Silver Pictures
Silver Pictures is an American film production company founded by Hollywood producer Joel Silver during 1980. The Silver Pictures logo, also called The Chip, is modeled on a block pattern that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for the exteriors of the Storer House in Los Angeles. Silver has been a lifelong aficionado of Frank Lloyd Wright and has worked many of Wright's works within both Silver Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment. All pre-Universal Pictures deal films are owned and distributed by Warner Bros.
In 2012, Joel Silver and Warner Bros. ended their 25-year production, marketing, and distribution relationship. This is due to Silver growing increasingly upset with how Warner Bros. had been handling the marketing and releasing of the films his company produced. Despite having split, Silver and Warner Bros. co-produced The Nice Guys four years later. That same year, Joel Silver and Universal Studios struck a 5-year marketing and distribution deal, starting with the Liam Neeson action thriller Non-Stop on February 28, 2014. Universal Pictures will not be a production partner with Silver Pictures, only a distributor.
Three years after Silver finalized Silver Pictures 5-year marketing and distributing deal with Universal, the veteran producer connected with Canadian financier Daryl Katz. Founder and Chairman of the Katz Group of Companies, one of Canada's largest privately owned enterprises, Daryl Katz holds operations in pharmaceuticals, sports and entertainment and real estate. The two came together to create a slate of feature films, digital projects and television shows. Hal Sadoff, longtime packaging and finance agent, will serve as Chief Executive Officer of Silver Pictures Entertainment. Sadoff left ICM in 2012.
Before Silver's connection with Katz, Silver Pictures required studio backing to develop and fund its films. After the formation of the new partnership, Silver possessed the ability to work on projects both inside and outside the studio system.
CEO Hal Sadoff and Silver still possess a longstanding relationship, having worked together on "Gothika", "Thirteen Ghosts" and "House on the Haunted Hill".
On June 24, 2019, Sadoff announced Silver's resignation from the company.
Films
Year | Film | Director | Distributor | Notes |
1984 | Streets of Fire | Walter Hill | Universal Pictures | co-produced with RKO Pictures; first film |
1985 | Brewster's Millions | Walter Hill | Universal Pictures | |
1985 | Weird Science | John Hughes | Universal Pictures | co-produced with Hughes Entertainment |
1985 | Commando | Mark L. Lester | 20th Century Studios | |
1986 | Jumpin' Jack Flash | Penny Marshall | 20th Century Studios | co-produced with Lawrence Gordon Productions |
1987 | Lethal Weapon | Richard Donner | Warner Bros. | |
1987 | Predator | John McTiernan | 20th Century Studios | |
1988 | Die Hard | John McTiernan | 20th Century Studios | co-produced with Gordon Company |
1988 | Action Jackson | Craig R. Baxley | Lorimar Film Entertainment | |
1989 | Road House | Rowdy Herrington | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
1989 | Lethal Weapon 2 | Richard Donner | Warner Bros. | |
1990 | Die Hard 2 | Renny Harlin | 20th Century Studios | |
1990 | The Adventures of Ford Fairlane | Renny Harlin | 20th Century Studios | |
1990 | Predator 2 | Stephen Hopkins | 20th Century Studios | |
1991 | Hudson Hawk | Michael Lehmann | TriStar Pictures | |
1991 | Ricochet | Russell Mulcahy | Warner Bros. | co-produced with HBO Pictures, Cinema Plus L.P. and Indigo Productions |
1991 | The Last Boy Scout | Tony Scott | Warner Bros. | co-produced with The Geffen Film Company |
1992 | Lethal Weapon 3 | Richard Donner | Warner Bros. | |
1993 | Demolition Man | Marco Brambilla | Warner Bros. | |
1994 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Joel and Ethan Coen | Warner Bros. Universal Pictures | co-produced with Working Title Films and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment |
1994 | Richie Rich | Donald Petrie | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Davis Entertainment and The Harvey Entertainment Company |
1995 | Assassins | Richard Donner | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions |
1995 | Fair Game | Andrew Sipes | Warner Bros. | |
1996 | Executive Decision | Stuart Baird | Warner Bros. | |
1997 | Fathers' Day | Ivan Reitman | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Northern Lights Entertainment |
1997 | Conspiracy Theory | Richard Donner | Warner Bros. | |
1998 | Lethal Weapon 4 | Richard Donner | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Doshudo Productions |
1999 | The Matrix | The Wachowskis | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures and Groucho II Film Partnership |
2000 | Dungeons & Dragons | Courtney Solomon | New Line Cinema | co-produced with Behavior Worldwide and Sweetpea Entertainment |
2000 | Romeo Must Die | Andrzej Bartkowiak | Warner Bros. | |
2001 | Exit Wounds | Andrzej Bartkowiak | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures |
2001 | Swordfish | Dominic Sena | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures |
2003 | Cradle 2 the Grave | Andrzej Bartkowiak | Warner Bros. | |
2003 | The Matrix Reloaded | The Wachowskis | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment |
2003 | The Matrix Revolutions | The Wachowskis | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment |
2005 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Shane Black | Warner Bros. | |
2006 | V for Vendetta | James McTeigue | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Virtual Studios, Anarchos Productions, DC/Vertigo Comics, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Fünfte Babelsberg Film GmbH |
2007 | The Invasion | Oliver Hirschbiegel James McTeigue | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures and Vertigo Entertainment |
2007 | The Brave One | Neil Jordan | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures |
2007 | Fred Claus | David Dobkin | Warner Bros. | |
2008 | Speed Racer | The Wachowskis | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures, Anarchos Productions and Babelsberg Studio |
2009 | Ninja Assassin | James McTeigue | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Legendary Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment |
2009 | Sherlock Holmes | Guy Ritchie | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures and Wigram Productions |
2010 | The Book of Eli | The Hughes Bros. | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Alcon Entertainment |
2011 | Guy Ritchie | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures and Wigram Productions | |
2012 | Project X | Nima Nourizadeh | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Green Hat Films |
2012 | Dragon Eyes | John Hyams | After Dark Films | co-produced with Dark Castle Entertainment |
2012 | Stash House | Eduardo Rodríguez | After Dark Films | co-produced with Dark Castle Entertainment |
2012 | El Gringo | Eduardo Rodríguez | After Dark Films G2 Pictures Tanweer Films | |
2014 | Non-Stop | Jaume Collet-Serra | Universal Pictures | co-produced with TF1 Films Production, Anton Capital Entertainment, Canal+, TF1 and LoveFilm |
2015 | The Gunman | Pierre Morel | Open Road Films | co-produced with StudioCanal, Anton Capital Entertainment, Canal+, Nostromo Pictures and TF1 Films Production |
2016 | The Nice Guys | Shane Black | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Waypoint Entertainment and Bloom |
2016 | Collide | Eran Creevy | Open Road Films | co-produced with IM Global, Sycamore Pictures, DMG Yinji, Hands-on Producers GmbH, 42 and Automatik |
2017 | Suburbicon | George Clooney | Paramount Pictures | co-produced with Black Bear Pictures and Smoke House Pictures |
2018 | Superfly | Director X | Sony Pictures Releasing | |
2021 | Sherlock Holmes 3 | Dexter Fletcher | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures and Di Bonaventura Pictures |
2021 | The Matrix 4 | Lana Wachowski | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures and Anarchos Productions |
TBA | untitled Horror film | TBA | Sony Pictures Releasing | co-produced with H. Brothers |
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