Eagle Pictures

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Eagle Pictures S.p.A.
Company type Società per azioni (S.p.A.)
Industry Entertainment
Founded1986;39 years ago (1986)
Founder
Headquarters
Rome, Italy
Subsidiaries
Website eaglepictures.com

Eagle Pictures S.p.A. is an Italian film distribution and production company. It is Italy's leading independent film distributor. [1]

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History

Eagle Pictures was founded by Ciro  [ it ] 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]

Mergers and acquisitions

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  [ it ], a production company specializing in unscripted television. [16]

Production credits

Film

YearTitleDirectorNotesRef.
2004 The Lazarus Child Graham Theakston [17]
2007 The Lark Farm Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Co-produced with Ager 3, Rai Cinema, France 2 Cinéma, and Istituto Luce [5]
2010 Basilicata Coast to Coast Rocco Papaleo [18]
2011 Mozzarella Stories Edoardo De Angelis [5]
2020 Un figlio di nome Erasmus  [ it ] Alberto Ferrari  [ it ]Co-produced with Vivi Film Portugal [19]
Out of My League Alice Filippi [20]
2021 Still Out of My League Claudio Norza  [ it ]Co-produced with Weekend Films [21]
2022 Backstage - Dietro le quinte  [ it ] Cosimo Alemà [22]
The Bunker Game Roberto ZazzaraCo-produced with Be Cool Produzioni [23]
Dampyr Riccardo ChemelloCo-produced with Sergio Bonelli Editore and Brandon Box [24]
Forever Out of My League Claudio Norza [25]
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile Will Speck and Josh Gordon Co-produced with Columbia Pictures and TSG Entertainment [8]
L'uomo sulla strada  [ it ]Gianluca Mangiasciutti [26]
2023 Da grandi  [ it ] Fausto Brizzi [27]
The Equalizer 3 Antoine Fuqua Co-produced with Columbia Pictures and Escape Artists [28]
Hotspot - Amore senza rete  [ it ] Giulio Manfredonia Co-produced with Sony Pictures International Productions [29]
2024 The Boy with Pink Pants Margherita Ferri  [ it ]Co-produced with Weekend Films [30]
Il corpo  [ it ] Vincenzo Alfieri  [ it ]Co-produced with Sony Pictures International Productions [31]
How Kids Roll Loris LaiCo-produced with Jean Vigo Italia, Lawrence Bender Productions, Potemkino, and Rai Cinema [32]
2025 Get Help  [ it ] Tiziano Russo  [ it ] [33]
Leopardi & CoFederica Biondi [34]
TBA40 secondiVincenzo Alfieri [35]
SqualiDaniele Barbiero [36]

Television

YearTitleNetworkNotesRef.
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  [ it ] Rai 1 Co-produced with Rai Fiction [37]
Sul più bello - La serie Amazon Prime Video [38]

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