Apatow Productions

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Apatow Productions
Company type Privately held company
Industry Film , TV
Founded 1999 ; 25 years ago  ( 1999 )
Founder Judd Apatow
Headquarters Los Angeles , California , U.S.
Products Films (including among others Anchorman film franchise) and TV series

Apatow Productions is the production company established by Judd Apatow in 1999, [1] [2] based in Los Angeles , California , USA .

It produced the Anchorman movie franchise ( Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy , Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues ), and films The 40-Year-Old Virgin , Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby , Knocked Up , Superbad , Pineapple Express , Forgetting Sarah Marshall , Funny People , Get Him to the Greek , Bridesmaids , This Is 40 , Begin Again , Trainwreck , The Big Sick and The King of Staten Island . First production of the company was comedy TV series Freaks and Geeks .

List of productions [ change | change source ]

Movies [ change | change source ]

Year of release Title of movie Directed by Story by Written by Distribution Budget of movie Worldwide box office
2004 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Adam McKay Will Ferrell and Adam McKay DreamWorks Pictures $26 million $90.5 million
2005 The 40-Year-Old Virgin Judd Apatow Judd Apatow and Steve Carell Universal Pictures $26 million $177.3 million
2006 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Adam McKay Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Columbia Pictures $72 million $162.9 million
2007 Knocked Up Judd Apatow Universal Pictures $30 million $219.1 million
Superbad Greg Mottola Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Columbia Pictures $20 million $169.9 million
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Jake Kasdan Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan $35 million $20.6 million
2008 Drillbit Taylor Steven Brill Kristofor Brown, John Hughes and Seth Rogen Kristofor Brown and Seth Rogen Paramount Pictures $40 million $49.7 million
Forgetting Sarah Marshall Nicholas Stoller Jason Segel Universal Pictures $30 million $105.2 million
Step Brothers Adam McKay Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Columbia Pictures $65 million $128.1 million
Pineapple Express David Gordon Green Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg $27 million $101.6 million
2009 Year One Harold Ramis Harold Ramis, Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg $60 million $62.4 million
Funny People Judd Apatow Universal Pictures
Columbia Pictures 		$75 million $71.6 million
2010 Get Him to the Greek Nicholas Stoller Universal Pictures $40 million $91.3 million
2011 Bridesmaids Paul Feig Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig $32 million $288.4 million
2012 Wanderlust David Wain David Wain and Ken Marino $32 million $21.6 million
The Five-Year Engagement Nicholas Stoller Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller $30 million $53.9 million
This Is 40 Judd Apatow $35 million $88.1 million
2013 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Adam McKay Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Paramount Pictures $50 million $173.6 million
2014 Begin Again John Carney The Weinstein Company $8 million $63.5 million
2015 Trainwreck Judd Apatow Amy Schumer Universal Pictures $35 million $113 million
2016 Pee-wee's Big Holiday John Lee Paul Reubens and Paul Rust Netflix ?
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone Andy Samberg , Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone Universal Pictures $20 million $9.5 million
2017 The Big Sick Michael Showalter Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani Amazon Studios and Lionsgate $5 million $53 million
2018 Juliet, Naked Jesse Peretz Tamara Jenkins , Jim Taylor , Phil Alden Robinson and Evgenia Peretz Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate ? $1.9 million
2020 The King of Staten Island Judd Apatow Judd Apatow, Pete Davidson and Dave Sirus Universal Pictures ?
Total $773,500,000 $2,305,736,122
Average $33,630,435 $100,249,397

Critical reception [ change | change source ]

Title of movie Metacritic 's score Rotten Tomatoes 's score Notes and references
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 63 66% [3]
The 40-Year-Old Virgin 73 85% [4]
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 66 72% [5]
Knocked Up 85 90% [6]
Superbad 76 88% [7]
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 63 74% [8]
Drillbit Taylor 41 25% [9]
Forgetting Sarah Marshall 67 83% [10]
Step Brothers 51 55% [11]
Pineapple Express 64 68% [12]
Year One 34 15% [13]
Funny People 60 69% [14]
Get Him to the Greek 65 73% [15]
Bridesmaids 75 90% [16]
Wanderlust 53 59% [17]
The Five-Year Engagement 62 63% [18]
This Is 40 59 51% [19]
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues 61 75% [20]
Begin Again 62 83% [21]
Trainwreck 75 85% [22]
Pee-wee's Big Holiday 63 82% [23]
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping 68 78% [24]
The Big Sick 86 98% [25]
Juliet, Naked 67 80% [26]
The King of Staten Island 68 71% [27] [28]
Average score 68 71%

TV series [ change | change source ]

Title of TV series Created by Years active Co-production with Original network
Freaks and Geeks Paul Feig 1999?2000 DreamWorks Television NBC
Undeclared Judd Apatow 2001?2002 Fox
Funny or Die Presents Will Ferrell , Adam McKay , Andrew Steele, Judd Apatow 2010?2011 Funnyordie.com , Gary Sanchez Productions HBO
Girls Lena Dunham 2012?2017 I Am Jenni Konner Productions and HBO Entertainment
Love Judd Apatow, Paul Rust and Lesley Arfin 2016?2018 Legendary Television Netflix
Crashing Pete Holmes 2017?2019 Joy Quota HBO

Critical reception [ change | change source ]

Title of TV series Metacritic 's score Notes and references
Freaks and Geeks : Season 1 88 [29]
Undeclared : Season 1 85 [30]
Girls : Season 1 87 [31]
Girls : Season 2 84 [32]
Girls : Season 3 76 [33]
Girls : Season 4 75 [34]
Girls : Season 5 73 [35]
Girls : Season 6 79 [36]
Love : Season 1 73 [37]
Love : Season 2 80 [38]
Love : Season 3 77 [39]
Crashing : Season 1 73 [40]
Crashing : Season 2 68 [41]
Average score 81

References [ change | change source ]

  1. ↑ "Judd Apatow" . Variety .
  2. ↑ "Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann snag a sawtelle office for production company" . The Real Deal . 2019-05-16 . Retrieved 2021-07-06 .
  3. ↑ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Reviews , Metacritic
  4. ↑ The 40 Year Old Virgin Reviews , Metacritic
  5. ↑ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Reviews , Metacritic
  6. ↑ Knocked Up Reviews , Metacritic
  7. ↑ Superbad Reviews , Metacritic
  8. ↑ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Reviews , Metacritic
  9. ↑ Drillbit Taylor Reviews , Metacritic
  10. ↑ Forgetting Sarah Marshall Reviews , Metacritic
  11. ↑ Step Brothers Reviews , Metacritic
  12. ↑ Pineapple Express Reviews , Metacritic
  13. ↑ Year One Reviews , Metacritic
  14. ↑ Funny People Reviews , Metacritic
  15. ↑ Get Him to the Greek Reviews , Metacritic
  16. ↑ Bridesmaids Reviews , Metacritic
  17. ↑ Wanderlust Reviews , Metacritic
  18. ↑ The Five-Year Engagement Reviews , Metacritic
  19. ↑ This Is 40 Reviews , Metacritic
  20. ↑ Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Reviews , Metacritic
  21. ↑ Begin Again Reviews , Metacritic
  22. ↑ Trainwreck Reviews , Metacritic
  23. ↑ Pee-wee's Big Holiday Reviews , Metacritic
  24. ↑ Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Reviews , Metacritic
  25. ↑ The Big Sick Reviews , Metacritic
  26. ↑ Juliet, Naked Reviews , Metacritic
  27. ↑ "The King of Staten Island (2020)" . Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  28. ↑ "The King of Staten Island Reviews" . Metacritic . Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  29. ↑ Freaks and Geeks - Season 1 Reviews , Metacritic
  30. ↑ Undeclared - Season 1 Reviews , Metacritic
  31. ↑ Girls - Season 1 Reviews , Metacritic
  32. ↑ Girls - Season 2 Reviews , Metacritic
  33. ↑ Girls - Season 3 Reviews , Metacritic
  34. ↑ Girls - Season 4 Reviews , Metacritic
  35. ↑ Girls - Season 5 Reviews , Metacritic
  36. ↑ Girls - Season 6 Reviews , Metacritic
  37. ↑ Love (2016) - Season 1 Reviews , Metacritic
  38. ↑ Love (2016) - Season 2 Reviews , Metacritic
  39. ↑ Love (2016) - Season 3 Reviews , Metacritic
  40. ↑ Crashing (2017) - Season 1 Reviews , Metacritic
  41. ↑ Crashing (2017) - Season 2 Reviews , Metacritic

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