Source UA was launched in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks and was acquired by MGM in 1981, before that studio was itself recently snapped up by Amazon.
The move comes as Amazon MGM Studios continues to ramp up its theatrical ambitions. Jason Statham action thriller
The Beekeeper
grossed more than $150m worldwide earlier this year, while
Challengers
took close to $100m worldwide.
American Fiction earned five Oscar nods and won for best adapted screenplay, and Ramell Ross’s The Nickel Boys was announced recently as the opening night film at New York Film Festival in September.Coming up on the slate, which executives touted to industry and press at CinemaCon last spring, are Sundance acquisition My Old Ass, BlinkTwice
, Red One, The Fire Inside , Levon’s Trade, Mercy, Crime 101, After The Hunt, and Project Hail Mary.The studio has also reported two of its biggest streaming hits ever this year. The Romantic comedy The Idea Of You starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine drew 50million worldwide viewers in its first two weeks on the service to become the studio’s top romantic-comedy debut of all time.Stuber served as chairman of Netflix Film from 2017 to 2024 when he oversaw titles like Red Notice
, Netflix’s most popular film of all time, Bird Box, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, All Quiet On The Western Front,
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, The Irishman, and Roma.The veteran producer and exeutive is currently producing Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein for Netflix and Scott Cooper’s Bruce Springsteen film, Deliver Me From Nowhere, for 20th Century Studios and Disney.Prior to Netflix, Stuber founded and ran Bluegrass Films, which produced such hits as Ted
, Central Intelligence, and Safe House.
As vice chairman of worldwide production at Universal Studios he was responsible for many hits including A Beautiful Mind, Seabiscuit, Cinderella Man,
8 Mile, and the Meet The Parents and the Fast And The Furious franchises.Pluto Film acquires Sami-language Toronto title ‘My Fathers’ Daughter’ for world sales (exclusive)
