Shady Acres Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded in 1999 by producer and director Tom Shadyac. It is based at Universal Studios. It is taken from his last name, Shadyac, which is separated and became the two words "Shady" and "Acres". It also derives from a fictional mental hospital from the first Ace Ventura film. Shady Acres signed a production deal with Universal Pictures to produce films while its lone television series was co-produced by Touchstone Television (now ABC Signature).
On June 4, 1999, Shady Acres received a television shingle, which would be based at Touchstone Television (now ABC Signature). Although the company produced a handful of pilots, only one of them would go on the air.
On February 14, 2008, Universal decided to cut ties with the studio, and became an independent production outfit.
Nicole Pritchett was the head of development and production at Shady Acres Entertainment from 2009 until 2015, along with one of the producers of the documentary I Am.
Filmography Films Release date Title Director Distributor Budget Gross(worldwide) Notes February 22, 2002 Dragonfly Tom Shadyac Universal Pictures $60 million $52.3 million co-production with Spyglass Entertainment and Gran Via Productions May 23, 2003 Bruce Almighty $81 million $484.6 million co-production with Spyglass Entertainment and Pit Bull Productions August 18, 2006 Accepted Steve Pink $23 million $38.6 million N/A June 22, 2007 Evan Almighty Tom Shadyac $175 million $174.4 million co-production with Spyglass Entertainment, Relativity Media and Original Film July 20, 2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry Dennis Dugan $85 million $187 million co-production with Relativity Media and Happy Madison Productions October 2010 I Am Tom Shadyac Flying Eye Productions (North America)Universal Pictures (International) N/A N/A co-production with Homemade Canvas Productions April 9, 2011 Happy Roko Belic N/A co-production with Wadi Rum Productions
Television series Year Title Network Notes 2002-05 8 Simple Rules ABC co-production with Flody Co., Tracy Gamble Productions and Touchstone Television
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