Revolution Studios is an American production company founded in 2000 by Joe Roth, a former chairman of Walt Disney Studios and 20th Century Fox. Revolution was formerly a strategic partner of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which distributed and marketed Revolution's films. The company's film division shut down in October 2007, coinciding with the end of the six-year deal with Sony.Revolution Studios' last film was The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep.

 

Revolution currently produces a sitcom based on its film Are We There Yet? for TBS and a sitcom adaptation of Anger Management for FX.

 

Revolution is a privately held company, with Roth owning the controlling interest. Other shareholders included Hollywood executives Todd Garner, Rob Moore, Tom Sherak and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, as well as Sony Pictures, Starz Entertainment (which owns pay cable rights to its films), and 20th Century Fox.

 

Corporate partnerships

Revolution Studios had strategic partnerships with Sony Pictures, Fox Entertainment Group (FEG), and Starz Entertainment. Sony released Revolution's output into movie theaters domestically and internationally, and facilitates distribution (via Sony/Columbia Pictures) for Revolution content to DVD/home video.

 

Starz Entertainment has the rights to Revolution's library for their pay-television channels (Starz and Encore) through Sony Pictures Television (SPT). FEG retains the broadcast television rights (Revolution content airs on the Fox Broadcasting Company) and basic cable rights (FX Networks) through SPT 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:

 

• Tomcats (2001)

• The Animal (2001)

• America's Sweethearts (2001)

• Stealing Harvard (2001)

• The One (2001)

• Black Hawk Down (2001)

• The New Guy (2002)

• The Master of Disguise (2002)

• xXx (2002)

• Punch-Drunk Love (2002) (first film distributed by New Line Cinema)

• Maid in Manhattan (2002)

• Darkness Falls (2003)

• Tears of the Sun (2003)

• Anger Management (2003)

• Daddy Day Care (2003)

• Gigli (2003)

• Hollywood Homicide (2003)

• The Missing (2003)

• Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

• Peter Pan (2003) (first film distributed by Universal Pictures, international distribution rights handled by Columbia Pictures)

• Hellboy (2004) (sequel distributed by Universal Pictures)

• 13 Going on 30 (2004)

• White Chicks (2004)

• Little Black Book (2004)

• The Forgotten (2004)

• Christmas with the Kranks (2004)

• Are We There Yet? (2005)

• Man of the House (2005)

• Rent (2005)

• The Fog (2005)

• XXX: State of the Union (2005)

• The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005) (first film distributed by DreamWorks Pictures)

• An Unfinished Life (2005) (first film distributed by Miramax Films)

• Freedomland (2006)

• The Benchwarmers (2006)

• Click (2006)

• Little Man (2006)

• Zoom (2006)

• Rocky Balboa (2006) (first film distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)

• Perfect Stranger (2007)

• Next (2007) (first film distributed by Paramount Pictures)

• Across the Universe (2007)

• Are We Done Yet? (2007)

• Daddy Day Camp (2007) (first film distributed by TriStar Pictures)

• The Brothers Solomon (2007) (first film distributed by Screen Gems)

• The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007)