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Revolution Studios was a film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 production company founded in 2000 by Joe Roth
Joe Roth

Joe Roth is an US film corporate title, film producer and film director.Roth co-founded Morgan Creek Productions in 1987 and was chairman of Twentieth Century Fox , Caravan Pictures , and Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment before founding Revolution Studios in 2000....
, a former chairman of Walt Disney Studios
The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
 and Twentieth Century Fox. Revolution was a strategic partner
Partnership

A partnership is a type of business entity in which partners share with each other the profits or losses of the business undertaking in which all have invested....
 of Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. is the television and film production/distribution unit of Japanese media conglomerate Sony. Its group sales in 2007 has been reported to be of $8.58 billion....
, which distributed
Distribution (business)

Distribution is one of the four elements of marketing mix. An organization or set of organizations involved in the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption by a consumer or business user....
 and marketed
Marketing

Marketing is defined by the American Marketing Association as the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large....
 Revolution's films. The company shut down in October 2007, coinciding with the end of the five year deal with Sony Pictures.

Revolution was a privately-held company, with Roth owning the controlling interest. Other shareholders included Hollywood executives Todd Garner, Rob Moore
Rob Moore

Rob Moore is a Canada lawyer and politician. Moore was born in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador. Rob is the son of a Pentecostal minister, R....
, Tom Sherak and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, as well as Sony Pictures, Starz Entertainment
Starz Entertainment

Starz Entertainment, LLC is a wholly owned television programming subsidiary of Liberty Media. It is part of the holding company Starz, LLC.The company is headquartered at Meridian, Colorado, though the postal designation of nearby Englewood, Colorado is commonly listed as the company's location in corporate filings and news accounts....
 (which owns pay cable rights), and Twentieth Century Fox.

Corporate partnerships
Revolution Studios had strategic partnerships with Sony Pictures, Fox Entertainment Group
Fox Entertainment Group

Fox Entertainment Group is an United States entertainment industry company that owns film studios and terrestrial television, cable television, and direct broadcast satellite television properties....
, and Starz Entertainment
Starz Entertainment

Starz Entertainment, LLC is a wholly owned television programming subsidiary of Liberty Media. It is part of the holding company Starz, LLC.The company is headquartered at Meridian, Colorado, though the postal designation of nearby Englewood, Colorado is commonly listed as the company's location in corporate filings and news accounts....
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Revolution Studios was a film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 production company founded in 2000 by Joe Roth
Joe Roth

Joe Roth is an US film corporate title, film producer and film director.Roth co-founded Morgan Creek Productions in 1987 and was chairman of Twentieth Century Fox , Caravan Pictures , and Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment before founding Revolution Studios in 2000....
, a former chairman of Walt Disney Studios
The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
 and Twentieth Century Fox. Revolution was a strategic partner
Partnership

A partnership is a type of business entity in which partners share with each other the profits or losses of the business undertaking in which all have invested....
 of Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. is the television and film production/distribution unit of Japanese media conglomerate Sony. Its group sales in 2007 has been reported to be of $8.58 billion....
, which distributed
Distribution (business)

Distribution is one of the four elements of marketing mix. An organization or set of organizations involved in the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption by a consumer or business user....
 and marketed
Marketing

Marketing is defined by the American Marketing Association as the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large....
 Revolution's films. The company shut down in October 2007, coinciding with the end of the five year deal with Sony Pictures.

Revolution was a privately-held company, with Roth owning the controlling interest. Other shareholders included Hollywood executives Todd Garner, Rob Moore
Rob Moore

Rob Moore is a Canada lawyer and politician. Moore was born in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador. Rob is the son of a Pentecostal minister, R....
, Tom Sherak and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, as well as Sony Pictures, Starz Entertainment
Starz Entertainment

Starz Entertainment, LLC is a wholly owned television programming subsidiary of Liberty Media. It is part of the holding company Starz, LLC.The company is headquartered at Meridian, Colorado, though the postal designation of nearby Englewood, Colorado is commonly listed as the company's location in corporate filings and news accounts....
 (which owns pay cable rights), and Twentieth Century Fox.

Corporate partnerships


Revolution Studios had strategic partnerships with Sony Pictures, Fox Entertainment Group
Fox Entertainment Group

Fox Entertainment Group is an United States entertainment industry company that owns film studios and terrestrial television, cable television, and direct broadcast satellite television properties....
, and Starz Entertainment
Starz Entertainment

Starz Entertainment, LLC is a wholly owned television programming subsidiary of Liberty Media. It is part of the holding company Starz, LLC.The company is headquartered at Meridian, Colorado, though the postal designation of nearby Englewood, Colorado is commonly listed as the company's location in corporate filings and news accounts....
. Sony Pictures released Revolution's output into movie theaters domestically and internationally, and facilitates distribution (via Sony/Columbia Pictures) for Revolution content to DVD
DVD

DVD, also known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc,"is a popular optical disc data storage device media format. Its main uses are video and data storage....
/home video. The Starz Entertainment
Starz Entertainment

Starz Entertainment, LLC is a wholly owned television programming subsidiary of Liberty Media. It is part of the holding company Starz, LLC.The company is headquartered at Meridian, Colorado, though the postal designation of nearby Englewood, Colorado is commonly listed as the company's location in corporate filings and news accounts....
 has the rights to Revolution's library for their pay-television channels (Starz and Encore) through Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television

Sony Pictures Television, Inc. is an United States television production company/distribution company. It is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment....
 and distributed in association with Debmar-Mercury
Debmar-Mercury

Debmar-Mercury is a television syndication company that is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of Lions Gate Entertainment, which acquired the company in July 2006....
. Fox Entertainment Group retains the broadcast television rights (Revolution content airs on the Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
) and basic cable rights (FX Networks) through Sony Pictures Television and Debmar-Mercury (broadcast syndication of Revolution Studios films will go through Debmar-Mercury and 20th Television).

After a number of years, the distribution rights of the films will revert back to Revolution Studios, which can then decide how to manage its library of films.

Films


Revolution has produced such films as:

  • Punch-Drunk Love
    Punch-Drunk Love

    Punch-Drunk Love is an United States surrealist, romantic Comedy-drama written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson....
  • 13 Going on 30
    13 Going on 30

    13 Going On 30 is a 2004 in film comedy film film starring Jennifer Garner. It has a similar premise to the films Wish Upon a Star, and Freaky Friday , in which girls' souls were swapped into different bodies....
  • The Forgotten
  • The Animal
    The Animal

    The Animal is a 2001 comedy film, directed by Luke Greenfield. It stars Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, Edward Asner, and John C. McGinley....
  • Darkness Falls
    Darkness Falls (2003 film)

    Darkness Falls is a 2003 horror film written by Joe Harris and John Fasano and directed by Jonathan Liebesman. The score was composed by Brian Tyler ....
  • Anger Management
    Anger management

    The term Anger management commonly refers to a system of psychology psychotherapy techniques and exercises by which someone with excessive or uncontrollable anger can control or reduce the Post-traumatic stress disorder, degrees, and effects of an angered emotion state....
  • Daddy Day Care
    Daddy Day Care

    Daddy Day Care is a 2003 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film, starring Eddie Murphy. It was written by Geoff Rodkey and was directed by Steve Carr....
  • Hollywood Homicide
    Hollywood Homicide

    Hollywood Homicide is a 2003 in film action comedy film starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett.The film also features Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood, Isaiah Washington, Keith David, Gladys Knight, Master P, and Andr? Benjamin in supporting roles, and Eric Idle makes a Cameo appearance appearance....
  • Christmas with the Kranks
    Christmas with the Kranks

    Christmas with the Kranks is a 2004 in film comedy film produced by Revolution Studios and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It is based on the 2001 novella Skipping Christmas by John Grisham....
  • Gigli
  • xXx
    XXX (film)

    xXx, pronounced "Triple X", is a 2002 in film action film starring Vin Diesel. xXx was marketed as a James Bond style film for the new millennium and featured similar gadgetry, international schemes and intrigues, villain-sponsored take-over-the-world schemes backed up by doomsday devices, a female co-star/love interest, and elaborate...
  • Peter Pan
    Peter Pan (2003 film)

    Peter Pan is a film released on December 25, 2003 as a joint venture of Universal Studios, Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios. P. J. Hogan film director a screenplay co-written with Michael Goldenberg which is based on the classic play and novel by J....
  • Hellboy
    Hellboy (film)

    Hellboy is a 2004 in film supernatural Action film directed by Guillermo del Toro. The film is based on the Dark Horse Comics work Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola....
  • Mona Lisa Smile
    Mona Lisa Smile

    Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 in film United States film that was produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures, directed by Mike Newell , written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal , and starring Julia Roberts, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kirsten Dunst, and Julia Stiles....
  • Rent
  • America's Sweethearts
    America's Sweethearts

    America's Sweethearts is a 2001 in film romantic comedy film, directed by Joe Roth, starring Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, John Cusack, and Catherine Zeta-Jones....
  • Maid in Manhattan
    Maid in Manhattan

    Maid in Manhattan is a 2002 in film romantic comedy film about a hotel maid and a high profile politician who fall in love, directed by Wayne Wang and starring Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes....
  • Rocky Balboa
    Rocky Balboa (film)

    Rocky Balboa is a 2006 in film written and directed by Sylvester Stallone who also stars as underdog Boxing Rocky Balboa. It is the sixth and final film in the Rocky , which began with the Oscar-winning Rocky thirty years earlier in 1976....
  • The One
    The One

    The One may refer to:* "?? ??," An alternative name for the Monad , the Absolute , the Source of Reality, Greek Philosophy's definition of Godhead and The Good in Pythagoreanism to Neoplatonism, the Prime Principle in Gnosticism, The All in Hermeticism....
  • The Fog
    The Fog (2005 film)

    The Fog is a 2005 in film horror film Film director by Rupert Wainwright. It is a remake of John Carpenter's The Fog , but with more of a "teen horror film" angle....
  • Black Hawk Down
  • The Master of Disguise
    The Master of Disguise

    The Master of Disguise is a comedy film released in 2002 in film starring Dana Carvey, Jennifer Esposito, James Brolin and Brent Spiner. Adam Sandler produced The Master of Disguise through his Happy Madison production company....
  • The New Guy
    The New Guy

    The New Guy is a 2002 in film United States teen comedy directed by Ed Decter. The film tells the story of a high school loser Dizzy Gillespie Harrison....
  • Tears of the Sun
    Tears of the Sun

    Tears of the Sun is a 2003 in film war film directed by Antoine Fuqua depicting a rescue mission by United States Navy SEALs in the midst of a fictional civil war in the West African country of Nigeria....
  • XXX: State of the Union
    XXX: State of the Union

    xXx: State of the Union, mainly released as xXx?: The Next Level outside the United States and Canada, is a 2005 action movie/adventure film, film director by Lee Tamahori....
  • The Benchwarmers
    The Benchwarmers

    The Benchwarmers is a 2006 comedy film film that was released on April 7, 2006. It stars Rob Schneider, David Spade, and Jon Heder and is directed by Dennis Dugan....
  • Click
    Click (film)

    Click is a 2006 in film fantasy film-Comedy-drama film directed by Frank Coraci and written by Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe. Click tells the story of Michael Newman , an overworked architect so wrapped up in his job because of his boss John Ammer that his family is forced to take the backseat....
  • Little Man
    Little Man

    Little Man may refer to:In music:*Little Man , a 1999 single by Alan Jackson*Little Man , a 1966 single by Sonny & Cher*Little Man , a 2006 album by The Pineapple Thief...
  • Zoom
    Zoom (film)

    Zoom is a 2006 in film released on August 11, 2006. It is based upon the children's book Amazing Adventures from Zoom's Academy by Jason Lethcoe....
  • Perfect Stranger
  • Across the Universe
    Across the Universe (film)

    Across the Universe is a 2007 musical film directed by Julie Taymor, produced by Revolution Studios, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was released in the United States on October 12, 2007....
  • Stealing Harvard
    Stealing Harvard

    Stealing Harvard is a 2002 in film crime film-comedy film, directed by Bruce McCulloch, about a man who resorts to crime to pay for his niece's Harvard University tuition....
  • Next
    Next (film)

    Next is a 2007 in film film, the original script is very loosely based on the science fiction short story The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick....
  • The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
    The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

    The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio is a 2005 in film film written and Film director by Jane Anderson, based on the book by Terry Ryan .The DVD was released on March 14, 2006....
  • Are We Done Yet?
    Are We Done Yet?

    'Are We Done Yet?' is a 2007 in film family film sequel to "Are We There Yet?" starring Ice Cube. The film is both a remake of the classic Cary Grant comedy Mr....
  • Daddy Day Camp
    Daddy Day Camp

    Daddy Day Camp also known as Daddy Day Care 2 is a 2007 in film comedy directed by Fred Savage. A sequel to Daddy Day Care, all returning characters were recast, with Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding, Jr....
  • The Brothers Solomon
    The Brothers Solomon

    The Brothers Solomon is a comedy film released on September 7, 2007, starring Will Arnett and Will Forte....
  • White Chicks
    White Chicks

    White Chicks is a 2004 in film United States mockumentary film Film director by Keenen Ivory Wayans and Screenwriter and Film producer by Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans....
  • The Missing
    The Missing

    The Missing is a 2003 film directed by Ron Howard , based on the novel The Last Ride by Thomas Eidson.This Western Thriller set in 1880's New Mexico is notable for the authentic use of the Southern Athabaskan languages language by various actors, some of whom spent long hours studying it....
  • Little Black Book
    Little Black Book

    Little Black Book is a 2004 in film drama film / romantic comedy film, film director by Nick Hurran....
  • Are We There Yet?
    Are We There Yet?

    Are We There Yet? is a 2005 in film comedy film which was produced by Revolution Studios and was distributed by Columbia Pictures, film director by Brian Levant....
  • An Unfinished Life
    An Unfinished Life

    An Unfinished Life is a 2005 in film film directed by Swedish director Lasse Hallstr?m, and based on the Mark Spragg novel of the same name....
  • The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep


See also

  • Spyglass Entertainment
    Spyglass Entertainment

    Spyglass Entertainment is an American film and television production company, Co-founded by Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum in 1999, where they serve as Co-CEO's....
  • Caravan Pictures
    Caravan Pictures

    Caravan Pictures was a film production company arm of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group , formed by Roger Birnbaum and Joe Roth.Its films were released by Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, and Hollywood Pictures....


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