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Apple Studios (production Company)
Apple Studios is an American film and television production company and a distributor that is a subsidiary of Apple Inc. It specializes in developing and producing television series and films for Apple's digital video streaming service Apple TV+. History In October 2019, ''The Hollywood Reporter'' reported that Apple Inc. was launching its own production company, overseen by Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht, to produce original television and film content for Apple TV+ Apple TV is a digital media player and microconsole developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is a small network appliance hardware that plays received media data such as video and audio to a television set or external display. Since its secon .... Productions Film Television References {{Apple Inc. Apple Inc. subsidiaries Apple TV+ Film production companies of the United States Television production companies of the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company. Two or more subsidiaries that either belong to the same parent company or having a same management being substantially controlled by same entity/group are called sister companies. The subsidiary can be a company (usually with limited liability) and may be a government- or state-owned enterprise. They are a common feature of modern business life, and most multinational corporations organize their operations in this way. Examples of holding companies are Berkshire Hathaway, Jefferies Financial Group, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, or Citigroup; as well as more focused companies such as IBM, Xerox, and Microsoft. These, and others, organize their businesses into national and functional subsidiaries, often with multiple levels of subsidiaries. Details Subsidiaries are separate, distinct legal entities f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legendary Entertainment
Legendary Pictures Productions, LLC (doing business as Legendary Entertainment or simply Legendary) is an American film production and mass media company based in Burbank, California, founded by Thomas Tull in 2000. The company has collaborated with the likes of Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures and Netflix. Since 2016, Legendary has been a subsidiary of the multinational Wanda Group and Apollo. History Thomas Tull founded Legendary Entertainment after raising $500 million from private equity firms. It was one of the first companies of its kind to pair major motion picture production with major Wall Street private equity and hedge fund investors, including ABRY Partners, AIG Direct Investments, Bank of America Capital Investors, Columbia Capital, Falcon Investment Advisors, and M/C Venture Partners. Legendary Pictures, Inc. was incorporated in California in 2000 and in 2005 it signed an agreement with Warner Bros. to co-produce and co-finan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WeCrashed
''WeCrashed'' is an American drama streaming television miniseries that premiered on Apple TV+ on March 18, 2022. The series stars Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway as Adam and Rebekah Neumann, the real-life married couple at the heart of WeWork, a coworking space company whose valuation reached $47 billion in 2019 before crashing as a result of financial revelations. The series is based on the podcast ''WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork'' by Wondery. Cast and characters Main * Jared Leto as Adam Neumann, co-founder of WeWork * Anne Hathaway as Rebekah Neumann, Adam's wife Recurring * Kyle Marvin as Miguel McKelvey, co-founder of WeWork * Kelly AuCoin as Scott Galloway * Steven Boyer as Matthew * Cricket Brown as Chloe Morgan * Andrew Burnap as Phil * Anthony Edwards as Bruce Dunlevie * O. T. Fagbenle as Cameron Lautner * America Ferrera as Elishia Kennedy * Asmeret Ghebremichael as Renee * Peter Jacobson as Bob Paltrow * Kim Eui-sung as Masayoshi Son * Campbell Scott as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey
''The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey'' is an American drama streaming television limited series created by Walter Mosley for Apple TV+. Based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Mosley, the series stars Samuel L. Jackson, Dominique Fishback, Cynthia McWilliams, Damon Gupton, and Marsha Stephanie Blake. It premiered on March 11, 2022, and concluded on April 8, 2022, consisting of six episodes. The series received seven Black Reel Award nominations, winning four, including Outstanding Television Movie or Limited Series. It also received six NAACP Image Award nominations, while Jackson and Fishback were both nominated for Critics' Choice Awards for their performances. Premise A lonely 91-year-old man with dementia is temporarily able to remember his past and uses the time to investigate the death of his nephew. Cast Main *Samuel L. Jackson as Ptolemy Grey *Dominique Fishback as Robyn *Cynthia Kaye McWilliams as Sensia *Damon Gupton as Coydog *Marsha Stephanie Blake as Niecie *Walto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Hour Productions
Red Hour Productions or Red Hour Films is an American film production company operated by actor Ben Stiller and formerly with producer Stuart Cornfeld. In the past, Red Hour has had first-look deals with New Line Cinema, and currently has an exclusive first-look feature deal with 20th Century Studios. History Film The name was derived from a 1967 ''Star Trek'' episode, "The Return of the Archons", which features a scheduled alien riot. The first film produced by Red Hour was the 2001 comedy film ''Zoolander'', based on the male model character Stiller co-created with Drake Sather for the VH1 Fashion Awards. Stiller co-wrote the screenplay with John Hamburg and directed the film. Red Hour Films also produced '' DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story'', starring Stiller and Vince Vaughn; '' Starsky and Hutch'', starring Stiller and Owen Wilson; ''Blades of Glory'', starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder; and ''Tropic Thunder'', starring Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey, Jr. ''Tropic T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Samberg
Andy Samberg (born David A. J. Samberg; August 18, 1978) is an American actor, comedian, musician, producer and screenwriter. He is a member of the comedy music group The Lonely Island and was a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'' from 2005 to 2012, where he and his fellow group members are credited with popularizing the ''SNL'' Digital Shorts. Samberg has starred in several films, including '' Hot Rod'' (2007), ''I Love You, Man'' (2009), '' That's My Boy'' (2012), ''Celeste and Jesse Forever'' (2012), '' Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping'' (2016), and ''Palm Springs'' (2020). Samberg has also lead voice roles in ''Space Chimps'' (2008), the ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'' film series (2009–2013), the ''Hotel Transylvania'' film series (2012–2022), ''Storks'' (2016), '' America: The Motion Picture'' (2021), and '' Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers'' (2022). From 2013 to 2021, he starred as Jake Peralta in the Fox, and later NBC, police sitcom '' Brooklyn Nine-Nine' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boom! Studios
Boom! Studios (styled BOOM! Studios) is an American comic book and graphic novel publisher, headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States. History Origins In the early 2000s, Ross Richie and Andrew Cosby had been working in Hollywood, helping to option comic book projects as producers and working to develop them into films with the studios, but were getting increasingly frustrated with the process. Richie planned to start Boom! to get away from Hollywood. Before Boom!, Richie and Cosby worked briefly with Dave Elliott and Garry Leach in 2004 to revive 1980s comic book publishing house Atomeka Press. While working with Atomeka, Richie cut a deal with Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis to publish their series ''Hero Squared,'' with the ''Hero Squared X-Tra Sized Special'' one-shot. When Giffen was featured as a guest at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention, he grabbed a drink with Richie after the show and persuaded him to part ways with Atomeka P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Free Productions
Scott Free Productions is an independent film and television production company founded in 1970 by filmmakers and brothers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott. They formed the feature film development company Percy Main Productions in 1980, naming the company after the English village Percy Main, where their father grew up. The company was renamed Scott Free Productions in 1995. Scott Free has produced films ranging from the 2000 Hollywood blockbuster ''Gladiator'' (2000) to "smaller pictures" like '' Cracks'' (2009). Between the productions of '' White Squall'' (1996) and '' G.I. Jane'' (1997), Ridley Scott reorganised the company. Scott Free Productions has offices in London and Los Angeles. It works with Ridley Scott's larger company RSA Films by assisting directors in film and television. History On July 1, 1992, Percy Main Productions signed a production deal with Paramount Pictures to produce its feature films. On December 6, 1993, two separate production companies Tony Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoleon (2023 Film)
''Napoleon'' is an upcoming Epic film, epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by David Scarpa. It stars Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon and depicts the French leader's rise to power. The film is scheduled to be released on Apple TV+. Premise The film depicts Napoleon's rise to power through the lens of his addictive and volatile relationship with Empress Joséphine. Cast * Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte * Vanessa Kirby as Empress Joséphine * Tahar Rahim as Paul Barras * Ben Miles as Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, Caulaincourt * Ludivine Sagnier as Thérésa Tallien, Theresa Cabarrus * Matthew Needham as Lucien Bonaparte * Youssef Kerkour as Louis-Nicolas Davout, General Davout * Phil Cornwell as Charles-Henri Sanson, Sanson 'The Bourreau' * Edouard Philipponnat as Alexander I of Russia, Tsar Alexander * Ian McNeice * Paul Rhys as Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Talleyrand * John Hollingworth (actor), John H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldest film studio in the world, the second-oldest film studio in the United States (behind Universal Pictures), and the sole member of the Major film studio, "Big Five" film studios located within the city limits of Los Angeles. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor put 24 actors and actresses under contract and honored each with a star on the logo. In 1967, the number of stars was reduced to 22 and their hidden meaning was dropped. In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. The company's headquarters and studios are located at 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, Motion Picture Associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killers Of The Flower Moon (film)
''Killers of the Flower Moon'' is an upcoming American Western crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and with a screenplay by Eric Roth and Scorsese, based on the best-selling 2017 non-fiction book '' Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI'' by David Grann, which is based on the series of 1920s Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation committed after oil was discovered on tribal land. Leonardo DiCaprio, who also serves as producer, stars alongside Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lily Gladstone, and Brendan Fraser. The film marks the seventh collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio as well as the eleventh collaboration between Scorsese and De Niro. The film is produced by Scorsese's Sikelia Productions and DiCaprio's Appian Way Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures and Apple TV+. The $200 million budget is reportedly the largest amount ever spent on a film shot in Oklahoma. Premise Members of the Osage tribe in northeastern O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skydance Media
Skydance Media, LLC (formerly known as Skydance Productions) is an American production company based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by David Ellison in 2006, the company entered a five-year partnership to co-produce and co-finance films with Paramount Pictures starting in 2009, and renewed the agreement twice extending to 2021. The company specializes in films, animation, television, and video games. History Skydance Productions was formed in 2006 by David Ellison. The firm's first film was '' Flyboys'' in 2006, starring Ellison and co-financed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the fall of 2009, Skydance and Paramount Pictures signed a five-year co-financing, production and distribution agreement, with Paramount holding the additional option of distribution. Before August 2010, Skydance hired Dana Goldberg, formerly of Village Roadshow Pictures, to oversee development and production. In August 2010, with the Paramount partnership and an equity investment by Ellison's father and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
