Charlie Lyons is a producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 and financier

Financier

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 of major motion pictures. He is the Managing Partner of Holding Pictures and was previously CEO of Beacon Pictures (then a division of Holding Pictures).

These enterprises have generated over two billion dollars of film revenue

Revenue

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s, with libraries of over 30 movies. Holding's films include The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, Open Range

Open Range

Open Range is a 2003 American Western film co-starring, co-produced, and directed by Kevin Costner, based on the novel The Open Range Men by Lauran Paine. Starring alongside Costner are Robert Duvall, Annette Bening, and Michael Gambon....

, The Guardian

The Guardian (2006 film)

The Guardian is a 2006 action-adventure drama film starring Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, and Melissa Sagemiller. The film was released on September 29, 2006, and was directed by Andrew Davis, director of The Fugitive...

, Firewall

Firewall (film)

Firewall is a 2006 British-American thriller film directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Joe Forte. Harrison Ford stars as Jack Stanfield, a security expert at a bank faced with a corporate merger and the offer of a new job.-Plot:...

, Ladder 49

Ladder 49

Ladder 49 is a 2004 film about the heroics of a Baltimore fireman Jack Morrison, who is trapped inside a warehouse fire and his recollection of the events that got him to that point. The movie is a celebration of the firefighting profession and the life that comes with it...

, Raising Helen

Raising Helen

Raising Helen is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed by Garry Marshall and written by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler. It stars Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack, Hayden Panettiere, Spencer and his sister Abigail Breslin and Helen Mirren...

, A Lot Like Love

A Lot Like Love

A Lot Like Love is a 2005 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Nigel Cole. The screenplay by Colin Patrick Lynch focuses on two individuals whose relationship slowly evolves from lust to friendship to romance over the course of seven years...

 and PU-239

Pu-239 (film)

PU-239 is a 2007 film directed by Hollywood producer Scott Z. Burns based on the book PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies written by Ken Kalfus....

. Beacon's library includes The Hurricane

The Hurricane (1999 film)

The Hurricane is a 1999 biographical film directed by Norman Jewison, and starring Denzel Washington. The script was adapted by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon from the books Lazarus and the Hurricane by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton and The Sixteenth Round by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter.The film...

, Air Force One

Air Force One (film)

Air Force One is a 1997 American action-thriller film written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It stars Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and Glenn Close, and also features Xander Berkeley, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell and Paul Guilfoyle...

, The Family Man

The Family Man

The Family Man is a 2000 drama film directed by Brett Ratner and starring Nicolas Cage and Téa Leoni. Cage's production company, Saturn Films, helped produce the film....

, Spy Game

Spy Game

Spy Game is a 2001 American spy film directed by Tony Scott and starring Robert Redford and Brad Pitt. The film grossed $62,362,785 in the United States and $143,049,560 worldwide.-Plot:...

, For Love of the Game

For Love of the Game (film)

For Love of the Game is a 1999 American drama sports film based on the novel of the same title by Michael Shaara...

 and Thirteen Days

Thirteen Days (film)

Thirteen Days is a 2000 docudrama directed by Roger Donaldson about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, seen from the perspective of the US political leadership. Kevin Costner stars, with Bruce Greenwood featured as John F. Kennedy....

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Lyons also executive produces and manages the Bring It On

Bring It On (film)

Bring It On is a 2000 teen comedy film about two competing high school cheerleading squads, starring Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford, and Gabrielle Union...

 franchise for Beacon Communications

Beacon Communications

Beacon Pictures is the name of an American production company co-founded in 1990 by Armyan Bernstein...

 where he is a partner. Lyons is a presenter of Bring It On The Musical which premiered at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, and opens its national tour at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles on November 11, 2011. The show then tours on the road in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Fayetteville, Dallas, Des Moines, Chicago, St. Louis, Charlotte, Durham, Providence and Toronto, with more cities to come.

Lyons is also Founder and past Chairman of the Ascent Entertainment Group Inc., a global media enterprise, which was purchased by Liberty Media

Liberty Media

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 Group in 2000. Ascent owned and operated Beacon Pictures, On Command Corporation (largest worldwide hotel cable and satellite company), Ascent Network Services (broadcast provider for NBC

NBC

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), the NBA

National Basketball Association

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 Denver Nuggets

Denver Nuggets

The Denver Nuggets are a professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado. They play in the National Basketball Association . They were founded as the Denver Rockets in 1967 as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association, and became one of that league's more successful teams...

 and the NHL

National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...

 Colorado Avalanche

Colorado Avalanche

The Colorado Avalanche are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver, Colorado, United States. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The Avalanche have won the Stanley Cup twice, in 1995–96 and 2000–01. The franchise...

 (1996 and 2001 Stanley Cup

Stanley Cup

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 Champions). It developed and financed the Pepsi Center

Pepsi Center

Pepsi Center is a multi-purpose arena in Denver, Colorado, United States. The building is home to the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association, the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League, and the Colorado Mammoth of the National Lacrosse League...

, a $200 million sports and entertainment facility in downtown Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

, and co-founded Colorado Studios, a Colorado

Colorado

Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

-based production company

Production company

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Lyons began his career as a staff aide to Vice President of the United States

Vice President of the United States

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 Nelson A. Rockefeller, and went on to assist the Hon. William D. Rogers

William D. Rogers

William Dill Rogers was an American lawyer. He served as U.S...

 in finalizing the Panama Canal Treaty. He has served on corporate and charitable boards, including the NBA, NHL, WNBA

Women's National Basketball Association

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, National Jewish Hospital and Gallaudet University

Gallaudet University

Gallaudet University is a federally-chartered university for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing, located in the District of Columbia, U.S...

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