Shady Acres Entertainment is a production company founded in 1999 by producer and director
Tom Shadyac.
It is based at
Universal Studios
Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an Americ ...
.
It is taken from his last name, Shadyac, which separated and became two words "Shady" and "Acres". Shady Acres signed a production deal with Universal to produce films while its lone television series was co-produced by Touchstone Television (now
ABC Signature
ABC Signature is an American television production studio that is a subsidiary of Disney Television Studios, a division of Walt Disney Television, which is part of the Disney General Entertainment Content division of The Walt Disney Compan ...
).
On June 4, 1999, Shady Acres received a television shingle, which would be based at
Touchstone Television
The second incarnation of Touchstone Television (formerly known as Fox 21 Television Studios) was an American television production company that is a subsidiary of Disney Media Networks' Walt Disney Television owned by The Walt Disney Company. It ...
(now ABC Signature). Although the company produced a handful of pilots, only one of them would go on the air.
On February 14, 2008, Universal decided to cut ties with that Shady Acres Entertainment studio, and became an independent production outfit.
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
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Dragonfly
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'' (2002) (with
Spyglass Entertainment)
*''
Bruce Almighty
''Bruce Almighty'' is a 2003 American fantasy comedy film directed by Tom Shadyac and written by Steve Koren, Mark O'Keefe and Steve Oedekerk. The film stars Jim Carrey as Bruce Nolan, a down-on-his-luck television reporter who complains to G ...
'' (2003) (with Pit Bull Productions)
*''
Accepted
''Accepted'' is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Steve Pink (in his directorial debut) and written by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage and Mark Perez. The plot follows a group of high school graduates who create their own fake college after bei ...
'' (2006)
*''
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry'' (2007) (with
Relativity Media
Relativity Media is an American media company founded in 2004 by Lynwood Spinks and Ryan Kavanaugh. The company brokered film finance deals and later branched into film production and other entertainment ventures. The company was commerciall ...
and
Happy Madison Productions)
*''
Evan Almighty'' (2007) (with
Original Film
Original Film is an American film and television production company founded by Neal H. Moritz. Notable films the company has produced include the '' Fast & Furious'' franchise.
History
Original Film was started out in the early 1990s by Nea ...
)
* ''
I Am
I Am or I'm may refer to:
Language and literature
* " I Am that I Am", a common English translation of the response God used in the Hebrew Bible when Moses asked for His name
** I am (biblical term), a Christian term used in the Bible
* "I Am" ( ...
'' (2011) (with Homemande Canvas Productions)
Television series
*''
8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter'' (2003) (with
Touchstone Television
The second incarnation of Touchstone Television (formerly known as Fox 21 Television Studios) was an American television production company that is a subsidiary of Disney Media Networks' Walt Disney Television owned by The Walt Disney Company. It ...
)
References
1999 establishments in California
American companies established in 1999
Companies based in Los Angeles County, California
Entertainment companies based in California
Film production companies of the United States
Mass media companies established in 1999
Television production companies of the United States
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