Scott Free Productions is an independent film and television production company founded in 1970 by filmmakers and brothers

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and

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. 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 ''

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'' (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 Scott Productions and Percy Main Productions was merged into a single roof and it signed an agreement with

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, and Italy's RCS Video, with UK's Majestic Films International to distribute its films and made its new banner Scott Free Productions. On September 25, 1995, the Scotts moved to

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, and

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took over international distribution of its product. In 1996, the Scotts signed a secondary agreement with

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to finance some of its films. In November 1997, the Scotts moved full-time to

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, where they produced feature films for the studio, terminating its contracts with

and

. On October 12, 1999, Scott Free Productions entered a two-year production deal with The Walt Disney Studios and

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, after its original deal with

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, which was inherited from

ended. There, the company produced '' Black Hawk Down'' for Bruckheimer. On September 21, 2001, Scott Free was moved to

, and Fox produced its feature films, after its previous agreement with producer

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ended. After Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox on March 20, 2019 and

dropped the “Fox” name from the studio's 20th Century Fox and

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branding and the two studios were renamed

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and

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, respectively on January 17, 2020, Scott Free returned to

. On November 6, 2002, Scott Free signed a television contract with

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to produce its television shows, airing on the network. On January 23, 2005, ''

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'' became Scott Free's first hit series for television. The strategy repeated on September 22, 2009 when Scott Free produced its second hit series ''

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''. On August 21, 2012,

, who was one of the co-founders of the company in 1993, died.

Productions

References

External links

* {{Authority control Film production companies of the United Kingdom Film production companies of the United States Companies based in London Companies based in Los Angeles Companies based in West Hollywood, California Scott family (filmmaking) American independent film studios