Atlas Entertainment

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**Atlas Entertainment** is an American film financing and production company, started by Charles Roven, Bob Cavallo and Dawn Steel in 1995.

## History

In 1990, Charles Roven and partner Bob Cavallo formed **Roven/Cavallo Entertainment**. At the same time, wife Dawn Steel, who was formerly employee of Columbia Pictures formed Steel Pictures, and signed a deal with Walt Disney Studios to produce feature films.

In 1995, they merged Roven/Cavallo Entertainment with Steel Pictures to create a new entity **Atlas Entertainment**, and it signed an exclusive feature film deal with Turner Pictures.

In 1997, Bob Cavallo left Atlas Entertainment to join Walt Disney Studios. Later that year, Dawn Steel, a manager in the company died.

On July 29, 1999, **Atlas Entertainment** was merged with **Gold/Miller Management** to create Mosaic Media Group.

In 2008, Charles Roven split off their ties from Mosaic Media Group, and relaunched Atlas Entertainment with a first-look deal at Sony Pictures.

On May 6, 2014, Atlas promoted Curt Kanemoto from production executive to VP of production, joining Andy Horwitz and Jake Kurily, Topher Rhys-Lawrence from first assistant to creative executive, joining Rebecca Roven and Dan Wiedenhaupt, and promoted Patrick Blood from Atlas executive to VP of legal and business affairs. In December 2014, Atlas started its subsidiary, a management company called Atlas Artists, headed by Dave Fleming.

Charles Roven and Richard Suckle produced 2013 film *American Hustle,* for which both producers were nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture. *12 Monkeys*' episode “Mentally Divergent” was also nominated for Cinematography Awards. Atlas also produced the films *The Whole Truth* with Suckle, while *Warcraft* (release date June 10, 2016) and *Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice* (release date March 25, 2016) with Roven. *Uncharted* will also be produced by Atlas along with Arad Productions.

## Filmography

### Television series

 2018–present
 2019

## References

1. ↑ "Dawn Steel". orlandosentinel.com. Retrieved January 24, 2015.
2. ↑ *Billboard*. 2006-11-11.
3. ↑ "Dawn Steel Lands Deal With Disney Co". *Los Angeles Times*. 1990-04-06. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
4. ↑ Frook, John Evan (1994-03-02). "Turner boosts distrib plans with Steel deal". *Variety*. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
5. ↑ Sandler, Adam (1997-10-28). "Disney, Cavallo reunite". *Variety*. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
6. ↑ Natale, Richard; Madigan, Nick (1997-12-21). "Dawn Steel dead at 51". *Variety*. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
7. ↑ Fleming, Michael (1999-07-29). "Gold/Miller joins hands with Atlas". *Variety*. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
8. ↑ "Roven carries Atlas to Sony Pictures in first-look deal". *The Hollywood Reporter*. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
9. ↑ Sneider, Jeff (May 6, 2014). "'Batman vs. Superman' Producer Atlas Entertainment Promotes Curt Kanemoto". thewrap.com. Retrieved January 24, 2015.
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 McNary, Dave (December 8, 2014). "Charles Roven's Atlas Entertainment Expands Into Management". variety.com. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
11. ↑ Lisa Raya, Anna (November 18, 2013). "OSCARS Q&A: Producers Charles Roven, Richard Suckle & Megan Ellison On Character-Driven 'American Hustle'". deadline.com. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
12. ↑ "Gotham, 12 Monkeys, Game of Thrones Nominated for Cinematography Awards". *Comicbook.com*. Retrieved 2017-10-25.
13. ↑ "CSC Awards - TV Series". *www.csc.ca*. Archived from the original on 2017-10-25. Retrieved 2017-10-25.
14. ↑ McNary, Dave (March 6, 2014). "Renee Zellweger Joining Daniel Craig in 'The Whole Truth'". variety.com. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
15. ↑ Lesnick, Silas (November 8, 2014). "The Cast and Characters of the Warcraft Movie Revealed!". comingsoon.net. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
16. ↑ Hipes, Patrick (January 24, 2020). "'Uncharted' Pushed Back On Sony Release Schedule". *Deadline Hollywood*. Penske Media Corporation. Archived from the original on January 31, 2020. Retrieved February 1, 2020.