American Movie Company
American Movie Company is a New York–based film production and equipment services company founded in 1996 by film and television producer and director Bill Milling. Its subsidiary Teleprompter Rental rents teleprompters with operators, including the presidential teleprompters used at political rallies and large events, in more than 50 cities in North America; the company also offers video production, XR virtual production, LED studios and webcasting.
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Key facts
1996Founded by Bill Milling
American Movie Company was established in 1996 by Bill Milling, a film and television producer and director who had produced NBCNBCNBC (National Broadcasting Company) is an American national commercial broadcast television network. It was founded by RCA in 1926, began as a radio network and later developed television. With ABC and CBS it is one of the three traditional U.S. broadcast networks; it passed to General Electric with RCA in 1986, merged with Universal to form NBCUniversal in 2004, has been controlled by Comcast since 2011, and is one of the five networks that rotate in the White House television pool.Open the full entry's Unicorn Tales and served as president of Sigmax, Inc. The company says it was founded to make high-quality film production available to producers at a reasonable price.[1][2]
Teleprompter Rental
Teleprompter Rental (TeleprompterRental.com) is a subsidiary of American Movie Company that rents teleprompters with operators, including standard camera prompters, presidential prompters, daylight prompters, Steadicam prompters, the Interrotron, EyeDirect and confidence monitors. Centered on New York City, it serves more than 50 media markets in North America, listing cities such as New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Toronto, Vancouver and Mexico City, and flies operators across North America.[1][3][4]
As of November 2026 the company's presidential prompter rental page listed a basic presidential prompter at $1,495 per 10-hour day and a robotic rise-and-fall presidential prompter, whose glass lowers out of frame and rises to preset heights for each speaker, at $1,995; rentals include dual monitors, a distribution amplifier, cables, software, a backup computer with the script preloaded and a trained operator.[3]
Clients: Politicians and Celebrities
On its presidential prompter rental page the company lists past clients including Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey, then–First Lady Michelle Obama, then–Vice President Joe Biden and Jeb Bush, and says its clients also include UN diplomats, national politicians and corporate executives. The client list is the company's own account.[3]
As of November 2026: Current Status
As of November 2026 American Movie Company describes its teleprompter service as the largest in New York City and the United States. Besides teleprompter rental, it offers video and music video production, motion graphics, AI video, XR virtual production (XR Mirage stages, virtual sets, motion capture and volumetric capture), LED wall studios and events, webcasting and studio rentals.[4][2]
Sources
- About Us (opens in a new window)
- INFO | Discover Film Production Excellence — American Movie Company (opens in a new window)
- SPEECH/PRESIDENTIAL PROMPTER RENTALS — American Movie Company (opens in a new window)
- Teleprompter Rental NYC | Presidential, Interrotron & Confidence Monitors — American Movie Company (opens in a new window)