The Picture Company

The Picture Company is an American entertainment company founded in 2014, by Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman, in Glendale, California. It specializes in film, starting off moderately in 2018 with Jaume Collet-Serra's The Commuter and Albert Hughes' Alpha.

The Picture Company

Company type	Private
Industry	Entertainment
Founded	2014; 11 years ago (2014)[1]
Founders	Andrew Rona Alex Heineman
Headquarters	Glendale, California, U.S.
Key people	Andrew Rona Alex Heineman Jovi Lee
Services	Film production
Owner	StudioCanal (minority)

History

Founding

The Picture Company was founded in 2014 by film veterans Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman. Rona is a former president at Silver Pictures and Rogue Pictures, and Heineman was an EVP at Silver Pictures.^[2]

The company began in 2014 with a first-look deal with StudioCanal.^[1] The company achieved its first theatrical releases with Jaume Collet-Serra's The Commuter, Albert Hughes' Alpha, and Sam Taylor-Johnson's A Million Little Pieces. StudioCanal would later go on to buy a minority stake in The Picture Company in 2023 and ink a new five-year overall deal with the company.^[3]

Future projects

Since September 2014, The Picture Company has announced several projects which have not yet been realised, including the adaptation of Mitch Swenson's The Tracking Of A Russian Spy, for which Nima Nourizadeh replaced Pierre Morel as director and Logan Lerman and Olivia Cooke were in talks to star.^[4][5] Also announced were Nottingham & Hood, a Pirates Of The Caribbean-style Robin Hood movie for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures,^[6] a second sequel to Escape from New York for 20th Century Fox,^[7][8][9] as well as the movie version of David-Jan Bronsgeest's short film Meet Jimmy, with Platinum Dunes also producing for Paramount Pictures.^[10] Also pending are Harry Bradbeer's film The Paris Trap, for StudioCanal^[11] and David Bruckner's film Out There, for Entertainment One.^[12]

Filmography

Released

Motion pictures from The Picture Company, listed by theatrical release date

Film	Director	Release date	Gross box office (USD)
The Commuter	Jaume Collet-Serra	January 12, 2018	$119.9 million[13]
Alpha	Albert Hughes	August 17, 2018	$98.2 million[14]
A Million Little Pieces	Sam Taylor-Johnson	December 6, 2019
Come Play	Jacob Chase	October 30, 2020	[15]
Gunpowder Milkshake	Aharon Keshales Navot Papushado	July 14, 2021	[16]
Retribution	Nimród Antal	August 25, 2023	[17]
Role Play	Thomas Vincent	January 12, 2024	[18]
A Complete Unknown	James Mangold	December 25, 2024	$140 million [19]
Baghead	Alberto Corredor	April 5, 2024

Upcoming films

Motion pictures from The Picture Company, in development

Film	Director	Release date	Ref.
The Appearance		TBA	[20]
Control	Robert Schwentke		[21]
The Corporation			[22]
Escape from New York	Radio Silence		[23][8][9]
The French Quarter Will Not Be Spared			[24]
The Fury of a Patient Man	Albert Hughes		[25]
Hellish Nell			[26]
Honey Trapped			[27]
Inside			[28]
The Last Battle			[29]
Leap	Mohamed Diab		[30]
May You Live in Interesting Times			[31]
Meet Jimmy	David-Jan Bronsgeest		[10]
Mercy Sparx			[32]
Nottingham & Hood			[6]
Out There	Stefan Grube		[12][33]
The Paris Trap	Harry Bradbeer		[11]
Rodeo			[34]
Supermax			[35]
System Crasher			[36]
They Hear It	Julian Terry		[37]
The Tracking Of A Russian Spy	Nima Nourizadeh		[5]
The Travelers	Josh Gordon, Will Speck		[38]
Tyrant	David Weil		[39]
Unexplained Phenomenon	Dean Israelite		[40]
Whisper	Julian Terry		[41]
The White Room	Rod Blackhurst		[42]

See also

• Companies portal

• STX Entertainment
• Neon
• Amazon MGM Studios
• Annapurna Pictures
• Blumhouse Productions
• Studio 8