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| Type | Production company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Motion pictures |
| Founded | June 24, 1980 |
| Founder | Joel Silver |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, United States |
Key people | Susan Downey Steve Richards |
| Owners | Warner Bros. (WarnerMedia/AT&T) |
| Subsidiaries | Dark Castle Entertainment |
| Website | silverpictures |
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 (starting with Ricochet) 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 Haunted Hill.[1]
On June 24, 2019, Sadoff announced Silver's resignation from the company.[2]
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 | |||
| Weird Science | John Hughes | co-produced with Hughes Entertainment | ||
| Commando | Mark L. Lester | 20th Century Fox | ||
| 1986 | Jumpin' Jack Flash | Penny Marshall | co-produced with Lawrence Gordon Productions | |
| 1987 | Lethal Weapon | Richard Donner | Warner Bros. | |
| Predator | John McTiernan | 20th Century Fox | ||
| 1988 | Die Hard | co-produced with Gordon Company | ||
| Action Jackson | Craig R. Baxley | Lorimar Film Entertainment | ||
| 1989 | Road House | Rowdy Herrington | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
| Lethal Weapon 2 | Richard Donner | Warner Bros. | ||
| 1990 | Die Hard 2 | Renny Harlin | 20th Century Fox | |
| The Adventures of Ford Fairlane | ||||
| Predator 2 | Stephen Hopkins | |||
| 1991 | Hudson Hawk | Michael Lehmann | TriStar Pictures | |
| Ricochet | Russell Mulcahy | Warner Bros. | co-produced with HBO Pictures, Cinema Plus L.P. and Indigo Productions | |
| The Last Boy Scout | Tony Scott | co-produced with The Geffen Film Company | ||
| 1992 | Lethal Weapon 3 | Richard Donner | ||
| 1993 | Demolition Man | Marco Brambilla | ||
| 1994 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Joel and Ethan Coen | Warner Bros. (North America) PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (International) | co-produced with Working Title Films |
| Richie Rich | Donald Petrie | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Davis Entertainment and The Harvey Entertainment Company | |
| 1995 | Assassins | Richard Donner | co-produced with Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions | |
| Fair Game | Andrew Sipes | |||
| 1996 | Executive Decision | Stuart Baird | ||
| 1997 | Fathers' Day | Ivan Reitman | co-produced with Northern Lights Entertainment | |
| Conspiracy Theory | Richard Donner | |||
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Clint Eastwood | co-produced with Malpaso Productions | ||
| 1998 | Lethal Weapon 4 | Richard Donner | co-produced with Doshudo Productions | |
| 1999 | The Matrix | The Wachowskis | 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 |
| Romeo Must Die | Andrzej Bartkowiak | Warner Bros. | ||
| 2001 | Exit Wounds | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures | ||
| Swordfish | Dominic Sena | |||
| 2003 | Cradle 2 the Grave | Andrzej Bartkowiak | ||
| The Matrix Reloaded | The Wachowskis | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment | ||
| The Matrix Revolutions | ||||
| 2005 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Shane Black | ||
| 2006 | V for Vendetta | James McTeigue | 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 (uncredited) | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures and Vertigo Entertainment | |
| The Brave One | Neil Jordan | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures | ||
| Fred Claus | David Dobkin | |||
| 2008 | Speed Racer | The Wachowskis | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures, Anarchos Productions and Babelsberg Studio | |
| 2009 | Ninja Assassin | James McTeigue | co-produced with Legendary Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment | |
| Sherlock Holmes | Guy Ritchie | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures and Wigram Productions | ||
| 2010 | The Book of Eli | The Hughes Bros. | co-produced with Alcon Entertainment | |
| 2011 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | Guy Ritchie | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures and Wigram Productions | |
| 2012 | Project X | Nima Nourizadeh | co-produced with Green Hat Films | |
| Dragon Eyes | John Hyams | After Dark Films | co-produced with Dark Castle Entertainment | |
| Stash House | Eduardo Rodríguez | |||
| El Gringo | 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 |
| 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 | The Matrix 4 | Lana Wachowski | Warner Bros. | co-produced with Village Roadshow Pictures and Anarchos Productions |
| TBA | Untitled horror film [3] | TBA | Sony Pictures Releasing | co-produced with H. Brothers |
| Sherlock Holmes 3 | Dexter Fletcher | Warner Bros. | co-production with Village Roadshow Pictures and Rideback |
Television series
| Year | Series | Creator | Network | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999–2000 | Action | Chris Thompson | Fox | co-production with Christopher Thompson Productions and Columbia TriStar Television |
| The Strip | Alfred Gough Miles Millar | UPN | co-production with Millar Gough Ink and Warner Bros. Television | |
| 2000 | Freedom | Hans Tobeason | co-production with Pandemonium Pictures Ltd. and Warner Bros. Television | |
| 2004 | Next Action Star | N/A | NBC | co-production with Warner Bros. Television, NBC Studios and GRB Entertainemnt |
| 2004–2007 | Veronica Mars | Rob Thomas | UPN (seasons 1–2) The CW (season 3) | co-production with Rob Thomas Productions and Warner Bros. Television |
| 2007–2008 | Moonlight | Ron Koslow Trevor Munson | CBS | co-production with Warner Bros. Television |
| 2014 | My Friends Call Me Johnny | N/A | Esquire Network |
Highest-grossing films
| Rank | Title | Year | Domestic gross | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Matrix Reloaded | 2003 | $281,576,461 | Co-produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment |
| 2 | Sherlock Holmes | 2009 | $209,028,679 | Co-produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and Wigram Productions |
| 3 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | 2011 | $186,848,418 | Co-produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and Wigram Productions |
| 4 | The Matrix | 1999 | $171,479,930 | Co-produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and Groucho II Film |
| 5 | Lethal Weapon 2 | 1989 | $147,253,986 | |
| 6 | Lethal Weapon 3 | 1992 | $144,731,527 | |
| 7 | The Matrix Revolutions | 2003 | $139,313,948 | Co-produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment |
| 8 | Lethal Weapon 4 | 1998 | $130,444,603 | Co-produced by Doshudo Productions |
| 9 | Die Hard 2 | 1990 | $117,540,947 | Co-produced by Gordon Company |
| 10 | The Book of Eli | 2010 | $94,835,059 | Co-produced by Alcon Entertainment |