Morgan Creek Entertainment is an American film

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that has released box-office hits including '' Young Guns'', '' Dead Ringers'', '' Major League'', ''

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'', '' Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'', '' The Crush'', '' Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'' and ''

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''. The studio was co-founded in 1988 by James G. Robinson and

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. Robinson leads the company as chairman and CEO. His two sons, Brian Robinson and David C. Robinson, run the day-to-day operations. The company name comes from Roth's favorite film, ''

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''. Morgan Creek generally releases their films through larger studios while retaining the copyrights, and making autonomous decisions on home video and television rights. Their initial slate of films from 1988 to 1990 were released by

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, except for '' Renegades'' and ''

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'' which were released by

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and '' Major League'' which was released by

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, and some home video releases of its early titles going to

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. In 1991, beginning with '' Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'', they shifted their distribution of new films, as well as their previous catalog titles, to

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, where they remained until early 2005. Later that year, beginning with '' Two for the Money'', they released their newer films through Universal, though previous films were still handled in the U.S. by Warner. On July 11, 1997,

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announced that he would leave the studio, and he subsequently went on to start out

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. In 1998, Morgan Creek had a distribution deal with

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to release its product through the Morgan Creek Video and the Morgan Creek DVD labels. On October 8, 1998, Morgan Creek and

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entered into an agreement where Morgan Creek would distribute Franchise's upcoming pictures domestically. On July 2, 2001, Morgan Creek Productions sued Franchise Pictures for allegedly breaching an agreement giving the company the right of first refusal on some films. In October 2014, Morgan Creek sold the international distribution rights and copyrights to their films to

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for $36.75 million. In September 2015, Morgan Creek began negotiating the sale of rights for the remaining territories, though they intend to retain remake and television rights to the ''Ace Ventura'', ''Major League'', ''Young Guns'', and ''Exorcist'' franchises.

List of Morgan Creek films

List of Morgan Creek television series

* '' Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'' (1995–2000) (with

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and

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) * ''

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'' (2016–2017) (with New Neighborhood and

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) * '' The Good Shepherd'' (with

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) * '' Dead Ringers'' (with

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and

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) * ''

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'' * ''Pacific Heights''

References

External links

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Company profile on Yahoo Finance
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