Good Universe is an independent full-service motion picture financing, production and global sales company with the infrastructure and resources to develop, package, produce and fully finance its movies. The Company, founded by longtime partners Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane in the spring of 2012, finances and produces multi-quadrant properties with true franchise potential and focuses on the kind of movies that defined their predecessor company Mandate Pictures â€" singular, original voices with universal stories to tell such as Juno, the Harold & Kumar series, 50/50, and Hope Springs. Future franchises at Good Universe will be modeled on Drake's franchise-building strategy while President of the Motion Picture group at Lionsgate, which resulted in The Expendables and global box-office juggernaut The Hunger Games. Good Universe has a growing feature slate which includes a remake of the internationally acclaimed South Korean film Oldboy, to be directed by Spike Lee starring Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen and Sharlto Copley and the comedy Last Vegas with partners CBS Films which features an all-star cast including Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Kevin Kline, and Morgan Freeman.