Spyglass Media Group
, formerly Spyglass Entertainment (legally Spyglass Entertainment Holdings, LLC), is an American film production and international sales company founded by Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum in 1998.
Spyglass had many deals with film studios, first they signed a distribution deal with Disney for a five-year agreement. However, the studio parted ways with Disney and tried signing a deal with DreamWorks. The deal fell through and later ended up signing a distribution agreement with Sony Pictures.note In 2010, Barber and Birnbaum became co-presidents of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, leading Spyglass's operations to be scaled back with its last film being released in 2012.
On March 13, 2019, the newly formed Lantern Entertainment, theater chain Cineworld, Italian film unit Eagle Pictures, and returning founder Barber relaunched the company as Spyglass Media Group, which will host the former The Weinstein Company library that Lantern had previously acquired in 2018 as well as the sequel rights to Miramax's franchises. WB was brought in as a minority holder and was set to distribute titles from the new company. In 2021, Lionsgate acquired a twenty-percent equity stake in the company, gaining rights to much of the TWC library in the process.
List of films by Spyglass:
- 27 Dresses (2008)
- Abandon (2002)
- Balls of Fury (2007)
- Bruce Almighty (2003)
- Evan Almighty (2007)
- Connie and Carla (2004)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
- The Dilemma (2011)
- Dinner for Schmucks (2010)
- Dragonfly (2002)
- Eight Below (2006)
- Flash of Genius (2008)
- Four Christmases (2008)
- Get Him to the Greek (2010)
- Ghost Town (2008)
- G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
- The Happening (2008)
- Hellraiser (2022)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
- The Insider (1999)
- Instinct (1999) note
- Invictus (2009)
- The Invisible (2007)
- Keeping the Faith (2000)
- Leap Year (2010)
- The Legend of Zorro (2005)
- The Lookout (2007)
- The Love Guru (2008)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
- Mission to Mars (2000)
- Mr. 3000 (2004)
- No Strings Attached (2011)
- The Pacifier (2005)
- The Perfect Score (2004)
- The Recruit (2003)
- Out Cold (2001)
- Reign of Fire (2002)
- The Ruins (2008)
- Scream (2022)
- Scream VI (2023)
- Seabiscuit (2003)
- Shanghai Noon (2000)
- The Sixth Sense (1999)
- Spy Kids: Armageddon (2023)
- Star Trek (2009)
- Stay Alive (2006)
- Stick It (2006)
- Thanksgiving (2023)
- The Tourist (2010)
- Underdog (2007)
- The Vow (2012)
- Wanted (2008)
