Apatow Productions

Apatow Productions

Company type	Privately held company
Industry	Film, TV
Founded	1999 (1999)
Founder	Judd Apatow
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Products	Films (including among others Anchorman film franchise) and TV series

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 Pictures Columbia 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		Netflix	—
	Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping	Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone	Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone		Universal Pictures	$20 million	$9.5 million
2017	The Big Sick	Michael Showalter	Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani		Amazon Studios and Lionsgate	$5 million	$53 million
2018	Juliet, Naked	Jesse Peretz	Tamara Jenkins, Jim Taylor, Phil Alden Robinson and Evgenia Peretz		Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate	—	$1.9 million
2020	The King of Staten Island	Judd Apatow	Judd Apatow, Pete Davidson and Dave Sirus		Universal Pictures	—
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%
The 40-Year-Old Virgin	73	85%
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby	66	72%
Knocked Up	85	90%
Superbad	76	88%
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story	63	74%
Drillbit Taylor	41	25%
Forgetting Sarah Marshall	67	83%
Step Brothers	51	55%
Pineapple Express	64	68%
Year One	34	15%
Funny People	60	69%
Get Him to the Greek	65	73%
Bridesmaids	75	90%
Wanderlust	53	59%
The Five-Year Engagement	62	63%
This Is 40	59	51%
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues	61	75%
Begin Again	62	83%
Trainwreck	75	85%
Pee-wee's Big Holiday	63	82%
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping	68	78%
The Big Sick	86	98%
Juliet, Naked	67	80%
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 network
Freaks and Geeks	Paul Feig	1999–2000	DreamWorks Television	NBC
Undeclared	Judd Apatow	2001–2002		Fox
Funny or Die Presents	Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Andrew Steele, Judd Apatow	2010–2011	Funnyordie.com, Gary Sanchez Productions	HBO
Girls	Lena Dunham	2012–2017	I Am Jenni Konner Productions and HBO Entertainment
Love	Judd Apatow, Paul Rust and Lesley Arfin	2016–2018	Legendary Television	Netflix
Crashing	Pete Holmes	2017–2019	Joy Quota	HBO

Critical reception

Title of TV series	Metacritic's score	Notes and references
Freaks and Geeks: Season 1	88
Undeclared: Season 1	85
Girls: Season 1	87
Girls: Season 2	84
Girls: Season 3	76
Girls: Season 4	75
Girls: Season 5	73
Girls: Season 6	79
Love: Season 1	73
Love: Season 2	80
Love: Season 3	77
Crashing: Season 1	73
Crashing: Season 2	68
Average score	81

Other websites

• Apatow Productions at the Internet Movie Database