Silver Pictures

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Silver Pictures
Type	Production company
Industry	Motion pictures
Founded	June 24, 1980 (1980-06-24)
Subsidiaries	Dark Castle Entertainment

Silver Pictures is an American film production company founded by Hollywood producer Joel Silver during 1980. The Silver Pictures logo, also called The Chip, is modeled on a block pattern that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for the exteriors of the legendary Storer House in Los Angeles. Silver has been a lifelong aficionado of Frank Lloyd Wright and has worked many of Wright's works within both Silver Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment. All pre-Universal Pictures deal films (starting with Ricochet) are owned and distributed by Warner Bros.

In 2012, Joel Silver and Warner Bros. ended their 25-year production, marketing, and distribution relationship. This is due to Silver growing increasingly upset with how Warner Bros. had been handling the marketing and releasing of the films his company produced. Despite having split, Silver and Warner Bros. co-produced The Nice Guys four years later. That same year, Joel Silver and Universal Pictures struck a 5-year marketing and distribution deal, starting with the Liam Neeson action thriller Non-Stop on February 28, 2014. Universal Pictures will not be a production partner with Silver Pictures, only a distributor.

Three years after Silver finalized Silver Pictures 5-year marketing and distributing deal with Universal, the veteran producer connected with Canadian financier Daryl Katz. Founder and Chairman of the Katz Group of Companies, one of Canada's largest privately owned enterprises, Daryl Katz holds operations in pharmaceuticals, sports and entertainment and real estate. The two can together to create a slate of feature film, digital projects and television. Hal Sadoff, longtime packaging and finance agent, will serve as Chief Executive Officer of Silver Pictures Entertainment. Sadoff left ICM in 2012.

Before Silver's connection with Katz, Silver Pictures required studio backing to develop and fund its films. After the formation of the new partnership, Silver possessed the ability to work on projects both inside and outside the studio system.

CEO Hal Sadoff and Silver still possess a longstanding relationship, having worked together on "Gothika", "Thirteen Ghosts" and "House on the Haunted Hill".

On June 24, 2019, Sadoff announced Silver's resignation from the company.

Films

Year	Film	Director
1984	Streets of Fire	Walter Hill
1985	Brewster's Millions
	Weird Science	John Hughes
	Commando	Mark L. Lester
1986	Jumpin' Jack Flash	Penny Marshall
1987	Lethal Weapon	Richard Donner
	Predator	John McTiernan
1988	Die Hard
	Action Jackson	Craig R. Baxley
1989	Road House	Rowdy Herrington
	Lethal Weapon 2	Richard Donner
1990	Die Hard 2	Renny Harlin
	The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
	Predator 2	Stephen Hopkins
1991	Hudson Hawk	Michael Lehmann
	Ricochet	Russell Mulcahy
	The Last Boy Scout	Tony Scott
1992	Lethal Weapon 3	Richard Donner
1993	Demolition Man	Marco Brambilla
1994	The Hudsucker Proxy	Joel and Ethan Coen
	Richie Rich	Donald Petrie
1995	Assassins	Richard Donner
	Fair Game	Andrew Sipes
1996	Executive Decision	Stuart Baird
1997	Fathers' Day	Ivan Reitman
	Conspiracy Theory	Richard Donner
1998	Lethal Weapon 4
1999	The Matrix	The Wachowskis
2000	Dungeons & Dragons	Courtney Solomon
	Romeo Must Die	Andrzej Bartkowiak
2001	Exit Wounds
	Swordfish	Dominic Sena
2003	Cradle 2 the Grave	Andrzej Bartkowiak
	The Matrix Reloaded	The Wachowskis
	The Matrix Revolutions
2005	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	Shane Black
	V for Vendetta	James McTeigue
2006	Shark Bait	James McTeigue
2007	The Invasion	Oliver Hirschbiegel
		James McTeigue
	The Brave One	Neil Jordan
	Fred Claus	David Dobkin
2008	Speed Racer	The Wachowskis
2009	Ninja Assassin	James McTeigue
	Sherlock Holmes	Guy Ritchie
2010	The Book of Eli	The Hughes Bros.
2011	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows	Guy Ritchie
2012	Project X	Nima Nourizadeh
	Dragon Eyes	John Hyams
	Stash House	Eduardo Rodríguez
	El Gringo
2014	Non-Stop	Jaume Collet-Serra
2015	The Gunman	Pierre Morel
2016	The Nice Guys	Shane Black
	Collide	Eran Creevy
2017	Suburbicon	George Clooney
2018	Superfly	Director X
TBA	untitled Horror film	TBA

Television series

• Moonlight (2007–2008)
• Veronica Mars (2004–2007)
• Next Action Star (2004)
• Action (1999)
• The Strip (1999)

Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films

Rank	Title	Year	Domestic gross	Notes
1	The Matrix Reloaded	2003	$281,576,461	Co-produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment
2	Sherlock Holmes	2009	$209,028,679	Co-produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and Wigram Productions
3	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows	2011	$186,848,418	Co-produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and Wigram Productions
4	The Matrix	1999	$171,479,930	Co-produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and Groucho II Film
5	Lethal Weapon 2	1989	$147,253,986
6	Lethal Weapon 3	1992	$144,731,527
7	The Matrix Revolutions	2003	$139,313,948	Co-produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment
8	Lethal Weapon 4	1998	$130,444,603	Co-produced by Doshudo Productions
9	Die Hard 2	1990	$117,540,947	Co-produced by Gordon Company
10	The Book of Eli	2010	$94,835,059	Co-produced by Alcon Entertainment

References

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