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.

 List of productions 
 Movies 
 Year of release Title of movie Directed by Story by Written by Distribution Budget of movie Worldwide box office 2004 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Adam McKay Will Ferrell and Adam McKay DreamWorks Pictures $26 million $90.5 million 2005 The 40-Year-Old Virgin Judd Apatow Judd Apatow and Steve Carell Universal Pictures $26 million  $177.3 million 2006 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Adam McKay Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Columbia Pictures $72 million $162.9 million 2007 Knocked Up Judd Apatow Universal Pictures $30 million $219.1 million Superbad Greg Mottola Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Columbia Pictures $20 million $169.9 million Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Jake Kasdan Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan $35 million $20.6 million 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 Jason Segel Universal Pictures $30 million $105.2 million Step Brothers Adam McKay Will Ferrell and Adam McKay 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 2009  Year One Harold Ramis Harold Ramis, Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg $60 million $62.4 million Funny People Judd Apatow Universal PicturesColumbia Pictures $75 million $71.6 million 2010 Get Him to the Greek Nicholas Stoller Universal Pictures $40 million $91.3 million 2011 Bridesmaids Paul Feig Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig $32 million $288.4 million 2012 Wanderlust David Wain David Wain and Ken Marino $32 million $21.6 million The Five-Year Engagement Nicholas Stoller Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller $30 million $53.9 million This Is 40 Judd Apatow $35 million $88.1 million 2013 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Adam McKay Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Paramount Pictures $50 million $173.6 million 2014 Begin Again John Carney The Weinstein Company $8 million $63.5 million 2015 Trainwreck Judd Apatow Amy Schumer Universal Pictures $35 million $113 million 2016 Pee-wee's Big Holiday John Lee Paul Reubens and Paul Rust Netflixcolspan="2"  Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone Universal Pictures $20 million $9.5 million2017 The Big Sick Michael ShowalterEmily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani Amazon Studios and Lionsgate $5 million $53 million2018 Juliet, Naked Jesse PeretzTamara Jenkins, Jim Taylor, Phil Alden Robinson and Evgenia Peretz Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate  $1.9 million2020 The King of Staten Island Judd ApatowJudd Apatow, Pete Davidson and Dave Sirus Universal Picturescolspan="2"  Total $773,500,000 $2,305,736,122	  Average $33,630,435 $100,249,397

 Critical reception 
 Title of movie Metacritic's score Rotten Tomatoes's score Notes and references Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 63 66% Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Reviews, Metacritic The 40-Year-Old Virgin 73 85% The 40 Year Old Virgin Reviews, Metacritic Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 66 72% Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Reviews, Metacritic Knocked Up 85 90% Knocked Up Reviews, Metacritic Superbad 76 88% Superbad Reviews, Metacritic Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 63 74% Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Reviews, Metacritic Drillbit Taylor 41 25% Drillbit Taylor Reviews, Metacritic Forgetting Sarah Marshall 67 83% Forgetting Sarah Marshall Reviews, Metacritic Step Brothers 51 55% Step Brothers Reviews, Metacritic Pineapple Express 64 68% Pineapple Express Reviews, Metacritic Year One 34 15% Year One Reviews, Metacritic Funny People 60 69% Funny People Reviews, Metacritic Get Him to the Greek 65 73% Get Him to the Greek Reviews, Metacritic Bridesmaids 75 90% Bridesmaids Reviews, Metacritic Wanderlust 53 59% Wanderlust Reviews, Metacritic The Five-Year Engagement 62 63% The Five-Year Engagement Reviews, Metacritic This Is 40 59 51% This Is 40 Reviews, Metacritic Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues 61 75% Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Reviews, Metacritic Begin Again 62 83% Begin Again Reviews, MetacriticTrainwreck7585%Trainwreck Reviews, Metacritic Pee-wee's Big Holiday6382%Pee-wee's Big Holiday Reviews, Metacritic Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping6878%Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Reviews, Metacritic The Big Sick8698%The Big Sick Reviews, Metacritic Juliet, Naked6780%Juliet, Naked Reviews, Metacritic The King of Staten Island 68 71% Average score  68  71%  

 TV series 
 Title of TV series Created by Years active Co-production with Original networkFreaks and GeeksPaul Feig1999–2000DreamWorks TelevisionNBCUndeclaredJudd Apatow2001–2002FoxFunny or Die PresentsWill Ferrell, Adam McKay, Andrew Steele, Judd Apatow2010–2011Funnyordie.com, Gary Sanchez ProductionsHBOGirlsLena Dunham2012–2017I Am Jenni Konner Productions and HBO EntertainmentLoveJudd Apatow, Paul Rust and Lesley Arfin2016–2018Legendary TelevisionNetflixCrashingPete Holmes2017–2019Joy QuotaHBO

 Critical reception 
 Title of TV series Metacritic's score Notes and references Freaks and Geeks: Season 1 88 Freaks and Geeks - Season 1 Reviews, Metacritic Undeclared: Season 1 85 Undeclared - Season 1 Reviews, Metacritic Girls: Season 1 87 Girls - Season 1 Reviews, Metacritic Girls: Season 2 84 Girls - Season 2 Reviews, Metacritic Girls: Season 3 76 Girls - Season 3 Reviews, Metacritic Girls: Season 4 75 Girls - Season 4 Reviews, Metacritic Girls: Season 5 73 Girls - Season 5 Reviews, Metacritic Girls: Season 6 79 Girls - Season 6 Reviews, Metacritic Love: Season 1 73Love (2016) - Season 1 Reviews, Metacritic Love: Season 2 80Love (2016) - Season 2 Reviews, Metacritic Love: Season 3 77Love (2016) - Season 3 Reviews, MetacriticCrashing: Season 1 73Crashing (2017) - Season 1 Reviews, MetacriticCrashing: Season 2 68Crashing (2017) - Season 2 Reviews, Metacritic Average score  81  

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Category:American movie studios