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Ambush Entertainment is a Los Angeles based, artist driven, independent film production company that, with its financing arm Cold Iron Pictures, is dedicated to producing provocative, diverse, and original feature films, television and web content aimed at appealing to a wide audience. [1]
| Year | Films and Documentaries | Cast | Director | |
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| 2004 | Dead and Breakfast | Ever Carradine, Bianca Lawson, Erik Palladino, Gina Phillips, Jeremy Sisto, David Carradine, Diedrich Bader, Portia de Rossi, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Oz Perkins, Brent Fraser, Miranda Bailey | Matthew Leutwyler | |
| 2005 | The Squid and the Whale | Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline | Noah Baumbach | |
| 2006 | The Oh in Ohio | Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Danny DeVito, Mischa Barton, Miranda Bailey, Liza Minnelli | Billy Kent | |
| 2007 | Unearthed | Emmanuelle Vaugier, Luke Goss, Charlie Murphy, Beau Garrett | Matthew Leutwyler | |
| 2008 | Hindsight | Leonor Varela, Jeffrey Donovan, Miranda Bailey, Waylon Payne | Paul Holahan | |
| 2008 | Lower Learning | Jason Biggs, Rob Corddry, Eva Longoria Parker, Monica Potter, Will Sasso, Kyle Gass, Hayes MacArthur, Miranda Bailey | Mark Lafferty | |
| 2009 | Against the Current | Joseph Fiennes, Michelle Trachtenberg, Justin Kirk, Elizabeth Reaser, and Mary Tyler Moore | Peter Callahan | |
| 2009 | Wonderful World | Matthew Broderick, Sanaa Lathan, Philip Baker Hall | Joshua Goldin | |
| 2010 | Super | Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon and Nathan Fillion | James Gunn | |
| 2010 | Every Day | Liev Schreiber, Helen Hunt, Brian Dennehy, Carla Gugino and Ezra Miller | Richard Levine | |
| 2010 | Greenlit (Documentary) | Miranda Bailey | ||
| 2010 | The River Why | Zach Gilford, Amber Heard, Kathleen Quinlan, and William Hurt | Matthew Leutwyler | |
| 2011 | Unraveled | Marc H. Simon | ||
| 2011 | Answers to Nothing | Dane Cook, Elizabeth Mitchell, Julie Benz, Barbara Hershey, Zach Gilford, Erik Palladino, Kali Hawk, Miranda Bailey | Matthew Leutwyler |
2012 looks to be a busy year for Ambush Entertainment. They signed on to produce the adaptation of Martha O' Connor's novel "The Bitch Posse" to be directed by Catherine Hardwicke who also directed "Twilight" and "Red Riding Hood" among others. [2] Also on tap is the sci-fi thriller "Below The Surface" based on a John Kelly script and to be directed by "The Eye" and "Them" director Xavier Palud [3] Other Projects slated for 2012 include:
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