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Phoenix Pictures

Los Angeles, California(approximate location)

Founded by Producers Mike Medavoy and Arnold Messer in 1995, Phoenix Pictures is a premier film and television production company with a track record of working with first-rate talent across multiple mediums.

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Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Film · Television
Founded1995Wikidata
Founded byMike MedavoyWikidata
LocationLos Angeles, California
Websitephoenixpictures.com
Phone+1 424 298 2788
Statusactive2026 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
7.5IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

34 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
Oscars1of12nominations8%
Emmys0of2nominations0%

204 wins from 851 nominations across all awards

Box office
$809m

Combined US gross, 30 of 39 titles

Shutter Island poster
Highest rated
Shutter Island
2010
8.21,644,111 votes
Urban Legends: Final Cut poster
Lowest rated
Urban Legends: Final Cut
2000
4.419,750 votes
Mostly
drama, comedy, romance
Active
1996–2026
Rotten Tomatoes
46%
Best known for
Shutter Island

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 37 of 39 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
33 seasons

1991–2018

Networks
  • Netflix1
  • National Geographic1

Across 2 series matched to TMDB, 25 episodes.

Longest runningAltered Carbon · 2 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 45

36 films · 3 TV titles

Titles per year36 titles · busiest 1998 with 4

36 titles across 30 years, averaging 1.2 a year. The last five years average 0.4 a year, below their long-run rate. 11 of those 30 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time32 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
3579their average 7.5200020102020

Their 2010s work is their strongest, averaging 8.0 across 9 titles. The 5 titles since 2014 average 7.2, 0.4 below their 7.6 overall. 5 of 32 rated titles sit above their 7.6 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Writers
  • Laeta Kalogridis3
  • Mikko Alanne2
  • James Vanderbilt2
  • Silvio Horta2
Notable cast
  • Samuel L. Jackson3
  • Sean Penn3
  • Juliette Binoche2
  • Mark Ruffalo2
  • Nick Nolte2
Genres
  • Drama26 of 37
  • Comedy11 of 37
  • Romance8 of 37
  • Thriller7 of 37
  • Mystery7 of 37

Names appearing on two or more of Phoenix Pictures’s produced titles, across the 37 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 with11 companies

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

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