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Founded by Will Ferrell.1
Gary Sanchez Productions was founded in 2006 by comedians and filmmakers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The company is named after a fictional "Paraguayan entrepreneur and financier", Gary Sanchez. The logo consists of a coffee cup on a table, with a gun—later replaced by a whip— being placed alongside it. This is followed by Ferrell's raspy voice saying in Spanish, "Esta bien, duro, ¿aight?", as 5 gunshots (later replaced by whip cracks) play in sync with the company name appearing on the table and a star appearing on the coffee cup. In 2007, McKay and Ferrell also founded the video site Funny or Die, under the ownership of the production company.
In August 2018, the company entered a three-year first look feature deal with Paramount Pictures.
On April 8, 2019, it was announced that Ferrell and McKay would be dissolving their partnership, though all developed projects at that time would continue to be completed. It was later revealed the reason for the split was because McKay cast John C. Reilly as Jerry Buss on the show Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (a role that Ferrell had been interested in) without Ferrell's knowledge.
In October 2019, McKay founded Hyperobject Industries. In January 2020, it was announced that Ferrell had become a partner at the company's former sister label and now successor Gloria Sanchez Productions, taking on new projects with a reorganized company with Gloria Sanchez partner, Jessica Elbaum.
From Wikipedia’s article on Gary Sanchez Productions, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4