Revolution Studios: Difference between revisions

'''Revolution Studios''' is a company founded in 2000 by Joe Roth, a former chairman of [[Walt Disney Pictures]] and [[20th Century Fox]] with Todd Garner, Rob Moore, Tom Sherak, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, [[Starz IDs|Starz]] and Fox as equity owners. The majority of its movies were distributed by [[Sony Pictures Entertainment]] (some were released by [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] though). Revolution Studios closed its film division doors in October 2007 after its deal with Sony expired, though the underperformance of a number of their films at that time was also a likely contributor. In 2010, their [[Revolution Television|television division]] was revived. In June 2014, Roth sold the company to Fortress Investment Group for roughly $250 million, while still remaining a strategic adviser; shortly after this, Revolution slowly worked back into film, mainly through acquiring the rights to several companies' films like Cold Spring Pictures and the international rights to [[Morgan Creek Entertainment Group|Morgan Creek]]'s titles. On January 20, 2017, Revolution released their first film in 10 years, ''xXx: Return of Xander Cage'' (released by Paramount rather than Sony). TV rights of the Revolution library are owned by [[Sony Pictures Television]] while first-run syndication rights to the Revolution library are owned by [[Debmar-Mercury]] with ad-sales handled by [[CBS Media Ventures]], the original incarnation of [[20th Television]] previously handled ad-sales for [[Debmar-Mercury]] from 2007 to 2019.