List of films produced by CBS

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Listing for films produced by the motion picture divisions of CBS (a subsidiary of Paramount Global), includes Cinema Center Films, CBS Theatrical Films and CBS Films.

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Currently the rights to all of these films are owned by Paramount Pictures (through Viacom's acquisition of CBS in 2000), the CCF and CTF films are distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment in the home media market. As for CBS Films, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has the U.S. home entertainment distribution rights and the foreign theatrical and home entertainment distribution rights for all pre-2015 films, [1] while Lionsgate owns the distribution rights for the 2015–2019 releases. Paramount will assume distribution rights when their respective deals expire. As for TV rights for these libraries, they are owned by CBS Media Ventures, with the pay cable rights for CBS Films going though sister company Showtime Networks.

Cinema Center Films

Unmade projects

The following projects were announced but not made:

CBS Theatrical Films

Release DateTitle [7]
March 13, 1981 Back Roads
July 23, 1982 The Challenge
February 18, 1983 Table for Five
May 18, 1984 Finders Keepers
August 3, 1984 Grandview, U.S.A.
September 21, 1984 Windy City
October 26, 1984 American Dreamer
August 23, 1985 Better Off Dead
September 26, 1985 The Lightship
November 1, 1985 Eleni
November 8, 1985 Target

Cancelled film

Starblasters was to be a video game-themed movie, due to be released about Christmas time 1982, at least some of the film was to be computer-animated. It would have been the second video game-themed movie after Tron which was released in July of that year. [8]

CBS Films

Release DateTitleBudgetGross (worldwide)Notes
January 22, 2010 Extraordinary Measures $30 million$15.1 millionCo-production with Double Feature Films
April 23, 2010 The Back-up Plan $35 million$77.5 millionCo-production with Escape Artists
November 24, 2010 Faster $24 million$35.5 millionCo-production with TriStar Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment
January 28, 2011 The Mechanic $40 million$51.0 millionCo-production with Millennium Films
March 4, 2011 Beastly $17 million$43.1 million
February 3, 2012 The Woman in Black $13 million$127.7 millionUS distribution only, produced by Hammer Pictures, UK Film Council, Alliance Films, Exclusive Media Group and Cross Creek Pictures
March 9, 2012 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen $14.5 million$34.6 millionUS distribution only, produced by Lionsgate Films, UK Film Council and BBC Films
September 7, 2012 The Words $6 million$13.2 million
October 12, 2012 Seven Psychopaths $15 million$33 millionCo-production with the British Film Institute, Blueprint Pictures and Film4 Productions
March 1, 2013 The Last Exorcism Part II $5 million$15.2 millionCo-production with StudioCanal and Strike Entertainment
May 31, 2013 The Kings of Summer n/a$1.4 millionCo-production with Big Beach Films
July 26, 2013 The To Do List $1.5 million$3.9 million
November 1, 2013 Last Vegas $28 million$134.4 millionCo-production with Good Universe
December 6, 2013 Inside Llewyn Davis $11 million$13+ millionUS distribution only, produced by StudioCanal, Scott Rudin Productions, and Mike Zoss Productions
April 4, 2014 Afflicted $318,000$121,200Co-production with Entertainment One and IM Global
April 25, 2014 Gambit n/a$14.2 millionUS home video distribution only [9]
August 15, 2014 What If $11 million$7.8 millionUS distribution only, produced by Entertainment One and Telefilm Canada
September 26, 2014 Pride $16.7 millionUS distribution only, co-production with 20th Century Fox, BBC Films, British Film Institute, Canal+, Ciné+, Ingenious Media and Pathé
February 20, 2015 The DUFF $8.5 million$43.5 millionCo-production with Wonderland Sound and Vision and Vast Entertainment
November 13, 2015 Love the Coopers $24 million$41.1 millionCo-production with Groundswell Productions, Imagine Entertainment, and Handwritten Films
March 25, 2016 Get a Job Co-production with Lionsgate Premiere and Double Feature Films
April 12, 2016 Flight 7500 [10] $2.8 millionCo-distribution with Lionsgate Films
August 12, 2016 Hell or High Water $12 million$37.9 millionCo-production with Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Odd Lot Entertainment, Film 44, and LBI Entertainment
October 7, 2016 Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life $8.5 million$23.3 millionCo-production with Lionsgate Films, James Patterson Entertainment, and Participant Media
December 21, 2016 Patriots Day $40 million [11] $52.4 million [11] Co-distribution with Lionsgate Films
March 10, 2017 The Sense of an Ending Co-distribution with Lionsgate [12]
June 2, 2017 Dean $950,000$254,536
September 15, 2017 American Assassin $33 million$66.7 millionInternational distribution by Lionsgate Films
February 2, 2018 Winchester $3.5 million [13] $44 million [14]
September 28, 2018 Hell Fest [15] $5.5 million [16] $18.2 million [16] Co-production with Valhalla Entertainment and Tucker Tooley Entertainment
November 16, 2018 At Eternity's Gate [17] $11.5 million [18] Co-production with Iconoclast and Riverstone Pictures
March 15, 2019 Five Feet Apart [19] $7 million$88.4 million [20] Co-distribution with Lionsgate Films
June 7, 2019 Pavarotti [21] $5.9 million [22]
August 9, 2019 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark [23] $25 million$104.5 million [24] Co-production with Lionsgate Films and Entertainment One
September 6, 2019 Strange but True [25] Co-production with Lionsgate Films
October 11, 2019 Jexi [26] $5 million$9.2 millionLast cinema release.

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