Shady Acres Entertainment is a production company founded in 1999 by producer and director

Tom Shadyac Thomas Peter Shadyac (born December 11, 1958) is an American director, screenwriter, producer, and author. The youngest joke-writer ever for comedian Bob Hope, Shadyac is widely known for writing and directing the comedy films '' Ace Ventura: P ...

. It is based at

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. It is taken from his last name, Shadyac, which separated and became two words "Shady" and "Acres". Shady Acres signed a production deal with Universal to produce films while its lone television series was co-produced by Touchstone Television (now

ABC Signature ABC Signature is an American television production studio that is a subsidiary of Disney Television Studios, a division of Walt Disney Television, which is part of the Disney General Entertainment Content division of The Walt Disney Compan ...

). On June 4, 1999, Shady Acres received a television shingle, which would be based at

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(now ABC Signature). Although the company produced a handful of pilots, only one of them would go on the air. On February 14, 2008, Universal decided to cut ties with that Shady Acres Entertainment studio, and became an independent production outfit. Nicole Pritchett was the head of development and production at Shady Acres Entertainment from 2009 until 2015, along with one of the Producers of the documentary ''I AM''.

Filmography

*'' Dragonfly'' (2002) (with

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) *'' Bruce Almighty'' (2003) (with Pit Bull Productions) *''

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'' (2006) *'' I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry'' (2007) (with

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and

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) *''

Evan Almighty ''Evan Almighty'' is a 2007 American comedy film, and a spin-off of ''Bruce Almighty'' (2003). The film was directed by Tom Shadyac, written by Steve Oedekerk, based on the characters created by Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe from the original fi ...

'' (2007) (with

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) * ''

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'' (2011) (with Homemande Canvas Productions)

Television series

*'' 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter'' (2003) (with

)

References

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