Morgan Creek Entertainment

"David C. Robinson" redirects here. For the steamboat captain, see David C. Robinson (steamboat captain).

Morgan Creek Entertainment, LLC is an American film production company, former sales agent and investor, that has released box-office hits including Young Guns, Dead Ringers, Major League, True Romance, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Crush, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Last of the Mohicans. The studio was co-founded in 1987 by James G. Robinson and Joe Roth.^[1] Robinson leads the company as chairman and CEO. His two sons, Brian Robinson and David C. Robinson, run the day-to-day operations.^{[citation needed]} The company name comes from Roth's favorite film, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.^[2] Their most recent film is The Exorcist: Believer, which was released on October 6, 2023.

Morgan Creek Entertainment, LLC

Logo of Morgan Creek Entertainment, first seen on All Eyez on Me
Formerly	Morgan Creek Productions, Inc.
Company type	Film production company
Industry	Film and television
Founded	1987; 38 years ago (1987)
Founder	James G. Robinson Joe Roth
Headquarters	Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California , United States
Key people	James G. Robinson (Chairman & CEO) Brian Robinson David C. Robinson
Divisions	Morgan Creek International Morgan Creek Music Morgan Creek Video Morgan Creek DVD
Website	morgancreek.com

Morgan Creek generally releases their films through larger studios while retaining the copyrights, and making autonomous decisions on home video and television rights. Their logo contains a stylized creek.

Company history

Morgan Creek's initial slate of films from 1988 to 1990 were released by 20th Century Fox, except for Renegades and Coupe de Ville which were released by Universal Pictures and Major League which was released by Paramount Pictures, and some home video releases of its early titles going to Media Home Entertainment.^[2] In 1991, beginning with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, they shifted their distribution of new films, as well as their previous catalog titles, to Warner Bros., where they remained until early 2005. Later that year, beginning with Two for the Money, they released their newer films through Universal, though previous films were still handled in the United States by Warner Bros.

In 1996, Morgan Creek tried to expand into animated feature film production. Only one, The King & I was produced, and it flopped.^[3]

On July 11, 1997, Gary Barber announced that he would leave Morgan Creek, and he subsequently went on to start out Spyglass Entertainment.^[4] In 1998, Morgan Creek had a distribution deal with Warner Home Video to release its product through the Morgan Creek Video and the Morgan Creek DVD labels.^[5]

On October 8, 1998, Morgan Creek and Franchise Pictures entered into an agreement where Morgan Creek would distribute Franchise's upcoming pictures domestically.^[6] On July 2, 2001, Morgan Creek Productions sued Franchise Pictures for allegedly breaching an agreement giving the company the right of first refusal on some films.^[7]

In October 2014, Morgan Creek sold the international distribution rights and copyrights to their films to Revolution Studios for $36.75 million.^[8] In September 2015, Morgan Creek began negotiating the sale of rights for the remaining territories, though they intend to retain remake and television rights to the Ace Ventura, Major League, Young Guns, and Exorcist franchises.^[9]

List of Morgan Creek filmography

Films

Release Date	Title	Director	Budget	Gross (worldwide)	Notes
August 12, 1988	Young Guns	Christopher Cain	$11 million	$45,661,556	first Morgan Creek production distributed by 20th Century Fox; international and home media distribution by Vestron Pictures
September 23, 1988	Dead Ringers	David Cronenberg	$13 million	$8,038,508	co-production with Telefilm Canada and Mantle Clinic II
March 3, 1989	Skin Deep	Blake Edwards	$8.5 million	$19,674,852
April 7, 1989	Major League	David S. Ward	$11 million	$49,797,148	co-production with Mirage Productions; U.S. distribution by Paramount Pictures
June 2, 1989	Renegades	Jack Sholder	$16 million	$9,015,164	co-production with Interscope Communications; distributed by Universal Pictures
December 13, 1989	Enemies, a Love Story	Paul Mazursky	$9.5 million	$7,754,571
February 16, 1990	Nightbreed	Clive Barker	$11 million	$8,862,354
March 9, 1990	Coupe de Ville	Joe Roth	N/A	$715,983	second and last Morgan Creek production distributed by Universal Pictures until 2005
August 1, 1990	Young Guns II	Geoff Murphy	$10 million	$44,143,410
August 17, 1990	The Exorcist III	William Peter Blatty	$11 million	$39,024,251
September 28, 1990	Pacific Heights	John Schlesinger	$18 million	$44,926,706	last Morgan Creek production distributed by 20th Century Fox
June 14, 1991	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	Kevin Reynolds	$48 million	$390,493,908	first Morgan Creek production distributed by Warner Bros.; the film's score would become the music for Morgan Creek's animated logo
January 17, 1992	Freejack	Geoff Murphy	$30 million	$17,129,000
April 24, 1992	White Sands	Roger Donaldson	$22 million	$9,011,574
August 14, 1992	Stay Tuned	Peter Hyams	$25 million	$10,736,401
September 25, 1992	The Last of the Mohicans	Michael Mann	$40 million	$75,505,856	co-production with 20th Century Fox
April 2, 1993	The Crush	Alan Shapiro	$6 million	$13,609,396
September 10, 1993	True Romance	Tony Scott	$13 million	$12,281,551	co-production with Davis Films and A Band Apart
February 4, 1994	Ace Ventura: Pet Detective	Tom Shadyac	$12 million	$107,217,396
March 30, 1994	Major League II	David S. Ward	$25 million	$30,626,182
April 22, 1994	Chasers	Dennis Hopper	$15 million	$1,596,687
September 9, 1994	Trial by Jury	Heywood Gould	N/A	$6,971,777
October 14, 1994	Imaginary Crimes	Anthony Drazan	N/A	$89,611
October 28, 1994	Silent Fall	Bruce Beresford	$30 million	$3,180,674
November 10, 1995	Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls	Steve Oedekerk	$30 million	$212,385,533
January 12, 1996	Two If by Sea	Bill Bennett	N/A	$10,658,278
January 26, 1996	Big Bully	Steve Miner	$15 million	$2,042,530
March 22, 1996	Diabolique	Jeremiah S. Chechik	$45 million	$17,100,369
November 1, 1996	Bad Moon	Eric Red	$7 million	$1,055,525
July 2, 1997	Wild America	William Dear	N/A	$7,324,662
March 13, 1998	Incognito	John Badham	N/A	N/A
April 17, 1998	Major League: Back to the Minors	John Warren	$18 million	$3,572,443
August 21, 1998	Wrongfully Accused	Pat Proft	N/A	$9,623,329	co-production with Constantin Film
October 23, 1998	Soldier	Paul W. S. Anderson	$60 million	$14,594,226	co-production with Warner Bros. and Jerry Weintraub Productions
March 19, 1999	The King and I	Richard Rich	$25 million	$11,993,021	Morgan Creek's first and, so far, only animated film; co-production with Nest Family Entertainment, Rankin/Bass Productions and Rich Animation Studios
September 1, 1999	Chill Factor	Hugh Johnson	$34 million	$11,263,966
February 18, 2000	The Whole Nine Yards	Jonathan Lynn	$41.3 million	$106,371,651	co-production with Franchise Pictures, Rational Packaging and Lansdown Films; select international distribution by 20th Century Fox
May 12, 2000	Battlefield Earth	Roger Christian	$44 million	$29,725,663	co-production with Franchise Pictures
July 19, 2000	The In Crowd	Mary Lambert	$15 million	$5,217,498
August 25, 2000	The Art of War	Christian Duguay	$60 million	$40,400,425	co-production with Franchise Pictures and Amen-Ra Films; select international distribution by 20th Century Fox
October 6, 2000	Get Carter	Stephen Kay	$63.6 million	$19,412,993	co-production with Franchise Pictures and The Canton Company
January 19, 2001	The Pledge	Sean Penn	$35 million	$29,419,291	co-production with Franchise Pictures, Clyde Is Hungry Films and Epsilon Motion Pictures
February 23, 2001	3000 Miles to Graceland	Demian Lichtenstein	$62 million	$18,720,175	co-production with Franchise Pictures
May 18, 2001	Angel Eyes	Luis Mandoki	$53 million	$29,715,606	co-production with Franchise Pictures and The Canton Company
August 17, 2001	American Outlaws	Les Mayfield	$35 million	$13,342,790
November 9, 2001	Heist	David Mamet	$39 million	$28,510,652	co-production with Franchise Pictures
June 21, 2002	Juwanna Mann	Jesse Vaughan	$15 million	$13,802,599
August 1, 2003	I'll Be There	Craig Ferguson	N/A	N/A
August 20, 2004	Exorcist: The Beginning	Renny Harlin	$50 million	$78,000,586
May 20, 2005	Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist	Paul Schrader	$30 million	$251,495	last Morgan Creek production distributed by Warner Bros.
October 7, 2005	Two for the Money	D. J. Caruso	$35 million	$30,526,509	first Morgan Creek production distributed by Universal Pictures since Coupe de Ville
October 13, 2006	Man of the Year	Barry Levinson	$20 million	$41,237,658
December 22, 2006	The Good Shepherd	Robert De Niro	$85 million	$99,480,480	co-production with Universal Pictures, TriBeCa Productions and American Zoetrope
May 11, 2007	Georgia Rule	Garry Marshall	$20 million	$25,992,167
September 21, 2007	Sydney White	Joe Nussbaum	N/A	$13,620,075
March 3, 2009	Ace Ventura Jr.: Pet Detective	David Mickey Evans	$7.5 million	N/A	Released by Warner Home Video
September 30, 2011	Dream House	Jim Sheridan	$50 million	$38,502,340
October 14, 2011	The Thing	Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.	$38 million	$31,505,287	co-production with Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment
June 16, 2017	All Eyez on Me	Benny Boom	$45 million	$54,876,855	distributed by Lionsgate; co-production with Summit Entertainment, Program Pictures and Codeblack Films
October 6, 2023	The Exorcist: Believer	David Gordon Green	$30 million	$136,998,069	co-production with Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions; direct sequel to the 1973 film[10][11][12]

Upcoming/In development

Release Date	Title	Director	Notes
March 13, 2026	Untitled Exorcist film	Mike Flanagan	co-production with Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions and Intrepid Pictures; reboot of the franchise[13][14]
TBA	Dream House	TBA	remake of the 2011 film[15]

Television series

• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1995–2000) (with Nelvana and Warner Bros. Television)
• The Exorcist (2016–2017) (with New Neighborhood and 20th Century Fox Television)
• Dead Ringers (2023) (with Amazon Studios, Astral Projection and Annapurna Television)^[16]

In development

• The Good Shepherd (with Showtime)^[17]
• Nightbreed^[18]
• Pacific Heights^[18]