Atlas Entertainment

Atlas Entertainment, LLC

Logo used since 2019
Company type	Private
Industry	Film
Predecessors	Roven/Cavallo Entertainment Steel Pictures
Founded	1994;31 years ago (1994)
Founders	Charles Roven Bob Cavallo Dawn Steel
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California , U.S.
Products	Motion Pictures Production and Financing
Subsidiaries	Atlas Artist Mosaic Media Group

Atlas Entertainment, LLC is an American film financing and production company, started by Charles Roven, Bob Cavallo and Dawn Steel in 1994. ^[1] Its logo features the Greek Titan Atlas, which was the basis for the company's name.

History

In 1990, Charles Roven and partner Bob Cavallo formed Roven/Cavallo Entertainment. ^[2] At the same time, wife Dawn Steel, who was formerly employee of Columbia Pictures formed Steel Pictures, and signed a deal with Walt Disney Studios to produce feature films. ^[3]

In March 1994, they merged Roven/Cavallo Entertainment with Steel Pictures to create a new entity Atlas Entertainment, and it signed an exclusive feature film deal with Turner Pictures, with international backers, including TF1. ^{[4] [5]}

In 1997, Bob Cavallo left Atlas Entertainment to join Walt Disney Studios. ^[6] Later that year, Dawn Steel, a manager in the company, died. ^[7]

On July 29, 1999, Atlas Entertainment was merged with Gold/Miller Management to create Mosaic Media Group. ^[8]

In 2008, Charles Roven split off their ties from Mosaic Media Group, and relaunched Atlas Entertainment with a first-look deal at Sony Pictures. ^[9]

On May 6, 2014, Atlas promoted Curt Kanemoto from production executive to VP of production, joining Andy Horwitz and Jake Kurily, Topher Rhys-Lawrence from first assistant to creative executive, joining Rebecca Roven and Dan Wiedenhaupt, and promoted Patrick Blood from Atlas executive to VP of legal and business affairs. ^[10] In December 2014, Atlas started its subsidiary, a management company called Atlas Artists, headed by Dave Fleming. ^[11]

Charles Roven and Richard Suckle produced 2013 film American Hustle, for which both producers were nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture. ^[12] 12 Monkeys episode “Mentally Divergent” was also nominated for Cinematography Awards. ^{[13] [14]} Atlas also produced the films The Whole Truth with Suckle, while Warcraft (release date June 10, 2016) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (release date March 25, 2016) with Roven. ^{[11] [15] [16]} Uncharted was also produced by Atlas along with Arad Productions. ^[17] Atlas co-produced the 2023 film Oppenheimer with Syncopy Inc., which won multiple accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture for Roven, Emma Thomas and director Christopher Nolan.

Filmography

Theatrical films

1990s

Year	Title	Distributor	Notes	Budget	Gross (worldwide)
1995	Angus	New Line Cinema	co-production with Turner Pictures and the BBC	$1.5 million	$4.8 million
	12 Monkeys	Universal Pictures	co-production with Classico	$29.5 million	$168.8 million
1998	Fallen	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with Turner Pictures	$46 million	$25.2 million
	City of Angels		co-production with TaurusFilm and Regency Enterprises	$55 million	$198.7 million
1999	Three Kings		co-production with Village Roadshow Pictures, Village-A.M. Film Partnership and Coast Ridge Films	$48 million	$107.7 million

2000s

Year	Title	Distributor	Notes	Budget	Gross
2002	Rollerball	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	co-production with Helkon Media KG, Mosaic Media Group, Toho-Towa and Yorktown Productions	$70 million	$25.9 million
	Scooby-Doo	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with Mosaic Media Group	$84 million	$275.7 million
2005	The Brothers Grimm	Dimension Films	co-production with Mosaic Media Group, Daniel Bobker Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$80–88 million	$105.3 million
2006	Idlewild	Universal Pictures	co-production with Forensic Films, HBO Films and Mosaic Media Group	$10 million	$12.6 million
2008	Get Smart	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with Village Roadshow Pictures, Mosaic Media Group, Mad Chance and Callahan Filmworks	$80 million	$230.7 million
2009	The International	Sony Pictures Releasing	co-production with Columbia Pictures and Relativity Media	$50 million	$60.2 million

2010s

Year	Title	Distributor	Notes	Budget	Gross
2011	Season of the Witch	Relativity Media	co-production with Rogue	$40 million	$91.6 million
2013	American Hustle	Sony Pictures Releasing	co-production with Columbia Pictures and Annapurna Pictures		$251.2 million
2016	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with DC Entertainment, RatPac Entertainment and Cruel and Unusual Films	$250–300 million	$873.6 million
	Warcraft	Universal Pictures	co-production with Legendary Pictures, Blizzard Entertainment, Tencent Pictures and Huayi Brothers	$160 million	$439 million
	Suicide Squad	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with DC Films and RatPac Entertainment	$175 million	$746.8 million
	The Whole Truth	Lionsgate Premiere	co-production with FilmNation Entertainment, PalmStar Entertainment, Likely Story and Merced Media	$7.9 million	$1.8 million
2017	The Great Wall	Universal Pictures	co-production with Legendary East, China Film Group, Le Vision Pictures, Dentsu Inc. and Fuji Television Network, Inc.	$150 million	$334.9 million
	Wonder Woman	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with DC Films, RatPac Entertainment, Cruel and Unusual Films, Tencent Pictures and Wanda Pictures	$120–150 million	$821.8 million
	Justice League		co-production with DC Films, RatPac Entertainment and Cruel and Unusual Films	$300 million	$657 million

2020s

Year	Title	Distributor	Notes	Budget	Gross
2020	Wonder Woman 1984	Warner Bros. Pictures	co-production with DC Films and The Stone Quarry	$200 million	$188.1 million
2021	The Suicide Squad		co-production with DC Films and The Safran Company	$185 million	$167.4 million
2022	Uncharted	Sony Pictures Releasing	co-production with Columbia Pictures, Arad Productions and PlayStation Productions	$120 million	$384.7 million
2023	Oppenheimer	Universal Pictures	co-production with Syncopy Inc.	$100 million	$958 million

Upcoming

Year	Title	Distributor	Notes
2026	Mercy	Amazon MGM Studios	co-production with Bazelevs Company
TBA	American Speed		[18]
	Vicious	Paramount Pictures	under Atlas Independent

Direct-to-video/streaming films

Year	Title	Distributor	Notes
2007	Live!	Vivendi Entertainment	co-production with Vivendi
2019	Triple Frontier	Netflix	co-production with Netflix Original Films
2021	Zack Snyder's Justice League	HBO Max	co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Films, Access / Dune Entertainment and The Stone Quarry
2024	The Killer	Peacock	co-production with Entertainment One, A Better Tomorrow Films and Taewon Entertainment

Television series

Years	Title	Network	Notes	Seasons	Episodes
2015-2018	12 Monkeys	Syfy	co-production with Division Street (seasons 3–4) and Universal Cable Productions	4	47
2018–2020	Dirty John	Bravo (season 1) USA Network (season 2)	co-production with Universal Cable Productions (season 1), Universal Content Productions (season 2), Los Angeles Times Studios and Nutmegger	2	16
2019	What/If	Netflix	co-production with Page Fright, Compari Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television	1	10

Television films

Year	Title	Network	Notes
2010	Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster	Cartoon Network	co-production with Warner Premiere, Telvan Productions and Nine/8 Entertainment

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