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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Motion pictures, television |
Founded | 1994 |
Founder | Bryan Singer |
Headquarters | , |
Products | Motion pictures |
Website | bryansinger |
Bad Hat Harry Productions is an American film and television production company founded in 1994 by director Bryan Singer. It has produced such films as The Usual Suspects and the X-Men film series, as well as the television series House . The name is an homage to Steven Spielberg and comes from a line uttered by Roy Scheider in the 1975 feature Jaws : an elderly swimmer in a bathing cap teases police chief Martin Brody about not going in the water; Brody replies, "That's some bad hat, Harry." The original 2004 logo paid animated homage to this scene. The current logo, introduced in 2011, is taken from the police lineup scene of the companies' first film,The Usual Suspects.
Year | Film | Director | Co-produced by | Budget | Gross (worldwide) |
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1995 | The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | Gramercy Pictures PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Spelling Films International Blue Parrot Productions | $6 million | $23 million |
1998 | Apt Pupil | TriStar Pictures Phoenix Pictures | $14 million | $8.9 million | |
2000 | X-Men | 20th Century Fox Marvel Entertainment The Donners' Company | $75 million | $296 million | |
2003 | X2 | $110 million | $407 million | ||
2006 | Superman Returns | Warner Bros. Legendary Pictures DC Entertainment Peters Entertainment | $204 million | $391 million | |
2008 | Valkyrie | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer United Artists Cruise/Wagner Productions Babelsberg Studio | $75 million | $200 million | |
2009 | Trick 'r Treat | Michael Dougherty | Warner Bros. Legendary Pictures | $12 million | $13.5 million |
2011 | X-Men: First Class | Matthew Vaughn | 20th Century Fox Dune Entertainment Marvel Entertainment The Donners' Company Ingenious Media | $140–160 million | $353 million |
2013 | Jack the Giant Slayer | Bryan Singer | Warner Bros. New Line Cinema Legendary Pictures Original Film Big Kid Pictures | $185–200 million | $197 million |
2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | 20th Century Fox TSG Entertainment Marvel Entertainment The Donners' Company | $200 million | $739 million | |
2016 | X-Men: Apocalypse | 20th Century Fox TSG Entertainment Marvel Entertainment The Donners' Company Kinberg Genre | $178 million | $543 million | |
2019 | Dark Phoenix | Simon Kinberg [1] | 20th Century Fox Marvel Entertainment TSG Entertainment The Donners' Company Kinberg Genre NOTE: Uncredited due to sexual assault allegations made against Singer | $200 million | $252.4 million |
Year(s) active | Title | Creator(s) | Network | Co-produced by |
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2004–2012 | House | David Shore | Fox | Universal Television, Shore Z Productions and Heel and Toe Films |
2012–2013 | H+: The Digital Series | John Cabrera and Cosimo De Tommaso | YouTube | Warner Premiere Digital and Dolphin Entertainment |
2012 | Mockingbird Lane | Allan Burns and Chris Hayward | NBC | Universal Television and Living Dead Guy Productions |
2014 | Black Box | Amy Holden Jones | ABC | Bold Films and Little Chicken Productions |
2017–2019 | Legion | Noah Hawley | FX | FX Productions, Marvel Television, The Donners' Company, Kinberg Genre and 26 Keys Productions |
2017–2019 | The Gifted | Matt Nix | Fox | 20th Century Fox Television, Marvel Television, The Donners' Company, Kinberg Genre and Flying Glass of Milk Productions |
Year | Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic |
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1995 | The Usual Suspects | 88% [2] | 77 [3] |
1998 | Apt Pupil | 53% [4] | 51 [5] |
2000 | X-Men | 82% [6] | 64 [7] |
2003 | X2 | 86% [8] | 68 [9] |
2006 | Superman Returns | 75% [10] | 72 [11] |
2008 | Valkyrie | 61% [12] | 56 [13] |
2009 | Trick 'r Treat | 85% [14] | — (2 reviews) [15] |
2011 | X-Men: First Class | 86% [16] | 65 [17] |
2013 | Jack the Giant Slayer | 52% [18] | 51 [19] |
2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | 91% [20] | 74 [21] |
2016 | X-Men: Apocalypse | 48% [22] | 52 [23] |
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