Shady Acres Entertainment

Shady Acres Entertainment
TypeProduction company
IndustryFilm and television production
Founded1999 (1999)
FounderTom Shadyac
Headquarters10 Universal City Plaza,
Universal City, California
,
United States
ProductsFilms, television series

Shady Acres Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded in 1999 by producer and director Tom Shadyac.[1][2][3] It is based at Universal Studios.[3][4] It is taken from his last name, Shadyac, which is separated and became the two words "Shady" and "Acres". It also derives from a fictional mental hospital from the first Ace Ventura film. Shady Acres signed a production deal with Universal Pictures to produce films while its lone television series was co-produced by Touchstone Television (now ABC Signature).

On June 4, 1999, Shady Acres received a television shingle, which would be based at Touchstone Television (now ABC Signature). Although the company produced a handful of pilots, only one of them would go on the air.[5]

On February 14, 2008, Universal decided to cut ties with the studio, and became an independent production outfit.[6]

Nicole Pritchett was the head of development and production at Shady Acres Entertainment from 2009 until 2015, along with one of the producers of the documentary I Am.

Filmography

Films

Release date Title Director Distributor Budget Gross
(worldwide)		 Notes Ref.
February 22, 2002 Dragonfly Tom Shadyac Universal Pictures $60 million $52.3 million co-production with Spyglass Entertainment and Gran Via Productions [7][8]
May 23, 2003 Bruce Almighty $81 million $484.6 million co-production with Spyglass Entertainment and Pit Bull Productions [9]
August 18, 2006 Accepted Steve Pink $23 million $38.6 million N/A
June 22, 2007 Evan Almighty Tom Shadyac $175 million $174.4 million co-production with Spyglass Entertainment, Relativity Media and Original Film
July 20, 2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry Dennis Dugan $85 million $187 million co-production with Relativity Media and Happy Madison Productions
October 2010 I Am Tom Shadyac Flying Eye Productions (North America)
Universal Pictures (International)		 N/A N/A co-production with Homemade Canvas Productions
April 9, 2011 Happy Roko Belic N/A co-production with Wadi Rum Productions

Television series

Year Title Network Notes Ref.
2002-05 8 Simple Rules ABC co-production with Flody Co., Tracy Gamble Productions and Touchstone Television

References

  1. ↑ Cox, Dan (1999-03-05). "Shadyac's U turn". Variety. Retrieved 2021-05-31.
  2. ↑ Petrikin, Chris (1999-06-16). "Shadyac's Shady Acres banner taps Brubaker". Variety. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  3. 1 2 Lyons, Charles (2000-10-19). "Tieche lands deal with Shady Acres". Variety. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  4. ↑ Lyons, Charles; Dunkley, Cathy (2001-06-11). "Shady Acres buys romantic laffer pitch". Variety. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  5. ↑ Adalian, Josef (2000-01-20). "Inside Move". Variety. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  6. ↑ Garrett, Diane (2008-02-15). "Universal cuts ties with Shadyac". Variety. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  7. ↑ "Dragonfly (2002)". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  8. ↑ "Dragonfly (2002) – Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  9. ↑ "Frequently Asked Questions". 2009-02-27. Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
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