Appian Way Productions
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Founded | 2001 |
Founder | Leonardo DiCaprio |
Headquarters | West Hollywood, California, U.S. |
Key people | Jennifer Davisson (President of Production)[1] |
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Appian Way Productions is a Los Angeles–based film and television production company founded in 2001 by actor and producer Leonardo DiCaprio. Jennifer Davisson serves as President of Production. Since its launch, Appian Way has released a diverse slate of films, including Academy Award–winning films The Aviator (2004) and The Revenant (2015), Academy Award–nominated films The Ides of March (2011) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), as well as the drama The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004), the comedy-drama Gardener of Eden (2007), the biographical crime drama Public Enemies (2009), the psychological horror Orphan (2009), the psychological thriller Shutter Island (2010), the crime dramas Out of the Furnace (2013) and Live by Night (2016), and the biographical drama Richard Jewell (2019). The company has also produced the series Greensburg (2008–2010), Frontiersman,[1] and The Right Stuff (2020) for Disney+.
In recent years, Appian Way has been producing documentary films, especially pertaining to progressive environmental change.[2] The company worked in partnership with National Geographic to produce Before the Flood (2016). It also worked with Netflix on the Oscar-nominated Virunga (2014) and Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014). Appian is in partnership with Netflix on several additional documentaries, including How to Change the World (2015), Catching the Sun (2015), and The Ivory Game (2016). Other projects released include The 11th Hour (2007), Sea of Shadows (2019), which won the Audience Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Ice on Fire (2019) with HBO, and And We Go Green (2019).
History
2001–2010
Appian Way Productions was founded by
Appian Way later produced another biopic, Public Enemies (2009), a Michael Mann-directed mob drama starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale.[15] Following the final years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger (Depp) as he is pursued by FBI agent Melvin Purvis during Great Depression, the film was an adaptation of Bryan Burrough's non-fiction book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34. A commercial success, it also received generally positive reviews, though critics found historical inaccuracies in the film.[16][17] The company, along with Dark Castle Entertainment, released the 2009 psychological horror film Orphan, which told the story of a couple who, after the death of their unborn child, adopt a mysterious nine-year-old girl. The film was considered by the adoption community to promote negative stereotypes about orphans.[18] Although the film received mixed reviews, it was a commercial success.[19]
Scorsese reunited with the company to make the film Shutter Island (2010), a psychological thriller based on the 2003 novel of same name by Dennis Lehane. DiCaprio played U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels, who investigates a psychiatric facility located on an island but eventually comes to question his own sanity. A commercial success, the film received generally positive reviews; Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian praised the film's direction and performances but criticized its "silly twist ending", calling it "supremely exasperating".[20][21]
2011 onward
Red Riding Hood, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, was Appian Way's first release in 2011. The film, set in a village haunted by werewolves, follows a young girl who falls in love with an orphan woodcutter, much to her family's displeasure. Earlier in production, the film was titled The Girl with the Red Riding Hood.[22] Although it was poorly received by critics—Mary Pols of Time named it one of the Top 10 Worst Movies of 2011—it had moderate box-office returns.[23][24] The company's second release in 2011 was Detachment, a Tony Kaye-directed drama about the high school education system.[25] George Clooney directed and co-produced the company's final film of the year The Ides of March, which is based on Beau Willimon's play Farragut North. Starring Ryan Gosling, Clooney and Philip Seymour Hoffman, this political drama takes place during a presidential primary, when an ambitious press secretary (Gosling) becomes embroiled in a political scandal. The film received positive reviews;[26] one from The Guardian praised the direction and the performances of the cast.[27]
Three films were produced by Appian Way in 2013; the first was
In 2015, DiCaprio produced and co-starred with
In May 2016, Appian Way Productions signed a three-year, first-look production deal with Paramount Pictures.
In 2017, Appian Way produced Under the Bed, a
In 2023, Appian Way produced The Featherweight, the debut film of Robert Kolodny, which had its world premiere in competition at the 80th Venice International Film Festival[44] and Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, which was distributed by Apple TV+ and Paramount Pictures.[45]
More recently, the studio signed
Films
Release Date | Title | Directors | Production partners | Distributors |
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December 25, 2004 | The Aviator | Martin Scorsese | Forward Pass Intermedia Films Initial Entertainment Group |
Warner Bros. Pictures (North America) Buena Vista International (International) |
December 29, 2004 | The Assassination of Richard Nixon | Niels Mueller | Anhelo Productions Esperanto Filmoj |
ThinkFilm |
April 26, 2007 | Gardener of Eden[48] | Kevin Connolly | Virtual Studios | |
July 24, 2009 | Orphan | Jaume Collet-Serra | Dark Castle Entertainment Studio Babelberg Motion Pictures[49] StudioCanal[49] |
Warner Bros. Pictures (North America/France) Kinowelt Filmverleih (Germany) |
February 19, 2010 | Shutter Island | Martin Scorsese | Phoenix Pictures Sikelia Productions |
Paramount Pictures |
March 11, 2011 | Red Riding Hood | Catherine Hardwicke | Warner Bros. Pictures | |
March 16, 2011 | Detachment | Tony Kaye | Tribeca Film | |
October 7, 2011 | The Ides of March | George Clooney | Columbia Pictures Smokehouse Pictures Exclusive Media Cross Creek Pictures |
Sony Pictures Releasing
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October 4, 2013 | Runner Runner | Brad Furman | Regency Enterprises New Regency Double Feature Films |
20th Century Fox
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December 6, 2013 | Out of the Furnace | Scott Cooper | Red Granite Pictures Scott Free Productions |
Relativity Media |
December 25, 2013 | The Wolf of Wall Street | Martin Scorsese | Red Granite Pictures Sikelia Productions EMJAG Productions |
Paramount Pictures (North America/Japan) Universal Pictures (Europe)[50][51] |
December 25, 2015 | The Revenant | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Regency Enterprises M Productions |
20th Century Fox |
December 25, 2016 | Live by Night | Ben Affleck | RatPac-Dune Entertainment
Pearl Street Films |
Warner Bros. Pictures |
May 22, 2018 | Delirium | Dennis Iliadis | Blumhouse Productions GK Films |
Universal Pictures |
November 21, 2018 | Robin Hood | Otto Bathurst | Summit Entertainment Safehouse Pictures Thunder Road Films |
Lionsgate |
December 13, 2019 | Richard Jewell | Clint Eastwood | Malpaso Productions Misher Films 75 Year Plan Productions |
Warner Bros. Pictures |
October 20, 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Martin Scorsese | Imperative Entertainment Sikelia Productions Apple Studios
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Paramount Pictures Apple TV+ |
TBA | Billy Summers[52] | TBA | Bad Robot | Warner Bros. Pictures |
TBA | The Featherweight | Robert Kolodny | Golden Ratio Film Blisspoint Entertainment |
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TBA | Queen of Bones | Robert Budreau | Lumanity Productions Productivity Media |
Television
- Greensburg (2008–10)
- Under the Bed (2017)[a]
- Pete the Cat (2018–2022)
- Grant (2020)
- The Right Stuff (2020)
- Shining Girls (2022–present)
Documentaries
- The 11th Hour (2007)
- Virunga (2014, Netflix release)
- Cowspiracy (2015, Netflix release)
- Davi's Way (2016)
- The Last Shaman (2016)
- The Ivory Game (2016)
- Before the Flood (2016)
- Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (2018)
- Ice on Fire (2019)
- Sea of Shadows (2019, National Geographic Channel release)
- And We Go Green (2019)
- Whose Vote Counts, Explained (2020, Netflix release)
- Kid 90 (2021)
- Fin (2021)
- The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 (2021)
Notes
Footnotes
- ^ A television film thriller, the production is inspired by true events.[42]
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