Atlas Entertainment

American film financing and producing companyTemplate:SHORTDESC:American film financing and producing company

**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

### Direct-to-video/streaming films

 2019
 2021

### Television series

 2018–present
 2019

## References

1. ↑ Dawn Steel. orlandosentinel.com.
2. ↑  (in en) *Billboard*. 2006-11-11. https://books.google.com/books?id=UA8EAAAAMBAJ&q=roven+cavallo+entertainment++1990&pg=PA42.
3. ↑ Dawn Steel Lands Deal With Disney Co. (en-US) (1990-04-06).
4. ↑ Turner boosts distrib plans with Steel deal (en) (1994-03-02).
5. ↑ Disney, Cavallo reunite (en) (1997-10-28).
6. ↑ Dawn Steel dead at 51 (en) (1997-12-21).
7. ↑ Gold/Miller joins hands with Atlas (en) (1999-07-29).
8. ↑ Roven carries Atlas to Sony Pictures in first-look deal (en).
9. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>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 <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>McNary, Dave (December 8, 2014). "Charles Roven's Atlas Entertainment Expands Into Management". variety.com. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
11. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>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 (en).
13. ↑ CSC Awards - TV Series.
14. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>McNary, Dave (March 6, 2014). "Renee Zellweger Joining Daniel Craig in 'The Whole Truth'". variety.com. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
15. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>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. Penske Media Corporation.

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