Eagle Pictures S.p.A. is an Italian film distribution and production company. It is Italy's leading independent film distributor.
History Eagle Pictures was founded by and Stefano Dammicco in 1986. Producer Tarak Ben Ammar acquired a controlling interest in the company in late 2007.
In late 2018, Eagle Pictures established a film and television production division, having previously produced Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's The Lark Farm (2007) and Edoardo De Angelis's Mozzarella Stories (2011). It had also acted as a line producer during the Italian shoots of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), Point Break (2015), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), and 6 Underground (2019).
In January 2020, Eagle Pictures entered into a distribution agreement with Paramount Pictures, after their deal with 20th Century Fox expired earlier that month. In February 2021, Eagle entered into a home entertainment distribution agreement with Sony Pictures. The following year, it also entered into a production and distribution agreement with Sony, effective in 2023.
In June 2023, Eagle Pictures announced that they would be investing between €40 and 50 million in the construction of new film studios in Rome.
Mergers and acquisitions In July 2020, Eagle Pictures acquired distributor M2 Pictures for around €8.5 million. In August 2022, it acquired 302 Original Content, a film and television production startup company; it was later renamed to Eagle Original Content. In March 2023, Eagle Pictures merged with 3 Marys Entertainment. Later that year, it acquired , a production company specializing in unscripted television.
Production credits Film Year Title Director Notes 2004 The Lazarus Child Graham Theakston 2007 The Lark Farm Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Co-produced with Ager 3, Rai Cinema, France 2 Cinéma, and Istituto Luce 2010 Basilicata Coast to Coast Rocco Papaleo 2011 Mozzarella Stories Edoardo De Angelis 2020 Co-produced with Vivi Film Portugal Out of My League Alice Filippi 2021 Still Out of My League Co-produced with Weekend Films 2022 Cosimo Alemà The Bunker Game Roberto Zazzara Co-produced with Be Cool Produzioni Dampyr Riccardo Chemello Co-produced with Sergio Bonelli Editore and Brandon Box Forever Out of My League Claudio Norza Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile Will Speck and Josh Gordon Co-produced with Columbia Pictures Gianluca Mangiasciutti 2023 Fausto Brizzi The Equalizer 3 Antoine Fuqua Co-produced with Columbia Pictures and Escape Artists Giulio Manfredonia Co-produced with Sony Pictures International Productions 2024 The Boy with Pink Pants Co-produced with Weekend Films Co-produced with Sony Pictures International Productions How Kids Roll Loris Lai Co-produced with Jean Vigo Italia, Lawrence Bender Productions, Potemkino, and Rai Cinema 2025 Leopardi & Co Federica Biondi 40 secondi Vincenzo Alfieri Squali Daniele Barbiero 2026 The City of the Living Edoardo Gabbriellini Co-produced with Cinemaundici, Lungta Film
Television Year Title Network Notes 2018 The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair Epix Co-produced with MGM Television, Muse Entertainment, Old Friends Productions, Barbary Films, and Repērage 2024 Rai 1 Co-produced with Rai Fiction Sul più bello - La serie Amazon Prime Video
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