Cross Creek Pictures

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Cross Creek Pictures, LLC
Company type Private
Industry Film
Founded2009
FounderTimmy Thompson
Tyler Thompson
Headquarters,
Products Motion pictures
Website www.crosscreekpictures.com

Cross Creek Pictures is an American film production studio formed in 2009 by Timmy Thompson and Tyler Thompson . Its first production was the acclaimed Black Swan (2010), which was followed by The Ides of March (2011), The Woman in Black (2012) and Rush (2013). In September 2011, Cross Creek Pictures signed a deal with Universal Pictures, where the studio would release at least six of Cross Creek's productions over the following three years. [1] In late 2015, Cross Creek signed a new three-year, multifaceted co-financing, production, and distribution deal with Sony Pictures. [2]

Contents

Films

This is the list of films produced or financed by Cross Creek.

Released films
YearFilmDirectorDistributorNotesBudgetGross RT
2010 Black Swan Darren Aronofsky Fox Searchlight Pictures co-production with Protozoa Pictures, Phoenix Pictures and Dune Entertainment; first film$13 million$329.4 million85% [3] [4]
2011 The Ides of March George Clooney Sony Pictures Releasing co-production with Columbia Pictures, Smokehouse Pictures, Appian Way Productions and Exclusive Media$12.5 million$76 million
2012 The Woman in Black James Watkins CBS Films co-production with Alliance Films, Hammer Films, UK Film Council, Talisman Films, Exclusive Media, Filmgate and Film i Väst $15 million$127 million66% [5]
Arthur Newman Dante AriolaCinedigm Entertainmentco-production with Vertebra Films$207,85320% [6]
Aftershock Nicolás López Dimension Films/RADiUS-TWC co-production with Dragonfly Entertainment$2 million$58,51037% [7]
2013 Rush Ron Howard Universal Pictures co-production with Exclusive Media, Working Title Films, Imagine Entertainment and Revolution Films $38 million$98.2 million89% [8]
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet Jean-Pierre Jeunet Gaumont Film Company co-production with Epithète Films, Filmarto, France 2 Cinéma, Orange Cinéma Séries and Tapioca Films$9.5 million79% [9]
2014 A Walk Among the Tombstones Scott Frank Universal Pictures co-production with Endgame Entertainment, 1984 Private Defense Contractors, Exclusive Media, Jersey Films and Double Feature Films $23 million$62.1 million66% [10]
Clown Jon Watts Dimension Filmsco-production with PS 260, Vertebra Films, Zed Filmworks, Method Studios and Dragonfly Entertainment$1.5 million$2.1 million45% [11]
2015 Everest Baltasar Kormákur Universal Pictures co-production with Walden Media and Working Title Films $55 million$203.4 million73% [12] [13]
Black Mass Scott Cooper Warner Bros. Pictures co-production with RatPac Entertainment, Infinitum Nihil, Le Grisbi Productions, Free State Pictures, Head Gear Films and Vendian Entertainment$53 million$99.8 million
Legend Brian Helgeland Universal Pictures co-production with StudioCanal, Anton Capital Entertainment, Prime Video and Working Title Films $20 million$43 million61% [14]
2016 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Burr Steers Sony Pictures Releasing co-production with Screen Gems, Sierra Pictures, MadRiver Pictures, QC Entertainment, Allison Shearmur Productions, Handsomecharlie Films and Head Gear Films$28 million$16.4 million43% [15]
Hacksaw Ridge Mel Gibson Lionsgate co-production with Summit Entertainment, Demarest Media, Argent Pictures, IM Global, AI Film Productions, Vendian Entertainment, Kylin Pictures, Pandemonium Films and Permut Presentations Production $40 million$175.3 million85% [16]
2017 American Made Doug Liman Universal Pictures co-production with Imagine Entertainment, Hercules Film Fund, Quadrant Pictures and Vendian Entertainment$50 million$134.9 million86% [17]
Flatliners Niels Arden Oplev Sony Pictures Releasing co-production with Columbia Pictures, Further Films, Laurence Mark Productions and The Safran Company $19 million$45.2 million4% [18]
Roman J. Israel, Esq. Dan Gilroy co-production with Columbia Pictures, Macro, Topic Studios, Bron Studios, Creative Wealth Media Finance, The Culture China/Image Nation Abu Dhabi Content Fund and Escape Artists $22 million$13 million51% [19]
2018 The Vanishing Kristoffer Nyholm Lionsgate co-production with Mad As Birds, Kodiak Pictures, G-BASE, iWood Studios$1.2 million85% [20]
2020 Bloodshot David S.F. Wilson Sony Pictures Releasing co-production with Columbia Pictures, Bona Film Group, Original Film, Valiant Entertainment and One Race Films $49 million$29.2 million30% [21]
The Tax Collector David Ayer RLJE Films co-production with Cedar Park Entertainment $30 million$942,66617% [22]
The Trial of the Chicago 7 Aaron Sorkin Netflix co-production with Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Marc Platt Productions and Amblin Partners $35 million$104,04894% [23]
2022 The Pale Blue Eye Scott Cooper co-production with Streamline Global Group$72 million$129,92864% [24]
2023 Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie Jeremy Zag Gaumont Financial participation only ; Produced by The Awakening Production and SND$86 million$17.4 million40% [25]

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