Black Bear Pictures

Black Bear Pictures is an American media company that develops, produces, distributes and finances original content for film and television. Black Bear is based in Santa Monica, California.

Black Bear Pictures

Logo used since 2023
Company type	Private[1]
Founded	2011; 14 years ago (2011)
Founder	Teddy Schwarzman
Headquarters	Santa Monica, California , United States
Number of employees	11-50[1]

Since its 2011 launch, Black Bear's slate has grossed over $300,000,000 worldwide, been nominated for thirteen Academy Awards, nine Golden Globes, ten BAFTAs, and premiered at such prestigious festivals at Cannes, Sundance, Venice, Telluride, Toronto, New York, and London.

In 2013, Black Bear entered an output deal with the newly established Elevation Pictures, an independent film and TV distribution company in Canada.^[2] Later on, the company acquired Elevation, and it now operates as a subsidiary of Black Bear. In 2023, Black Bear was launched as a primary distributor (Black Bear UK) in the United Kingdom, starting with Dumb Money (2023).^[3] In 2025, they launched a U.S distribution division led by Benjamin Kramer, with The Rivals of Amziah King set to be the division's first release.^[4][5]

History

The founder is Teddy Schwarzman, a film producer and former corporate lawyer who left Cinetic Media to establish his own production company.

Films

• At Any Price (2012)
• Broken City (2013)
• A.C.O.D. (2013)
• All Is Lost (2013)
• The Imitation Game (2014)
• Knock Knock (2016)
• Barry (2016)
• Gold (2016)
• Suburbicon (2017)
• Mudbound (2017)
• The Happytime Murders (2018)
• Ben Is Back (2018)
• Light of My Life (2019)
• The Operative (2019)
• Our Friend (2019)
• I Carry You With Me (2020)
• The Rental (2020)
• I Care a Lot (2020)
• Little Fish (2020)
• Memory (2022)
• Somebody I Used to Know (2023)
• The Marsh King's Daughter (2023)
• Dumb Money (2023)
• Nyad (2023)
• Sing Sing (2023)
• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)
• Immaculate (2024)
• Relay (2024)
• Train Dreams (2025)
• The Monkey (2025)
• The Rivals of Amziah King (2025)
• A Working Man (2025)
• Tuner (2025)
• In the Grey (TBA)
• Blood Meridian (TBA)
• I Want Your Sex (TBA)
• Untitled Christy Martin film (TBA)
• Untitled Ric Roman Waugh film (TBA)
• Wife & Dog (TBA)
• 77 Blackout (TBA)

International sales

• The Marsh King's Daughter (2023)
• Dumb Money (2023)
• Sing Sing (2023)
• Ferrari (2023)
• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)
• Immaculate (2024)
• Longlegs (2024)
• Goodrich (2024)
• On Swift Horses (2024)
• Relay (2024)
• Shell (2024)
• The Monkey (2025)
• The Rivals of Amziah King (2025)
• A Working Man (2025)
• She Rides Shotgun (2025)
• Whistle (2025)
• Greenland: Migration (2025)
• In the Grey (TBA)
• Afterburn (TBA)
• Bad Boy (TBA)
• Famous (TBA)
• Fred and Ginger (TBA)
• I Want Your Sex (TBA)
• Motor City (TBA)
• Musk (TBA)
• Tuner (TBA)
• Untitled Ric Roman Waugh film (TBA)
• Untitled Christy Martin biopic (TBA)
• Wicker (TBA)
• Wife & Dog (TBA)