Shady Acres Entertainment

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Shady Acres Entertainment
Company type Production company
Industry Film and television production
Founded1999;25 years ago (1999)
Founder Tom Shadyac
Headquarters10 Universal City Plaza, ,
Products Films, television series

Shady Acres Entertainment is a production company founded in 1999 by producer and director Tom Shadyac. [1] [2] [3] It is based at Universal Studios. [3] [4] It is taken from his last name, Shadyac, which separated and became two words "Shady" and "Acres". It also derives from a fictional mental hospital from the first Ace Ventura film. Shady Acres signed a production deal with Universal to produce films while its lone television series was co-produced by Touchstone Television (now ABC Signature).

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On June 4, 1999, Shady Acres received a television shingle, which would be based at Touchstone Television (now ABC Signature). Although the company produced a handful of pilots, only one of them would go on the air. [5]

On February 14, 2008, Universal decided to cut ties with that Shady Acres Entertainment studio, and became an independent production outfit. [6]

Nicole Pritchett was the head of development and production at Shady Acres Entertainment from 2009 until 2015, along with one of the Producers of the documentary I AM.

Filmography

Television series

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