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Annapurna’s Megan Ellison Says New Report About Producer Scott Rudin’s Abusive Behavior “Barely Scratches The Surface”

April 7, 2021 2:15 pm

Earlier today, we touched on a new THR report that profiled the alleged years of abusive behavior that superstar producer Scott Rudin has perpetrated against colleagues and employees. The profile also goes a l...

Can Annapurna Survive Its Current Financial Woes And Avoid Bankruptcy?

Gregory Ellwood

August 7, 2019 7:45 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

Annapurna started off in 2011 as a mechanism for Megan Ellison, daughter of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, to invest in and produce films she felt passionate about. Film such as "Zero Dark Thirty," "Her," "Am...

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Annapurna Pictures And MGM Form United Artists Releasing

Gregory Ellwood

February 5, 2019 3:54 pm

Awards Campaign, News

One hundred years after D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks formed the first creator-based movie studio, United Artists lives again. Today, MGM and Annapurna announced they would...

The Biggest Entertainment News Stories Of 2017

Gregory Ellwood and Rodrigo Perez

December 28, 2017 11:51 am

Awards Campaign, Features, News

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It seemed improbable that anything could top the dramatic ups and downs of 2016, but 2017 found a way. And for Hollywood, it was a year where it often felt like the entire town was on fire (and we’re not just r...

Annapurna Pictures Emerges As A Surprise Contender For The Rights To James Bond

Matthew Monagle

April 20, 2017 12:40 pm

News

For years now, James Bond has been the most bankable action character in the business. We may chuckle a little at Universal Pictures' plans to produce 10 different "Fast And The Furious" movies or Disney's aggr...

Trumped- Inside the Greatest Political Upset of All Time (2017)

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Team Mark Boal & Megan Ellison Brewing Political Drama About The 2016 Election

Kevin Jagernauth

February 15, 2017 9:09 am

News, Television

It's been nearly a month since the National Day of Patriotic Devotion, and the nation still can't believe that the host of "The Apprentice" is the President of the country. Even while many worry about the curre...

Wong Kar-Wai To Direct Long Developing Gucci Fashion Family Drama, Megan Ellison Producing

Kevin Jagernauth

November 16, 2016 4:58 pm

News

Wong Kar-Wai never seems to be in a particular rush to make a movie, and his process tends to be long and involved. And in the three years since the release of the martial arts movie "The Grandmaster," the aute...

Focus Features Pick Up Paul Thomas Anderson & Daniel Day-Lewis’s New Movie, 2017 Release Planned

Oliver Lyttelton

September 8, 2016 9:55 am

News

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Debate’s been raging on Twitter and elsewhere in the last few days after a couple of articles suggesting, once again, that movies are dead. A summer of weak and underperforming blockbusters and quiet indie rele...

‘Wiener-Dog’ Starring Greta Gerwig & Danny DeVito Might Be Todd Solondz’s Most Accessible Film [Review]

Noel Murray

June 22, 2016 12:40 pm

Reviews

Todd Solondz has been making movies since 1989, and became the toast of Sundance and American art-houses with just his second film, 1995’s “Welcome to the Dollhouse.” But the writer-director hasn’t been all tha...

‘Foxcatcher’ & ‘Moneyball’ Director Bennett Miller To Helm New Film Version Of ‘A Christmas Carol’

Kevin Jagernauth

March 3, 2016 9:25 am

News

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'Foxcatcher' & 'Moneyball' Director Bennett Miller To Helm New Film Version Of 'A Christmas Carol'

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