Eagle Pictures
Eagle Pictures S.p.A. is an Italian film distribution and production company. It is Italy's leading independent film distributor.
History
Eagle Pictures was founded by and Stefano Dammicco in 1986. Producer Tarak Ben Ammar acquired a controlling interest in the company in late 2007.In late 2018, Eagle Pictures established a film and television production division, having previously produced Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's The Lark Farm and Edoardo De Angelis's Mozzarella Stories. It had also acted as a line producer during the Italian shoots of Kingsman: The Secret Service, Point Break, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, and 6 Underground.
In January 2020, Eagle Pictures entered into a distribution agreement with Paramount Pictures, after their deal with 20th Century Fox expired earlier that month. In February 2021, Eagle entered into a home entertainment distribution agreement with Sony Pictures. The following year, it also entered into a production and distribution agreement with Sony, effective in 2023.
In June 2023, Eagle Pictures announced that they would be investing between €40 and 50 million in the construction of new film studios in Rome.