Original Film

Original Film
Type	Private
Industry	Movie studio
Founded	1990; 31 years ago
Founders	Neal H. Moritz; Bruce Mellon
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Neal H. Moritz (founder); Mark LeCasse (CEO); Jason Carves (co-president)

Original Film is an American film production company founded by Neal H. Moritz.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] Notable films the company has produced include Fast & Furious franchise.

History[]

Original Film was started out in the early 1990s by Neal H. Moritz and Bruce Mellon as a film producer and a commercial company.^[5]^[6]^[7]

In 1991, David Heyman joined in as employee of the motion picture department. He later resigned to join Heyday Films.^[8] In 1993, Stokley Chaffin joined the company. He stayed on with the company for eight years until 2001.^[9]

In 1997, the studio struck a long-time partnership deal with Sony Pictures, and it remained until 2019.^[10]^[11] At the same time, Brad Luff joined the company. He left in 2003 to run Morgan Creek Productions.^[12] In 1998, the studio struck a deal with Newmarket Capital Group to produce lower-budget feature films.^[13]

In 1999, the studio made its first foray on television with the debut of Shasta McNasty. At the same time, Mark Rossen joined the company.^[14]

In 2002, Moritz launched a partnership with fellow talent agency Marty Adelstein to head a film and television managing company Original, that comprises the assets of the company.^[15] Later that year, Dawn Parouse joined the company, and later the studio struck a deal with 20th Century Fox Television to produce television shows.^[16]

In 2004, the film and managing business has been split up.^[17] At the same time, Ori Marmur, formerly of Mandalay Pictures (in which the studio developed the I Know What You Did Last Summer films for Mandalay) joined the company.^[18] Two years later, Moritz struck a deal with Sony Pictures Television to produce television shows.^[19]

In 2017, the studio signed a feature film production deal with Paramount Pictures to produce feature films, starting in 2019.^[20] Its deal was recently extended until 2023.^[21]

Filmography[]

Film[]

Year	Title	Director	Distributor	Co-production companies	Notes	Budget	Gross
1990	Framed	Dean Parisot	HBO	HBO Pictures	Television film Uncredited First production by the company	N/A
1992	Juice	Ernest R. Dickerson	Paramount Pictures	Island World	First theatrical film by the company.	$5 million	$20.1 million
1994	The Stoned Age	James Melkonian	Trimark Pictures	N/A		N/A
1994	Blind Justice	Richard Spence	HBO	HBO Pictures	Television film
1997	Buster Pointdexter: Online	Gavin Bowden	Island Def Jam Music Group	N/A	Short film
	Volcano	Mick Jackson	20th Century Fox	Fox 2000 Pictures Donner-Shuler Donner Productions		$90 million	$122.8 million
	I Know What You Did Last Summer	Jim Gillespie	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Mandalay Entertainment		$17 million	$125.2 million
1998	Reason Thirteen	C. Jay Cox	TLA Releasing	N/A	Short film	N/A
	The Rat Pack	Rob Cohen	HBO	HBO Pictures	Television film	N/A
	Urban Legend	Jamie Blanks	Sony Pictures Releasing	TriStar Pictures Phoenix Pictures		$14 million	$72.5 million
	I Still Know What You Did Last Summer	Danny Cannon		Columbia Pictures Mandalay Entertainment		$24 million	$84 million
1999	Cruel Intentions	Roger Kumble		Columbia Pictures Newmarket Capital Group		$10.5 million	$76.3 million
	Blue Streak	Les Mayfield		Columbia Pictures The IndieProd Company Jaffe Productions		$36 million	$117.7 million
	Monster!	John Lafia	UPN	Village Roadshow Pictures Wilshire Court Productions	Television film	N/A
	Held Up	Steve Rash	Trimark Pictures	N/A		$8 million	$4 million
2000	Cabin by the Lake	Po-Chih Leong	USA Network	Great Falls Productions USA Cable Entertainment	Television film	N/A
	The Skulls	Rob Cohen	Universal Pictures	Newmarket Capital Group		$15 million	$50.8 million
	Urban Legends: Final Cut	John Ottman	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Phoenix Pictures		$14 million	$38.6 million
	Cruel Intentions 2	Roger Kumble	Columbia TriStar Home Video	Newmarket Capital Group	Direct-to-video	N/A
	Hendrix	Leon Ichaso	Showtime	MGM Television	Television film
2001	Shotgun Love Dolls	T. J. Scott	MTV	Alliance Atlantis	Television film
	Saving Silverman	Dennis Dugan	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Village Roadshow Pictures		$22 million	$26 million
	The Fast and the Furious	Rob Cohen	Universal Pictures	Mediastream Film GmbH & Co. Productions KG		$38 million	$207.3 million
	Class Warfare	Richard Shepard	USA Network	British Columbia Film Commission Dogwood Pictures Jaffe/Braunstein Films Muse Entertainment Enterprises	Television film	N/A
	Return to Cabin by the Lake	Po-Chih Leong	USA Network	Great Falls Productions USA Cable Entertainment	Television film	N/A
	Soul Survivors	Stephen Carpenter	Artisan Entertainment	N/A		$17 million	$4,299,141
	The Glass House	Daniel Sackheim	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures		$30 million	$23.6 million
	Not Another Teen Movie	Joel Gallen		Columbia Pictures		$15 million	$66.5 million
2002	Slackers	Dewey Nicks		Screen Gems Alliance Atlantis		$14 million	$6.4 million
	The Skulls II	Joe Chappelle	Universal Studios Home Video	Newmarket Capital Group	Direct-to-video	N/A
	XXX	Rob Cohen	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Revolution Studios		$88.3 million	$277.4 million
	Sweet Home Alabama	Andy Tennant	Buena Vista Pictures	Touchstone Pictures		$30 million	$180.6 million
2003	Vegas Dick	Frederick King Keller	UPN	20th Century Fox Television	Television film	N/A
	Static	Lee Perkins	N/A	Flat Out Films Random Noise Productions	Short film	N/A
	2 Fast 2 Furious	John Singleton	Universal Pictures	Mikona Productions GmbH & Co. KG		$76 million	$236.3 million
	S.W.A.T.	Clark Johnson	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Camelot Pictures Chris Lee Productions		$70 million	$207.2 million
	Out of Time	Carl Franklin	MGM Distribution Co.	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Monarch Pictures		$50 million	$55.5 million
2004	Torque	Joseph Kahn	Warner Bros. Pictures	Village Roadshow Pictures		$40 million	$46.5 million
	The Skulls III	J. Miles Dale	Universal Studios Home Video	Newmarket Films	Direct-to-video	N/A
	Cruel Intentions 3	Scott Ziehl	Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment	Newmarket Films	Direct-to-video	N/A
2005	XXX: State of the Union	Lee Tamahori	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Revolution Studios		$113.1 million	$71.1 million
	Devour	David Winkler	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment	Newmarket Films Bigel Entertainment	Direct-to-video	N/A
	Stealth	Rob Cohen	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Phoenix Pictures Laura Ziskin Productions		$135 million	$76.9 million
2006	The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift	Justin Lin	Universal Pictures	Relativity Media		$85 million	$159 million
	Click	Frank Coraci	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Revolution Studios Happy Madison Productions		$82.5 million	$240.7 million
	I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer	Sylvain White	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment	Destination Films Mandalay Pictures	Direct-to-video	N/A
	Gridiron Gang	Phil Joanou	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Relativity Media		$30 million	$41 million
2007	Evan Almighty	Tom Shadyac	Universal Pictures	Relativity Media Spyglass Entertainment Shady Acres Entertainment		$175 million	$173.4 million
2007	I Am Legend	Francis Lawrence	Warner Bros. Pictures	Village Roadshow Pictures Weed Road Pictures Overbrook Entertainment Heyday Films		$150 million	$585.3 million
2008	Vantage Point	Pete Travis	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Relativity Meida		$40 million	$152 million
	Prom Night	Nelson McCormick		Screen Gems Newmarket Films		$20 million	$57.2 million
	Made of Honor	Paul Weiland		Columbia Pictures Relativity Media		$40 million	$106.4 million
	SIS	John Herzfeld	Spike	Shoot L.A. Crew Sony Pictures Television	Television film	N/A
2009	Fast & Furious	Justin Lin	Universal Pictures	Relativity Media One Race Films		$85 million	$363.2 million
2010	The Bounty Hunter	Andy Tennant	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Relativity Meida		$40–45 million	$136.3 million
2011	The Green Hornet	Michel Gondry	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Relativity Meida		$120 million	$227.8 million
	S.W.A.T.: Firefight	Benny Boom	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment	Stage 6 Films RCR Media Group	Direct-to-video	N/A
	Battle: Los Angeles	Jonathan Liebesman	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Relativity Media		$100 million	$211.8 million
	Fast Five	Justin Lin	Universal Pictures	One Race Films		$125 million	$626.1 million
	The Change-Up	David Dobkin	Universal Pictures	Relativity Media Big Kid Pictures		$52 million	$75.5 million
2012	21 Jump Street	Phil Lord Christopher Miller	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Relativity Media SJC Studios Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer		$54.7 million	$201.5 million
2012	Total Recall	Len Wiseman	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures		$125 million	$198.5 million
2013	Jack the Giant Slayer	Bryan Singer	Warner Bros. Pictures	New Line Cinema Legendary Pictures Bad Hat Harry Productions		$195–220 million	$197.7 million
	Dead Man Down	Niels Arden Oplev	FilmDistrict	Frequency Films IM Global WWE Studios		$30 million	$18.1 million
	Fast & Furious 6	Justin Lin	Universal Pictures	Relativity Media One Race Films		$160–260 million	$788.7 million
	R.I.P.D.	Robert Schwentke	Universal Pictures	Dark Horse Entertainment		$130–154 million	$78.3 million
2014	Search Party	Scot Armstrong	Focus World	Gold Circle Entertainment American Work		N/A	$117,295
2014	22 Jump Street	Phil Lord Christopher Miller	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures LStar Capital MRC Cannell Studios Storyville 75 Year Plan Productions Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer		$50–84.5 million	$331.3 million
2015	Furious 7	James Wan	Universal Pictures	MRC One Race Films		$190–250 million	$1.515 billion
2015	Goosebumps	Rob Letterman	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Sony Pictures Animation LStar Capital Village Roadshow Pictures Scholastic Entertainment		$58–84 million	$158.3 million
2016	Passengers	Morten Tyldum	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Village Roadshow Pictures Start Motion Pictures LStar Capital Wanda Pictures Company Films		$110–150 million	$303.1 million
2017	The Fate of the Furious	F. Gary Gray	Universal Pictures	One Race Films		$250 million	$1.236 billion
2017	S.W.A.T.: Under Siege	Tony Giglio	Sony Pictures Home Entertainment	Destination Films	Direct-to-video	N/A
2018	Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween	Ari Sandel	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Sony Pictures Animation Scholastic Entertainment Silvertongue Films		$35 million	$93.3 million
2018	Hunter Killer	Donovan Marsh	Lionsgate	Summit Premiere Millennium Media Relativity Media G-BASE Tucker Tooley Entertainment		$40 million	$31.7 million
2019	Escape Room	Adam Robitel	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures		$9 million	$155.7 million
2019	The Art of Racing in the Rain	Simon Curtis	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	20th Century Fox Fox 2000 Pictures Shifting Gears Productions		$18 million	$33.8 million
2020	Sonic the Hedgehog	Jeff Fowler	Paramount Pictures	Sega Sammy Group Marza Animation Planet Blur Studio		$81–95 million	$319.7 million
	Spenser Confidential	Peter Berg	Netflix	Closest to the Hole Productions Leverage Entertainment Film 44		N/A
	Bloodshot	David S. F. Wilson	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures Bona Film Group Cross Creek Pictures Annabell Pictures The Hideaway Entertainment One Race Films Valiant Entertainment		$45 million	$29.2 million
2021	F9	Justin Lin	Universal Pictures	One Race Films Roth-Kirschenbaum Films Perfect Storm Entertainment		TBA	TBA
2021	Escape Room: Tournament of Champions	Adam Robitel	Sony Pictures Releasing	Columbia Pictures		TBA	TBA
2022	Sonic The Hedgehog 2^[22]^[23]	Jeff Fowler	Paramount Pictures	Sega Sammy Group Marza Animation Planet Blur Studio		TBA	TBA
		Paramount Pictures	with MTV Entertainment Studios, Village Roadshow Pictures, Paramount Players, , Bad Robot Productions,& .

Television series[]

Year	Title	Creator	Network	Co-production companies	Notes	Seasons	Episodes
1999–2000	Shasta McNasty	Jeff Eastin	UPN	Columbia TriStar Television		1	22
2002	Greg the Bunny	Steven Levitan Spencer Chinoy Dan Milano	Fox	Steven Levitan Productions 20th Century Fox Television	Uncredited	1	13
2003–2005	Tru Calling	Jon Harmon Feldman	Fox	"Oh That Gus!", Inc. 20th Century Fox Television	Credited as Original Television	2	26
2004	The Help	Ron Leavitt	The WB	Warner Bros. Television		1	7
2005	Point Pleasant	John McLaughlin Marti Noxon	Fox	20th Century Fox Television	Credited as Original Television	1	13
2005–2009; 2017	Prison Break	Paul Scheuring	Fox	Rat Entertainment (pilot) Adelstein/Parouse Productions (2005-2009) Adelstein Productions (2017) Dawn Olmstead Productions (2017) One Light Road Productions (2017) 20th Century Fox Television	Credited as Original Television	5	90
2010–2013	The Big C	Darlene Hunt	Showtime	Perkins Street Productions Sony Pictures Television		4	40
2013	Save Me	John Scott Shepherd	NBC	Sony Pictures Television		1	13
2016-2019	Preacher	based on the comic book by: Garth Ennis Steve Dillion developed by: Sam Catlin Seth Rogen Evan Goldberg	AMC	Woodbridge Productions (2016) KFL Nightsky Productions (2017) Short Drive Entertainment Point Grey Pictures Kickstart Productions AMC Studios Sony Pictures Television		4	40
2017–present	S.W.A.T.	the 1975 series by: Robert Hammer Rick Husky developed by: Shawn Ryan Aaron Rahsaan Thomas	CBS	MiddKid Productions ART Productions Perfect Storm Entertainment CBS Studios Sony Pictures Television		4	81
2017–2019	Happy!	Grant Morrison Darick Robertson	Syfy	Hypernormal (2019) Littleton Road Universal Cable Productions		2	18
2019–present	The Boys	the comic book by: Garth Ennis Darick Robertson developed by: Eric Kripke	Amazon Prime Video	Kripke Enterprises Point Grey Pictures Kickstart Entertainment KFL Nightsky Productions Amazon Studios Sony Pictures Television		2	16
2019–present	Fast & Furious: Spy Racers	characters by: Gary Scott Thompson	Netflix	DreamWorks Animation Television Universal Television	Uncredited	4	32
2021–present	I Know What You Did Last Summer	characters by: Lois Duncan	Amazon Prime Video	Amazon Studios Atomic Monster Productions Sony Pictures Television
TBA	Goosebumps	characters by: R. L. Stine	TBA	Scholastic Entertainment Sony Pictures Television

References[]

^ Mandy.com
^ Backstage.com
^ Variety
^ Variety
^ Petrikin, Chris; Carver, Benedict (1998-03-26). "Original idea for genre pix". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
^ "Original Film's Directors Bridge the Gap Between Ads and Extremes - Extreme Reach". SourceCreative - Extreme Reach. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
^ "News: Original Film Adds Four Directors". news.creativecow.net. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
^ "Soundtrack". Variety. 1991-02-25. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
^ Fritz, Ben (2005-10-18). "Exec to try shingle life". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
^ Lorber, Danny (1998-07-07). "Moritz extends Col deal". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
^ Brodesser, Claude; Lyons, Charles (2001-03-22). "Moritz stays at Columbia". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
^ Brodesser, Claude (2003-07-25). "Morgan Creek taps Luff prez". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
^ Petrikin, Chris; Carver, Benedict (1998-03-26). "Original idea for genre pix". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
^ Littleton, Cynthia (1999-07-29). "Original names TV prexy". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
^ Brodesser, Claude (2002-04-03). "Moritz, Adelstein partner". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
^ Schneider, Michael (2002-08-13). "New 20th TV program deal is an Original". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
^ LaPorte, Nicole (2004-02-27). "Inside Move: Moritz, Adelstein plan Original breakup". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
^ LaPorte, Nicole; Brodesser, Claude (2004-02-24). "Mandalay's Marmur at Original". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
^ Adalian, Josef (2006-10-05). "Original sets pilots at Fox". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
^ McNary, Dave (2017-09-06). "Neal Moritz Signs First-Look Deal With Paramount". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
^ Kroll, Justin (2020-08-26). "Paramount Pictures Extends First-Look Deal With Producer Neal Moritz". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
^ Kroll, Justin (May 28, 2020). "'Sonic the Hedgehog' Sequel in the Works (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety.com. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
^ Fuster, Jeremy (July 23, 2020). "'Sonic the Hedgehog 2' Gets April 2022 Release Date". TheWrap. Retrieved July 24, 2020.

External links[]

Original Film at IMDb

[1] Mandy.com

[2] Backstage.com

[3] Variety

[4] Variety

[5] Petrikin, Chris; Carver, Benedict (1998-03-26). "Original idea for genre pix". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

[6] "Original Film's Directors Bridge the Gap Between Ads and Extremes - Extreme Reach". SourceCreative - Extreme Reach. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

[7] "News: Original Film Adds Four Directors". news.creativecow.net. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

[8] "Soundtrack". Variety. 1991-02-25. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

[9] Fritz, Ben (2005-10-18). "Exec to try shingle life". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

[10] Lorber, Danny (1998-07-07). "Moritz extends Col deal". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

[11] Brodesser, Claude; Lyons, Charles (2001-03-22). "Moritz stays at Columbia". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

[12] Brodesser, Claude (2003-07-25). "Morgan Creek taps Luff prez". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

[13] Petrikin, Chris; Carver, Benedict (1998-03-26). "Original idea for genre pix". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

[14] Littleton, Cynthia (1999-07-29). "Original names TV prexy". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

[15] Brodesser, Claude (2002-04-03). "Moritz, Adelstein partner". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

[16] Schneider, Michael (2002-08-13). "New 20th TV program deal is an Original". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

[17] LaPorte, Nicole (2004-02-27). "Inside Move: Moritz, Adelstein plan Original breakup". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

[18] LaPorte, Nicole; Brodesser, Claude (2004-02-24). "Mandalay's Marmur at Original". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

[19] Adalian, Josef (2006-10-05). "Original sets pilots at Fox". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

[20] McNary, Dave (2017-09-06). "Neal Moritz Signs First-Look Deal With Paramount". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-26.

[21] Kroll, Justin (2020-08-26). "Paramount Pictures Extends First-Look Deal With Producer Neal Moritz". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-08-27.

[Variety-22] Kroll, Justin (May 28, 2020). "'Sonic the Hedgehog' Sequel in the Works (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety.com. Retrieved May 28, 2020.

[Fuster-July2020-23] Fuster, Jeremy (July 23, 2020). "'Sonic the Hedgehog 2' Gets April 2022 Release Date". TheWrap. Retrieved July 24, 2020.

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