Relativity Media
Relativity Media (sometimes written as RelativityMedia and Relativity) is an American movie studio in West Hollywood, California. It buys, develops, produces, and distributes movies and produces television programming. It was founded in 2004 by Ryan Kavanaugh.
Independent LLC | |
Industry | Entertainment Movie studio |
Founded | 2004 |
Founder | Ryan Kavanaugh |
Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Ryan Kavanaugh, Founder/CEO Tucker Tooley (President)[1] Ron Burkle, Principal Partner |
Products | Motion pictures, television programs |
Owner | Ron Burkle Colbeck Capital |
Number of employees | just below 200 (2012)[2] |
Divisions | Rogue Life Relativity Sports[3] RelativityREAL Relativity Music Group Relativity Interactive TV Sales and Distribution[4] Rogue Film Network Relativity DVD/Blu-ray |
Subsidiaries | Rogue Life LLC Rogue |
Website | www |
On January 4, 2009, Relativity Media bought the genre label Rogue Pictures from Universal, for $150 million.[5] On July 6, 2010, Relativity and Netflix announced a five-year-plus Pay-TV deal. The first two movies to stream on Netflix were The Fighter and Skyline.[6]
On July 23, 2010 Relativity bought the 45-person marketing and distribution staff of Starz’ Overture Films.[7] On May 20, 2012, it was reported that Relativity and EuropaCorp signed a co-production and co-financing deal on two movies and Relativity will distribute them in U.S.[8][9] Relativity also has co-production deals with Atlas Entertainment[10] and Virgin Produced.[11]
Filmography
Distributor
2010
- The Invited
- The Spy Next Door (with Lions Gate Films)
- Dear John (with Screen Gems)
- The Wolfman (with Universal Pictures)
- Green Zone (with Universal Pictures, StudioCanal and Working Title Films)
- MacGruber (with Rogue Pictures)
- The Bounty Hunter (with Columbia Pictures and Original Film)
- Repo Men (with Universal Pictures)
- Nanny McPhee Returns (with Universal Pictures, Working Title movies and StudioCanal)
- Robin Hood (with Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Scott Free Productions)
- Get Him to the Greek (with Universal Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment and Apatow Productions)
- Grown Ups (with Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison Productions)
- Salt (with Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Original Film and DiBonaventura Productions)Films
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (with Universal Pictures and Big Talk Films)
- Charlie St. Cloud (with Universal Pictures)
- The Social Network (with Columbia Pictures)
- My Soul to Take
- Skyline
- The Fighter (with Paramount Pictures; US distribution only)[12]
- Little Fockers (with Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures)
2011
- Season of the Witch
- Sanctum (with Universal Pictures and Wayfare Entertainment)
- Paul (with Universal Pictures, Working Title Films and Big Talk Films)
- Limitless
- Battle: Los Angeles (with Columbia Pictures and Original movie)
- Hop (with Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment)
- Bridesmaids (with Universal Pictures and Apatow Productions)
- Cowboys & Aliens (with Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Imagine Entertainment, DiBonaventura Productions and Platinum Studios)
- The Change-Up (with Universal Pictures and Original Film)
- Tower Heist (with Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment)
- Johnny English Reborn (with Universal Pictures, StudioCanal and Working Title Films)
- Anonymous (with Columbia Pictures and Centropolis Entertainment)
- Immortals
2012
- Mirror Mirror
- Haywire
- 21 and Over
- House at the End of the Street
- Contraband (co-production with Universal Pictures and Working Title Films)
- 21 Jump Street (co-production with Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Original Film)
- Wanderlust (co-production with Universal Pictures and Apatow Productions)
- Safe House (co-production with Universal Pictures)
- American Reunion (co-production with Universal Pictures)
- The Five-Year Engagement (co-production with Universal Pictures and Apatow Productions)
- That's My Boy (co-production with Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison Productions)
- Savages (co-production with Universal Pictures)
- The Bourne Legacy (co-production with Universal Pictures and The Kennedy/Marshall Company)
2013
Title | US Release | Genre | Director | Notes | Budget | Gross |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Movie 43 | January 25, 2013 | Comedy | Peter Farrelly | co-production with Virgin Produced | TBA | TBA |
Safe Haven | February 8, 2013 | Romantic thriller | Lasse Hallström | co-production with Temple Hill Entertainment | TBA | TBA |
21 and Over | March 15, 2013 | Comedy | Jon Lucas & Scott Moore | co-production with Mandeville Films, Virgin Produced and SkyLand Entertainment | $13,000,000[13] | TBA |
Out of the Furnace | 2013 | Thriller | Scott Cooper | co-production with Appian Way and Scott Free | TBA | TBA |
Paranoia[14] | September 27, 2013 | Thriller | Robert Luketic | co-production with IM Global | TBA | TBA |
Malavita | 2013 | Comedy-drama | Luc Besson | co-production with EuropaCorp | TBA | TBA |
2014
Title | US Release | Genre | Director | Notes | Budget | Gross |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stretch Armstrong | April 11, 2014 | Superhero | Breck Eisner[15] | co-production with Hasbro Studios | TBA | TBA |
Movies In-Development
- Three Days to Kill (currently titled)
- Acacia: The War with the Mein[16]
- Tunnels[17]
- Hack/Slash [18]
- The Crow (Remake) [19]
- Ness/Capone [20]
- Voltron: Defender of the Universe [21]
- Timeless [22]
- Goliath [23]
- The Bible Code [24]
- Afterburn [25]
- Ecstasia [26]
- The Most Wonderful Time[27]
- Wright Girls[28]
- Hunter Killer
Highest grossing movies
Movie | Release | Budget (estimated) | Gross (worldwide) |
---|---|---|---|
Immortals | November 11, 2011 | $75 million | $226,904,017 million |
Mirror Mirror | March 30, 2012 | $85 million | $162,148,385 million |
Limitless | March 18, 2011 | $27 million | $161,849,455 million |
The Fighter | December 10, 2010 | $25 million | $129,190,869 million |
Season of the Witch | January 7, 2011 | $40 million | $91,627,228 million |
Act of Valor | February 24, 2012 | $12 Million | $80,419,713 million |
Skyline | November 12, 2010 | $10–20 million[29][30] million | $67,520,213[31] million |
Shark Night 3D | September 2, 2011 | $25 million | $40,136,479 million |
Haywire | January 20, 2012 | $23 million | $31,143,859 million |
The Raven | April 27, 2012 | $26 million | $22,304,765 million |
Production Company
2006
- RV (with Columbia Pictures and InterMedia Films)
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (with Universal Pictures and Original Film)
- Monster House (with Columbia Pictures, ImageMovers and Amblin Entertainment)
- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (with Columbia Pictures and Apatow Productions)
- All the King's Men (with Columbia Pictures and Phoenix Pictures)
- Gridiron Gang (with Columbia Pictures and Original Film)
- Catch and Release (with Columbia Pictures)
- The Holiday (with Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures and Waverly Films)
- Smokin' Aces (with Universal Pictures, StudioCanal and Working Title Films)
- The Pursuit of Happyness (with Columbia Pictures, Escape Artists and Overbrook Entertainment)
2007
- Full of It (with New Line Cinema)
- Ghost Rider (with Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios and Crystal Sky Pictures)
- Reign Over Me (with Columbia Pictures and Madison 23)
- Mr. Brooks (with Tig Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
- Evan Almighty (with Universal Pictures, Original Film and Spyglass Entertainment)
- I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (with Universal Pictures and Happy Madison Productions)
- 3:10 to Yuma (with Lionsgate Films and Tree Line Film)
- The Kingdom (with Universal Pictures and Film 44)
- Atonement (with Focus Features, Working Title Films and StudioCanal)
- American Gangster (with Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Scott Free Productions)
- Charlie Wilson's War (with Universal Pictures and Participant Media)
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (with Columbia Pictures and Apatow Productions)
2008
- Vantage Point (with Columbia Pictures and Original Film)
- The Other Boleyn Girl (with Columbia Pictures, Focus Features and BBC Films)
- The Bank Job (with Lionsgate Films and Mosaic Media Group)
- 21 (with Columbia Pictures and Trigger Street Productions)
- The Forbidden Kingdom (with Lionsgate Films and The Weinstein Company)
- Baby Mama (with Universal Pictures)
- Made of Honor (with Columbia Pictures and Original Film)
- Changeling (with Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Malpaso Productions)
- You Don't Mess with the Zohan (with Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison Productions)
- Wanted (with Universal Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment)
- Hancock (with Columbia Pictures, Weed Road Pictures and Overbrook Entertainment)
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army (with Universal Pictures and Dark Horse Entertainment)
- Mamma Mia! (with Universal Pictures and Playtone)
- The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (with Universal Pictures and The Sommers Company)
- Step Brothers (with Columbia Pictures, Apatow Productions and Gary Sanchez Productions)
- Pineapple Express (with Columbia Pictures and Apatow Productions)
- Wild Child (with Universal Pictures, Working Title Films and StudioCanal)
- Death Race (with Universal Pictures, Cruise/Wagner Productions and Impact Pictures)
- The House Bunny (with Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison Productions)
- Burn After Reading (with Focus Features, StudioCanal, Working Title Films and Mike Zoss Productions)
- Eve (Short movie)
- The Express (with Universal Pictures and Davis Entertainment)
- Frost/Nixon (with Universal Pictures, Working Title Films, Imagine Entertainment and StudioCanal)
- Role Models (with Universal Pictures and New Regency Productions)
- Yes Man (with Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, Heyday Films and The Zanuck Company)
- The Tale of Despereaux (with Universal Pictures and Framestore)
- Seven Pounds (with Columbia Pictures, Escape Artists and Overbrook Entertainment)
2009
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop (with Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison Productions)
- The Unborn (with Rogue Pictures and Platinum Dunes)
- The International (with Columbia Pictures and Atlas Entertainment)
- Duplicity (with Universal Pictures)
- Fast & Furious (with Universal Pictures and Original Film)
- State of Play (with Universal Pictures and Working Title Films)
- Fighting (with Rogue Pictures)
- The Taking of Pelham 123 (with Columbia Pictures, Scott Free Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)
- Land of the Lost (with Universal Pictures and Mosaic Media Group)
- Public Enemies (with Universal Pictures and Forward Pass Productions)
- The Ugly Truth (with Columbia Pictures and Lakeshore Entertainment)
- Funny People (with Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Happy Madison Productions and Apatow Productions)
- A Perfect Getaway (with Rogue Pictures and QED International)
- 9 (with Focus Features)
- A Serious Man (with Focus Features, StudioCanal, Working Title Films and Mike Zoss Productions)
- Love Happens (with Universal Pictures)
- Zombieland (with Columbia Pictures and Pariah Productions)
- Couples Retreat (with Universal Pictures and Wild West Picture Show)
- Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (with Universal Pictures)
- Nine (with The Weinstein Company)
- Brothers (with Lionsgate Films)
- It's Complicated (with Universal Pictures and Waverly Films)
- Did You Hear About the Morgans? (with Columbia Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment)
References
- ↑ "Tucker Tooley President". Archived from the original on 2012-03-04. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
- ↑ Relativity Media Lays Off 10 Employees
- ↑ Block, Alex Ben (July 16, 2012). "Relativity Media, Ron Burkle Launch Sports Division". hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved July 16, 2012.
- ↑ About. August 15, 2011. http://relativitymedia.com/about.asp. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
- ↑ Universal Sells Rogue for $150 Million
- ↑ Netflix challenging HBO and Showtime as it signs distribution deal with Relativity Media
- ↑ PR (June 28, 2012). Relativity Takes Over Overture from Starz. http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/relativity-takes-over-overture-from-starz/. Retrieved July 6, 2010.
- ↑ EuropaCorp, Relativity ink for co-prods deal, includes U.S. distribution
- ↑ Relativity Deal For Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp
- ↑ "Relativity & Atlas Join Forces On Multi-Picture Deal". Archived from the original on 2012-08-25. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
- ↑ "VIRGIN GROUP LAUNCHES FILM & TELEVISION PRODUCTION COMPANY, CALLS RELATIVITY HOME". Archived from the original on 2012-08-25. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
- ↑ Bale in ring with Wahlberg for 'Fighter'
- ↑ 21 and Over Budget
- ↑ Relativity Acquires ‘Paranoia’
- ↑ "Breck Eisner Confirmed to Direct Stretch Armstrong". Deadline.com. July 19, 2012. Archived from the original on July 20, 2012. Retrieved July 19, 2012.
- ↑ Relativity nabs Durham's 'Acacia'
- ↑ McNary, Dave (18 February 2010). "'Splice' director enters 'Tunnels' pic". Relativity Media LLC. Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
- ↑ Marcus Nispel to Direct "Hack/Slash" for Relativity Media/Rogue
- ↑ The Crow Relaunch Moves Forward With Casting
- ↑ Relativity is hiring James Mctegue for a period crime drama Ness/Capone
- ↑ [|http://www.movieweb.com/comic-con/2011/news/sdcc-2011-voltron-live-action-movie-coming-from-relativity-media Archived 2012-07-06 at the Wayback Machine Voltron Live-action coming form Relativily Media]
- ↑ Phil Noyce jump into a Time Travel movie
- ↑ Goliath helm by Scott Derickson
- ↑ Relativity Media buys The Bible Code
- ↑ 'Hansel & Gretel' Director Boards Gerard Butler Sci-Fi Thriller 'Afterburn' (Exclusive)
- ↑ Wayne Kramer to direct Ecstasia for Relativily
- ↑ Rober Redford and Diane Keaton eyeing The Most Wonderful Time at Relativilty
- ↑ Gemma Arterton in Talks to Star in Relativity Thriller-Comedy 'Wright Girls' (Exclusive)
- ↑ Walkuski, Eric (October 29, 2010). EXCLUSIVE: Greg Strause talks Skyline 2, says treatment already written. JoBlo. http://www.joblo.com/arrow/index.php?id=24874. Retrieved November 1, 2010. "O'Donnell: "We've got a ten million dollar budget, I mean do the math."".
- ↑ Waxman, Sharon; Lang, Brent (August 16, 2010). "Sony Accuses 'Skyline' of... Making a Low-Budget Blockbuster". The Wrap. http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/skyline-and-battle-los-angeles-release-date-fight-20168. Retrieved November 1, 2010. "Skyline is a $20 million movie directed by Greg and Colin Strause, who also worked on the special effects for “Avatar.”".
- ↑ "Skyline (2010)". Box Office Mojo. 2010-12-21. Retrieved 2012-07-13.