
From: HDHale@aol.com
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:12:01 -0400
Subject: Sweetpea Entertainment

Andy Lilly writes:
>I'm a bit behind on TMLs, so if anyone else has answered 
>this in the meantime, please forgive me.
>
>The primary backers for Imperium Games are Sweet Pea 
>Entertainments (hope I've got the name right), based in 
>California. This is why IG invoices have suddenly started 
>having California addresses on them.

THE FOLLOWING IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY
DO NOT HARASS ANYONE OR THE RESULTING BAD KARMA
WILL CAUSE A VALUABLE APPENDAGE TO DROP OFF YOUR
BODY

(sorry for shouting--some people are hard of hearing)

D&B Business Information Report
(c) 1996 Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.  All rts. reserv.

Sweetpea Entertainment, Inc
211 S Beverly Dr Ste 208
Beverly Hills, CA  90212-3828

TELEPHONE: 213-876-<CENSORED>
COUNTY: LOS ANGELES     
MSA: 4480  (Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA)
REGION: Pacific

BUSINESS: Film Production Company

PRIMARY SIC:
 7812       Motion picture and video production, nsk
  78120000   Motion picture and video production, nsk

LATEST YEAR ORGANIZED:  1994
STATE OF INCORPORATION:  CA    
DATE OF INCORPORATION: 01/20/1994
ANNUAL SALES REVISION DATE: 01/15/1996

SALES:                       $ 380,000 (US dollars, est.)
EMPLOYEES TOTAL:              4
EMPLOYEES HERE:               4

SALES GROWTH:  NA %  NET WORTH: $             NA
EMPLOYMENT GROWTH:  NA %
NUMBER OF ACCOUNTS: NA

FACILITIES:  Occupies premises in building.
SQUARE FOOTAGE: NA
LOCATION:  Suburban business section on well traveled street.

THIS IS:

    A  SINGLE LOCATION
    A  CORPORATION

DUNS NUMBER:             87-482-9542

CHAIRMAN:          Benitz, John  /Co-Pres-Co-Chm
                            Solomon, Courtney S  /Co-Pres-Co-Chm
PRESIDENT:         Solomon, Courtney S  /Co-Pres-Co-Chm
                            Benitz, John  /Co-Pres-Co-Chm

HISTORY

   Business started 1994 by the officers.  50% of capital stock 
is owned by Courtney S Solomon.  50% of capital stock is 
owned by John Benitz.

   Courtney S. Solomon born 1970.  1991-present active here.

   John Benitz born 1960.  1991-present active here.  1985-91
employed by Prudential Bache Securities Asia Pacific, Hong Kong.

OTHER SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION

   There is a TSR connection.  Sweetpea Entertainment owns the 
rights to the screenplay of "Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie".
Since Ken Whitman (and others at IG) are former TSR employees,
this might explain how they came together originally.

   Here is what I found about the movie, from a FAQ file on the Internet:

     "The movie & merchandizing rights to a Dungeons & Dragons movie have
    been bought by Sweetpea Entertainment.  They are aiming at a 
    production cost of $50 million and a release date somewhere around
    Christmas of 1996 or summer of 1997.  The movie will be a combination 
    of live action and computer animation.  Stan Winston, the man
    behind the digital effects in _Terminator II_ and _Jurassic Park_,
    has been brought in to aid Sweetpea with the movie.  The script, 
    which was written by Topper Lilien and Carrol Cartwright and is 
    apparently not based on a specific TSR product, involves an 
    inexperienced sorceress and a quick-witted rogue who are on a quest 
    to find an artifact which could control gold dragons and to keep 
    said artifact out of the hands of the villain, who happens to be a 
    wizard.  Stay tuned to rgfd for any further announcements about this 
    movie."

   This implies that while the information from D&B I found on Sweetpea 
shows only has four employees, that number may not reflect private
contractors or temporary employees brought in to work on the production
of the film.

FINAL ANALYSIS

   Sweetpea Entertainment is a small, private corporation that was 
founded less than three years ago and is involved primarily in the film 
industry.  As such, it is difficult (but apparently not totally impossible)
to find out information about them.

   How they came about funding the resurrection of Traveller 
would I'm sure make an interesting story, should Mr. Solomon and/or 
Mr. Benitz like to tell us about it some day.  At this point we can only
speculate as to why.

   I welcome any comments from the gallery....

Regards,

Harold

