RatPac Entertainment


RatPac Entertainment, LLC was an American media and entertainment company that financed and produced motion pictures, television, documentaries, live theater, and podcasts. The company was owned by Brett Ratner and James Packer.

History

Dune Entertainment was a company founded by Steven Mnuchin in 2004.
Mnuchin founded Dune Entertainment as a side business. It financed a number of large-budget films, mostly for 20th Century Fox, including the X-Men film franchise and Avatar. In 2012, after Dune's deal with 20th Century Fox ended, Mnuchin worked with the filmmaker Brett Ratner and the Australian businessman James Packer to merge his Dune Entertainment company with Ratner and Packer's newly founded RatPac Entertainment joint venture which would be formed into RatPac-Dune Entertainment in 2013; the following year.
Between 2013 and 2018, RatPac-Dune financed many films for Warner Bros., including American Sniper and Mad Max: Fury Road. Mnuchin was co-chairman of the trio's movie company, Relativity Media, but left seven months before it went bankrupt.
In September 2013, RatPac partnered with Dune Entertainment on a multi-year motion picture co-financing arrangement with Warner Bros., financing over $1 billion for 75 of the studio's films.
In December 2013, RatPac signed a deal starting as of January 1, 2014 to finance films as part of a production deal between Plan B Entertainment and New Regency.
RatPac Entertainment has co-financed 81 theatrically released motion pictures exceeding $17 billion in worldwide box office receipts. RatPac's co-financed films have been nominated for 59 Academy Awards, 25 Golden Globes and 43 BAFTAs and have won 25 Academy Awards, 8 Golden Globes and 24 BAFTAs.
In late 2017, Access Entertainment bought Packer's controlling stake in the company. Sometime in 2018, the studio shut down and its operations were folded into Access Entertainment.
In 2021, Reddit r/wallstreetbets founder Jaime Rogozinski sold the rights to his life story to the company following the short squeeze of GameStop's stocks. The documentary "The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution" directed by Ondi Timoner debuted on Netflix on January 1, 2024.

Dune Entertainment partnership

Dune Entertainment was led by Steven Mnuchin and had been co-financing Fox films since 2006. On March 17, 2006, Viacom agreed to sell a controlling interest in the DreamWorks Pictures live-action film library to Soros Strategic Partners and Dune Entertainment II. The sale was completed on May 8, 2006.

Dune Entertainment films

Produced with 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox Atomic and Fox 2000 Pictures as Dune Entertainment, Dune Entertainment LLC or Dune Entertainment III LLC.
  • X-Men: The Last Stand
  • Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
  • The Devil Wears Prada
  • John Tucker Must Die
  • Borat
  • Eragon
  • Night at the Museum
  • Pathfinder
  • The Hills Have Eyes 2
  • Live Free or Die Hard
  • Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
  • 28 Weeks Later
  • The Darjeeling Limited
  • The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
  • Hitman
  • Alvin and the Chipmunks
  • Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
  • Choke
  • 27 Dresses
  • Jumper
  • Street Kings
  • What Happens in Vegas
  • Meet Dave
  • The Happening
  • The X-Files: I Want to Believe
  • Babylon A.D.
  • The Secret Life of Bees
  • Max Payne
  • Australia
  • The Rocker
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still
  • Marley & Me
  • Bride Wars
  • Dragonball Evolution
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine
  • Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
  • Aliens in the Attic
  • Post Grad
  • I Love You, Beth Cooper
  • All About Steve
  • Whip It
  • Jennifer's Body
  • Amelia
  • Crazy Heart
  • Avatar
  • Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
  • Tooth Fairy
  • Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
  • Our Family Wedding
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid
  • Date Night
  • Just Wright
  • Marmaduke
  • Cyrus
  • The A-Team
  • Knight and Day
  • Ramona and Beezus
  • Predators
  • Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
  • Love & Other Drugs
  • Machete
  • 127 Hours
  • Black Swan
  • Unstoppable
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  • Gulliver's Travels
  • Win Win
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
  • Water for Elephants
  • X-Men: First Class
  • Mr. Popper's Penguins
  • Monte Carlo
  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes
  • The Big Year
  • The Sitter
  • Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
  • We Bought a Zoo
  • Chronicle
  • This Means War
  • Prometheus
  • Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
  • The Watch
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
  • Chasing Mavericks
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • ''Parental Guidance''

    RatPac-Dune Entertainment partnership

RatPac-Dune Entertainment, LLC was formed in September 2013 by RatPac and Dune with a multi-year 75-picture co-financing arrangement with Warner Bros. Pictures. On November 26, 2013, RatPac-Dune finalized a $300 million credit facility with a group of banks, led by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, that has an option to be extended to $400 million. The company is the result of a 2013 joint venture between RatPac Entertainment and Dune Entertainment, following a collapse in negotiations between Dune and 20th Century Fox – which led the company to close a deal with Warner Bros. Pictures instead, replacing Legendary Pictures as Warner Bros.'s key co-financing partner.
In November 2018, RatPac-Dune's minority ownership stake in a library of 76 Warner Bros. films was put for sale, with investors in the fund backing the library to cash out. Vine Alternative Investments made a high bid for the library, but in January 2019, Warner Bros. exercised its rights to match the bid for the library, and essentially acquired RatPac-Dune's stakes for an estimated $290-300 million.
The 75-picture deal passively covered all movies including those from another production financing deal with Village Roadshow Pictures, with films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Legendary Pictures, all Alcon Entertainment films between 2014 and 2017 and the 2016 film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them all being exceptions.

RatPac-Dune Entertainment films

Financed with Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Gravity
  • Grudge Match
  • The Lego Movie
  • Winter's Tale
  • Blended
  • Edge of Tomorrow
  • Jersey Boys
  • Tammy
  • Into the Storm
  • This Is Where I Leave You
  • Annabelle
  • The Judge
  • Inherent Vice
  • Horrible Bosses 2
  • American Sniper
  • Jupiter Ascending
  • Focus
  • Run All Night
  • Get Hard
  • The Water Diviner
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • San Andreas
  • Entourage
  • Magic Mike XXL
  • The Gallows
  • Vacation
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
  • Black Mass
  • The Intern
  • Pan
  • Our Brand Is Crisis
  • In the Heart of the Sea
  • How to Be Single
  • Midnight Special
  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
  • Keanu
  • Central Intelligence
  • The Conjuring 2
  • The Legend of Tarzan
  • Lights Out
  • Suicide Squad
  • War Dogs
  • Sully
  • Storks
  • The Accountant
  • Live by Night
  • Collateral Beauty
  • The Lego Batman Movie
  • Going in Style
  • Fist Fight
  • CHiPs
  • Unforgettable
  • King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
  • Wonder Woman
  • The House
  • Dunkirk
  • Annabelle: Creation
  • It
  • The Lego Ninjago Movie
  • Geostorm
; Financed with Regency Enterprises and 20th Century Fox
  • Aloha )
  • The Revenant
  • Rules Don't Apply
  • Assassin's Creed
; Financed with Universal Pictures
  • The Water Diviner
  • Central Intelligence
; Financed with Sony Pictures
  • Aloha
  • Truth
  • I Saw the Light
  • Land of Mine
; Financed with RKO Pictures
  • ''Barely Lethal''

    RatPac Documentary Films

  • I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
  • Night Will Fall
  • Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
  • One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
  • Chuck Norris vs Communism
  • The 100 Years How
  • By Sidney Lumet
  • In the Name of Honor
  • S Is For Stanley
  • Before the Flood
  • Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
  • Author: The JT LeRoy Story
  • The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution
  • ''The Noble Guardian''

    RatPac Television

  • ''Rush Hour''