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The Picture Company

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The Picture Company
TypePrivate
IndustryEntertainment
Founded2014[1]
Founders
Key people
  • Andrew Rona
  • Alex Heineman
  • Jovi Lee
ServicesFilm production

The Picture Company is an entertainment company founded in 2014, by Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman. It specializes in film, starting off moderately in 2018 with Jaume Collet-Serra's The Commuter and Albert Hughes' Alpha.

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Entertainment

Entertainment

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention.

Andrew Rona

Andrew Rona

Andrew Rona is an American film producer and movie executive. The most popular of his films include Non-Stop, Project X, Equilibrium, Scream and Scary Movie.

Filmmaking

Filmmaking

Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, casting, pre-production, shooting, sound recording, post-production, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and an exhibition. Filmmaking occurs in a variety of economic, social, and political contexts around the world. It uses a variety of technologies and cinematic techniques.

Jaume Collet-Serra

Jaume Collet-Serra

Jaume Collet-Serra is a Spanish-American film director and producer. He directed the horror films House of Wax (2005), Orphan (2009), and The Shallows (2016), as well as the Liam Neeson-led thriller films Unknown (2011), Non-Stop (2014), Run All Night (2015), and The Commuter (2018). Collet-Serra also directed the Dwayne Johnson-starrers Jungle Cruise (2021), based on the eponymous theme park attraction from Disney, and Black Adam (2022), based on the comic book character of the same name from DC.

The Commuter (film)

The Commuter (film)

The Commuter is a 2018 American action thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by Byron Willinger, Philip de Blasi and Ryan Engle. The film stars Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, and Sam Neill. It follows a man who is unwittingly recruited into a murder conspiracy after meeting a mysterious woman while on his daily train commute.

Alpha (2018 film)

Alpha (2018 film)

Alpha is a 2018 American prehistorical adventure film directed by Albert Hughes and written by Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt, from a story by Hughes. The film stars Kodi Smit-McPhee as a young hunter who encounters and befriends an injured wolf during the last ice age, with Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson as his father. The wolf Alpha is played by Chuck, a Czechoslovakian Wolfdog.

History

Founding

The Picture Company was founded in 2014 by film veterans Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman. Rona is a former president at Silver Pictures and Rogue Pictures, and Heineman was an EVP at Silver Pictures.[2]

The company began in 2014 with a first-look deal with StudioCanal.[1] The company achieved its first theatrical releases with Jaume Collet-Serra's The Commuter, Albert Hughes' Alpha, and Sam Taylor-Johnson's A Million Little Pieces.

Future projects

Since September 2014, The Picture Company has announced several projects which have not yet been realised, including the adaptation of Mitch Swenson's The Tracking Of A Russian Spy, for which Nima Nourizadeh replaced Pierre Morel as director and Logan Lerman and Olivia Cooke were in talks to star.[3][4] Also announced were Nottingham & Hood, a Pirates Of The Caribbean-style Robin Hood movie for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures,[5] the Escape from New York remake for 20th Century Fox.[6] as well as the movie version of David-Jan Bronsgeest's short film Meet Jimmy, with Platinum Dunes also producing for Paramount Pictures.[7] Also pending are Harry Bradbeer's film The Paris Trap, for StudioCanal[8] and David Bruckner's film Out There, for Entertainment One.[9]

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Jaume Collet-Serra

Jaume Collet-Serra

Jaume Collet-Serra is a Spanish-American film director and producer. He directed the horror films House of Wax (2005), Orphan (2009), and The Shallows (2016), as well as the Liam Neeson-led thriller films Unknown (2011), Non-Stop (2014), Run All Night (2015), and The Commuter (2018). Collet-Serra also directed the Dwayne Johnson-starrers Jungle Cruise (2021), based on the eponymous theme park attraction from Disney, and Black Adam (2022), based on the comic book character of the same name from DC.

A Million Little Pieces (film)

A Million Little Pieces (film)

A Million Little Pieces is a 2018 psychological drama film directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, and written by Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Based on the 2003 semi-fictional book of the same name by James Frey, it follows Frey, a drug-addicted young man, who checks himself into a rehabilitation center to battle his addiction. Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as Frey, and co-stars Billy Bob Thornton, Odessa Young, Giovanni Ribisi, Juliette Lewis, and Charlie Hunnam.

Mitch Swenson

Mitch Swenson

Mitch Swenson is an American author, war reporter, screenwriter, and game designer.

Pierre Morel

Pierre Morel

Pierre Morel is a French film director and cinematographer. His work includes District 13, From Paris with Love, and Taken.

Logan Lerman

Logan Lerman

Logan Wade Lerman is an American actor. He is known for playing the titular role in the fantasy-adventure Percy Jackson films. He appeared in commercials in the mid-1990s, before starring in the series Jack & Bobby (2004–2005) and the movies The Butterfly Effect (2004) and Hoot (2006). Lerman gained further recognition for his roles in the western 3:10 to Yuma, the thriller The Number 23, the comedy Meet Bill, and 2009's Gamer and My One and Only. He subsequently played d'Artagnan in 2011's The Three Musketeers, starred in the coming-of-age dramas The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), Indignation (2016) and The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017), and had major roles in the 2014 films Noah and Fury. In 2020, he returned to television with the series Hunters.

Olivia Cooke

Olivia Cooke

Olivia Kate Cooke is an English actress. In television, she has starred as Emma Decody in the thriller Bates Motel (2013–2017), Becky Sharp in the period drama Vanity Fair (2018), and Alicent Hightower in the fantasy drama House of the Dragon (2022–present).

Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)

Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)

Pirates of the Caribbean is an American fantasy supernatural swashbuckler film series produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and based on Walt Disney's theme park attraction of the same name. The film series serves as a major component of the eponymous media franchise.

Robin Hood

Robin Hood

Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions of the legend, he is depicted as being of noble birth, and in modern retellings he is sometimes depicted as having fought in the Crusades before returning to England to find his lands taken by the Sheriff. In the oldest known versions, he is instead a member of the yeoman class. Traditionally depicted dressed in Lincoln green, he is said to have robbed from the rich and given to the poor.

Platinum Dunes

Platinum Dunes

Platinum Dunes is an American film and television production company founded in 2001 by Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form. 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.

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.

David Bruckner

David Bruckner

David Bruckner is an American film director. With Jacob Gentry and Dan Bush, he co-wrote and co-directed the 2007 horror film The Signal. Bruckner also co-wrote and directed the "Amateur Night" segment of the 2012 horror anthology film V/H/S, as well as directed the 2017 film The Ritual and the 2020 film The Night House.

Entertainment One

Entertainment One

Entertainment One Ltd., trading as eOne, is an American-owned Canadian multinational entertainment company. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the company is primarily involved in the acquisition, distribution, and production of films and television series. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange before it was acquired by Hasbro on December 30, 2019.

Filmography

Released

Motion pictures from The Picture Company, listed by theatrical release date
Film Director Release date Gross box office (USD)
The Commuter Jaume Collet-Serra January 12, 2018 $119.9 million[10]
Alpha Albert Hughes August 17, 2018 $98.2 million[11]
A Million Little Pieces Sam Taylor-Johnson December 6, 2019
Come Play Jacob Chase October 30, 2020 [12]
Gunpowder Milkshake Aharon Keshales
Navot Papushado		 July 14, 2021 [13]

Upcoming films

Motion pictures from The Picture Company, in development
Film Director Release date Ref.
The Appearance TBA [14]
The Corporation [15]
Escape from New York Leigh Whannell [16]
The French Quarter Will Not Be Spared [17]
The Fury of a Patient Man Albert Hughes [18]
Inside [19]
The Last Battle [20]
May You Live in Interesting Times [21]
Meet Jimmy David-Jan Bronsgeest [7]
Nottingham & Hood [5]
Out There David Bruckner [9]
The Paris Trap Harry Bradbeer [8]
Retribution [22]
Role Play Thomas Vincent [23]
They Hear It Julian Terry [24]
The Tracking Of A Russian Spy Nima Nourizadeh [4]
The Travelers Josh Gordon, Will Speck [25]
Unexplained Phenomenon Dean Israelite [26]
Whisper Julian Terry [27]
The White Room Rod Blackhurst [28]

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Jaume Collet-Serra

Jaume Collet-Serra

Jaume Collet-Serra is a Spanish-American film director and producer. He directed the horror films House of Wax (2005), Orphan (2009), and The Shallows (2016), as well as the Liam Neeson-led thriller films Unknown (2011), Non-Stop (2014), Run All Night (2015), and The Commuter (2018). Collet-Serra also directed the Dwayne Johnson-starrers Jungle Cruise (2021), based on the eponymous theme park attraction from Disney, and Black Adam (2022), based on the comic book character of the same name from DC.

Alpha (2018 film)

Alpha (2018 film)

Alpha is a 2018 American prehistorical adventure film directed by Albert Hughes and written by Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt, from a story by Hughes. The film stars Kodi Smit-McPhee as a young hunter who encounters and befriends an injured wolf during the last ice age, with Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson as his father. The wolf Alpha is played by Chuck, a Czechoslovakian Wolfdog.

Hughes brothers

Hughes brothers

Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes, known together professionally as the Hughes brothers, are American film directors and producers. The pair, who are twins, are known for co-directing visceral, and often violent, movies, including 1993's Menace II Society, 1995's Dead Presidents, 2001's From Hell and 2010's The Book of Eli. The brothers did most of their collaboration between 1993 and 2001. Since 2004, when Albert moved to Prague, Czech Republic, he and Allen have only directed one film together, The Book of Eli in 2010. They have been involved in directing and producing film and television projects separately since 2005.

A Million Little Pieces (film)

A Million Little Pieces (film)

A Million Little Pieces is a 2018 psychological drama film directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, and written by Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Based on the 2003 semi-fictional book of the same name by James Frey, it follows Frey, a drug-addicted young man, who checks himself into a rehabilitation center to battle his addiction. Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as Frey, and co-stars Billy Bob Thornton, Odessa Young, Giovanni Ribisi, Juliette Lewis, and Charlie Hunnam.

Come Play

Come Play

Come Play is a 2020 American horror thriller film written and directed by Jacob Chase, based on his own short film titled Larry. The film stars Gillian Jacobs, John Gallagher Jr., Azhy Robertson, and Winslow Fegley.

Gunpowder Milkshake

Gunpowder Milkshake

Gunpowder Milkshake is a 2021 action thriller film directed by Navot Papushado, with a script co-written by Papushado and Ehud Lavski. The film stars Karen Gillan as a young hitwoman who must team up with her estranged mother and her former colleagues in order to save a young girl from rival assassins led by head of the HR department for The Firm, Nathan.

Aharon Keshales

Aharon Keshales

Aharon Keshales is an Israeli film director, screenwriter, and film critic.

Navot Papushado

Navot Papushado

Navot Papushado is an Israeli film director and screenwriter.

Leigh Whannell

Leigh Whannell

Leigh Whannell is an Australian screenwriter, actor, film producer, and film director. He is best known for writing films directed by his friend James Wan, including Saw (2004), Dead Silence (2007), Insidious (2010), and Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013). Whannell made his directorial debut with Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015), and has since directed two more films, Upgrade (2018) and The Invisible Man (2020).

David Bruckner

David Bruckner

David Bruckner is an American film director. With Jacob Gentry and Dan Bush, he co-wrote and co-directed the 2007 horror film The Signal. Bruckner also co-wrote and directed the "Amateur Night" segment of the 2012 horror anthology film V/H/S, as well as directed the 2017 film The Ritual and the 2020 film The Night House.

Retribution (upcoming film)

Retribution (upcoming film)

Retribution is an upcoming thriller film directed by Nimród Antal and starring Liam Neeson. It is a remake of the 2015 Spanish film El desconocido.

Nima Nourizadeh

Nima Nourizadeh

Nima Nourizadeh is a British-Iranian film, music video, and commercials director. Nourizadeh is the son of political activist Alireza Nourizadeh and his siblings are electronic music producers Omid 16B and Navid.

Source: "The Picture Company", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, July 15th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_Company.

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References
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  28. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (11 January 2019). "Amblin Lands Bryce McGuire Thriller Script 'The White Room'; Rod Blackhurst Helms". Deadline. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
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