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| Born | Joseph Albert Sonnier IV March 31, 1980 Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Southern California |
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| Years active | 2005–present |
Joseph Albert "Dallas" Sonnier IV (born March 31, 1980) is an American film producer, publisher, and businessman. He is best known as the founder of Cinestate and, from 2018 to 2020, the publisher of Fangoria magazine.[1] He has producing credits on the films Bone Tomahawk (2015), Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017), The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (2018) and Dragged Across Concrete (2019), among others.[2] In 2018, he purchased the rights to Fangoria and relaunched the defunct magazine as a print-only publication; he additionally expanded the Fangoria brand to encompass a publishing and film production company.[3]
Beginning his career as an agent, Sonnier later gravitated towards production, initially founding the California-based Caliber Media with partner Jack Heller. Wanting to bring major film productions to the state of Texas, he returned there in 2016 to found the Dallas-based production company Cinestate.
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- ^ "Dallas-based Cinestate forges its extreme entertainment path far from Hollywood". Dallas News. January 18, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2019.