Matthew Helderman

Born: 1987-07-25

Known For: Production

Biography

Matthew Helderman is the CEO and co-founder of BondIt Media Capital and Buffalo 8. Helderman founded Buffalo 8 in 2010, while an undergrad student at Lake Forest College. Buffalo 8 has since premiered projects at Sundance, SXSW, and Berlin, as well as producing the Netflix original film "Rodney King" directed by Spike Lee and the global Netflix hit "Conversations With a Killer: Jeffrey Dahmer" directed by Emmy winner Joe Berlinger. In 2013, he co-founded BondIt Media Capital and has led BondIt in the deployment of over $250M of capital in over 400+ film, television, and media opportunities, while raising $30M of equity and debt for a partial sale to public traded Accord Financial (TSX: ACD) in addition to expanding the company's credit facility to $75M in 2020 with Texas based hedge fund Revere Capital. BondIt projects include Oscar nominated Loving Vincent, the Roland Emerich directed war epic Midway, the Indie Spirit winner The Peanut Butter Falcon, and projects Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Nicolas Cage, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Liam Neeson, Mel Gibson, Kevin James, Morgan Freeman, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Smith, and Samuel L. Jackson resulting in over $500M+ of worldwide box office performances. Helderman also co-managed the acquisition of 30-year-old entertainment payroll firm, ABS Payroll in 2017 and today serves as an Executive Director, Partner, and Board Member having overseen the sale of the business to largest PEO provider in the United States, Vensure Employer Services. Helderman graduated from Lake Forest College with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, has been a featured TED speaker, profiled in the New York Times, and is a member of YPO.

Filmography

2026

Protector ... (Executive Producer)
This Is Not a Test ... (Executive Producer)
Vanished ... (Co-Producer)
Giant ... (Executive Producer)
Night Patrol ... (Executive Producer)
Lucky Strike ... (Executive Producer)
PH-1 ... (Executive Producer)
The Florist ... (Executive Producer)
The Cycle ... (Executive Producer)
Dead Howling ... (Executive Producer)
Moments of Youth ... (Executive Producer)
Blue Skies on Mars ... (Executive Producer)
Watchful Eyes ... (Executive Producer)
Christmas at the Kringles ... (Executive Producer)
Tube-E Movie ... (Executive Producer)

2025

Hunting Season ... (Executive Producer)
Driver's Ed ... (Executive Producer)
Exit Protocol ... (Executive Producer)
Thieves Highway ... (Executive Producer)
Guns Up ... (Executive Producer)
Off the Grid ... (Executive Producer)
The Ritual ... (Executive Producer)
Locked ... (Executive Producer)
Silent Night, Deadly Night ... (Executive Producer)
Diablo ... (Executive Producer)
Alarum ... (Executive Producer)
Killing Faith ... (Executive Producer)
Intruder ... (Executive Producer)
Fog of War ... (Executive Producer)
Bob Trevino Likes It ... (Executive Producer)
Darkness of Man ... (Executive Producer)
The Installation ... (Executive Producer)
Queendom Come ... (Executive Producer)
The Book of Raven ... (Executive Producer)
Lilly ... (Executive Producer)
No Country for Old People ... (Executive Producer)
Jujji ... (Executive Producer)
Mind. Body. Money. ... (Executive Producer)
Beggarman ... (Executive Producer)
Barren ... (Executive Producer)
Final Recovery ... (Executive Producer)
The Madness of David Judge ... (Executive Producer)
Fall Is a Good Time to Die ... (Executive Producer)
Shakti ... (Executive Producer)
Appalachian Dog ... (Executive Producer)
Dig Me No Grave ... (Executive Producer)
Ocean's View ... (Executive Producer)

2024

Terrifier 3 ... (Executive Producer)
Succubus ... (Executive Producer)
Woman of the Hour ... (Executive Producer)
Armor ... (Executive Producer)
Cash Out ... (Executive Producer)
The Message ... (Executive Producer)
Rust ... (Executive Producer)
Damaged ... (Executive Producer)
Midas Man ... (Co-Executive Producer)
Cult Killer ... (Executive Producer)
Parachute ... (Executive Producer)
Agent Recon ... (Executive Producer)
Parallel ... (Executive Producer)
Scrambled ... (Executive Producer)
Blood for Dust ... (Executive Producer)
Bau, Artist at War ... (Executive Producer)
The Girl in the Pool ... (Executive Producer)
White Crow ... (Executive Producer)
One Night in Tokyo ... (Executive Producer)
The Fall ... (Executive Producer)
Dil Rakh: Gloves of Kin ... (Executive Producer)
Luto ... (Executive Producer)
Dandelion ... (Executive Producer)
Quantum Suicide ... (Executive Producer)
Finger Laced Crown ... (Executive Producer)
Bad Things ... (Executive Producer)
Dawn Dusk ... (Executive Producer)

2023

Mob Land ... (Executive Producer)
Due Justice ... (Executive Producer)
One Ranger ... (Executive Producer)
97 Minutes ... (Executive Producer)
Fear the Night ... (Executive Producer)
Confidential Informant ... (Executive Producer)
Underdeveloped ... (Executive Producer)
Til Death Do Us Part ... (Executive Producer)
Sheroes ... (Executive Producer)
Aporia ... (Executive Producer)
The Donor Party ... (Executive Producer)
S.T.I.F.F. ... (Executive Producer)
How to Ruin the Holidays ... (Executive Producer)
The Christmas Classic ... (Executive Producer)
Benji's Hour ... (Executive Producer)
Perfectly Good Moment ... (Executive Producer)
The Problem of the Hero ... (Executive Producer)
Snorkeling ... (Executive Producer)
American Cherry ... (Executive Producer)
The Hive ... (Executive Producer)
Nico ... (Executive Producer)
Psychosis ... (Executive Producer)

2022

Clerks III ... (Executive Producer)
Mindcage ... (Executive Producer)
On the Line ... (Executive Producer)
Paradise City ... (Executive Producer)
Hot Seat ... (Executive Producer)
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes ... (Executive Producer)
Wrong Place ... (Executive Producer)
Dual ... (Executive Producer)
The Commando ... (Executive Producer)
High Heat ... (Executive Producer)
Gasoline Alley ... (Executive Producer)
Blowback ... (Executive Producer)
Panama ... (Executive Producer)
American Siege ... (Executive Producer)
Book of Love ... (Executive Producer)
Slayers ... (Executive Producer)
As They Made Us ... (Executive Producer)
Dig ... (Executive Producer)
Safe Room ... (Executive Producer)
Tenkiller ... (Executive Producer)
Immediate Family ... (Executive Producer)
First Time Caller ... (Executive Producer)
Free Dead or Alive ... (Executive Producer)

2021

The Fallout ... (Executive Producer)
Midnight in the Switchgrass ... (Executive Producer)
Apex ... (Executive Producer)
Out of Death ... (Executive Producer)
Cosmic Sin ... (Executive Producer)
Ida Red ... (Executive Producer)
Redemption Day ... (Executive Producer)
Survive the Game ... (Executive Producer)
Deadlock ... (Executive Producer)
Castle Falls ... (Executive Producer)
Body Brokers ... (Executive Producer)
The Reckoning ... (Executive Producer)
Rogue Hostage ... (Executive Producer)
National Champions ... (Executive Producer)
Fatal Frenemies ... (Executive Producer)
Deadly Radio Romance ... (Executive Producer)
Intervention ... (Executive Producer)
A Space in Time ... (Co-Executive Producer)

2020

Becky ... (Executive Producer)
Hard Kill ... (Executive Producer)
Hooking Up ... (Executive Producer)
Terror Lake Drive ... (Executive Producer)
Becoming ... (Co-Executive Producer)
I Used to Go Here ... (Executive Producer)
The Pale Door ... (Executive Producer)
The Horror Crowd ... (Executive Producer)
Revenge for Daddy ... (Executive Producer)
Intensive Care ... (Executive Producer)

2019

Crown Vic ... (Executive Producer)
Beyond the Law ... (Executive Producer)
Trauma Center ... (Executive Producer)
Above the Shadows ... (Executive Producer)
Sometimes Always Never ... (Executive Producer)
3022 ... (Executive Producer)
Fisherman's Friends ... (Executive Producer)
Driven ... (Executive Producer)
Crypto ... (Co-Executive Producer)
Zombie Tidal Wave ... (Co-Executive Producer)
Awake ... (Executive Producer)
The Final Wish ... (Executive Producer)
The Aspern Papers ... (Executive Producer)
Teacher ... (Producer)
Doctor Death ... (Executive Producer)
Run with the Hunted ... (Executive Producer)
After Class ... (Executive Producer)
The Weekend ... (Co-Executive Producer)
In Bed with a Killer ... (Executive Producer)
A Girl from Mogadishu ... (Executive Producer)
DeadTectives ... (Executive Producer)
Your Family or Your Life ... (Executive Producer)

2018

Black Water ... (Executive Producer)
Bel Canto ... (Co-Executive Producer)
All the Devil's Men ... (Executive Producer)
Bronx SIU ... (Executive Producer)
Patrick ... (Executive Producer)
Welcome the Stranger ... (Executive Producer)
A Night to Regret ... (Executive Producer)

2017

Shock and Awe ... (Executive Producer)
An Imperfect Murder ... (Co-Executive Producer)
American Violence ... (Executive Producer)
A Mother's Sacrifice ... (Executive Producer)
Rodney King ... (Executive Producer)

2016

31 ... (Executive Producer)
Little Men ... (Executive Producer)
Rupture ... (Executive Producer)
The Journey Is the Destination ... (Executive Producer)
Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero ... (Supervising Producer)
On Wings of Eagles ... (Executive Producer)
Isolation ... (Executive Producer)

2015

Rehearsal ... (Executive Producer)

2014

The Incredible Adventure of Jojo (And His Annoying Little Sister Avila) ... (Supervising Producer)

2011

The Alumni Chapter ... (Writer)