Marv Studios, formerly SKA Films, is a British

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owned by

Matthew Vaughn Sir Matthew Allard Robert Vaughn (legal name Matthew Allard Robert de Vere Drummond; born 7 March 1971) is an English filmmaker. He has produced films including ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'' (1998) and ''Snatch (film), Snatch'' (2000 ...

. It is best known for the motion pictures ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Kick-Ass'', '' Kingsman: The Secret Service'', '' Kingsman: The Golden Circle'' and ''

The King's Man ''The King's Man'' is a 2021 spy action film directed by Matthew Vaughn from his story and a screenplay he wrote with Karl Gajdusek. The third instalment in the British ''Kingsman'' film series, which is based on the comic book '' The Secr ...

''. The company name is an acronym deriving from Vaughn’s birth name: Matthew Allard Robert Vaughn.

History

SKA Films

In 1997, producer

and director

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launched their own company in the

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, with its first project being ''

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'' is a 1998 neo-noir black comedy crime film written and directed by Guy Ritchie. It follows a heist involving a confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of ...

'', which is for Handmade Films. In 1999, Vaughn and Ritchie struck an agreement with

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to distribute its next project, '' Snatch''. The team followed it up with their next big project '' Swept Away'', starring

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. The film ended up being bombed critically and commercially. It went on to win the

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in 2003.

Marv Films / Marv Studios

Later that same year, Ritchie and Vaughn broke up ties, thus rebranding from SKA Films to Marv Films, and its first production under the new banner was

's directorial debut ''

''. In 2007, it signed a deal with

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to produce its feature films. Later that same year, Charlie Mitchell joined the company. In 2009, Kris Thykier decided to leave Marv Films, in order to set up PeaPie Films, to produce new feature films. In 2018, Vaughn launched its subsidiary Marv Studios to set up new feature film reboots.

Marv Music

In 2021, Marv launched a record label, Marv Music, in conjunction with

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. The label is distributed under Warner's

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unit.

Films

Television

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Marv Studios films Film production companies of the United Kingdom British companies established in 1997 Entertainment companies established in 1997