothers Wayne State Young and Rubica