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Intrepid Pictures, LLC
TypePrivate
IndustryMotion picture
Founded2004; 19 years ago (2004)
Founder
  • Trevor Macy
  • Marc D. Evans
Headquarters,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Websitewww.intrepidpictures.com

Intrepid Pictures is an American independent film and television production company dedicated to producing elevated commercial content for global mainstream audiences. It was founded in 2004 by Trevor Macy and Marc D. Evans, and is currently run by Trevor Macy and Mike Flanagan. The company is based in Los Angeles, California.

History

Intrepid Pictures was founded in 2004 by founders and co-CEOs Trevor Macy and Marc D. Evans.[1] Macy served as the sole CEO until 2019, at which time Mike Flanagan joined the company as a partner.[2]

Before Intrepid was created, both Evans and Macy worked at Revolution Studios and Propaganda Films respectively. Evans spent 4 years at Revolution Studios as CFO from 2000 to 2004[3] while Macy spent 2 years as the COO of Propaganda Films and independently produced Auto Focus.[4]

A year after forming the company, Rogue signed a deal with Intrepid to co-produce, co-finance and distribute films with partnership with Universal Studios, Rogue's then-parent company, for five years.[5] The company then debuted with Waist Deep in 2006, which critically flopped but gained $21.35 million worldwide.

In February 2011, Melinda Nishioka was hired as a Coordinator, and as of September 2016 is the new Vice President of Development.[6]

After stumbles, the group broke through with The Strangers. In May 2012 FilmDistrict acquired the film rights to what would become Oculus.[7] Soon after, the film released on April 11, 2013, to commercial and critical success, earning $44 million over a $5 million budget and received positive reviews. In June 2015, Los Angeles Media Fund co-funded The Bye Bye Man, which originated from a script by Jonathan Penner[8] with STX Entertainment acquiring the film in December.[9]

Intrepid's most notable recent releases are the critically acclaimed films Hush, Before I Wake, Ouija: Origin of Evil and Gerald's Game, all with Flanagan, a frequent Intrepid collaborator and now partner.

In January 2018, Intrepid and Macy announced their involvement in Doctor Sleep, the sequel to the iconic horror film The Shining, for Warner Brothers.[10]

In February 2019, it was announced that Flanagan had formally joined Intrepid as a partner, and that Intrepid had inked an overall deal with Netflix to generate television series.[2] As part of that overall deal, Netflix ordered the original series Midnight Mass in July 2019.[11]

On October 6, 2021 it was announced that Intrepid will create an eight episode limited series titled The Fall of the House of Usher for Netflix that will be based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Flanagan and Michael Fimognari will each direct four episodes and executive produce the series.[12]

On December 1, 2022 it was announced that the company has inked a TV deal with Amazon Studios. Under the deal Macy and Flanagan will develop and produce projects under Intrepid for Amazon Prime Video, thus ending their deal with Netflix. Feature film productions were not part of the deal.[13]

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer, chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization – especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution. CEOs find roles in a range of organizations, including public and private corporations, non-profit organizations and even some government organizations. The CEO of a corporation or company typically reports to the board of directors and is charged with maximizing the value of the business, which may include maximizing the share price, market share, revenues or another element. In the non-profit and government sector, CEOs typically aim at achieving outcomes related to the organization's mission, usually provided by legislation. CEOs are also frequently assigned the role of main manager of the organization and the highest-ranking officer in the C-suite.

Mike Flanagan (filmmaker)

Mike Flanagan (filmmaker)

Mike Flanagan is an American filmmaker and partner in Intrepid Pictures. Flanagan is best known for his work in horror films and television series, which has attracted the praise of critics for his directing and lack of reliance on jump scares. Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, and William Friedkin, among others, have praised him.

Propaganda Films

Propaganda Films

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Chief financial officer

Chief financial officer

The chief financial officer (CFO) is an officer of a company or organization that is assigned the primary responsibility for managing the company's finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financial reporting. In some sectors, the CFO is also responsible for analysis of data. Some CFOs have the title CFOO for chief financial and operating officer. In the majority of countries, finance directors (FD) typically report into the CFO and FD is the level before reaching CFO. The CFO typically reports to the chief executive officer (CEO) and the board of directors and may additionally have a seat on the board. The CFO supervises the finance unit and is the chief financial spokesperson for the organization. The CFO directly assists the chief operating officer (COO) on all business matters relating to budget management, cost–benefit analysis, forecasting needs, and securing of new funding.

Chief operating officer

Chief operating officer

A chief operating officer or chief operations officer, also called a COO, is one of the highest-ranking executive positions in an organization, composing part of the "C-suite". The COO is usually the second-in-command at the firm, especially if the highest-ranking executive is the chairperson and CEO. The COO is responsible for the daily operation of the company and its office building and routinely reports to the highest-ranking executive—usually the chief executive officer (CEO).

Auto Focus

Auto Focus

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FilmDistrict

FilmDistrict

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Oculus (film)

Oculus (film)

Oculus is a 2013 American supernatural psychological horror film co-written, edited, and directed by Mike Flanagan. It is based on his short film Oculus: Chapter 3 – The Man with the Plan, and stars Karen Gillan and Brenton Thwaites as two young adult siblings who are convinced that an antique mirror is responsible for the death and misfortune that their family had suffered.

Los Angeles Media Fund

Los Angeles Media Fund

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Jonathan Penner

Jonathan Penner

Jonathan Lindsay Penner is an American actor, screenwriter, television personality, and film producer, known for producing and starring in the film The Last Supper, as well as acting in the television series Rude Awakening and The Naked Truth. He is also known for his multiple appearances on the American competitive reality series Survivor.

Hush (2016 film)

Hush (2016 film)

Hush is a 2016 American slasher film directed and edited by Mike Flanagan, and starring Kate Siegel, who also co-wrote the film with Flanagan. The film co-stars John Gallagher Jr., Michael Trucco, Samantha Sloyan, and Emilia "Emma" Graves. It was jointly produced by Trevor Macy through Intrepid Pictures and Jason Blum through Blumhouse Productions.

Before I Wake (2016 film)

Before I Wake (2016 film)

Before I Wake is a 2016 American dark fantasy horror film directed and edited by Mike Flanagan and co-written by Flanagan and Jeff Howard. The film stars Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane, Jacob Tremblay, Annabeth Gish, and Dash Mihok. Before I Wake premiered at Fantasia on July 31, 2016, and Netflix released it in the United States on January 5, 2018. The film grossed over $4.9 million worldwide and received favorable reviews from critics.

Filmography

Release date Title Director Distributor
June 23, 2006 Waist Deep Vondie Curtis-Hall Rogue Pictures
November 10, 2006 The Return Asif Kapadia
January 19, 2007 The Hitcher Dave Meyers
August 29, 2007 Balls of Fury Robert Ben Garant
March 14, 2008 Doomsday Neil Marshall
May 30, 2008 The Strangers Bryan Bertino
February 10, 2012 Safe House Daniel Espinosa Universal Pictures
April 27, 2012 The Raven James McTeigue Relativity Media
September 7, 2012 The Cold Light of Day Mabrouk El Mechri Summit Entertainment
April 9, 2013 Crush Sonny Mallhi Millennium Entertainment
April 11, 2014 Oculus Mike Flanagan Relativity Media
April 8, 2016 Hush Netflix
October 21, 2016 Ouija: Origin of Evil Universal Pictures
January 13, 2017 The Bye Bye Man Stacy Title STX Entertainment
June 2, 2017 Dobaara: See Your Evil Prawaal Raman B4U Motion Pictures
September 29, 2017 Gerald's Game Mike Flanagan Netflix
January 5, 2018 Before I Wake
March 9, 2018 The Strangers: Prey at Night Johannes Roberts Aviron Pictures
October 18, 2019 Eli Ciarán Foy Netflix
November 8, 2019 Doctor Sleep Mike Flanagan Warner Bros. Pictures

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Rogue Pictures

Rogue Pictures

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Asif Kapadia

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Dave Meyers (director)

Dave Meyers (director)

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Balls of Fury

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Robert Ben Garant

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Doomsday (2008 film)

Doomsday (2008 film)

Doomsday is a 2008 science fiction action film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film takes place in the future in Scotland, which has been quarantined because of a deadly virus. When the virus is found in London, political leaders send a team led by Major Eden Sinclair to Scotland to find a possible cure. Sinclair's team runs into two types of survivors: marauders and medieval knights. Doomsday was conceived by Marshall based on the idea of futuristic soldiers facing medieval knights. In producing the film, he drew inspiration from various movies, including Mad Max, Escape from New York and 28 Days Later.

Neil Marshall

Neil Marshall

Neil Marshall is an English film and television director, editor, producer, and screenwriter. He directed the horror films Dog Soldiers (2002) and The Descent (2005), the science fiction action film Doomsday (2008), the historical war film Centurion (2010), the superhero action film Hellboy (2019), and the adventure horror film The Reckoning (2020).

Bryan Bertino

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Safe House (2012 film)

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Daniel Espinosa

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James McTeigue

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Relativity Media

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Television

Year Series Creator(s) Network
2018 The Haunting of Hill House Mike Flanagan Netflix
2020 The Haunting of Bly Manor
2021 Midnight Mass
2022 The Midnight Club Mike Flanagan
Leah Fong
2023 The Fall of the House of Usher Mike Flanagan

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The Haunting of Hill House (TV series)

The Haunting of Hill House (TV series)

The Haunting of Hill House is an American supernatural horror drama streaming television miniseries created and directed by Mike Flanagan, produced by Amblin Television and Paramount Television, for Netflix, and serves as the first entry in The Haunting anthology series. It is loosely based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Shirley Jackson. The plot alternates between two timelines, following five adult siblings whose paranormal experiences at Hill House continue to haunt them in the present day, and flashbacks depicting events leading up to the eventful night in 1992 when the family fled from the mansion. The ensemble cast features Michiel Huisman, Elizabeth Reaser, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Kate Siegel, and Victoria Pedretti as the siblings in adulthood, with Carla Gugino and Henry Thomas as parents Olivia and Hugh Crain, and Timothy Hutton appearing as an older version of Hugh.

Mike Flanagan (filmmaker)

Mike Flanagan (filmmaker)

Mike Flanagan is an American filmmaker and partner in Intrepid Pictures. Flanagan is best known for his work in horror films and television series, which has attracted the praise of critics for his directing and lack of reliance on jump scares. Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, and William Friedkin, among others, have praised him.

Netflix

Netflix

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The Haunting of Bly Manor

The Haunting of Bly Manor

The Haunting of Bly Manor is an American gothic romance drama streaming television miniseries created by Mike Flanagan, and released on October 9, 2020 by Netflix. The second entry in Flanagan's The Haunting anthology series, it mostly acts as an adaptation of the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, but also includes other elements either based on James' other works or created for the show. It features much of Hill House's crew and some of the same cast, such as Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Amelia Eve, T'Nia Miller, Rahul Kohli, Tahirah Sharif, Amelie Bea Smith, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, and Henry Thomas, though Pedretti, Jackson-Cohen and Thomas returned from Hill House as different characters, as did Kate Siegel, Carla Gugino, and Catherine Parker in recurring roles; the two series' narratives are not connected.

Midnight Mass (miniseries)

Midnight Mass (miniseries)

Midnight Mass is an American gothic supernatural horror streaming television miniseries created and directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Zach Gilford, Kate Siegel, Hamish Linklater, Samantha Sloyan, Rahul Kohli, Kristin Lehman, and Henry Thomas. The Maddy Young fictional novel, Midnight Mass, is featured in Flanagan's and Siegel's 2016 American slasher film Hush. The plot centers on an impoverished island community that experiences supernatural events after the arrival of a mysterious priest.

The Midnight Club

The Midnight Club

The Midnight Club is an American horror mystery-thriller streaming television series created by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong, with Flanagan serving as showrunner, lead writer and executive producer. The series is set in a hospice and follows eight terminally ill young adults who form "the Midnight Club", meeting up each night to tell each other scary tales; it features an overarching story while also frequently depicting those tales on-screen. Although mostly based on the 1994 novel The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike, the series also adapts short stories from "27" other Pike books, featured in the "Midnight Club" tales themselves.

The Fall of the House of Usher (miniseries)

The Fall of the House of Usher (miniseries)

The Fall of the House of Usher is an upcoming horror drama miniseries created by Mike Flanagan. Based on the short story of the same name and other works by Edgar Allan Poe, it is set to premiere on Netflix.

Source: "Intrepid Pictures", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, February 20th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrepid_Pictures.

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