Scott Free Productions

Last updated

Scott Free Productions
Formerly
Type Private
Industry Entertainment
Founded
Founders Ridley Scott
Tony Scott
Headquarters London, United Kingdom
Los Angeles, United States
Key people
 David W. Zucker
(Chief Creative Officer)
Kevin J. Walsh
(President)
Michael Schaefer
(Producer & President)
Mike Pruss
(Senior VP)
Jack Arbuthnott
(Head of Film)
Kate Crowe
(Head of Television)
Carlo Dusi
(Head of Business)
Justin Alvarado Brown
(Chief Operating Officer)
ProductsMotion pictures, television programs
OwnerRidley Scott
Parent RSA Films
Website www.scottfree.com

Scott Free Productions is a British-American independent film and television production company founded in 1970 by filmmakers and brothers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott. They formed the feature film development company Percy Main Productions in 1980, [1] naming the company after the English village Percy Main, where their father grew up. [2] The company was renamed Scott Free Productions in 1995. [2] Scott Free has produced films ranging from the 2000 Hollywood blockbuster Gladiator (2000) to "smaller pictures" like Cracks (2009). [2] Between the productions of White Squall (1996) and G.I. Jane (1997), Ridley Scott reorganised the company. [3]

Contents

History

On July 1, 1992, Percy Main Productions signed a production deal with Paramount Pictures to produce its feature films. [4]

On December 6, 1993, two separate production companies, Tony Scott Productions and Ridley Scott Productions, were merged into a single roof and it signed an agreement with 20th Century Fox, and Italy's RCS Video, with UK's Majestic Films International to distribute its films and made its new banner Scott Free Productions. [5]

On September 25, 1995, the Scotts moved to Disney, and Largo Entertainment took over international distribution of its product. [6] In 1996, the Scotts signed a secondary agreement with Intermedia to finance some of its films. [7]

In November 1997, the Scotts moved full-time to PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, where they produced feature films for the studio, terminating its contracts with Disney and Intermedia. [8]

On October 12, 1999, Scott Free Productions entered a two-year production deal with The Walt Disney Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, after its original deal with Universal, which was inherited from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment ended. [9] There, the company produced Black Hawk Down for Bruckheimer.

On September 21, 2001, Scott Free was moved to 20th Century Fox, and Fox produced its feature films, after its previous agreement with producer Jerry Bruckheimer ended. [10] After Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox on March 20, 2019 and Disney dropped the “Fox” name from the studio's 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures branding and the two studios were renamed 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures, respectively on January 17, 2020, Scott Free returned to Disney. [11]

On November 6, 2002, Scott Free signed a television contract with CBS to produce its television shows, airing on the network. [12]

On January 23, 2005, Numbers became Scott Free's first hit series for television. [13] The strategy repeated on September 22, 2009 when Scott Free produced its second hit series The Good Wife . [14]

On August 21, 2012, Tony Scott, who was one of the co-founders of the company in 1993, committed suicide after jumping off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the San Pedro port district of Los Angeles.. [15]

In August 2022, Scott Free productions were signed to create an Apple TV+ eight part crime drama Sinking Spring. Additionally the show marked Ridley Scott's second TV directorial role. [16]

During January 2023, Scott Free productions signed COO Justin Alvarado Brown in a 2 year deal. [17]

During February 2023, ABC News studios announced they have signed with Scott Free to produce a four part true-crime docuseries for Hulu. [18]

In April 2023, Scott Free Productions announced that they would be working in conjunction with Apple Studios and Sony Pictures to produce Napoleon, a historical action directed by Ridley Scott that stars Joaquin Phoenix as French conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte. [19]

Scott Free Productions has offices in London and Los Angeles. It works with Ridley Scott's larger company RSA Films by assisting directors in film and television. [20]

As of Clay Pigeons , released in 1998, the production logo is a watercolour-style traditional animation of a crudely-drawn man wearing monk-style clothing with a white haze surrounding him, walking and smoking a cigarette, then running and transforming into a bird. The company name (sometimes since A Good Year in 2006, without it) appears underneath the bird and everything turns blue and on a black background. The bird is between the name. It was done by Italian artist and animator Gianluigi Toccafondo. [21]

Productions

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">20th Century Studios</span> American film studio

20th Century Studios, Inc. is an American film studio currently owned by The Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, in turn a division of The Walt Disney Company. It is headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by 20th Century Studios in theatrical markets.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Walt Disney Pictures</span>

Walt Disney Pictures is an American film production and distribution company and subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company. The studio is the flagship producer of live-action feature films within the Walt Disney Studios unit, and is based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. Animated films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios are also released under the studio banner. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by Walt Disney Pictures.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Major film studios</span> United States film production and distribution companies with high output

Major film studios are production and distribution companies that release a substantial number of films annually and consistently command a significant share of box office revenue in a given market. In the American and international markets, the major film studios, often known simply as the majors or the Big Five studios, are commonly regarded as the five diversified media conglomerates whose various film production and distribution subsidiaries collectively command approximately 80 to 85% of U.S. box office revenue. The term may also be applied more specifically to the primary motion picture business subsidiary of each respective conglomerate.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Touchstone Pictures</span> Defunct American film label of Walt Disney Pictures

Touchstone Pictures was an American film production label of Walt Disney Studios, founded and owned by The Walt Disney Company. Feature films released under the Touchstone label were produced and financed by Walt Disney Studios, and featured more mature themes targeted at adult audiences than typical Walt Disney Pictures films. As such, Touchstone was merely a brand label for the studio and did not exist as a distinct business operation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Searchlight Pictures</span> American film studio; a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company

Searchlight Pictures is an American film production and distribution arm of Walt Disney Studios, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company's Disney Entertainment division. Founded in 1994 as Fox Searchlight Pictures for 20th Century Fox, the studio focuses primarily on producing, distributing, and acquiring specialty films. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment distributes the films produced by Searchlight in home media under the 20th Century Home Entertainment banner.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pathé</span> French media production and theater businesses

Pathé or Pathé Frères is the name of various French businesses that were founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France starting in 1896. In the early 1900s, Pathé became the world's largest film equipment and production company, as well as a major producer of phonograph records. In 1908, Pathé invented the newsreel that was shown in cinemas before a feature film.

The Walt Disney Studios is a major division of the Disney Entertainment business segment of The Walt Disney Company best known for housing its multifaceted film studio divisions. Founded on October 16, 1923, and based mainly at the namesake studio lot in Burbank, California, it is the seventh-oldest global film studio and the fifth-oldest in the United States, a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and one of the "Big Five" major film studios.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures</span> American film distribution studio

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, previously known as Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc, is an American film distributor within the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company. It handles theatrical and occasional digital distribution, marketing and promotion for films produced and released by the Walt Disney Studios, including Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Studios; the Searchlight Pictures label operates its own autonomous theatrical distribution and marketing unit.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">20th Century Home Entertainment</span> American home video distributor

20th Century Home Entertainment is a home video brand label of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment that distributes films produced by 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, and 20th Century Animation, and television series by 20th Television, Searchlight Television, 20th Television Animation, and FX Productions in home entertainment formats.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Beacon Pictures</span> Film production company

Beacon Pictures is an American film and television production and international sales company founded in 1990 by Armyan Bernstein, who is also its chairman. The company produces motion pictures for studios such as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment. In 1996, it struck a first look deal with Universal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fox 2000 Pictures</span> American film studio

Fox 2000 Pictures was an American film production company within The Walt Disney Studios. It was a sister studio of the larger film studios 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures, specializing in producing independent films in mid-range releases that largely targeted underserved groups. The company dissolved on May 14, 2021, following the release of The Woman in the Window on Netflix, and the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company on March 20, 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">20th Century Animation</span> Animation division of 20th Century Studios

20th Century Animation is an American animation studio located in Century City, Los Angeles. Formed in 1994, it is organized as a division and label of 20th Century Studios, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Studios, and is tasked with producing animated feature-length films. At one point, 20th Century Animation had two subsidiaries: Fox Animation Studios, which was shut down on June 26, 2000, and Blue Sky Studios, which was closed on April 10, 2021. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment distributes the films produced by 20th Century Animation in home media under the 20th Century Home Entertainment banner.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Regency Enterprises</span> American entertainment company

Regency Enterprises is an American entertainment company formed by Arnon Milchan. It was founded in 1982 as the successor to Regency International Pictures.

Disney Platform Distribution, Inc. is a business unit within Disney Entertainment that manages all third-party media sales efforts for distribution, affiliate marketing and affiliate-related business operations for all of the company's direct-to-consumer services and linear media networks; content sales agreements for Disney Entertainment and ESPN.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jerry Bruckheimer Films</span> American film production company

Jerry Bruckheimer Films Inc. (JBF) is an American independent film production company of Jerry Bruckheimer, formed in 1995, after cutting his ties with film producer Don Simpson before his death in 1996. It produced blockbuster films such as the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">20th Television Animation</span> American animation studio

20th Television Animation is an American animation studio that creates, develops and produces primarily adult animated television series and specials. It is a unit of Disney Television Studios, a subsidiary of Disney Entertainment, which is a division of The Walt Disney Company.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chernin Entertainment</span> American film and television production company

Chernin Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded and owned by former News Corporation president and chief operating officer Peter Chernin, also CEO and chairman of the company. Jenno Topping is the current Head of Film and Television, with David Ready serving as EVP of Film and Television. Kristen Campo is the EVP of television. Twenty-four films have been produced by them, most of them with 20th Century Fox.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ridley Scott's unrealised projects</span>

The following is a list of unproduced Ridley Scott projects in roughly chronological order. During his long career, English film director and producer Ridley Scott has worked on a number of projects that never progressed beyond the pre-production stage. Some of these projects fell into development hell or were officially canceled.

References

  1. ↑ Knapp, Laurence F.; Kulas, Andrea F. (2005). Ridley Scott: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi. p. xviii. ISBN   978-1-57806-726-8.
  2. 1 2 3 Galloway, Stephen (16 May 2012). "Did You Know Ridley Scott's Empire Contains 'The Good Wife'?". The Hollywood Reporter .
  3. ↑ Parrill, William B. (2011). Ridley Scott: A Critical Filmography . McFarland. p.  94. ISBN   978-0-7864-5866-0.
  4. ↑ Berman, Marc (1 July 1992). "Par, Scott in 1st-look feature deal" . Variety .
  5. ↑ O'Steen, Kathleen (6 December 1993). "Scott brothers finalize financing, distrib deal". Variety. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  6. ↑ "IN HUNT FOR BIG GAME, SOME INDIES THRIVING". Variety. 25 September 1995. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  7. ↑ Weiner, Rex; Hindes, Andrew (10 January 1997). "Indies' lesson in '96: more may mean less". Variety. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  8. ↑ "Studio Report Card: PolyGram/Gramercy". Variety. 12 January 1998. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  9. ↑ Lyons, Charles (12 October 1999). "Scott brothers back to Disney, via Bruckheimer". Variety. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  10. ↑ Swanson, Tim (21 September 2001). "Scotts cast lot with Fox". Variety. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  11. ↑ Galuppo, Mia (17 January 2020). "Disney Drops "Fox" From 20th Century, Searchlight Logos". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  12. ↑ Adalian, Josef (6 November 2002). "Bigscreen duo turns to TV". Variety. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  13. ↑ "Breaking News - These 'Numb3rs' Are Multiplying | TheFutonCritic.com". www.thefutoncritic.com. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  14. ↑ "Ratings - CBS Wins Premiere Week in Viewers and Adults 25-54 | TheFutonCritic.com". www.thefutoncritic.com. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  15. ↑ Chelsea J. Carter and JD Cargill (20 August 2012). "Official: Director Tony Scott left notes in car, office before his apparent suicide". CNN. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  16. ↑ televisual.com; Creamer, Jon (12 August 2022). "Scott Free preps Sinking Spring for Apple TV+". Televisual. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  17. ↑ Kroll, Justin (24 January 2023). "Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions Re-Ups President And Chief Operating Officer Justin Alvarado Brown". Deadline. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  18. ↑ "Ridley Scott producing Hulu true-crime series with ABC News Studios" . Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  19. ↑ "Ridley Scott-Helmed 'Napoleon' Set By Apple Original Films For November Sony Theatrical Release; Let The Fall Fest Jockeying Begin!". Yahoo Entertainment. 3 April 2023. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  20. ↑ "Scott Free". rsafilms.com. RSA Films. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  21. ↑ Bhooshan (22 November 2019). "Scott Free Productions' Animated Intro -" . Retrieved 2 March 2023.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.