River Road Entertainment

River Road Entertainment
Company type	Private
Industry	Entertainment
Founded	1987; 37 years ago
Founder	Bill Pohlad
Headquarters	2000 Avenue of the Stars; Suite 620-N; Los Angeles, California, United States; 4050 RBC Plaza; 60 S. 6th Street; Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Key people	Bill Pohlad; (president)
Website	RiverRoadEntertainment.com

River Road Entertainment is an American independent film production company founded in 1987 by Bill Pohlad, who is also the company's president. It is based in Los Angeles and Minneapolis. Films produced by River Road include 12 Years A Slave, The Tree of Life, and American Utopia. Other titles include Into The Wild, Wild, Fair Game, Love & Mercy (which Pohlad also directed), Brokeback Mountain, A Prairie Home Companion, and A Monster Calls, as well as feature documentary films, including Food, Inc.

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Bill Pohlad founded River Road Entertainment in 1987.

In October 2006, veteran Frank Hildebrand was appointed head of production, ex-director of Film Finance Corporation Australia, Deborah Zisper took care of the business.^[3]

In September 2007, Mitch Horwits was promoted to president of the company.^[4]

In July 2008, River Road invested in the financing of The Runaways, a biopic about the history of one of the american female rock and roll bands of the 1970s, named The Runaways, which included Joan Jett, Cherie Curie, and the late Sandy West.^[5]

In April 2017, Gray Rembert joined the company as executive vice president after he left GK Films.^[6]

In June 2020, Kim Roth was appointed Co-President and Creative Director of the company, then promoted Christa Zofcin Workman to Co-President and COO.^[7]^[8]^[9]

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Release Date	Title	Director(s)	Distributor(s)	Co-production with
December 9, 2005	Brokeback Mountain	Ang Lee	Focus Features	Alberta Film Entertainment, Good Machine, Paramount Pictures
June 9, 2006	A Prairie Home Companion	Robert Altman	Picturehouse, New Line Cinema	GreeneStreet Films, Sandcastle 5 Productions, Prairie Home Productions, Armenia Film Studio
November 10, 2006	Fur	Steven Shainberg	Picturehouse	Edward R. Pressman Film, Iron Films, Vox3 Films, Furthefilm LLC
January 18, 2007	Chicago 10	Brett Morgen	Roadside Attractions	Consolidated Documentaries, Participant Productions, Curious Pictures
September 21, 2007	Into the Wild^[10]	Sean Penn	Paramount Vantage^[10]	Paramount Vantage,^[10] Square One C.I.H.^[10] and Linson Film^[10]
September 24, 2007	Lust, Caution	Ang Lee	Focus Features	Haishang Films, Sil-Metropole Organisation
June 12, 2009	Food, Inc.	Robert Kenner	Magnolia Pictures	Dogwoof Pictures, Participant Media
March 19, 2010	The Runaways	Floria Sigismondi	Appartition	Linson Entertainment
October 1, 2010	Fair Game^[11]	Doug Liman	Summit Entertainment (United States) Gulf Film (United Arab Emirates)^[12]	Participant Media,^[13] Weed Road Pictures,^[13] Hypnotic,^[13] Zucker Productions^[13]
May 27, 2011	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Plan B Entertainment
November 8, 2013	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen	20th Century Fox (North America) Entertainment One Films (United Kingdom and Ireland) Lionsgate Films (International)	Fox Searchlight Pictures, Summit Entertainment, Regency Enterprises, Plan B Entertainment, New Regency Productions, Film4 Productions
June 5, 2015	Love & Mercy	Bill Pohlad	Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions	Battle Mountain Films
September 11, 2015	Time Out of Mind	Oren Moverman	IFC Films	Blackbird, Cold Iron Pictures, Gere Productions, QED International
October 7, 2016	A Monster Calls	J. A. Bayona	Universal Pictures (Spain) Entertainment One Films (United Kingdom) Focus Features (United States)	Participant Media, Apaches Entertainment, Telecinco Cinema, Peliculas La Trini
June 29, 2017	The Last Face	Sean Penn	Saban Films	FilmHaven Entertainment, Gerber Pictures, Matt Palmieri Productions
July 26, 2017	Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets	Luc Besson	EuropaCorp Distribution	EuropaCorp,^[14] TF1 Films Production, Fundamental Films, BNP Paribas, Orange Studio, Novo Pictures, Belga Films
October 17, 2020	American Utopia	Spike Lee	HBO (United States/Canada) Universal Pictures (International)	HBO Films, Participant, Warner Music Entertainment, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, RadicalMedia, Todomundo
August 4, 2023	Dreamin' Wild	Bill Pohlad	Roadside Attractions	Zurich Avenue, Innisfree Pictures
November 24, 2023	Frybread Face and Me	Billy Luther	ARRAY	MACRO, Indion Entertainment, REI Co-OP Studios, World of Wonder, Good Gravy Films, Fit Via Vi
TBA	Unicorns	Sally El Hosaini James Krishna Floyd	TBA	Maven Screen Media, Chromatic Aberration

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"Imagine Entertainment Vet Kim Roth Joins Bill Pohlad's River Road". The Hollywood Reporter. 2020-06-15. Retrieved 2021-03-29.

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