Universal & Morgan Creek Announce 3-Year Distribution Deal

Universal Pictures and Morgan Creek Productions have entered into an exclusive, three-year distribution arrangement, it was announced today by Stacey Snider, chairman, Universal Pictures, and James G. Robinson, chairman and CEO, Morgan Creek.

Under the terms of the new deal, Morgan Creek will produce and finance all their films for domestic distribution across all media by Universal. Since 1990, Morgan Creek has distributed its films through Warner Bros.

Led by James G. Robinson, its founder and CEO, Morgan Creek Productions began in early 1988 and has become one off the leading independent production entities in today's film business. Morgan Creek has produced numerous highly successful and critically acclaimed features, including: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Enemies, A Love Story, Pacific Heights, True Romance, the "Major League" trio of movies; Exorcist: The Beginning, Exorcist III and The Last of the Mohicans.

Among the projects Morgan Creek currently has in development are: Flying Tigers, being written by Academy Award winner David Ward (The Sting), Ace Ventura: Return of the Pet Detective, Man Alive, being written by Larry Cohen (Phone Booth), Babeus Americanus, a teen comedy being written by Gustin Nash, Twilight at Mac's Place, based on the novel by Ross Thomas, and a series of films based on Lawrence Sanders' "O'Malley" novels.