Atlas Entertainment

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Atlas Entertainment, LLC
Company type Private
Industry Film
PredecessorsRoven/Cavallo Entertainment
Steel Pictures
Founded1994;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.

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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

YearTitleDistributorNotesBudgetGross (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

YearTitleDistributorNotesBudgetGross
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

YearTitleDistributorNotesBudgetGross
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

YearTitleDistributorNotesBudgetGross
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

YearTitleDistributorNotes
2025 Mercy Amazon MGM Studios co-production with Bazelevs Company
TBAAmerican Speed [18]
Vicious Paramount Pictures under Atlas Independent

Direct-to-video/streaming films

YearTitleDistributorNotes
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

YearsTitleNetworkNotesSeasonsEpisodes
2015-2018 12 Monkeys Syfy co-production with Division Street (seasons 3–4) and Universal Cable Productions 447
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 Nutmegger216
2019 What/If Netflix co-production with Page Fright, Compari Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television 110

Television films

YearTitleNetworkNotes
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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