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Phoenix Pictures

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Phoenix Pictures
IndustryFilm
FoundedCulver City, California (November 1995 (1995-11))
FounderMike Medavoy
Arnold Messer
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California
,
United States
Websitephoenixpictures.com

Phoenix Pictures is an American film production company that has produced films since the late 1990s with features including Black Swan (2010), Shutter Island (2010), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), The Thin Red Line (1998), and Zodiac (2007).[1]

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Black Swan (film)

Black Swan (film)

Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological horror film directed by Darren Aronofsky from a screenplay by Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin, and Andres Heinz, based on a story by Heinz. The film stars Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, and Winona Ryder, and revolves around a production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake by the New York City Ballet company. The production requires a ballerina to play the innocent and fragile White Swan, for which the committed dancer Nina Sayers (Portman) is a perfect fit, as well as the dark and sensual Black Swan, which are qualities better embodied by the new rival Lily (Kunis). Nina is overwhelmed by a feeling of immense pressure when she finds herself competing for the role, causing her to lose her tenuous grip on reality and descend into madness.

Shutter Island (film)

Shutter Island (film)

Shutter Island is a 2010 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and adapted by Laeta Kalogridis, based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Deputy U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels, who is investigating a psychiatric facility on Shutter Island after one of the patients goes missing. Mark Ruffalo plays his partner and fellow deputy marshal, Ben Kingsley plays the facility's lead psychiatrist, Max von Sydow plays a German doctor, and Michelle Williams plays Daniels' wife.

The People vs. Larry Flynt

The People vs. Larry Flynt

The People vs. Larry Flynt is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed by Miloš Forman, chronicling the rise of pornographer Larry Flynt and his subsequent clash with religious institutions and the law. It stars Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love as his wife Althea, and Edward Norton as his attorney Alan Isaacman. The screenplay, written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, spans about 35 years of Flynt's life, from his impoverished upbringing in Kentucky to his court battle with Reverend Jerry Falwell, and is based in part on the U.S. Supreme Court case Hustler Magazine v. Falwell.

The Thin Red Line (1998 film)

The Thin Red Line (1998 film)

The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American war film written and directed by Terrence Malick. It is the second screen adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by James Jones, following the 1964 film. Telling a fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II, it portrays U.S. soldiers of C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, played by Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas and Ben Chaplin. The novel's title alludes to a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy", from Barrack-Room Ballads, in which he calls British foot soldiers "the thin red line of heroes", referring to the stand of the 93rd Regiment in the Battle of Balaclava of the Crimean War.

Zodiac (film)

Zodiac (film)

Zodiac is a 2007 American mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt, based on the non-fiction books by Robert Graysmith, Zodiac (1986) and Zodiac Unmasked (2002). The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr. with Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Elias Koteas, Donal Logue, John Carroll Lynch, Chloë Sevigny, Philip Baker Hall and Dermot Mulroney in supporting roles.

History

Producers Mike Medavoy and Arnold Messer founded Phoenix in November 1995 as an independent production company. They acquired financing from Onex Corporation, Pearson Television, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.[2][3] It struck a deal with CBS to air its movies on network television.[4] Its business model was based on packaging films to present to studios and to then navigate the films' development.

In 1996, the studio struck an exclusive deal with Showtime Networks to air its networks on pay television.[5]

Variety said Phoenix Pictures was one of the few companies to produce more than 25 films with the same executive team in place.[1]

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Mike Medavoy

Mike Medavoy

Morris Mike Medavoy is an American film producer and business executive. He is the co-founder of Orion Pictures (1978), former chairman of TriStar Pictures, former head of production for United Artists (1974–1978), and the current chairman and CEO of Phoenix Pictures.

Onex Corporation

Onex Corporation

Onex Corporation is an investment manager founded in 1984. The firm manages capital on behalf of Onex shareholders, institutional investors and high net worth clients around the world. As of September 30, 2022, Onex had approximately US$51 billion of assets under management.

Pearson Television

Pearson Television

Pearson Television was the British-based television production and distribution arm of a British company Pearson PLC.

Sony Pictures

Sony Pictures

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment through multiple platforms.

CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global.

Showtime Networks

Showtime Networks

Showtime Networks Inc. is an American entertainment company that oversees the company's premium cable television channels, including its flagship service Showtime. It is a subsidiary of media conglomerate Paramount Global under its networks unit.

Variety (magazine)

Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added Daily Variety, based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. Variety.com features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905.

Films

The films that are produced by Phoenix.

1990s

Release Date Title Notes Budget Gross (worldwide)
November 15, 1996 The Mirror Has Two Faces co-production with Arnon Milchan Productions, Barwood Films and TriStar Pictures $42 million $91.6 million
December 25, 1996 The People vs. Larry Flynt co-production with Ixtlan Productions and Columbia Pictures $35 million $20.3 million
October 3, 1997 U Turn co-production with Illusion Entertainment Group and Clyde is Hungry Films; distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing under the TriStar Pictures label $19 million $6.6 million
January 23, 1998 Swept from the Sea co-production with Tapson Steel Films; distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing under the TriStar Pictures label N/A $283,081
September 25, 1998 Urban Legend co-production with Original Film; distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing under the TriStar Pictures label $14 million $72.5 million
October 23, 1998 Apt Pupil co-production with Bad Hat Harry Productions; distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing under the TriStar Pictures label $14 million $8.9 million
December 25, 1998 The Thin Red Line co-production with Fox 2000 Pictures and Geisler-Roberdeau Productions; distributed by 20th Century Fox $52 million $98.1 million
July 16, 1999 Lake Placid co-production with Rocking Chair Productions and Fox 2000 Pictures; distributed by 20th Century Fox $27–35 million $56.9 million
August 4, 1999 Dick co-production with Pacific Western Productions; distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing under the Columbia Pictures label $13 million $6.3 million

2000s

Release Date Title Notes Budget Gross (worldwide)
March 31, 2000 Whatever It Takes distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing under the Columbia Pictures label $32 million $9 million
August 4, 2000 Mad About Mambo co-production with USA Films N/A $65,283
September 22, 2000 Urban Legends: Final Cut co-production with Original Film; distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing under the Columbia Pictures label $14 million $38.6 million
November 17, 2000 The 6th Day distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing under the Columbia Pictures label $82 million $96.1 million
April 3, 2003 Basic co-production with Intermedia Films and Columbia Pictures $50 million $42.8 million
April 18, 2003 Holes co-production with Walt Disney Pictures, Walden Media and Chicago Pacific Entertainment; distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution $20 million $71.4 million
March 11, 2004 In My Country co-production with The Film Consortium, Merlin Films, UK Film Council, Industrial Development Corporation, South Africa Limited, Inside Track Productions and Robert Chartoff Productions; distributed by Sony Pictures Classics $12 million $1.49 million
July 29, 2005 Stealth co-production with Columbia Pictures, Original Film and Laura Ziskin Productions $135 million $76.9 million
September 22, 2006 All the King's Men co-production with Columbia Pictures and Relativity Media $55 million $9.5 million
March 2, 2007 Zodiac co-production with Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures $65 million $84.8 million
March 9, 2007 Miss Potter co-production with the UK Film Council, BBC Films, Grosvenor Park Media and Isle of Man Film; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and The Weinstein Company $30 million $35.9 million
April 13, 2007 Pathfinder co-production with 20th Century Fox $45 million $30.8 million
July 3, 2007 License to Wed co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, Robert Simonds Productions, Undergorund Films and Management and Proposal Productions $35 million $70.2 million
August 24, 2007 Resurrecting the Champ co-production with Alberta Film Entertainment, Battleplan Productions and Yari Film Group $13 million $3.2 million

2010s

Release Date Title Notes Budget Gross (worldwide)
February 19, 2010 Shutter Island co-production with Sikelia Productions, Appain Way Productions and Paramount Pictures $80 million $294.8 million
December 3, 2010 Black Swan co-production with Cross Creek Pictures, Protoza Pictures, Dune Entertainment and Fox Searchlight Pictures $13 million $330.4 million
May 18, 2012 What to Expect When You're Expecting co-production with Alcon Entertainment, What to Expect Productions and Lionsgate $40 million $84.4 million
October 2, 2015 Shanghai co-production with Barry Mendel Productions and The Weinstein Company $50 million $9.24 million
November 13, 2015 The 33 co-production with Alcon Entertainment and RatPac-Dune Entertainment; distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures $26 million $24.9 million
May 12, 2017 Absolutely Anything uncredited; co-production with Bill & Ben Productions, GFM Films and Premiere Pictures; distributed by Atlas Distribution Company N/A $3.8 million

2020s

Release Date Title Notes Budget Gross (worldwide)
August 11, 2023 The Last Voyage of the Demeter co-production with New Republic Pictures, Latina Pictures and Amblin Partners; distributed by Universal Pictures TBA TBA

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The Mirror Has Two Faces

The Mirror Has Two Faces

The Mirror Has Two Faces is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Barbra Streisand, who also stars. The screenplay by Richard LaGravenese is loosely based on the 1958 French film Le Miroir à deux faces written by André Cayatte and Gérard Oury. Also starring are Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan, George Segal, Mimi Rogers, Brenda Vaccaro, and Lauren Bacall. The story focuses on a shy, middle-aged professor who enters into a platonic relationship with an unlucky colleague.

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand is an American singer, actress and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT).

TriStar Pictures

TriStar Pictures

TriStar Pictures, Inc. is an American film studio and production company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, part of the multinational conglomerate Sony. It is a corporate sibling of Sony studio Columbia Pictures.

The People vs. Larry Flynt

The People vs. Larry Flynt

The People vs. Larry Flynt is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed by Miloš Forman, chronicling the rise of pornographer Larry Flynt and his subsequent clash with religious institutions and the law. It stars Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love as his wife Althea, and Edward Norton as his attorney Alan Isaacman. The screenplay, written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, spans about 35 years of Flynt's life, from his impoverished upbringing in Kentucky to his court battle with Reverend Jerry Falwell, and is based in part on the U.S. Supreme Court case Hustler Magazine v. Falwell.

Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of Midnight Express (1978), and wrote the gangster film remake Scarface (1983). Stone achieved prominence as writer and director of the war drama Platoon (1986), which won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture. Platoon was the first in a trilogy of films based on the Vietnam War, in which Stone served as an infantry soldier. He continued the series with Born on the Fourth of July (1989)—for which Stone won his second Best Director Oscar—and Heaven & Earth (1993). Stone's other works include the Salvadoran Civil War-based drama Salvador (1986); the financial drama Wall Street (1987) and its sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010); the Jim Morrison biographical film The Doors (1991); the satirical black comedy crime film Natural Born Killers (1994); a trilogy of films based on the American Presidency: JFK (1991), Nixon (1995), and W. (2008); and Snowden (2016).

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production studio that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony.

U Turn (1997 film)

U Turn (1997 film)

U Turn is a 1997 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Oliver Stone and starring Sean Penn, Billy Bob Thornton, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Powers Boothe, Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, and Nick Nolte. It is based on the book Stray Dogs by John Ridley, who also wrote the screenplay.

Swept from the Sea

Swept from the Sea

Swept from the Sea is a 1997 drama film directed by Beeban Kidron and starring Vincent Perez, Rachel Weisz, and Ian McKellen. Based on the 1901 short story "Amy Foster" by Joseph Conrad, the film is about a doomed love affair between a simple country girl and a Ukrainian peasant who is swept onto the Cornish shore in 1888 after his emigrant ship sinks on its way to America.

Urban Legend (film)

Urban Legend (film)

Urban Legend is a 1998 slasher film directed by Jamie Blanks, written by Silvio Horta, and starring Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Tara Reid, and Michael Rosenbaum, and is the first installment in the Urban Legend film series. Its plot focuses on a series of murders on the campus of a private New England university, all of which appear to be modeled after popular urban legends. In addition to its younger cast, the film features supporting performances from Robert Englund, Loretta Devine, John Neville, and Brad Dourif.

Original Film

Original Film

Original Film is an American film and television production company founded by Neal H. Moritz. Notable films the company has produced include the Fast & Furious franchise.

Apt Pupil (film)

Apt Pupil (film)

Apt Pupil is a 1998 American psychological thriller film based on the 1982 novella of the same name by Stephen King. The film was directed by Bryan Singer and stars Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davison, Elias Koteas and David Schwimmer. Set in the 1980s in southern California, the film tells the story of high school student Todd Bowden (Renfro), who discovers a fugitive Nazi war criminal, Kurt Dussander (McKellen), living in his neighborhood under a pseudonym. Bowden, obsessed with Nazism and the Holocaust, persuades Dussander to share his stories, and their relationship stirs malice in each of them. Singer has called Apt Pupil "a study in cruelty", with Nazism serving as a vehicle to demonstrate the capacity of evil.

Bad Hat Harry Productions

Bad Hat Harry Productions

Bad Hat Harry Productions is an American film and television production company founded in 1994 by director Bryan Singer. It has produced such films as The Usual Suspects and the X-Men film series, as well as the television series House. The name is an homage to Steven Spielberg and comes from a line uttered by Roy Scheider in the 1975 feature Jaws: an elderly swimmer in a bathing cap teases police chief Martin Brody about not going in the water; Brody replies, "That's some bad hat, Harry." The original 2004 logo paid animated homage to this scene. The current logo, introduced in 2011, is taken from the police lineup scene of The Usual Suspects.

Television

Television series/miniseries

Start Date End Date Title Network Notes Seasons Episodes
November 7, 1999 November 10, 1999 Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story CBS miniseries; co-production with Morling Manor Music & Media and CBS Productions 1 2
March 12, 2001 March 25, 2004 The Chris Isaak Show Showtime co-production with C.I. Productions, Once and Future Films, Viacom Productions and Showtime Networks 3 47
November 7, 2017 December 19, 2017 The Long Road Home National Geographic miniseries; co-production with Finngate Television and Fuzzy Door Productions 1 8
February 2, 2018 February 27, 2020 Altered Carbon Netflix co-production with Virago Productions, Mythology Entertainment and Skydance Television 2 18

Television movies

Release Date Title Network Notes
October 21, 2001 In the Time of the Butterflies Showtime uncredited; co-production with MGM Television and Ventanarosa
December 16, 2001 Off Season co-production with Palm Avenue Pictures and Hallmark Entertainment
November 10, 2002 The Outsider co-production with Coote Hayes Productions, DEJ Productions and Hallmark Entertainment

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Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story

Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story

Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story is a TV miniseries that aired on CBS on November 7 and November 10, 1999.

CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global.

CBS Productions

CBS Productions

CBS Productions was a production arm of the CBS television network, now a part of Paramount Global, formed in 1952 to produce shows in-house, instead of relying solely on outside productions. One of its first productions was Studio One, a drama anthology series.

Showtime (TV network)

Showtime (TV network)

Showtime is an American premium television network owned by Paramount Media Networks, and is the flagship property of the namesake parent company, Showtime Networks, a part of Paramount Media Networks. Showtime's programming primarily includes theatrically released motion pictures and original television series, along with boxing and mixed martial arts matches, occasional stand-up comedy specials, and made-for-TV movies.

National Geographic (American TV channel)

National Geographic (American TV channel)

National Geographic is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by the National Geographic Global Networks unit of Disney Entertainment and National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%), with the operational management handled by Walt Disney Television.

Fuzzy Door Productions

Fuzzy Door Productions

Fuzzy Door Productions is an American film and television production company founded by Seth MacFarlane in 1998. The company's productions include animated series Family Guy, American Dad!, the Family Guy spinoff The Cleveland Show, the live-action sitcom The Winner, the science documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and the sci-fi comedy drama series The Orville. More recently, it signed a deal with NBCUniversal. The company will move from its longtime home at the 20th Century Fox Studios lot in Century City to NBCUniversal's Universal City Studios in Universal City. Erica Huggins will continue to head Fuzzy Door as president. MacFarlane's two animated series Family Guy broadcast on Fox and American Dad! broadcast on TBS will continue to be produced on the Fox studios lot while his live action series The Orville which is scheduled to air its second extended season on Hulu will continue to be filmed at Universal City Studios and in Westlake, California.

Altered Carbon (TV series)

Altered Carbon (TV series)

Altered Carbon is an American cyberpunk television series created by Laeta Kalogridis and based on the 2002 novel of the same title by English author Richard K. Morgan. In a world where consciousness can be transferred to different bodies, Takeshi Kovacs, a former soldier turned investigator, is released from prison in order to solve a murder. The first season consists of ten episodes and premiered on Netflix on February 2, 2018. On July 27, 2018, the series was renewed for a second season of eight episodes, which was released on February 27, 2020, with an anime film set before the first season released on March 19, 2020. Though the series received generally positive reviews, it was canceled after two seasons.

Netflix

Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American media company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it operates the over-the-top subscription video on-demand service Netflix brand, which includes original films and television series commissioned or acquired by the company, and third-party content licensed from other distributors. Netflix is a member of the Motion Picture Association—having become the first streaming company to become a member.

James Vanderbilt

James Vanderbilt

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Skydance Media

Skydance Media

Skydance Media, LLC is an American production company based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by David Ellison in 2006, the company entered a five-year partnership to co-produce and co-finance films with Paramount Pictures starting in 2009, and renewed the agreement twice extending to 2021. The company specializes in films, animation, television, video games, and sports.

In the Time of the Butterflies (film)

In the Time of the Butterflies (film)

In the Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film, produced for the Showtime television network, directed by Mariano Barroso and based on Julia Álvarez's book of the same name. The story is a fictionalized account of the lives of the Mirabal sisters, Dominican revolutionary activists, who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were assassinated on November 25, 1960.

Off Season (2001 film)

Off Season (2001 film)

Off Season is a 2001 television film directed by Bruce Davison, and starring Sherilyn Fenn, Rory Culkin, Hume Cronyn, Adam Arkin, and Bruce Davison. It is about a presumably disturbed little boy (Culkin) who has been orphaned, and who comes to believe that a local guest (Cronyn) who is staying at the hotel at which the boy's aunt works is actually Santa Claus.

Source: "Phoenix Pictures", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, January 14th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Pictures.

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References
  1. ^ a b McNary, Dave (August 26, 2011). "Phoenix Pictures to shutter in 2013". Variety.
  2. ^ Eller, Claudia; Bates, James (November 28, 1995). "2 Veteran Movie Producers Unveil Phoenix Pictures". The Los Angeles Times. p. D6.
  3. ^ Slide, Anthony (1998). The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry. Scarecrow Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-8108-6636-2.
  4. ^ Cox, Dan (1995-12-04). "Medavoy Rises Atop Phoenix". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  5. ^ "COMPANY TOWN ANNEX". Los Angeles Times. 1996-03-06. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
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