Annapurna Pictures
American independent media company
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| 2024 | Started producing animated television series 'Sausage Party: Foodtopia' for Amazon Prime Video |
| 2024 | Nightbitch released as a co-production with Searchlight Pictures and other production companies |
| September 12 2024 | Entire Annapurna Interactive team of 25 employees resigned following a dispute with ownership about spinning off the video game division as an independent entity. |
| August 2024 | Announced a strategic cooperation agreement with video game developer Remedy Entertainment to co-produce Control 2 and develop film and TV projects for Alan Wake and Control. |
| 2023 | Began producing ongoing series 'The Changeling' for Apple TV+ |
| 2023 | Produced Peacock miniseries 'Paul T. Goldman' and Amazon Prime Video miniseries 'Dead Ringers' |
| June 30 2023 | The studio releases its first animated film 'Nimona' on Netflix, marking its debut project. |
| March 4 2023 | The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Amazon had shut down United Artists Releasing and folded it into MGM. |
| 2022 | Produced Hulu miniseries 'Pam & Tommy' and HBO Max miniseries 'The Staircase' |
| 2022 | Showtime series 'I Love That for You' was canceled after one season |
| 2022 | She Said released as a co-production with Plan B Entertainment, distributed by Universal Pictures |
| December 1 2022 | Annapurna Animation is founded by former Blue Sky Studios executives Robert L. Baird and Andrew Millstein in North Stamford, Connecticut. |
| May 13 2022 | US co-distributed 'On the Count of Three' with Orion Pictures through United Artists Releasing |
| 2021 | Began ongoing productions of 'Company' and 'A Strange Loop'. |
| 2021 | Developed TV pilot 'Hot Pink' for Amazon Prime Video |
| 2020 | Staged productions of 'Death of a Salesman' and 'Betrayal'. |
| 2020 | Produced HBO miniseries 'The Plot Against America' and Hulu series 'Monsterland', which was canceled after one season |
| 2019 | Produced multiple notable theater productions including 'Home I'm Darling', 'American Utopia', 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time', 'Fleabag', and 'The Lehman Trilogy'. |
| 2019 | Netflix series 'Soundtrack' was canceled after one season |
| 2019 | Annapurna Pictures developed TV pilots 'Search and Destroy' for Hulu and 'Half-Empty' for Amazon Prime Video |
| 2019 | Booksmart wins GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film and Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature |
| 2019 | Missing Link wins Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and receives multiple other award nominations |
| August 16 2019 | Distributed 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' |
| May 24 2019 | Distributed 'Booksmart' |
| April 12 2019 | Distributed 'Missing Link' with US distribution through United Artists Releasing |
| February 2019 | Rebranded and expanded the US distribution joint venture with MGM into United Artists Releasing, coinciding with the United Artists brand's 100th anniversary. |
| 2018 | Annapurna Theatre began producing 'Nine Night' as part of their theatrical productions. |
| 2018 | The Sisters Brothers film released, co-produced with multiple production companies and nominated for César Award for Best Film and Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion |
| 2018 | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs released as a co-production with Netflix |
| 2018 | Vice film released, receiving multiple award nominations including Academy Award for Best Picture |
| 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk wins Independent Spirit Award for Best Film and receives multiple major award nominations |
| December 25 2018 | Distributed 'Vice' and 'Destroyer' |
| December 14 2018 | Distributed 'If Beale Street Could Talk' |
| October 2018 | Signed a music publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music to administer film and TV compositions and scores. |
| September 21 2018 | Distributed 'The Sisters Brothers' |
| July 6 2018 | Distributed 'Sorry to Bother You' |
| October 2017 | Announced a US distribution joint venture with MGM, planning to release 14 films annually through a combined slate. |
| October 13 2017 | Co-distributed 'Professor Marston and the Wonder Women' with Stage 6 Films |
| September 15 2017 | Co-distributed 'Brad's Status' with Amazon Studios |
| August 4 2017 | Distributed the film 'Detroit' |
| July 2017 | Annapurna signed a multi-year U.S. home entertainment pact with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. |
| May 2017 | Formed a three-year production deal with Plan B Entertainment to partner on at least three films annually, including acquiring rights to Vice starring Christian Bale. |
| April 6 2017 | Announced an exclusive, multi-year output licensing agreement with Hulu. |
| March 27 2017 | Signed a multi-year distribution deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) for international film distribution. |
| January 2017 | Annapurna announced they would begin distributing films, with Detroit directed by Kathryn Bigelow as their first release. |
| December 2016 | Annapurna announced its new division, Annapurna Interactive, to produce, develop, and distribute video games. |
| 2011 | Megan Ellison founded Annapurna Pictures as a production and finance entity focused on high-end auteur-driven cinema. |
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