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Platinum Dunes
TypeProduction company
Industry
Founded2001; 22 years ago (2001)
Founder
Headquarters,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Michael Bay
  • Brad Fuller

Platinum Dunes is an American film and television production company founded in 2001 by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller[1] and Andrew Form.[2] It is mainly known for producing horror films, such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Purge, Ouija and A Quiet Place.

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Production company

Production company

A production company, production house, production studio, or a production team is a studio that creates works in the fields of performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, comics, interactive arts, video games, websites, music, and video. These groups consist of technical staff to produce the media, and are often incorporated as a commercial publisher. Generally the term refers to all individuals responsible for the technical aspects of creating a particular product, regardless of where in the process their expertise is required, or how long they are involved in the project. For example, in a theatrical performance, the production team has not only the running crew, but also the theatrical producer, designers and theatrical direction.

Michael Bay

Michael Bay

Michael Benjamin Bay is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films characterized by fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions. The films he has produced and directed, which include Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001) and the Transformers film series (2007–present), have grossed over US$7.8 billion worldwide, making him one of the most commercially successful directors in history.

Brad Fuller (producer)

Brad Fuller (producer)

Bradley Fuller is an American film and television producer. He co-owns Platinum Dunes, partnering with both Michael Bay and Andrew Form.

Andrew Form

Andrew Form

Andrew Form is an American film producer, best known for producing the films Friday the 13th, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and The Purge. He is the co-founder of company Platinum Dunes along with Michael Bay and Brad Fuller.

Horror film

Horror film

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a 2003 American slasher film directed by Marcus Nispel, written by Scott Kosar, and starring Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour, and R. Lee Ermey. Its plot follows a group of young adults traveling through rural Texas who encounter Leatherface and his murderous family. It is a remake of Tobe Hooper's 1974 film of the same name, and the fifth installment in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. Several crew members of the original film were involved with the project: Hooper and writer Kim Henkel served as co-producers, Daniel Pearl returned as cinematographer, and John Larroquette reprised his voice narration for the opening intertitles.

Friday the 13th (2009 film)

Friday the 13th (2009 film)

Friday the 13th is a 2009 American slasher film directed by Marcus Nispel, written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift from a screen story by Shannon, Swift, and Mark Wheaton. It is a reboot and twelfth installment in the Friday the 13th franchise, which began in 1980. Nispel also directed the 2003 remake of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), while Shannon and Swift wrote the screenplay for the crossover film Freddy vs. Jason. The film was produced by Platinum Dunes and Crystal Lake Entertainment and distributed by New Line Cinema and Paramount Pictures. It stars Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Aaron Yoo, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, and Derek Mears and follows Clay Miller (Padalecki) as he searches for his missing sister, Whitney (Righetti), who is captured by Jason Voorhees (Mears) while camping in woodland at Crystal Lake.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film)

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 2010 American supernatural slasher film directed by Samuel Bayer, written by Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer, and starring Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, and Kellan Lutz. Produced by Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes, it is a remake of Wes Craven's 1984 film of the same name, as well as the ninth overall installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The film is set in a fictitious town in Ohio and centers around a group of teenagers living on one street who are stalked and murdered in their dreams by a disfigured man named Freddy Krueger. The teenagers discover that they all share a common link from their childhood that makes them targets for Krueger.

The Purge (2013 film)

The Purge (2013 film)

The Purge is a 2013 American dystopian action horror film written and directed by James DeMonaco. The film stars Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Adelaide Kane, and Max Burkholder as members of a wealthy family who find themselves endangered by a gang of murderers during the annual Purge, a night during which all crime, including murder, is temporarily legal. The Purge premiered at the Stanley Film Festival on May 7, 2013, and Universal Pictures theatrically released it in the United States on June 7, 2013. The film grossed $89 million against a $3 million budget.

Ouija (2014 film)

Ouija (2014 film)

Ouija is a 2014 American supernatural horror film directed by Stiles White in his directorial debut, produced by Jason Blum, Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Bradley Fuller, and Bennett Schneir and written by Juliet Snowden and White, who previously together wrote The Possession. It stars Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff, Douglas Smith, and Bianca A. Santos as teenagers who have unleashed spirits from a Ouija board.

A Quiet Place

A Quiet Place

A Quiet Place is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film directed by John Krasinski and written by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods and Krasinski, from a story conceived by Woods and Beck. The plot revolves around a father (Krasinski) and a mother who struggle to survive and rear their children in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind extraterrestrial creatures with an acute sense of hearing.

Overview

The company was founded in November 2001 by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form. On October 7, 2009, Paramount Pictures announced a first-look deal with Platinum Dunes. With this, they plan to branch out of the horror genre into action and thrillers. On May 27, 2010, it was announced they would work on the reboot to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series of the same name.[3] In 2014, Platinum Dunes was named The Hollywood Reporter's Producers of the Year. In 2015, the company was also named to The Hollywood Reporter's 30 Most Powerful Film Producers in Hollywood. In 2018, Fuller and Form made an amicable split from Platinum Dunes to launch a new production company, Fully Formed Entertainment.[4] In June 2022, Fuller returned to Platinum Dunes, with the company signing an overall first-look deal with Universal Pictures.[5]

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Michael Bay

Michael Bay

Michael Benjamin Bay is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films characterized by fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions. The films he has produced and directed, which include Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001) and the Transformers film series (2007–present), have grossed over US$7.8 billion worldwide, making him one of the most commercially successful directors in history.

Brad Fuller (producer)

Brad Fuller (producer)

Bradley Fuller is an American film and television producer. He co-owns Platinum Dunes, partnering with both Michael Bay and Andrew Form.

Andrew Form

Andrew Form

Andrew Form is an American film producer, best known for producing the films Friday the 13th, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and The Purge. He is the co-founder of company Platinum Dunes along with Michael Bay and Brad Fuller.

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production and distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global. It is the fifth-oldest film studio in the world, the second-oldest film studio in the United States, and the sole member of the "Big Five" film studios located within the city limits of Los Angeles.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014 film)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014 film)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 2014 American superhero film directed by Jonathan Liebesman and written by Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, and Evan Daugherty. Based on the comic book characters created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, it reboots the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series. The film stars Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner, Danny Woodburn, Abby Elliott, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek, and Alan Ritchson, with the voices of Johnny Knoxville and Tony Shalhoub. In the film, four mutated reptilian warriors rise from the sewers to join forces with fearless reporter April O'Neil to save New York City from the Shredder and his evil minions.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in film

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in film

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a fictional superhero team created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, have appeared in six theatrical feature-length films since their debut. The first film was released in 1990, at the height of the franchise's popularity. Despite mixed reviews from critics, it was a commercial success that garnered two direct sequels, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze in 1991 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III in 1993, both of which were modest successes.

The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly large-format print magazine with a revamped website. As of 2020, the day-to-day operations of the company are handled by Penske Media Corporation through a joint venture with Eldridge Industries.

Fully Formed Entertainment

Fully Formed Entertainment

Fully Formed Entertainment is an American film production company started in 2018 by Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, who also co-founded Platinum Dunes with Michael Bay.

Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures is an American film production and distribution company owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment division of NBCUniversal.

Filmography

Films

Release date Film Director(s) Budget Gross Distributor(s)
October 17, 2003 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Marcus Nispel $9.5 million $107.4 million New Line Cinema
April 15, 2005 The Amityville Horror Andrew Douglas $19 million $107.5 million Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Dimension Films
October 6, 2006 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning Jonathan Liebesman $16 million $51.8 million New Line Cinema
January 19, 2007 The Hitcher Dave Meyers $10 million $25.4 million Rogue Pictures
January 9, 2009 The Unborn David S. Goyer $16 million $76.5 million
February 13, 2009 Friday the 13th Marcus Nispel $19 million $91.5 million New Line Cinema
Paramount Pictures
March 6, 2009 Horsemen Jonas Åkerlund $2.4 million Lionsgate
April 30, 2010 A Nightmare on Elm Street Samuel Bayer $35 million $115.7 million Warner Bros. Pictures
June 7, 2013 The Purge James DeMonaco $3 million $89.3 million Universal Pictures
July 18, 2014 The Purge: Anarchy $9 million $111.9 million
August 8, 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Jonathan Liebesman $125 million $485 million Paramount Pictures
October 24, 2014 Ouija Stiles White $5 million $103.7 million Universal Pictures
January 30, 2015 Project Almanac Dean Israelite $12 million $33.2 million Paramount Pictures
June 3, 2016 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows Dave Green $135 million $245.6 million
July 1, 2016 The Purge: Election Year James DeMonaco $10 million 118.6 million Universal Pictures
October 21, 2016 Ouija: Origin of Evil Mike Flanagan $9 million $81.7 million
April 6, 2018 A Quiet Place John Krasinski $17 million $341 million Paramount Pictures
July 4, 2018 The First Purge Gerard McMurray $13 million $137.1 million Universal Pictures
December 11, 2020 Songbird Adam Mason $700,000 $1 million STX Entertainment
May 28, 2021 A Quiet Place Part II John Krasinski $55 million $297.4 million Paramount Pictures
July 2, 2021 The Forever Purge Everardo Valerio Gout $18 million $77 million Universal Pictures

Upcoming films

Release date Film Director(s) Distributor(s)
March 8, 2024 A Quiet Place: Day One Michael Sarnoski Paramount Pictures
Apartment 7A Natalie Erika James

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Marcus Nispel

Marcus Nispel

Marcus Nispel is a German film director and producer, Fulbright Scholar, best known for several high-profile American remakes such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as well as an extensive career in television commercials and music videos. He started a production company, Portfolio Artists Network which later merged with RSA Black Dog Films to form Portfolio/Black Dog. He worked at RSA as a commercial director for several years.

New Line Cinema

New Line Cinema

New Line Cinema is an American film production studio owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and is a film label of Warner Bros.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924, and based in Beverly Hills, California.

Dimension Films

Dimension Films

Dimension Films is an American film production company owned by Lantern Entertainment. It was formerly used as Harvey and Bob Weinstein's label within Miramax, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company on June 30, 1993, to produce and release independent films and genre titles, specifically horror and science fiction films.

Jonathan Liebesman

Jonathan Liebesman

Jonathan Liebesman is a South African film director and writer.

Dave Meyers (director)

Dave Meyers (director)

David Charles Meyers is an American music video, commercial and film director.

David S. Goyer

David S. Goyer

David Samuel Goyer is an American filmmaker, novelist and comic book writer. He is best known for writing the screenplays for several superhero films, including Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1998), the Blade trilogy (1998–2004), Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy (2005–2012), Man of Steel (2013) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). He has also directed four films: Zig Zag (2002), Blade: Trinity (2004), The Invisible (2007) and The Unborn (2009). He is the creator of the science fiction television series Foundation.

Friday the 13th (2009 film)

Friday the 13th (2009 film)

Friday the 13th is a 2009 American slasher film directed by Marcus Nispel, written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift from a screen story by Shannon, Swift, and Mark Wheaton. It is a reboot and twelfth installment in the Friday the 13th franchise, which began in 1980. Nispel also directed the 2003 remake of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), while Shannon and Swift wrote the screenplay for the crossover film Freddy vs. Jason. The film was produced by Platinum Dunes and Crystal Lake Entertainment and distributed by New Line Cinema and Paramount Pictures. It stars Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Aaron Yoo, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, and Derek Mears and follows Clay Miller (Padalecki) as he searches for his missing sister, Whitney (Righetti), who is captured by Jason Voorhees (Mears) while camping in woodland at Crystal Lake.

Horsemen (film)

Horsemen (film)

Horsemen is a 2009 American psychological thriller film directed by Jonas Åkerlund, written by David Callaham, produced by Michael Bay, and starring Dennis Quaid and Zhang Ziyi. It follows Aidan Breslin, a bitter and emotionally distracted detective who has grown apart from his two sons after the death of his devoted wife. While investigating a series of murders, he discovers a terrifying link between himself and the suspects that seem to be based on the Biblical prophecies concerning the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: War, Famine, Conquest and Death. The film was shot in Winnipeg and was released on March 6, 2009.

Jonas Åkerlund

Jonas Åkerlund

Hans Uno Jonas Åkerlund is a Swedish film director, screenwriter, music video director, and drummer. His video for Madonna's song "Ray of Light" won a Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Short Form, and a record of five awards at 1998 MTV Video Music Awards, including the Video of the Year.

Lionsgate

Lionsgate

Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, doing business as Lionsgate, is a Canadian-American entertainment company. It was formed by Frank Giustra on July 10, 1997, domiciled in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and is currently headquartered in Santa Monica, California, United States. In addition to its flagship Lionsgate Films division, the company contains other divisions such as Lionsgate Television and Lionsgate Interactive. It owns a variety of subsidiaries such as Summit Entertainment, Debmar-Mercury, and Starz Inc.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film)

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 2010 American supernatural slasher film directed by Samuel Bayer, written by Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer, and starring Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, and Kellan Lutz. Produced by Michael Bay and Platinum Dunes, it is a remake of Wes Craven's 1984 film of the same name, as well as the ninth overall installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The film is set in a fictitious town in Ohio and centers around a group of teenagers living on one street who are stalked and murdered in their dreams by a disfigured man named Freddy Krueger. The teenagers discover that they all share a common link from their childhood that makes them targets for Krueger.

Television series

TV series

Year Show Creator(s) Network
2014–2017 Black Sails Jonathan E. Steinberg
Robert Levine
Starz
2014–2018 The Last Ship Hank Steinberg
Steven Kane
TNT
2016 Billion Dollar Wreck History
2018–present Jack Ryan Carlton Cuse
Graham Roland
Amazon Prime Video
2018–2019 The Purge James DeMonaco USA Network

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Black Sails (TV series)

Black Sails (TV series)

Black Sails is an American historical adventure television series set on New Providence Island and written to be a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island. The series was created by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine for Starz. It debuted online for free on YouTube and other various streaming platform and video-on-demand services on January 18, 2014. The debut on cable television followed a week later on January 25, 2014. Steinberg is executive producer, alongside Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, while Michael Angeli, Doris Egan, and Levine are co-executive producers. The show features treasure-seeking pirates fending off British government attempts to stop them.

Jonathan E. Steinberg

Jonathan E. Steinberg

Jonathan E. Steinberg is a television producer, screenwriter, and director. Along with Josh Schaer and Stephen Chbosky, he co-created the television series Jericho, where he served as writer, producer and executive story editor, Jericho ran on CBS from September 20, 2006, through March 25, 2008.

Starz

Starz

Starz is an American premium cable and satellite television network owned by Lions Gate Entertainment, and is the flagship property of parent subsidiary Starz Inc. Programming on Starz consists of theatrically released motion pictures and first-run original television series. Created in 1994 as a multiplex service of Encore, Starz operates six 24-hour, linear multiplex channels; a traditional subscription video on demand service; and a namesake over-the-top streaming platform that both acts as a TV Everywhere offering for Starz's linear television subscribers and is sold directly to streaming-only consumers.

Hank Steinberg

Hank Steinberg

Hank Steinberg is an American television and film writer, producer and director.

Steven Kane (screenwriter)

Steven Kane (screenwriter)

Steven Kane is an American television and theater writer, producer and director.

Billion Dollar Wreck

Billion Dollar Wreck

Billion Dollar Wreck is a History series documenting Martin Bayerle's attempt to salvage the wreck of the RMS Republic.

History (American TV network)

History (American TV network)

History is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company's General Entertainment Content Division.

Jack Ryan (TV series)

Jack Ryan (TV series)

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan is an American political action thriller television series, based on characters from the fictional "Ryanverse" created by Tom Clancy, that premiered on August 31, 2018, on Amazon Prime Video. The series was created by Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland. Cuse serves as an executive producer alongside John Krasinski, Michael Bay, and Mace Neufeld, among others. Krasinski also stars in the series as the title character, making him the fifth actor to portray the character after Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, and Chris Pine from the film series.

Carlton Cuse

Carlton Cuse

Arthur Carlton Cuse is a screenwriter, showrunner, producer, and director, best known for the American television series Lost, for which he made the Time list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010. Cuse is known for his groundbreaking cross-genre storytelling, pioneering work in interactive media, collaborative achievements, and mentorship of many screenwriters who went on to become showrunners of television series.

Graham Roland

Graham Roland

Graham Roland is an American writer and producer. In 2022, he created the crime thriller series Dark Winds on AMC.

Amazon Prime Video

Amazon Prime Video

Amazon Prime Video, also known simply as Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming and rental service of Amazon offered as a standalone service or as part of Amazon's Prime subscription. The service primarily distributes films and television series produced by Amazon Studios and MGM Holdings or licensed to Amazon, as Amazon Originals, with the service also hosting content from other providers, content add-ons, live sporting events, and video rental and purchasing services.

James DeMonaco

James DeMonaco

James DeMonaco is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for creating the Purge franchise, writing all five films in the series and directing the first three, The Purge (2013), Anarchy (2014), and Election Year (2016).

Source: "Platinum Dunes", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 22nd), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum_Dunes.

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References
  1. ^ Harris, Dana (March 3, 2002). "O'seas distribs rev up 'Chainsaw' redo". Variety.
  2. ^ "Paramount Pictures Signs First-Look Deal with Platinum Dunes". Bloody Disgusting. October 7, 2009.
  3. ^ Platinum Dunes Steers 'Turtles' Relaunch | Deadline Hollywood
  4. ^ McNary, Dave (October 5, 2018). "'A Quiet Place' Producers Sign First-Look Deal With Paramount". Variety. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
  5. ^ Kroll, Justin (June 30, 2022). "Michael Bay Reunites With Former Producing Partner Brad Fuller As Their Platinum Dunes Banner Signs Overall Deal With Universal Pictures". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved August 1, 2022.

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