Gary Sanchez Productions, LLC was an American film and television production company founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay that was active from 2006 to April 8, 2019.

History

Gary Sanchez Productions was founded in 2006 by comedians and filmmakers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The company is named after a fictional "Paraguayan entrepreneur and financier", Gary Sanchez. In 2007, McKay and Ferrell also founded the video site Funny or Die, under the ownership of the production company.

In August 2018, the company entered a three-year first look feature deal with Paramount Pictures.

On April 8, 2019, it was announced that Ferrell and McKay would be dissolving their partnership, though all developed projects at that time would continue to be completed. It was later revealed the reason for the split was because McKay cast John C. Reilly as Jerry Buss on the show Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (a role that Ferrell had been interested in) without Ferrell's knowledge.

In October 2019, McKay founded Hyperobject Industries. In January 2020, it was announced that Ferrell had become a partner at the company's former sister label and now successor Gloria Sanchez Productions, taking on new projects with a reorganized company with Gloria Sanchez partner, Jessica Elbaum.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleDirectorBudgetGross (worldwide)DistributorNotesRef.
2006The Foot Fist WayJody Hill$79,000$245,292Paramount Vantagewith You Know I Can't Kiss You, Inc. and MTV Films; first film
2008Step BrothersAdam McKay$65 million$128.1 millionSony Pictures Releasingwith Apatow Productions, Mosaic Media Group, Relativity Media, and Columbia Pictures
2009The Goods: Live Hard, Sell HardNeal Brennan$10 million$15.3 millionParamount Vantagewith Kevin Messick Productions
2010The Other GuysAdam McKay$85–100 million$170.9 millionSony Pictures Releasingwith Mosaic Media Group and Columbia Pictures
The Virginity HitHuck Botko and Andrew Gurland$2 million$636,706with Principato Young Management and Columbia Pictures
2012Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar MovieTim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim$3 million$201,436Magnet Releasingwith Abso Lutely Films, Funny or Die Films, and 2929 Productions
Casa de mi padreMatt Piedmont$6 million$8.41 millionLionsgatewith NALA Films and Pantelion Films
The CampaignJay Roach$95 million$104.9 millionWarner Bros. Pictureswith Everyman Pictures
BacheloretteLeslye Headland$3 million$12.1 millionRADiUS-TWCwith BCDF Pictures
2013Hansel & Gretel: Witch HuntersTommy Wirkola$50 million$226.3 millionParamount Pictureswith Flynn Picture Company, MTV Films, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Anchorman 2: The Legend ContinuesAdam McKay$50 million$173.6 millionwith Apatow Productions
2014TammyBen Falcone$20 million (gross) $16.4 million (net)$100.3 millionWarner Bros. Pictureswith On the Day Productions, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, and New Line Cinema
Welcome to MeShira PivenN/A$625,727Alchemywith Bron Studios
2015Get HardEtan Cohen$40–44 million$111.8 millionWarner Bros. Pictureswith RatPac-Dune Entertainment
A Deadly AdoptionRachel Lee GoldenbergN/AN/ALifetimewith National Picture Show Entertainment and MarVista Entertainment
Daddy's HomeSean Anders$50 million$242.8 millionParamount Pictureswith Red Granite Pictures
2016The BossBen Falcone$29 million$78.8 millionUniversal Pictureswith On the Day Productions
2017The HouseAndrew Jay Cohen$40 million$34.2 millionWarner Bros. Pictureswith Good Universe, Village Roadshow Pictures, and New Line Cinema
Daddy's Home 2Sean Anders$69 million$180.6 millionParamount Pictures
2018IbizaAlex RichanbachN/AN/ANetflixwith Good Universe
ViceAdam McKay$60 million$76.1 millionAnnapurna Pictureswith Plan B Entertainment
Holmes & WatsonEtan Cohen$42 million$41.9 millionSony Pictures Releasingwith Mimran Schur Pictures, Mosaic Media Group, and Columbia Pictures
2020Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire SagaDavid Dobkin$35 millionN/ANetflixwith Gloria Sanchez Productions and European Broadcasting Union
2022The MenuMark Mylod$30 million$79.6 millionSearchlight Pictureswith Hyperobject Industries; final film

Television

YearTitleNetworkNotesRef.
2009–2013Eastbound & DownHBOwith Rough House Pictures and Enemy MIGs Productions
2010–2011Funny or Die PresentsHBOwith Apatow Productions and Funnyordie.com
2010Big LakeComedy Centralwith Motron Productions and Lionsgate Television
2011Jon Benjamin Has a VanComedy Centralwith The Little Guy, Abso Lutely Productions, and Funny or Die
2013–2019Drunk HistoryComedy Centralwith Konner Productions, Funny or Die, and Comedy Partners
2014Bad JudgeNBCwith Two Out Rally Productions and Universal Television
2015The Chris Gethard ShowFusionwith No Cool Kids, AGI Entertainment, and Funny or Die
2017–2021No ActivityCBS All Access/Paramount+with Jungle Entertainment, Flight School Studio, Funny or Die, and CBS Studios
2018LA to VegasFoxwith Briskets Big Yellow House, Steven Levitan Productions, and 20th Century Fox Television
2018–2023SuccessionHBOwith Project Zeus, Hyperobject Industries, and HBO Entertainment
2020–2022Motherland: Fort SalemFreeformwith Well Underway and Hyperobject Industries
2020RobbieComedy Central

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