Stampede Entertainment is a film

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founded in the early 90s by producer Nancy Roberts. The original Stampede team consisted of Roberts, screenwriters

Brent Maddock Brent Maddock is an American screenwriter, producer and film director who has worked with S. S. Wilson on several high-profile projects such as ''Short Circuit'' (1986), '' Batteries Not Included'' (1987), '' Tremors'' (1990) and ''Wild Wild Wes ...

and

S. S. Wilson Steven Seth Wilson is an American science fiction screenwriter, and is probably best known for writing (and occasionally directing), with writing partner Brent Maddock Brent Maddock is an American screenwriter, producer and film director who ...

and director

Ron Underwood Ronald Brian Underwood (born November 6, 1953) is an American film and television director, known for directing such films as ''Tremors (1990 film), Tremors'' (1990), ''City Slickers'' (1991), ''Heart and Souls'' (1993),'' and Mighty Joe Young ...

. The partners' previous work includes ''

Short Circuit A short circuit (sometimes abbreviated to short or s/c) is an electrical circuit that allows a current to travel along an unintended path with no or very low electrical impedance. This results in an excessive current flowing through the circuit ...

'' (1986), ''

Batteries Not Included ''Batteries Not Included'' (stylized as ''*batteries not included'') is a 1987 American science fiction comedy film directed by Matthew Robbins about small extraterrestrial living spaceships that save an apartment block under threat from prope ...

'' (1987), ''

Short Circuit 2 ''Short Circuit 2'' is a 1988 American science fiction comedy film, the sequel to the 1986 film ''Short Circuit''. It was directed by Kenneth Johnson and starred Fisher Stevens as Ben Jahveri, Michael McKean as Fred Ritter, Cynthia Gibb as Sandy ...

'' (1988), ''

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'' (1988), '' Tremors'' (1990), and ''

City Slickers ''City Slickers'' is a 1991 American comedy film, directed by Ron Underwood and starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, and Jack Palance, with supporting roles by Patricia Wettig, Helen Slater, and Noble Willingham with Jake Gyllen ...

'' (1991). Stampede Entertainment's first production was ''

Heart and Souls ''Heart and Souls'' is a 1993 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Ron Underwood. The film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Thomas Reilly, a businessman recruited by the souls of four deceased people, his guardian angels from childhood, to h ...

'' (1993), followed by '' Tremors 2: Aftershocks'' (1995), '' Tremors 3: Back to Perfection'' (2001), and '' Tremors 4: The Legend Begins'' (2004). Stampede Entertainment also produced 13 episodes of Tremors the Series for the

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in 2003. Stampede Entertainment also published the online game '' Dirt Dragons'' in 2004, based on their film ''Tremors 4: the Legend Begins''. In 2014, 10 years after Tremors 4's release,

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re-launched the franchise with a sequel, Tremors 5: Bloodlines. Although Stampede Entertainment expressed interest in working on the project (which was very loosely based on their previous script pitch for a fifth film which was to be set in Australia), they were offered no effective creative control over the film's story or direction, and thus declined to be credited as Executive Producers. Additionally, a second Tremors television series was put into development by

Blumhouse Productions Blumhouse Productions (; also known as BH Productions or simply BH) is an American film and television production company founded in 2000 by Jason Blum. It is known mainly for producing horror films, such as ''Paranormal Activity'', ''Insidio ...

without Stampede Entertainment's involvement, although the pilot was not accepted by the network.

References

External links

Stampede Entertainment web site
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