Company type | Private |
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Industry | Film |
Founded | 2009 |
Founder | Timmy 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]
This is the list of films produced or financed by Cross Creek.
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Year | Film | Director | Distributor | Notes | Budget | Gross | 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 million | 85% [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 million | 66% [5] |
Arthur Newman | Dante Ariola | Cinedigm Entertainment | co-production with Vertebra Films | — | $207,853 | 20% [6] | |
Aftershock | Nicolás López | Dimension Films/RADiUS-TWC | co-production with Dragonfly Entertainment | $2 million | $58,510 | 37% [7] | |
2013 | Rush | Ron Howard | Universal Pictures | co-production with Exclusive Media, Working Title Films, Imagine Entertainment and Revolution Films | $38 million | $98.2 million | 89% [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 million | 79% [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 million | 66% [10] |
Clown | Jon Watts | Dimension Films | co-production with PS 260, Vertebra Films, Zed Filmworks, Method Studios and Dragonfly Entertainment | $1.5 million | $2.1 million | 45% [11] | |
2015 | Everest | Baltasar Kormákur | Universal Pictures | co-production with Walden Media and Working Title Films | $55 million | $203.4 million | 73% [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 million | 61% [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 million | 43% [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 million | 85% [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 million | 86% [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 million | 4% [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 million | 51% [19] | ||
2018 | The Vanishing | Kristoffer Nyholm | Lionsgate | co-production with Mad As Birds, Kodiak Pictures, G-BASE, iWood Studios | — | $1.2 million | 85% [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 million | 30% [21] |
The Tax Collector | David Ayer | RLJE Films | co-production with Cedar Park Entertainment | $30 million | $942,666 | 17% [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 | $104,048 | 94% [23] | |
2022 | The Pale Blue Eye | Scott Cooper | co-production with Streamline Global Group | $72 million | $129,928 | 64% [24] | |
2023 | Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie | Jeremy Zag | Gaumont | Financial participation only ; Produced by The Awakening Production and SND | $86 million | $17.4 million | 40% [25] |
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