Talk:Dark Castle Entertainment

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Echelon Conspiracy
Echelon Conspiracy is from After Dark Films, not Warner Bros. --J. Fanning (talk) 11:21, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

key people
Susan Downey quit Dark Castle over a year ago, replaced by Andrew Rona. Bustter (talk) 21:04, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Edit table
"Mio." is not a well-known abbreviation for "million".

Added "ROI" because movies are business and the return to the investors is what really drives production decisions. Quite a few of the movies from this production house are pretty low-brow, pulpy films but their financial success cannot be argued. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.178.49.17 (talk) 18:28, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Dark Castle's TV show
Did anyone know that Dark Castle Entertainment has its first TV shows called The Expecting? NIKO (talk) 15:16, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

Proposed updates
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Dark Castle Entertainment is a film, TV, and digital projects production label. It is owned by North American sports and entertainment company, OEG Inc. The firm is led by co-CEOs Hal Sadoff and Norman Golightly. The majority of Dark Castle films from the late 1990’s to mid 2010’s were distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The company’s later films have also been distributed by Paramount Pictures and Shudder/AMC.

1998 — 2003: Homage to William Castle, the early years
Dark Castle was founded in 1998 by Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis, and Gilbert Adler. The Dark Castle name pays homage to William Castle, a 1950’s horror filmmaker from the 1950s and 1960s. When first formed, the goal of the company was to remake Castle’s horror films. After two remakes, House on Haunted Hill and Thirteen Ghosts, they moved on to producing original material, along with remakes of non-Castle films.

2003 — 2013: More horror, action
Gothika, starring Halle Berry and Robert Downey Jr., was Dark Castle’s first original film in 2003. They followed it up with House of Wax, the company’s first remake of a non-Castle film. In 2008, the company moved beyond the horror genre to produce the action film RocknRolla. Dark Castle released Orphan, a psychological horror film, in 2009. The film grossed $80 million on a $20 million budget. The company produced its first martial arts film, Ninja Assassin, later that year. In 2010, they produced action film adaptions of The Losers based on the DC Vertigo comic of the same name, and Unknown starring Liam Neeson, which grossed $136 million against its $30 million budget. After a long relationship with Warner Bros. Pictures as their main distributor, Dark Castle began working with other distributors including Paramount Pictures and Shudder/AMC.

2015—Present: New ownership and commercial success
Dark Castle was acquired by Daryl Katz of OEG Inc. in 2015. Hal Sadoff was named CEO. The company released its first film under OEG the following year, neo noir comedy crime movie The Nice Guys, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling. Next, Dark Castle produced black comedy crime film Suburbicon written by the Coen Brothers, directed by George Clooney, starring Matt Damon and Julianne Moore. In 2018, Dark Castle produced Superfly, a remake of the 1972 film Super Fly. Dark Castle continued to produce horror films, including Seance, starring Suki Waterhouse, and the prequel to Orphan, Orphan: First Kill, starring Isabelle Fuhrman from the original Orphan movie. In 2020, the company began producing television with the sci-fi horror series The Expecting. Dark Castle produced Last Breath, which is based on the critically acclaimed documentary Last Breath (2019 film) and stars Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu. In 2023, the company filmed Old Guy starring Christoph Waltz, and financed the film Shell, starring Elizabeth Moss and Kate Hudson, directed by Max Minghella.

Lifetime grosses
(A) Indicates minimum, as that is only two countries totals merged.