Maxime Rémillard

Maxime Rémillard

Birth : 1975-01-17, Greenfield Park, Québec, Canada

History

Maxime Rémillard is a Canadian businessman born on January 17, 1975 in Greenfield Park, Quebec. He is the president of both Remcorp, a leading Canadian private investment firm and Remstar Media, an entertainment and content delivery company. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Ottawa and studying production at the University of Southern California, Rémillard founded Remstar in 1997, a film production and distribution company. Under the Remstar label, he produced notably Denis Villeneuve’s film Polytechnique, which won the Genie Award for Best Canadian Film in 2010, Heads in the Clouds starring Charlize Theron and Mesrine: Killer Instinct starring Vincent Cassel. As a distributor, he acquired the rights for Dallas Buyers Club by Jean-Marc Vallée and Barry Jenkin’s Moonlight, which won the Oscar for Best Film in 2017. Over the years, he will put his influence and his ideas at the service of diversification by founding the investment company Remcorp. His company, whose team has cumulatively completed more than three billion dollars in transactions in recent years, is increasing investments with well-established companies in a wide range of sectors including technology, transportation services, real estate and agro-technology. Remcorp also works in the media industry with its company Remstar Media, owner of the specialty channels MAX and ELLE Fictions. Rémillard serves on the board of directors of the Fondation du Musée Pointe-à-Callière. For four years, he has partnered with the Mira Foundation. His family helped create the Yosh Taguchi Chair for Urological Cancer Research at McGill University. The Rémillard family also supports and sponsors Centraide, the Jewish General Hospital Foundation and La Maison des Petits Tournesols. Rémillard was in a relationship with actress Karine Vanasse from 2006 to 2014. Source: Article "Maxime Rémillard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Profile

Maxime Rémillard

Movies

Replicas
Executive Producer
A scientist becomes obsessed with returning his family to normalcy after a terrible accident.
Ideal Home
Producer
A couple is going through marital troubles made worse when a previously unknown grandson shows up.
Hidden 3D
Executive Producer
Brian's mother dies and is surprised when he inherit's The Sanctuary, her controversial experimental treatment center for addictions. When he and his friends are shown around the dilapidated building by a mysterious employee, it is clear that there is a sinister mood. Despite this the group enters a secret underground passage and the terrible reality is revealed. Brian's mother had built a revolutionary machine that cured people of their addiction, but as a side effect to materialize the addictions in a mutated form of children who are addicted to human flesh which have moved into the building.
Polytechnique
Producer
A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.
Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
Producer
The story of Jacques Mesrine, France's public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris.
Battle in Seattle
Producer
Thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 (World Trade Organization). Although it began as a peaceful protest with a goal of stopping the WTO talks, it escalated into a full-scale riot and eventually, a State of Emergency that pitted protesters against the Seattle Police Department and the National Guard.
An American Haunting
Executive Producer
Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
Head in the Clouds
Producer
Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated.
No Good Deed
Producer
While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.