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Company type | Società per azioni (S.p.A.) |
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Industry | Entertainment |
Founded | 1986 |
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Headquarters | Rome, Italy |
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Website | eaglepictures |
Eagle Pictures S.p.A. is an Italian film distribution and production company. It is Italy's leading independent film distributor. [1]
Eagle Pictures was founded by Ciro and Stefano Dammicco in 1986. [2] Producer Tarak Ben Ammar acquired a controlling interest in the company in late 2007. [3] [4]
In late 2018, Eagle Pictures established a film and television production division, having previously produced Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's The Lark Farm (2007) and Edoardo De Angelis's Mozzarella Stories (2011). It had also acted as a line producer during the Italian shoots of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), Point Break (2015), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), and 6 Underground (2019). [5]
In January 2020, Eagle Pictures entered into a distribution agreement with Paramount Pictures, after their deal with 20th Century Fox expired earlier that month. [6] In February 2021, Eagle entered into a home entertainment distribution agreement with Sony Pictures. [7] The following year, it also entered into a production and distribution agreement with Sony, effective in 2023. [8] [9]
In June 2023, Eagle Pictures announced that they would be investing between €40 and 50 million in the construction of new film studios in Rome. [10] [11]
In July 2020, Eagle Pictures acquired distributor M2 Pictures for around €8.5 million. [12] In August 2022, it acquired 302 Original Content, a film and television production startup company; [13] [14] it was later renamed to Eagle Original Content. [15] In March 2023, Eagle Pictures merged with 3 Marys Entertainment. [10] Later that year, it acquired Blu Yazmine , a production company specializing in unscripted television. [16]
Year | Title | Network | Notes | Ref. |
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2018 | The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair | Epix | Co-produced with MGM Television, Muse Entertainment, Old Friends Productions, Barbary Films, and Repērage | [5] |
2024 | Gloria | Rai 1 | Co-produced with Rai Fiction | [37] |
Sul più bello - La serie | Amazon Prime Video | [38] |