Peter Antico

Pete brings a rare crossover between Hollywood and Wall Street, drawing on a family background steeped in finance and law to bring authenticity to the financial world on screen. Rather than pursuing the career in finance that much of his family followed, Pete chose the film business — but that grounding in markets and economics has become a recurring thread throughout his work.

He is the Founder and President of Ethical Media Group, a production company applying blockchain technology to tokenize content ownership in entertainment. 

Pete wrote and directed The Paradigm of Money, a 2022 documentary co-produced with Sean Stone that examines Wall Street corruption and the transfer of wealth during the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on interviews with financial experts across the spectrum. 

In 2017, he also ran for SAG-AFTRA National President on a platform of financial transparency, raising concerns about how the union’s pension fund and finances had been handled. 

His most notable expression of this was on Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, where Pete didn’t just act — he consulted on the production, lending his economic knowledge to help shape the film’s portrayal of high finance, before stepping in front of the camera himself to play a hedge fund manager.

Beyond that project, Pete has built a career as an actor, producer, writer and director across major studio films including The Hunt for Red October, Con Air, Lethal Weapon III and The Other Guys, and has produced documentary work exploring the psychological and human stories behind extraordinary achievement.