Morgan Creek Entertainment
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Company type | Film studio |
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Industry | Movie studio |
Founded | 1988 |
Key people | James G. Robinson (co-founder and chairman/CEO) Joe Roth (co-founder and former co-chairman/CEO) |
Website | http://www.morgancreek.com |
Morgan Creek Productions is an American film studio that has released box-office hits like Young Guns, Dead Ringers, Major League, True Romance, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Crush, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and others. The studio was co-founded in 1988 by James G. Robinson, and Joe Roth.
Subdivision Morgan Creek Records has produced soundtrack albums to films as well as the rock bands, Eleven and Miracle Legion.
Founder Robinson continues to lead the company as chairman and CEO. His son, David C. Robinson, serves as vice president.
List of Morgan Creek films
Title | Year | Director | Budget | Gross (worldwide) | Notes |
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Young Guns | 1988 | Christopher Cain | $11 million | $45,661,556 | |
Dead Ringers | 1988 | David Cronenberg | N/A | $8,038,508 | |
Skin Deep | 1989 | Blake Edwards | N/A | $19,674,852 | |
Major League | 1989 | David S. Ward | $11 million | $49,797,148 | |
Renegades | 1989 | Jack Sholder | N/A | $9,015,164 | |
Enemies, a Love Story | 1989 | Paul Mazursky | N/A | $7,754,571 | |
Coupe de Ville | 1990 | Joe Roth | N/A | $715,983 | |
The Exorcist III | 1990 | William Peter Blatty | $11 million | $26,098,824 | |
Nightbreed | 1990 | Clive Barker | $11 million | $8,862,354 | |
Young Guns II | 1990 | Geoff Murphy | N/A | $44,143,410 | |
Pacific Heights | 1990 | John Schlesinger | $18 million | $44,926,706 | |
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | 1991 | Kevin Reynolds | $48 million | $390,493,908 | The score would become the music for Morgan Creek's studio identifier.[1] |
Freejack | 1992 | Geoff Murphy | $30 million | $17,129,000 | |
White Sands | 1992 | Roger Donaldson | $25 million | $9,011,574 | |
Stay Tuned | 1992 | Peter Hyams | N/A | $10,736,401 | |
The Last of the Mohicans | 1992 | Michael Mann | $40 million | $75,505,856 | |
The Crush | 1993 | Alan Shapiro | N/A | $13,609,396 | |
True Romance | 1993 | Tony Scott | $13 million | $12,281,551 | |
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | 1994 | Tom Shadyac | $12 million | $107,217,396 | |
Major League II | 1994 | David S. Ward | $25 million | $30,626,182 | |
Chasers | 1994 | Dennis Hopper | $15 million | $1,596,687 | |
Trial by Jury | 1994 | Heywood Gould | N/A | $6,971,777 | |
Imaginary Crimes | 1994 | Anthony Drazan | N/A | $89,611 | |
Silent Fall | 1994 | Bruce Beresford | $30 million | $3,180,674 | |
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls | 1995 | Steve Oedekerk | $30 million | $212,385,533 | |
Two If by Sea | 1996 | Bill Bennett | N/A | $10,658,278 | |
Big Bully | 1996 | Steve Miner | $15 million | $2,042,530 | |
Diabolique | 1996 | Jeremiah S. Chechik | $45 million | $17,100,369 | |
Bad Moon | 1996 | Eric Red | $7 million | $1,055,525 | |
Wild America | 1997 | William Dear | N/A | $7,324,662 | |
Incognito | 1998 | John Badham | N/A | N/A | |
Major League: Back to the Minors | 1998 | John Warren | $18 million | $3,572,443 | |
Wrongfully Accused | 1998 | Pat Proft | N/A | $9,623,329 | |
Soldier | 1998 | Paul W.S. Anderson | $60 million | $14,594,226 | |
The King and I | 1999 | Richard Rich | $25 million | $11,993,021 | |
Chill Factor | 1999 | Hugh Johnson | $70 million | $11,263,966 | |
Liberty Heights | 1999 | Barry Levinson | $11 million | $3,736,868 | |
The Whole Nine Yards | 2000 | Jonathan Lynn | $41.3 million | $106,371,651 | |
Battlefield Earth | 2000 | Roger Christian | $44 million | $29,725,663 | |
The Art of War | 2000 | Christian Duguay | $60 million | $40,400,425 | |
Get Carter | 2000 | Stephen Kay | $63.6 million | $19,412,993 | |
The In Crowd | 2000 | Mary Lambert | $15 million | $5,217,498 | |
The Pledge | 2001 | Sean Penn | $35 million | $29,419,291 | |
3000 Miles to Graceland | 2001 | Demian Lichtenstein | $62 million | $18,720,175 | |
Angel Eyes | 2001 | Luis Mandoki | $53 million | $29,715,606 | |
American Outlaws | 2001 | Les Mayfield | $35 million | $13,342,790 | |
Heist | 2001 | David Mamet | $39 million | $28,510,652 | |
Juwanna Mann | 2002 | Jesse Vaughan | $15 million | $13,802,599 | |
I'll Be There | 2003 | Craig Ferguson | N/A | N/A | |
Exorcist: The Beginning | 2004 | Renny Harlin | $80 million | $78,000,586 | |
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist | 2005 | Paul Schrader | $30 million | $251,495 | |
Two for the Money | 2005 | D. J. Caruso | $25 million | $30,526,509 | |
Man of the Year | 2006 | Barry Levinson | $20 million | $41,237,658 | |
The Good Shepherd | 2006 | Robert De Niro | $85 million | $99,480,480 | |
Georgia Rule | 2007 | Garry Marshall | $20 million | $25,992,167 | |
Sydney White | 2007 | Joe Nussbaum | N/A | $13,620,075 | |
Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective | 2009 | David Mickey Evans | $7.5 million | N/A | |
Dream House | 2011 | Jim Sheridan | $50 million | $38,502,340 | |
The Thing[2] | 2011 | Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. | $38 million | $27,428,670 |
References
- ^ Easton, Nina J. (1990-07-24). "Costner May Put Morgan Creek Ahead of Robin Hood Pack". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-10-03.
- ^ Reuters
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