Jump to content

Apatow Productions

From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apatow Productions
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryFilm, TV
Founded1999; 25 years ago (1999)
FounderJudd Apatow
HeadquartersLos Angeles, California, U.S.
ProductsFilms (including among others Anchorman film franchise) and TV series

Apatow Productions is the production company established by Judd Apatow in 1999,[1][2] based in Los Angeles, California, USA.

It produced the Anchorman movie franchise (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues), and films The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Knocked Up, Superbad, Pineapple Express, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Funny People, Get Him to the Greek, Bridesmaids, This Is 40, Begin Again, Trainwreck, The Big Sick and The King of Staten Island. First production of the company was comedy TV series Freaks and Geeks.

List of productions

[change | change source]
Year of release Title of movie Directed by Story by Written by Distribution Budget of movie Worldwide box office
2004 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Adam McKay Will Ferrell and Adam McKay DreamWorks Pictures $26 million $90.5 million
2005 The 40-Year-Old Virgin Judd Apatow Judd Apatow and Steve Carell Universal Pictures $26 million $177.3 million
2006 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Adam McKay Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Columbia Pictures $72 million $162.9 million
2007 Knocked Up Judd Apatow Universal Pictures $30 million $219.1 million
Superbad Greg Mottola Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Columbia Pictures $20 million $169.9 million
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Jake Kasdan Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan $35 million $20.6 million
2008 Drillbit Taylor Steven Brill Kristofor Brown, John Hughes and Seth Rogen Kristofor Brown and Seth Rogen Paramount Pictures $40 million $49.7 million
Forgetting Sarah Marshall Nicholas Stoller Jason Segel Universal Pictures $30 million $105.2 million
Step Brothers Adam McKay Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Columbia Pictures $65 million $128.1 million
Pineapple Express David Gordon Green Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg $27 million $101.6 million
2009 Year One Harold Ramis Harold Ramis, Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg $60 million $62.4 million
Funny People Judd Apatow Universal Pictures
Columbia Pictures
$75 million $71.6 million
2010 Get Him to the Greek Nicholas Stoller Universal Pictures $40 million $91.3 million
2011 Bridesmaids Paul Feig Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig $32 million $288.4 million
2012 Wanderlust David Wain David Wain and Ken Marino $32 million $21.6 million
The Five-Year Engagement Nicholas Stoller Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller $30 million $53.9 million
This Is 40 Judd Apatow $35 million $88.1 million
2013 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Adam McKay Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Paramount Pictures $50 million $173.6 million
2014 Begin Again John Carney The Weinstein Company $8 million $63.5 million
2015 Trainwreck Judd Apatow Amy Schumer Universal Pictures $35 million $113 million
2016 Pee-wee's Big Holiday John Lee Paul Reubens and Paul Rust Netflix
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone Universal Pictures $20 million $9.5 million
2017 The Big Sick Michael Showalter Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani Amazon Studios and Lionsgate $5 million $53 million
2018 Juliet, Naked Jesse Peretz Tamara Jenkins, Jim Taylor, Phil Alden Robinson and Evgenia Peretz Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate $1.9 million
2020 The King of Staten Island Judd Apatow Judd Apatow, Pete Davidson and Dave Sirus Universal Pictures
Total $773,500,000 $2,305,736,122
Average $33,630,435 $100,249,397

Critical reception

[change | change source]
Title of movie Metacritic's score Rotten Tomatoes's score Notes and references
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 63 66% [3]
The 40-Year-Old Virgin 73 85% [4]
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 66 72% [5]
Knocked Up 85 90% [6]
Superbad 76 88% [7]
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 63 74% [8]
Drillbit Taylor 41 25% [9]
Forgetting Sarah Marshall 67 83% [10]
Step Brothers 51 55% [11]
Pineapple Express 64 68% [12]
Year One 34 15% [13]
Funny People 60 69% [14]
Get Him to the Greek 65 73% [15]
Bridesmaids 75 90% [16]
Wanderlust 53 59% [17]
The Five-Year Engagement 62 63% [18]
This Is 40 59 51% [19]
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues 61 75% [20]
Begin Again 62 83% [21]
Trainwreck 75 85% [22]
Pee-wee's Big Holiday 63 82% [23]
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping 68 78% [24]
The Big Sick 86 98% [25]
Juliet, Naked 67 80% [26]
The King of Staten Island 68 71% [27][28]
Average score 68 71%

TV series

[change | change source]
Title of TV series Created by Years active Co-production with Original network
Freaks and Geeks Paul Feig 1999–2000 DreamWorks Television NBC
Undeclared Judd Apatow 2001–2002 Fox
Funny or Die Presents Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Andrew Steele, Judd Apatow 2010–2011 Funnyordie.com, Gary Sanchez Productions HBO
Girls Lena Dunham 2012–2017 I Am Jenni Konner Productions and HBO Entertainment
Love Judd Apatow, Paul Rust and Lesley Arfin 2016–2018 Legendary Television Netflix
Crashing Pete Holmes 2017–2019 Joy Quota HBO

Critical reception

[change | change source]
Title of TV series Metacritic's score Notes and references
Freaks and Geeks: Season 1 88 [29]
Undeclared: Season 1 85 [30]
Girls: Season 1 87 [31]
Girls: Season 2 84 [32]
Girls: Season 3 76 [33]
Girls: Season 4 75 [34]
Girls: Season 5 73 [35]
Girls: Season 6 79 [36]
Love: Season 1 73 [37]
Love: Season 2 80 [38]
Love: Season 3 77 [39]
Crashing: Season 1 73 [40]
Crashing: Season 2 68 [41]
Average score 81

References

[change | change source]
  1. "Judd Apatow". Variety.
  2. "Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann snag a sawtelle office for production company". The Real Deal. 2019-05-16. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  3. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Reviews, Metacritic
  4. The 40 Year Old Virgin Reviews, Metacritic
  5. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Reviews, Metacritic
  6. Knocked Up Reviews, Metacritic
  7. Superbad Reviews, Metacritic
  8. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Reviews, Metacritic
  9. Drillbit Taylor Reviews, Metacritic
  10. Forgetting Sarah Marshall Reviews, Metacritic
  11. Step Brothers Reviews, Metacritic
  12. Pineapple Express Reviews, Metacritic
  13. Year One Reviews, Metacritic
  14. Funny People Reviews, Metacritic
  15. Get Him to the Greek Reviews, Metacritic
  16. Bridesmaids Reviews, Metacritic
  17. Wanderlust Reviews, Metacritic
  18. The Five-Year Engagement Reviews, Metacritic
  19. This Is 40 Reviews, Metacritic
  20. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Reviews, Metacritic
  21. Begin Again Reviews, Metacritic
  22. Trainwreck Reviews, Metacritic
  23. Pee-wee's Big Holiday Reviews, Metacritic
  24. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Reviews, Metacritic
  25. The Big Sick Reviews, Metacritic
  26. Juliet, Naked Reviews, Metacritic
  27. "The King of Staten Island (2020)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  28. "The King of Staten Island Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  29. Freaks and Geeks - Season 1 Reviews, Metacritic
  30. Undeclared - Season 1 Reviews, Metacritic
  31. Girls - Season 1 Reviews, Metacritic
  32. Girls - Season 2 Reviews, Metacritic
  33. Girls - Season 3 Reviews, Metacritic
  34. Girls - Season 4 Reviews, Metacritic
  35. Girls - Season 5 Reviews, Metacritic
  36. Girls - Season 6 Reviews, Metacritic
  37. Love (2016) - Season 1 Reviews, Metacritic
  38. Love (2016) - Season 2 Reviews, Metacritic
  39. Love (2016) - Season 3 Reviews, Metacritic
  40. Crashing (2017) - Season 1 Reviews, Metacritic
  41. Crashing (2017) - Season 2 Reviews, Metacritic

Other websites

[change | change source]