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Founded by Ciro Dammicco in 1986.1
Eagle Pictures was founded by Ciro 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 (2007) and Edoardo De Angelis's Mozzarella Stories (2011). It had also acted as a line producer during the Italian shoots of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), Point Break (2015), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), and 6 Underground (2019).
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.
Mergers and acquisitions
In July 2020, Eagle Pictures acquired distributor M2 Pictures for around €8.5 million. In August 2022, it acquired 302 Original Content, a film and television production startup company; it was later renamed to Eagle Original Content. In March 2023, Eagle Pictures merged with 3 Marys Entertainment. Later that year, it acquired Blu Yazmine, a production company specializing in unscripted television.
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