Rough House Pictures

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Rough House Pictures
Company type Private
Industry Production company
FoundedDecember 2009;14 years ago (2009-12) in Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Headquarters Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
Website www.roughhousepictures.com

Rough House Pictures is an American television and film production company founded by Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, and Jody Hill in 2009.

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It is known for producing the television series Eastbound & Down , Vice Principals , The Righteous Gemstones , and Telemarketers , and producing the films The Sitter (2011), Arizona (2018), Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills (2021), and Halloween Ends (2022).

History

In December 2009, the company was founded by American actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer Danny McBride, filmmaker David Gordon Green, and actor and filmmaker Jody Hill in Los Angeles, California. In the inception of the company, it entered a two-year first-look deal with Mandate Pictures, and Matt Reilly joined as head of production. [1]

In August 2011, the company entered a one-year television production deal at 20th Century Fox Television. [2] In 2016, the company entered a two-year overall deal with Home Box Office, Inc. [3]

In July 2017, the company moved its production offices from Hollywood, Los Angeles, California to Charleston, South Carolina where the company's production, The Righteous Gemstones , is set. [4] [5] [6]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleNetworkNotesRef.
2009–2013 Eastbound & Down HBO with Gary Sanchez Productions and Enemy MIGs Productions [2]
2011 Good Vibes MTV with Werner Entertainment, Not the QB Pro., 6 Point Harness, Warner Horizon Television, and MTV Production Development [7]
2014 Chozen FX with Floyd County Productions and FX Productions [8]
2016–2017 Vice Principals HBO with HBO Entertainment [9]
2017 There's... Johnny! Hulu [lower-alpha 1] with Nuance Productions and Comedy Dynamics [10]
2017 Tarantula TBS with Rough Draft Studios, Solid Brass, and Studio T [11]
2019–present The Righteous Gemstones HBO with HBO Entertainment [12]
2023 Telemarketers HBO with Elara Pictures, All Facts, and HBO Documentary Films [13]

Film

YearTitleDirectorGross
(worldwide)		NotesRef.
2011 The Catechism Cataclysm Todd Rohal — [14]
2011 The Sitter David Gordon Green $34.9 millionwith Michael De Luca Productions and 20th Century Fox [15]
2012 The Comedy Rick Alverson —with Greyshack Films, Glass Eye Pix, Made Bed Productions, and Jagjaguwar [16]
2013 Prince Avalanche David Gordon Green$442,313with To Get to the Other Side, Muskat Filmed Properties, Dogfish Pictures, Lankn Partners, DreamBridge Films, and The Bear Media [17]
2013 Joe David Gordon Green$2.4 millionwith Worldview Entertainment, DreamBridge Films, and Muskat Filmed Properties [18]
2014 Camp X-Ray Peter Sattler$60,581with GNK Productions, Gotham Group, and The Young Gang [19]
2014 Manglehorn David Gordon Green$459,636with Worldview Entertainment [20]
2015 Hot Sugar's Cold World Adam Bhala Lough — [21]
2016 Fraud Dean Fleischer Camp —with Memory [22]
2016 Donald Cried Kristopher Avedisian$61,406with Electric Chinoland [23]
2016 Hunter Gatherer Josh Locy—with Secret Intimacies, Mama Bear Studios, and Unbundled Underground [24]
2017 Dayveon Amman Abbasi—with Mama Bear Studios, Meridian Entertainment, Muskat Filmed Properties, Salem Street Entertainment, and Symbolic Exchange [25]
2017 Flower Max Winkler $380,553with Diablo Entertainment [26]
2017 Gemini Aaron Katz $200,340with Neon, Film Science, Syncopated Films, and Pastel Productions [27]
2018 The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter Jody Hill —with Scott Rudin Productions [28]
2018 Arizona Jonathan Watson—with Imperative Entertainment [29]
2018 Halloween David Gordon Green$259.9 millionwith Blumhouse Productions, Trancas International Films, Miramax, and Universal Pictures [30]
2020 Fatman Eshom Nelms
Ian Nelms		$1.7 millionwith Fortitude International, Mammoth Entertainment, Sprockefeller Pictures, and Ingenious Media [31]
2021 Halloween Kills David Gordon Green$133.4 millionwith Blumhouse Productions, Trancas International Films, Miramax, and Universal Pictures [32]
2022 Halloween Ends David Gordon Green$105.4 millionwith Blumhouse Productions, Trancas International Films, Miramax, and Universal Pictures [33]
2023 The Exorcist: Believer David Gordon Green$133.8 millionwith Blumhouse Productions and Morgan Creek Entertainment [34]

In production

Notes

  1. ↑ There's... Johnny! was ordered by Seeso and originally scheduled to premiere on that streaming service. Following the service's closure, Hulu acquired the rights to stream the series.

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