Apatow Productions

Apatow Productions is the production company established by Judd Apatow in 1999,[1][2] based in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Apatow Productions
Privately held company
IndustryFilm, TV
Founded1999; 25 years ago (1999)
FounderJudd Apatow
HeadquartersLos Angeles, California, U.S.
ProductsFilms (including among others Anchorman film franchise) and TV series

It produced the Anchorman movie franchise (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues), and films The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Knocked Up, Superbad, Pineapple Express, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Funny People, Get Him to the Greek, Bridesmaids, This Is 40, Begin Again, Trainwreck, The Big Sick and The King of Staten Island. First production of the company was comedy TV series Freaks and Geeks.

List of productions

Movies

Year of release Title of movie Directed by Story by Written by Distribution Budget of movie Worldwide box office
2004 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Adam McKay Will Ferrell and Adam McKay DreamWorks Pictures $26 million $90.5 million
2005 The 40-Year-Old Virgin Judd Apatow Judd Apatow and Steve Carell Universal Pictures $26 million $177.3 million
2006 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Adam McKay Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Columbia Pictures $72 million $162.9 million
2007 Knocked Up Judd Apatow Universal Pictures $30 million $219.1 million
Superbad Greg Mottola Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Columbia Pictures $20 million $169.9 million
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Jake Kasdan Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan $35 million $20.6 million
2008 Drillbit Taylor Steven Brill Kristofor Brown, John Hughes and Seth Rogen Kristofor Brown and Seth Rogen Paramount Pictures $40 million $49.7 million
Forgetting Sarah Marshall Nicholas Stoller Jason Segel Universal Pictures $30 million $105.2 million
Step Brothers Adam McKay Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Columbia Pictures $65 million $128.1 million
Pineapple Express David Gordon Green Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg $27 million $101.6 million
2009 Year One Harold Ramis Harold Ramis, Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg $60 million $62.4 million
Funny People Judd Apatow Universal Pictures
Columbia Pictures
$75 million $71.6 million
2010 Get Him to the Greek Nicholas Stoller Universal Pictures $40 million $91.3 million
2011 Bridesmaids Paul Feig Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig $32 million $288.4 million
2012 Wanderlust David Wain David Wain and Ken Marino $32 million $21.6 million
The Five-Year Engagement Nicholas Stoller Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller $30 million $53.9 million
This Is 40 Judd Apatow $35 million $88.1 million
2013 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Adam McKay Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Paramount Pictures $50 million $173.6 million
2014 Begin Again John Carney The Weinstein Company $8 million $63.5 million
2015 Trainwreck Judd Apatow Amy Schumer Universal Pictures $35 million $113 million
2016 Pee-wee's Big Holiday John Lee Paul Reubens and Paul Rust Netflix N/A
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone Universal Pictures $20 million $9.5 million
2017 The Big Sick Michael Showalter Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani Amazon Studios and Lionsgate $5 million $53 million
2018 Juliet, Naked Jesse Peretz Tamara Jenkins, Jim Taylor, Phil Alden Robinson and Evgenia Peretz Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate N/A $1.9 million
2020 The King of Staten Island Judd Apatow Judd Apatow, Pete Davidson and Dave Sirus Universal Pictures N/A
Total $773,500,000 $2,305,736,122
Average $33,630,435 $100,249,397

Critical reception

Title of TV series Metacritic's score Notes and references
Freaks and Geeks: Season 1 88 [3]
Undeclared: Season 1 85 [4]
Girls: Season 1 87 [5]
Girls: Season 2 84 [6]
Girls: Season 3 76 [7]
Girls: Season 4 75 [8]
Girls: Season 5 73 [9]
Girls: Season 6 79 [10]
Love: Season 1 73 [11]
Love: Season 2 80 [12]
Love: Season 3 77 [13]
Crashing: Season 1 73 [14]
Crashing: Season 2 68 [15]
Average score 81

TV series

Title of TV series Created by Years active Co-production with Original network
Freaks and Geeks Paul Feig 1999–2000 DreamWorks Television NBC
Undeclared Judd Apatow 2001–2002 Fox
Funny or Die Presents Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Andrew Steele, Judd Apatow 2010–2011 Funnyordie.com, Gary Sanchez Productions HBO
Girls Lena Dunham 2012–2017 I Am Jenni Konner Productions and HBO Entertainment
Love Judd Apatow, Paul Rust and Lesley Arfin 2016–2018 Legendary Television Netflix
Crashing Pete Holmes 2017–2019 Joy Quota HBO

References

  1. "Judd Apatow". Variety.
  2. "Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann snag a sawtelle office for production company". The Real Deal. 2019-05-16. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  3. Freaks and Geeks - Season 1 Reviews, Metacritic
  4. Undeclared - Season 1 Reviews, Metacritic
  5. Girls - Season 1 Reviews, Metacritic
  6. Girls - Season 2 Reviews, Metacritic
  7. Girls - Season 3 Reviews, Metacritic
  8. Girls - Season 4 Reviews, Metacritic
  9. Girls - Season 5 Reviews, Metacritic
  10. Girls - Season 6 Reviews, Metacritic
  11. Love (2016) - Season 1 Reviews, Metacritic
  12. Love (2016) - Season 2 Reviews, Metacritic
  13. Love (2016) - Season 3 Reviews, Metacritic
  14. Crashing (2017) - Season 1 Reviews, Metacritic
  15. Crashing (2017) - Season 2 Reviews, Metacritic

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