Marv Films

Marv Films (commonly known as Marv and stylized as MARV, and formerly SKA Films) is a British production company owned by Matthew Vaughn. It is best known for the motion pictures Layer Cake, Stardust, Kick-Ass, Kingsman: The Secret Service and Kingsman: The Golden Circle.

Marv Films

Formerly	SKA Films (1997-2003)
Type	Motion Pictures
Industry	filmmaking
Founded	1997 (1997)
Founder	Matthew Vaughn, Guy Ritchie
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Key people	Matthew Vaughn & Kris Thykier

History

SKA Films

In 1997, producer Matthew Vaughn and director Guy Ritchie launched its own company in the United Kingdom, with its first project being Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, which is for Handmade Films.[1]

In 1999, Vaughn and Ritchie struck an agreement with Sony Pictures to distribute its next project, Snatch.[2]

The team followed it up with their next big project Swept Away, starring Madonna.[3] The film ended up being bombed critically and commercially.[4] It went on to win the Golden Raspberry Awards in 2003.[5]

Marv Films

Later that same year, Ritchie and Vaughn broke up ties, thus rebranding from SKA Films to Marv Films, and its first production under the new banner was Matthew Vaughn's directorial debut Layer Cake.[6]

In 2007, it signed a deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment to produce its feature films.[7] Later that same year, Charlie Mitchell joined the company.[8]

In 2009, Kris Thykier decided to leave Marv Films, in order to set up PeaPie Films, to produce new feature films.[9]

In 2018, Vaughn launched its subsidiary Marv Studios to set up new feature film reboots.[10]

Films

Title	Release date	Director	Producer	Writer	Production company	Release studio	Rotten Tomatoes
as SKA Films
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	August 28, 1998	Guy Ritchie	Matthew Vaughn	Guy Ritchie	Handmade Films The Steve Tisch Company Summit Entertainment	Gramercy Pictures Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International PolyGram Filmed Entertainment	75%[11]
Snatch	August 23, 2000					Screen Gems Columbia Pictures	73%[12]
Mean Machine	December 26, 2001	Barry Skolnick		Tracy Keenan Wynn Charlie Fletcher Chris Baker Andrew Day		Paramount Pictures	34%[13]
Swept Away	October 11, 2002	Guy Ritchie		Guy Ritchie	CODI SpA	Screen Gems	5%[14]
as Marv Films
Layer Cake	October 1, 2004	Matthew Vaughn	Adam Bohling David Reid Matthew Vaughn	J. J. Connolly		Sony Pictures Classics	81%[15]
Stardust	April 10, 2007		Lorenzo di Bonaventura Michael Dreyer Neil Gaiman Matthew Vaughn	Jane Goldman Matthew Vaughn	Ingenious Media	Paramount Pictures	76%[16]
Harry Brown	November 11, 2009	Daniel Barber	Matthew Vaughn Kris Thykier Matthew Brown Keith Bell	Gary Young	UK Film Council HanWay Films Prescience Framestore Features	Lionsgate Entertainment	64%[17]
Kick Ass	March 26, 2010	Matthew Vaughn	Matthew Vaughn Brad Pitt Kris Thykier Adam Bohling Tarquin Pack David Reid	Jane Goldman Matthew Vaughn	Plan B Entertainment	Lionsgate Entertainment Universal Pictures	75%[18]
The Debt	September 30, 2010	John Madden	Matthew Vaughn Kris Thykier	Matthew Vaughn Jane Goldman Peter Straughan		Focus Features Miramax	76%[19]
Kick-Ass 2	August 14, 2013	Jeff Wadlow	Adam Bohling Tarquin Pack David Reid Matthew Vaughn	Jeff Wadlow	Plan B Entertainment Dentsu	Universal Pictures	31%[20]
Kingsman: The Secret Service	December 13, 2014	Matthew Vaughn	Matthew Vaughn David Reid Adam Bohling	Jane Goldman Matthew Vaughn	Cloudy Productions Shangri-La Entertainment TSG Entertainment	20th Century Fox	74%[21]
Fantastic Four	August 7, 2015	Josh Trank	Gregory Goodman Simon Kinberg Robert Kulzer Hutch Parker Matthew Vaughn	Jeremy Slater Simon Kinberg Josh Trank	Marvel Entertainment Constantin Film Kinberg Genre Robert Kulzer Productions TSG Entertainment		9%[22]
Eddie the Eagle	February 26, 2016	Dexter Fletcher	Adam Bohling David Reid Rupert Maconick Valerie Van Galder Matthew Vaughn	Sean Macaulay Simon Kelton	Studio Babelsberg Saville Productions TSG Entertainment	20th Century Fox	80%[23]
Kingsman: The Golden Circle	September 20, 2017	Matthew Vaughn	Matthew Vaughn David Reid Adam Bohling	Jane Goldman Matthew Vaughn	TSG Entertainment Cloudy Productions	20th Century Fox	51%[24]
Rocketman	May 31, 2019	Dexter Fletcher	Adam Bohling David Furnish Elton John David Reid Matthew Vaughn	Lee Hall	Rocket Pictures New Republic Pictures	Paramount Pictures	89%[25]
The King's Man	September 18, 2020	Matthew Vaughn	Matthew Vaughn David Reid Adam Bohling	Matthew Vaughn Karl Gajdusek	20th Century Studios TSG Entertainment	20th Century Studios
Statesman	TBA
Silent Night	TBA	Camille Griffin	Matthew Vaughn Trudie Styler Celine Rattray	Camille Griffin	Maven Pictures

Television

Title	First aired	Last aired	Co-production	Network	Notes
as SKA Films
Lock, Stock...	May 29, 2000	July 11, 2000	Ginger Productions	Channel 4
Swag	2002	2004		Five
as Marv Films
Untitled Kingsman TV series	TBA	TBA	20th Century Fox Television	Hulu

References

1. "Paragon unveils 5 new HandMade pix". Variety. 1997-02-21. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
2. Petrikin, Chris; Carver, Benedict (1999-01-07). "Sony, Ska make 'Diamonds' deal". Variety. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
3. Dawtrey, Adam (2001-07-27). "Newlyweds 'Swept'". Variety. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
4. Hoffmann, Bill (2002-10-15). "MADONNA BOMBS – 'SWEPT AWAY' IS LATEST WA$HOUT IN LONG LINE OF FLOPS". New York Post. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
5. "Madonna sweeps board at annual Raspberry awards". The Guardian. 2003-03-24. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
6. Dawtrey, Adam (2003-06-15). "Vaughn takes 'Cake,' Ritchie fires 'Revolver'". Variety. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
7. Garrett, Diane (2007-06-16). "Sony, Marv Films pact". Variety. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
8. Dawtrey, Adam (2007-12-07). "Mitchell joins MARV Films". Variety. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
9. Jaafar, Ali (2009-07-06). "Thykier exits Marv, sets up PeaPie". Variety. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
10. Wiseman, Andreas (2018-06-08). "Matthew Vaughn Plans 'Kick-Ass' Reboot & 'Kingsman' Spinoff, Launches Marv Studios". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
11. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1999), retrieved 2020-05-29
12. Snatch (2001), retrieved 2020-05-29
13. Mean Machine (2002), retrieved 2020-05-29
14. Swept Away (2002), retrieved 2020-05-29
15. "Layer Cake". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
16. "Stardust". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 2008-03-17.
17. "Rotten Tomatoes". Retrieved 2010-09-05.
18. "Kick-Ass (2010)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
19. "The Debt". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 1, 2011.
20. "Kick-Ass 2 (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
21. "Kingsman: The Secret Service". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
22. "Fantastic Four (2015)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
23. "Eddie the Eagle (2016)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
24. "Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
25. "Rocketman (2019)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 1 October 2019.

External links

• Marv Films on IMDb