"John Sloss" (born 1956) is an entertainment lawyer and film sales agent, who has executive produced over 50 films including the Academy Award-winning The Fog of War and Boys Don't Cry (film)/Boys Don't Cry. Other credits include Bernie (2011 film)/Bernie, City of Hope (film)/City of Hope, Friends with Kids, A Scanner Darkly, Far From Heaven, and Before Sunrise.

Through his companies Sloss Eckhouse LawCo and Cinetic Media, he has facilitated the sale and/or financing of films such as Lee Daniels' Precious (film)/Precious, Napoleon Dynamite, The Kids Are All Right (film)/The Kids Are All Right, Little Miss Sunshine, and Super Size Me.

Filmmakers he has worked with include Richard Linklater, Kevin Smith, Whit Stillman, Todd Haynes, Brad Anderson (director)/Brad Anderson and Justin Lin.

In 2009, Sloss co-founded FilmBuff, a digital distribution company. In 2010, he co-founded Producers Distribution Agency which has released the films Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop, Senna (film)/Senna, The Way (film)/The Way, and Brooklyn Castle. Sloss has also served as an adjunct professor in the Graduate film program at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

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Two months before Sundance, I felt that if properly handled, ( Sunshine ) will make $30 million to $40 million, and I stand by that.

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It was a complicated deal. We knew the film was going to play, so we spent a lot of time designing the deal even before we came out here.

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