The studio
Independent since 1988
Morgan Creek was founded in 1988 and released its first feature the same year. Since then it has produced for cinema, television and records, and has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Pictures, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Recording Academy.
The library
Stories ready to be told again
Built for new audiences. Titles across the library continue to find new life in features, series and music.
The record
1988 to 2026
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2026
The Exorcist: Martyrs
Mike Flanagan writes and directs, with Scarlett Johansson as an NYPD homicide detective. The first trailer arrives on October 9, 2026, and Universal releases the film on March 12, 2027, produced with Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and Morgan Creek.
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2025
Stay Tuned comes to Hulu
Morgan Creek partners with Weed Road Pictures on a Hulu series reboot of Stay Tuned starring Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, written by Akiva Goldsman, Jordan Cahan and Greg Lessans.
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2023
Dead Ringers returns as a series
The Dead Ringers miniseries, starring and produced by Rachel Weisz and made with Amazon Studios, Astral Projection and Annapurna Television, arrives thirty-five years after the Cronenberg film.
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2023
The Exorcist: Believer
The first film of the new trilogy, directed by David Gordon Green and produced by Jason Blum with James and David Robinson, opens on October 6, 2023, and grosses $136,998,069 worldwide.
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2021
The $400 million Exorcist deal
Universal Pictures and Peacock close a deal worth more than $400 million for worldwide rights to a new three-film Exorcist franchise, produced with Blumhouse and Morgan Creek, with Ellen Burstyn returning.
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2017
Morgan Creek Productions becomes Morgan Creek Entertainment
The company rebrands in October 2017 under president David Robinson, with a stated push into television, features and digital, and a plan to reboot Young Guns, Ace Ventura and Major League.
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2016
The Exorcist comes to television
Fox orders Jeremy Slater’s Exorcist pilot in January 2016. The series runs two seasons and twenty episodes, made with 20th Century Fox Television and executive produced by James Robinson and David Robinson.
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2014
International rights sold to Revolution Studios
Morgan Creek sells the international distribution rights and copyrights to its film library to Revolution Studios for $36.75 million, keeping remake and television rights to the Ace Ventura, Major League, Young Guns and Exorcist franchises.
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2004
Exorcist: The Beginning
Renny Harlin’s prequel is released on August 20, 2004, and grosses $78,000,586 worldwide. Paul Schrader’s earlier, abandoned version of the same script came out separately in 2005 as Dominion.
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1999
The King and I
Morgan Creek announced an animation division in 1996. The King and I, released in 1999, was its only animated feature, and the company did not return to animation.
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1995
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
The sequel takes $212,385,533 worldwide on a $30 million budget — the biggest-earning film Morgan Creek produced outright.
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1994
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Made for $12 million, Tom Shadyac’s Ace Ventura grosses $107,217,396 worldwide and makes Jim Carrey a leading man. It launches the studio’s most exploited franchise.
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1993
True Romance
Tony Scott directs True Romance from Quentin Tarantino’s first sold screenplay. It made $12,281,551 in cinemas and became one of the library’s most durable cult titles.
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1992
The Last of the Mohicans
Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans takes $75,505,856 worldwide on a $40 million budget. Morgan Creek handled international distribution, with 20th Century Fox releasing in North America.
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1991
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Kevin Reynolds’ Robin Hood grosses $390,493,908 worldwide on a $48 million budget and remains the studio’s highest-earning film. Its score became the music behind the Morgan Creek logo.
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1990
The Exorcist III
William Peter Blatty directs The Exorcist III from his own novel, Legion. It begins the studio’s long stewardship of the Exorcist franchise.
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1989
Major League
David S. Ward’s baseball comedy opens on April 7, 1989, and takes $49,797,148 worldwide on an $11 million budget. It becomes one of the library’s most reworked titles.
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1989
Three Academy Award nominations
Paul Mazursky’s Enemies, A Love Story is nominated three times at the 62nd Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress for both Anjelica Huston and Lena Olin, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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1988
Morgan Creek is founded
James Robinson founds Morgan Creek Productions in Los Angeles, superseding his earlier company Independent Productions, Inc. The name comes from Preston Sturges’s comedy The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek.
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1988
Young Guns, the first release
Christopher Cain’s Young Guns opens on August 12, 1988, as the first Morgan Creek production, distributed by 20th Century Fox. It took $45,661,556 worldwide on an $11 million budget.
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1988
Dead Ringers
David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers, released that September, is the studio’s second feature and a co-production with Telefilm Canada. It would come back as a television series thirty-five years later.
The catalog
- Feature films
- 71
- Series
- 3
- Music cues
- 1400+
- Producing since
- 1988
Founder and owner
James Robinson
Founder, chairman and chief executive
Producer, and founder of Morgan Creek in 1988. The studio released its first feature the same year and, under his lead, produced for cinema, television and records. He died on February 15, 2026, at age 90.
David Robinson
Owner
Son of James Robinson and president of Morgan Creek Entertainment. Producer on Man of the Year, Georgia Rule, Dream House and All Eyez on Me, and now producing Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist for the studio.