# The Montecito Picture Company

The Montecito Picture Company, LLC is an American film production company founded in 1998 by film director Ivan Reitman and studio executive Tom Pollock. It is located on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, California, United States. Montecito is a city in California in Santa Barbara County.

## History

The company's predecessor was an entertainment production studio Northern Lights Entertainment, owned by Reitman. It originally started off with a deal at PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. Ultimately, the deal collapsed after Universal Pictures (which Pollock previously ran from 1986-1996) took control of PolyGram's assets and Montecito signed a first look deal with DreamWorks Pictures instead. On March 9, 2000, it extended its pact with writer/director Todd Phillips, after the success of the hit movie Road Trip.
After several years at DreamWorks, on February 18, 2009, the company signed a first-look deal with Paramount Pictures. The deal was ended on March 16, 2013; and in 2015 the company moved into offices on the Sony lot. Tom Pollock died in August 2020, and Ivan Reitman died in February 2022.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Director | Co-produced by | Distributed by |
| 2000 | Road Trip | Todd Phillips | | DreamWorks Pictures |
| 2001 | Evolution | Ivan Reitman | | DreamWorks Pictures Columbia Pictures |
| 2002 | Killing Me Softly | Chen Kaige | | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (straight-to-video) |
| 2003 | Old School | Todd Phillips | | DreamWorks Pictures |
| 2004 | EuroTrip | Jeff Schaffer | | DreamWorks Pictures |
| 2006 | Trailer Park Boys: The Movie | Mike Clattenburg | Trailer Park Productions | Alliance Atlantis Screen Media Films |
| 2007 | Disturbia | D. J. Caruso | Cold Spring Pictures | DreamWorks Pictures |
| 2009 | Hotel for Dogs | Thor Freudenthal | Nickelodeon Movies/Cold Spring Pictures/The Donners Company | DreamWorks Pictures |
| 2009 | The Uninvited | The Guard Brothers | Cold Spring Pictures/Vertigo Entertainment | DreamWorks Pictures |
| 2009 | I Love You, Man | John Hamburg | De Line Pictures | DreamWorks Pictures |
| 2009 | Post Grad | Vicky Jenson | Fox Atomic/Cold Spring Pictures | 20th Century Fox |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Jason Reitman | Cold Spring Pictures | Paramount Pictures |
| 2009 | Chloe | Atom Egoyan | | Sony Pictures Classics StudioCanal |
| 2011 | No Strings Attached | Ivan Reitman | Cold Spring Pictures/Spyglass Entertainment | Paramount Pictures |
| 2012 | Hitchcock | Sacha Gervasi | Cold Spring Pictures | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| 2014 | Draft Day | Ivan Reitman | OddLot Entertainment | Summit Entertainment |
| 2016 | Ghostbusters | Paul Feig | Village Roadshow Pictures/LStar Capital/Pascal Pictures/Feigco Entertainment | Columbia Pictures |
| 2017 | Baywatch | Seth Gordon | Uncharted/Contrafilm/Vinson Pictures/Flynn Picture Company/Seven Bucks Productions | Paramount Pictures |
| 2017 | Father Figures | Lawrence Sher | Alcon Entertainment | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| 2020 | A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting | Rachel Talalay | Walden Media | Netflix |
| 2020 | Godmothered | Sharon Maguire | Walt Disney Pictures | Disney+ |
| 2021 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife | Jason Reitman | Ghost Corps/Bron Creative | Columbia Pictures |
| TBA | Untitled film | Lulu Wang | Atlas Entertainment | Universal Pictures |

## Television series

| Year | Title | Creator(s) / Developer(s) | Co-produced by | Network |
| 2001–2002 | Alienators: Evolution Continues | Louis Gassin | DIC Entertainment, L.P./DreamWorks Television/Columbia TriStar Television/Dentsu, Inc. | Fox Kids |