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Hyperion Pictures

Los Angeles, California(approximate location)

Hyperion Pictures, founded by Tom Wilhite and Willard Carroll, is an Emmy Award-winning producer of hundreds of hours of live-action and animated theatrical films, television, and video programming. Hyperion is the first studio to emphasize production of ethnically and culturally diverse animation with the theatrical feature Bebe's Kids (Paramount) and TV series The Proud Family (Disney), Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (HBO), and Da Boom Crew (Kids' WB).

From their site

Images from Hyperion Pictures’s own website.

Who works there

  • Willard Carrollis a writer, producer, and director whose fi
  • Jesse Groeningis a producer, director, and cinematographer

Listed on the company’s own site. People move on; this is not a current roster.

Contact & details

TypeDistributor · Film · Animation · Television
LocationLos Angeles, California
Websitehyperionpictures.com
Statusactive2022 credit + site i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
6.6IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

20 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
Emmys0of1nominations0%
BAFTAs0of1nominations0%

22 wins from 70 nominations across all awards

Box office
$12m

Combined US gross, 2 of 38 titles

Life with Louie: A Christmas Surprise for Mrs. Stillman poster
Highest rated
Life with Louie: A Christmas Surprise for Mrs. Stillman
1994
8.5620 votes
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder poster
Lowest rated
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
2022
3.25,311 votes
Mostly
animation, adventure, comedy
Active
1987–2022
Rotten Tomatoes
46%
Best known for
The Brave Little Toaster

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 29 of 38 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
512 seasons

1994–2022

Television rating
6.4IMDb

Their films average 6.6, so the television rates 0.3 lower.

Networks
  • Disney+1
  • HBO1
  • FOX1
  • Fox Kids1
  • USA Network1
  • CBS1

Across 5 series matched to TMDB, 143 episodes.

Longest runningThe Proud Family: Louder and Prouder · 4 seasons

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits24 of 39

34 films · 5 TV titles

Titles per year17 titles · busiest 1999 with 5

17 titles across 26 years, averaging 0.7 a year. The last five years hold at 0.2 a year. 17 of those 26 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time13 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
2468their average 6.6200020102020

Their 1990s work is their strongest, averaging 6.7 across 8 titles. 5 of 13 rated titles sit above their 6.0 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Bert Ring6
  • Willard Carroll4
  • Bruce W. Smith2
  • Robert C. Ramirez2
  • Patrick A. Ventura2
Writers
  • Willard Carroll13
  • L. Frank Baum5
  • Thomas M. Disch3
  • Matthew O'Callaghan3
  • Ralph Farquhar2
Notable cast
  • Eric Lloyd6
  • Shayna Fox4
  • Shay Astar3
  • Kyla Pratt2
  • Tommy Davidson2
Genres
  • Animation24 of 30
  • Adventure13 of 30
  • Comedy13 of 30
  • Family10 of 30
  • Fantasy8 of 30

Names appearing on two or more of Hyperion Pictures’s produced titles, across the 30 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with12 companies

Companies that appear alongside Hyperion Pictures on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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