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For the Indian production company, see Annapurna Studios.
Annapurna Pictures, LLC
Private
Industry
Founded April 2, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-04-02)
Founder Megan Ellison
Headquarters Los Angeles, California, United States
Key people
 Megan Ellison (Chairwoman & CEO)
Services
Owner Megan Ellison[1]
Divisions
Website annapurna.com

Annapurna Pictures is an American independent media company founded by Megan Ellison on April 2, 2011 and based in Los Angeles, California.[2] It is active in film, television[3][4] and theatrical production, film distribution, and video game publishing.[5]

History

Annapurna Pictures was founded in 2011 by Megan Ellison as a production and finance entity focusing on high-end auteur-driven cinema.[6]

After attending University of Southern California’s film school for two semesters, Ellison left in 2005 and traveled the world. Among her stops was Nepal, where she trekked on the Himalayan mountain Annapurna, for which her production company is named.[7]

By 2014 Annapurna had produced and/or financed the films Lawless, The Master, Killing Them Softly, Zero Dark Thirty, Spring Breakers, The Grandmaster, Her, Foxcatcher, and American Hustle, and was starting production on Joy, Sausage Party, Wiener-Dog, 20th Century Women, and Everybody Wants Some!!.

In December 2016, the company announced its new division, Annapurna Interactive, to produce, develop, and distribute video games with several active projects in development, planned for release in 2017.[8][9]

In January 2017, the company announced they would begin distributing films, with their first being Detroit directed by Kathryn Bigelow, set for release on August 4, 2017.[10] They later signed a multi-year distribution deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on March 27, in which MGM will distribute all of Annapurna's films in select international territories.[11][12][13] On April 6, the company also announced an exclusive, multi-year output licensing agreement with Hulu.[14][15][16]

In May 2017, Plan B Entertainment and Annapurna announced a three-year production deal to partner on at least three films a year, with Annapurna handling distribution and marketing. As part of the deal, Annapurna received the rights to Adam McKay's film Vice starring Christian Bale as Dick Cheney.[17] It was also announced Annapurna would co-distribute Brad's Status through their MGM joint venture Mirror alongside Amazon Studios.[18] In July, the company signed a multi-year U.S. home entertainment pact with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment to oversee its home releases.[19]

Since Sony Pictures' contract to co-produce the James Bond series with MGM and Eon Productions expired with the release of Spectre, Annapurna, along with five major studios – Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and Sony itself – vied to win the rights to the next film as of April 2017. It was then announced that MGM had secured the domestic, digital and worldwide television rights to the film. Universal was announced as the international distributor of the film and holder of the rights for physical home entertainment distribution.[20]

In October 2017, Annapurna and MGM announced the formation of a U.S. distribution joint venture in which each studio would release their films individually. This marked a return to domestic theatrical distribution for MGM and an expansion of Annapurna's distribution division, with MGM releasing approximately six to eight films per year on a limited basis and Annapurna releasing four to six films per year, in a combined slate of fourteen films. While the two companies are sharing costs for the joint venture's operations, Annapurna's distribution and marketing teams supported the MGM titles, which were distributed under the MGM banner while Annapurna-produced films continued to be distributed under its own banner. The two studios also launched Mirror, a releasing entity that pursues theatrical opportunities for additional third-party films. However, this partnership is not exclusive to all MGM films, as several of them continued to be released through existing studio partners, such as Warner Bros. and Paramount. The newly relaunched Orion Pictures and future worldwide distributor plans for the James Bond franchise, are also not included, which MGM announced on "a later date", May 24, 2018, to have been won by Universal Pictures.[21][22][23][24][25]

In October 2018, Annapurna signed a music publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music, which administered the studio's film and TV compositions and scores.[26]

In February 2019, Annapurna and MGM rebranded and expanded their U.S. distribution joint venture to release both MGM and Annapurna films under United Artists Releasing, with the distribution teams of Annapurna and Orion Pictures (whose films are added as well) joining the venture and former Screen Gems executive Pam Kunath joining as COO in addition to the heads of MGM and Annapurna joining the board of directors. The decision was made to coincide with the United Artists brand's 100th anniversary, and has plans to release 10–14 films a year through the new label, including the domestic release of No Time to Die (which marks a reunion between the UA brand and the James Bond franchise after two decades).[27][28][29]

In December 2022, Annapurna launched its animation division with former Blue Sky Studios executives Robert Baird and Andrew Millstein leading the new studio. Nimona was its first release.[30]

On March 4, 2023, it was revealed by The Hollywood Reporter that Amazon had shut down United Artists Releasing's operations and folded it into MGM.[31]

Filmography

As production company

Year Film title Notes
2011 Passion Play distributed by Image Entertainment
Waking Madison distributed by Entertainment One
Main Street distributed by Magnolia Pictures
Catch .44 distributed by Anchor Bay Films
2012 Lawless co-production with The Weinstein Company
The Master co-production with The Weinstein Company
Nominated - Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture
Nominated - Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature
Killing Them Softly co-production with Plan B Entertainment; distributed by The Weinstein Company
Zero Dark Thirty co-production with Columbia Pictures
National Board of Review Award for Best Film
National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Nominated - AACTA Award for Best International Film
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Picture
Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Film
Nominated - Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
Nominated - Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture
Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Film
2013 Spring Breakers co-production with Muse Productions; distributed by A24
Nominated - Venice Film Festival for Golden Lion
The Grandmaster co-production with Block 2 Pictures, Jet Tone Films, Sil-Metropole Organization, and Bona International Film Group; distributed by The Weinstein Company[32]
Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for Best Film
Nominated - Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film
Her co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures
National Board of Review Award for Best Film
National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Picture
Nominated - Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Nominated - Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture
American Hustle co-production with Columbia Pictures and Atlas Entertainment
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Nominated - AACTA Award for Best International Film
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Picture
Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Film
Nominated - Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture
Nominated - MTV Movie Award for Movie of the Year
Nominated - Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture
Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Motion Picture
Nominated - Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie – Drama
2014 Foxcatcher co-production with Sony Pictures Classics
Nominated - Cannes Film Festival for Palme d'Or
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
Nominated - Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture
2015 Terminator Genisys co-production with Skydance Media; distributed by Paramount Pictures
Joy co-production with 20th Century Fox and Davis Entertainment
Nominated - Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Comedy
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
2016 Everybody Wants Some!! co-production with Paramount Pictures[33]
Nominated - Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature
Wiener-Dog co-production with Killer Films; distributed by Amazon Studios and IFC Films[34]
Sausage Party co-production with Columbia Pictures, Point Grey Pictures, and Nitrogen Studios[35]
20th Century Women produced by; distributed by A24
Nominated - Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
2017 The Bad Batch co-production with VICE Films; distributed by Neon
Venice Film Festival for Special Jury Prize
Detroit co-production with First Light Productions and Page 1
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Independent Motion Picture
Nominated - NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture
Phantom Thread co-production with Focus Features and Ghoulardi Film Company
National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Picture
2018 The Sisters Brothers co-production with Why Not Productions and Page 114 Productions[36]
Nominated - César Award for Best Film
Nominated - Venice Film Festival for Golden Lion
If Beale Street Could Talk co-production with Plan B Entertainment and Pastel Productions[37]
Independent Spirit Award for Best Film
National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Satellite Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
Nominated - Black Reel Award for Outstanding Film
Nominated - Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
Nominated - Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature
Nominated - NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs uncredited; co-production with Netflix
Vice co-production with Plan B Entertainment and Gary Sanchez Productions
Nominated - AACTA Award for Best International Film
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Picture
Nominated - Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture
Nominated - Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Nominated - Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture
2019 Missing Link co-production with Laika[38]
Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
Nominated - Annie Award for Best Animated Feature
Nominated - Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature
Nominated - Producers Guild of America Award for Best Animated Motion Picture
Booksmart co-production with Gloria Sanchez Productions
GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film – Wide Release
Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature
Where'd You Go, Bernadette co-production with Color Force[39]
Hustlers credit only; produced by Gloria Sanchez Productions, Nuyorican Productions and STX Entertainment[40]
Nominated - Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature
Nominated - Satellite Awards for Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Wounds produced by; distributed by Hulu[41]
Bombshell credit only; produced by Bron Studios, Denver and Delilah Productions, Lighthouse Media & Management, Creative Wealth Media; distributed by Lionsgate[42]
Nominated - GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film – Wide Release
Nominated - Satellite Awards for Best Motion Picture – Drama
2020 Kajillionaire co-production with Plan B Entertainment;[43] distributed by Focus Features[44]
2022 She Said co-production with Plan B Entertainment; distributed by Universal Pictures[45]
2023 Nimona an Annapurna Animation film; co-production with Vertigo Entertainment and DNEG Animation; distributed by Netflix; first Annapurna Animation film[46]
Landscape with Invisible Hand co-production with Plan B Entertainment; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[47]
TBA Nightbitch co-production with Searchlight Pictures, Bond Group Management, Archer Grey, and Defiant by Nature; distributed by Hulu[48]

As distributor

The company expects to release "approximately four to six films per year".[49]

Release date Film title Notes
August 4, 2017 Detroit
September 15, 2017 Brad's Status Co-distribution with Amazon Studios[50]
October 13, 2017 Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Co-distribution with Stage 6 Films[51][52]
July 6, 2018 Sorry to Bother You [53][54]
September 21, 2018 The Sisters Brothers [55]
December 14, 2018 If Beale Street Could Talk [56]
December 25, 2018 Vice [57][54]
Destroyer [58]
April 12, 2019 Missing Link[38] US distribution through United Artists Releasing[28]
May 24, 2019 Booksmart[59]
August 16, 2019 Where'd You Go, Bernadette
May 13, 2022 On the Count of Three US co-distribution with Orion Pictures through United Artists Releasing[60]

Reception

Most of the films produced by the company have received widespread critical acclaim. In 2013 alone, Her, American Hustle and The Grandmaster had a combined seventeen Academy Award nominations. Commercially, results have been mixed. Some films like The Master, Foxcatcher, Joy, Detroit and Vice, however, do not return their budget while ones such as Zero Dark Thirty, Sausage Party and American Hustle have grossed more than $100 million, the latter grossing more than $250 million worldwide.[61][62]

Annapurna Animation

Annapurna Animation, LLC
Division
Industry Animation
Motion pictures
Predecessor Blue Sky Studios
Founded December 1, 2022; 17 months ago (2022-12-01)
Founders Robert Baird
Andrew Millstein
Headquarters Los Angeles, California, United States
Services Computer animation
Owner Karen Ryan
Julie Zackary
Parent Annapurna Pictures

Annapurna Animation is an American animation studio and division of Annapurna Pictures, founded by former Blue Sky Studios executives Robert Baird and Andrew Millstein on December 1, 2022 and based in Los Angeles, California. The studio's first film Nimona was released on June 30, 2023 on Netflix.

Filmography

Released

Release date Film Director(s) Co-production Animation Service(s) Distribution
June 30, 2023 Nimona Nick Bruno
Troy Quane		 Vertigo Entertainment DNEG Animation Netflix

In development

Release date Film Director(s) Co-production Animation Service(s) Distribution Ref(s)
TBA Foo Chris Wedge N/A TBA [63][64][65][66]
Untitled film Nick Bruno
Stray TBA

Annapurna Television

Annapurna Television, LLC
Division
Industry Television production
Founded September 27, 2016; 7 years ago (2016-09-27)
Founder Sue Naegle
Headquarters Los Angeles, California, United States
Key people
 Sue Naegle
Services Television production
Parent Annapurna Pictures
Website annapurna.pictures/tv/

Annapurna Television is a television production company of Annapurna Pictures, launched on September 27, 2016, and was formerly headed by HBO executive Sue Naegle (with her label, Naegle Ink, now part of the division).[67] In January 2017, it was reported that Annapurna Television would produce the Coen brothers' first TV project, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.[68]

Television series

Year Title Co-production Network Note(s)
2019 Search and Destroy N/A Hulu TV pilot
Half-Empty Endeavor Content
Amazon Studios		 Amazon Prime Video TV pilot
Soundtrack Random Acts Productions
20th Century Fox Television		 Netflix Canceled after one season
2020 The Plot Against America RK Films
Blown Deadline Productions		 HBO Miniseries
Monsterland Two & Two Pictures
Port Orchard Productions		 Hulu Canceled after one season
2021 Hot Pink N/A Amazon Prime Video TV pilot
2022 Pam & Tommy Limelight
Point Grey Pictures
Robert Siegel And Jen Cohn's Production Company
Lionsgate Television		 Hulu Miniseries
The Staircase Emipop
What's Up Films		 HBO Max Miniseries
I Love That for You Semi-Formal Productions
The First Todd
Say Mama
Go Balloons
Showtime Networks		 Showtime Canceled after one season[69]
2023 Paul T. Goldman Point Grey Pictures
Lionsgate Television
Swindle
Caviar		 Peacock Miniseries
Dead Ringers Morgan Creek Entertainment
Astral Projection
Amazon Studios		 Amazon Prime Video Miniseries
The Changeling Apple Studios
De La Revolución Films		 Apple TV+ Upcoming series
2024 Sausage Party: Foodtopia[70] Point Grey Pictures
Sony Pictures Television
Amazon Studios		 Amazon Prime Video Upcoming animated television series

Video games

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Main article: Annapurna Interactive

Annapurna Interactive published its first video game, What Remains of Edith Finch, on April 25, 2017. What Remains of Edith Finch received "universal acclaim" on PC and "generally positive" reviews on PS4, according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.[71] Since 2017, Annapurna Interactive has also been responsible for publishing games including Twelve Minutes, Donut County, Kentucky Route Zero, Outer Wilds, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Wattam, Telling Lies, Neon White and Stray. The publisher has also provided funding and publication support for The Artful Escape by Beethoven & Dinosaur,[72] Ashen by A44 and Gorogoa by Jason Roberts.

Theater

Annapurna Theatre produces plays and live shows on, and off-Broadway.

Show date(s) Title Notes
2018–2019 Nine Night
Network
2019 Home I'm Darling
2019–ongoing American Utopia Also viewable in film format from HBO Max.
2019 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Also viewable in film format from National Theatre Live.
Fleabag
2019–ongoing The Lehman Trilogy
2020 Death of a Salesman
Betrayal
2021–ongoing Company
A Strange Loop

International distributors

Country Distributor Years
Asia Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2017–present
Australia/New Zealand Theatrical: Universal Pictures[73] All Other Media: Entertainment One
Benelux Entertainment One
Canada
Central Europe Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
France Mars Distribution[74]
Germany Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Italy Eagle Pictures/Leone Film Group[74]
Japan Longride[74]
Middle East Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Scandinavia
Spain Entertainment One
United Kingdom

See also

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