Apatow Productions

**Apatow Productions** is the production company established by Judd Apatow in 1999, based in Los Angeles, California, USA.

It produced the _Anchorman_ movie franchise (_Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy_, _Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie_ and _Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues_), and films _The 40-Year-Old Virgin_, _Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby_, _Knocked Up_, _Superbad_, _Pineapple Express_, _Forgetting Sarah Marshall_, _Funny People_, _Get Him to the Greek_, _Bridesmaids_, _This Is 40_, _Begin Again_, _Trainwreck_, _The Big Sick_ and _The King of Staten Island_. First production of the company was comedy TV series _Freaks and Geeks_.

### Movies

|scope="col"|Year of release|scope="col"|Title of movie|scope="col"|Directed by|scope="col"|Story by|scope="col"|Written by|scope="col"|Distribution|scope="col"|Budget of movie|scope="col"|Worldwide box office|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2004|_Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy_|Adam McKay|colspan="2"|Will Ferrell and Adam McKay|DreamWorks Pictures|$26 million|$90.5 million|||||||||
|2005|_The 40-Year-Old Virgin_|Judd Apatow|colspan="2"|Judd Apatow and Steve Carell|Universal Pictures|$26 million|$177.3 million|||||||||
|2006|_Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby_|Adam McKay|colspan="2"|Will Ferrell and Adam McKay|Columbia Pictures|$72 million|$162.9 million|||||||||
|rowspan="3"|2007|_Knocked Up_|colspan="3"|Judd Apatow|Universal Pictures|$30 million|$219.1 million|||||||||
|_Superbad_|Greg Mottola|colspan="2"|Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg|rowspan="2"|Columbia Pictures|$20 million|$169.9 million|||||||||
|_Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story_|Jake Kasdan|colspan="2"|Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan|$35 million|$20.6 million|||||||||||
|rowspan="4"|2008|_Drillbit Taylor_|Steven Brill|Kristofor Brown, John Hughes and Seth Rogen|Kristofor Brown and Seth Rogen|Paramount Pictures|$40 million|$49.7 million||||||||
|_Forgetting Sarah Marshall_|Nicholas Stoller|colspan="2"|Jason Segel|Universal Pictures|$30 million|$105.2 million||||||||||
|_Step Brothers_|Adam McKay|colspan="2"|Will Ferrell and Adam McKay|rowspan="3"|Columbia Pictures|$65 million|$128.1 million|||||||||
|_Pineapple Express_|David Gordon Green|Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg|Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg|$27 million|$101.6 million|||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|2009|_Year One_|colspan="2"|Harold Ramis|Harold Ramis, Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg|$60 million|$62.4 million|||||||||
|_Funny People_|colspan="3"|Judd Apatow|Universal Pictures Columbia Pictures|$75 million|$71.6 million|||||||||||
|2010|_Get Him to the Greek_|colspan="3"|Nicholas Stoller|rowspan="5"|Universal Pictures|$40 million|$91.3 million|||||||||
|2011|_Bridesmaids_|Paul Feig|colspan="2"|Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig|$32 million|$288.4 million||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|2012|_Wanderlust_|David Wain|colspan="2"|David Wain and Ken Marino|$32 million|$21.6 million|||||||||
|_The Five-Year Engagement_|Nicholas Stoller|colspan="2"|Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller|$30 million|$53.9 million|||||||||||
|_This Is 40_|colspan="3"|Judd Apatow|$35 million|$88.1 million||||||||||||
|2013|_Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues_|Adam McKay|colspan="2"|Will Ferrell and Adam McKay|Paramount Pictures|$50 million|$173.6 million|||||||||
|2014|_Begin Again_|colspan="3"|John Carney|The Weinstein Company|$8 million|$63.5 million||||||||||
|2015|_Trainwreck_|Judd Apatow|colspan="2"|Amy Schumer|Universal Pictures|$35 million|$113 million|||||||||
|rowspan="2"|2016|_Pee-wee's Big Holiday_|John Lee|colspan="2"|Paul Reubens and Paul Rust|Netflix|colspan="2"|||||||||
|_Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping_|Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone|colspan="2"|Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone|Universal Pictures|$20 million|$9.5 million||||||||||
|2017|_The Big Sick_|Michael Showalter|colspan="2"|Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani|Amazon Studios and Lionsgate|$5 million|$53 million|||||||||
|2018|_Juliet, Naked_|Jesse Peretz|colspan="2"|Tamara Jenkins, Jim Taylor, Phil Alden Robinson and Evgenia Peretz|Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate||$1.9 million|||||||||
|2020|_The King of Staten Island_|Judd Apatow|colspan="2"|Judd Apatow, Pete Davidson and Dave Sirus|Universal Pictures|colspan="2"||||||||||

#### Critical reception

|scope="col"|Title of movie|scope="col"|Metacritic's score|scope="col"|Rotten Tomatoes's score|scope="col"|Notes and references|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy_|63|66%||||||
|_The 40-Year-Old Virgin_|73|85%||||||
|_Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby_|66|72%||||||
|_Knocked Up_|85|90%||||||
|_Superbad_|76|88%||||||
|_Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story_|63|74%||||||
|_Drillbit Taylor_|41|25%||||||
|_Forgetting Sarah Marshall_|67|83%||||||
|_Step Brothers_|51|55%||||||
|_Pineapple Express_|64|68%||||||
|_Year One_|34|15%||||||
|_Funny People_|60|69%||||||
|_Get Him to the Greek_|65|73%||||||
|_Bridesmaids_|75|90%||||||
|_Wanderlust_|53|59%||||||
|_The Five-Year Engagement_|62|63%||||||
|_This Is 40_|59|51%||||||
|_Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues_|61|75%||||||
|_Begin Again_|62|83%||||||
|_Trainwreck_|75|85%||||||
|_Pee-wee's Big Holiday_|63|82%||||||
|_Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping_|68|78%||||||
|_The Big Sick_|86|98%||||||
|_Juliet, Naked_|67|80%||||||
|_The King of Staten Island_|68|71%||||||

### TV series

|Title of TV series|Created by|Years active|Co-production with|Original network||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_Freaks and Geeks_|Paul Feig|1999–2000|rowspan="2"|DreamWorks Television|NBC|
|_Undeclared_|Judd Apatow|2001–2002|Fox|||
|_Funny or Die Presents_|Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Andrew Steele, Judd Apatow|2010–2011|Funnyordie.com, Gary Sanchez Productions|rowspan=2|HBO|
|_Girls_|Lena Dunham|2012–2017|I Am Jenni Konner Productions and HBO Entertainment|||
|_Love_|Judd Apatow, Paul Rust and Lesley Arfin|2016–2018|Legendary Television|Netflix||
|_Crashing_|Pete Holmes|2017–2019|Joy Quota|HBO||

#### Critical reception

|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Title of TV series|scope="col"|Metacritic's score|scope="col"|Notes and references|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_Freaks and Geeks: Season 1_|88|||||
|_Undeclared: Season 1_|85|||||
|_Girls: Season 1_|87|||||
|_Girls: Season 2_|84|||||
|_Girls: Season 3_|76|||||
|_Girls: Season 4_|75|||||
|_Girls: Season 5_|73|||||
|_Girls: Season 6_|79|||||
|_Love: Season 1_|73|||||
|_Love: Season 2_|80|||||
|_Love: Season 3_|77|||||
|_Crashing: Season 1_|73|||||
|_Crashing: Season 2_|68|||||

## Infobox (company)

- **name**: Apatow Productions
- **type**: Privately held company
- **industry**: Film, Television, TV
- **founder**: Judd Apatow
- **products**: Films (including among others _Anchorman_ film franchise) and Television series, TV series
- **location**: Los Angeles, California, United States, U.S.