Details: Last year's Margin Call, the Oscar-nominated drama about the 2008 financial meltdown, was the first project developed by Before the Door—one of a new wave of production houses designed to curb Hollywood's habit of chewing up and spitting out emerging talent. And it offers a nice bit of symmetry: After all, it was the movie industry's own too-big-to-fail practices that made ambitious, tightly knit creative partnerships like theirs possible. "We arrived at the moment when studios started making fewer movies, but there were these new platforms to watch them on," says Neal Dodson, who founded the company in 2008 with fellow Carnegie Mellon theater geeks Corey Moosa and Zachary Quinto. "People didn't know how to make them at the right price, and we pretended that we did until we actually did."
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