Charles S. Cohen(II)
- Producer
- Executive
Charles S. Cohen is an American real estate developer, film distributor and producer, and patron of the arts. He is the owner, president and CEO of Cohen Brothers Realty Corporation, a private commercial real estate development and management firm with a portfolio of Class A commercial office buildings and design centers in New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, and South Florida. An attorney by training, Charles S. Cohen grew his family's real estate company and quadrupled the business to 12 million square feet through more than 70 acquisitions and financings, focusing largely on Manhattan office buildings.
Cohen is the Owner and Chairman/CEO of Cohen Media Group, which he formed in 2008 to produce and distribute independent and arthouse films throughout North America. Cohen Media Group is today the largest American distributor of French films in the United States, while its specialty home entertainment label, the Cohen Film Collection, releases restored and remastered editions of classic Hollywood and foreign films on Digital platforms, Blu-ray and DVD. Cohen Media Group has distributed over 60 films, including The Salesman from Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The Company has also acquired the rights to over 800 films, including cinema landmarks from Douglas Fairbanks and Buster Keaton. Most recently, Charles Cohen acquired Merchant Ivory Productions, best known for Howards End and Maurice. Additionally, Cohen Media Group has several feature film and television productions currently in the works. In 2014, Charles S. Cohen took over the reins at one of New York City's most revered movie houses, the historic Quad Cinema in the heart of Greenwich Village. Cohen has spent two years fully refurbishing the existing theater, offering cinema lovers a historic transformation of the Quad Cinema, which was unveiled in Spring 2017.
A long time champion of independent and foreign film, Charles S. Cohen's experience in theater design includes the renovation of New York's AMPAS Academy Theater at Lighthouse International on 59th Street in New York City and the building of the SilverScreen Theater inside the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. Under Cohen's direction, the Quad will continue to show critically acclaimed foreign and independent films, as well as restored titles from The Cohen Film Collection, and repertory films from other leading distributors, in a professionally curated way.
Cohen serves on the board of trustees of the Lighthouse Guild, Real Estate Board of New York, Museum of Art and Design and The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF). He has been honored twice by the Republic of France: In 2014, he received the Ordre National Du Mérite (National Order of Merit) from the French President for his efforts in promoting French cinema and art, and in 2015, he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters).
Cohen is the Owner and Chairman/CEO of Cohen Media Group, which he formed in 2008 to produce and distribute independent and arthouse films throughout North America. Cohen Media Group is today the largest American distributor of French films in the United States, while its specialty home entertainment label, the Cohen Film Collection, releases restored and remastered editions of classic Hollywood and foreign films on Digital platforms, Blu-ray and DVD. Cohen Media Group has distributed over 60 films, including The Salesman from Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The Company has also acquired the rights to over 800 films, including cinema landmarks from Douglas Fairbanks and Buster Keaton. Most recently, Charles Cohen acquired Merchant Ivory Productions, best known for Howards End and Maurice. Additionally, Cohen Media Group has several feature film and television productions currently in the works. In 2014, Charles S. Cohen took over the reins at one of New York City's most revered movie houses, the historic Quad Cinema in the heart of Greenwich Village. Cohen has spent two years fully refurbishing the existing theater, offering cinema lovers a historic transformation of the Quad Cinema, which was unveiled in Spring 2017.
A long time champion of independent and foreign film, Charles S. Cohen's experience in theater design includes the renovation of New York's AMPAS Academy Theater at Lighthouse International on 59th Street in New York City and the building of the SilverScreen Theater inside the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. Under Cohen's direction, the Quad will continue to show critically acclaimed foreign and independent films, as well as restored titles from The Cohen Film Collection, and repertory films from other leading distributors, in a professionally curated way.
Cohen serves on the board of trustees of the Lighthouse Guild, Real Estate Board of New York, Museum of Art and Design and The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF). He has been honored twice by the Republic of France: In 2014, he received the Ordre National Du Mérite (National Order of Merit) from the French President for his efforts in promoting French cinema and art, and in 2015, he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters).