Annapurna Pictures

Annapurna Pictures is an American production company founded by Megan Ellison (sister of Skydance founder and film producer David Ellison), specialized on film production, film distribution, television, marketing, finance and video games.

Annapurna's films have consisted of productions that has been critically acclaimed, such as Detroit, Her, Sausage Party, Zero Dark Thirty and Spring Breakers.

As of 2017, Annapurna has signed a multi-year distribution deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Entertainment One, a short time after they started to distribute their own films. Due to this, Annapurna will co-finance and co-distribute the films with Aniplex, Kadokawa, MGM and Hasbro's Allspark Pictures film division for the Humanoidverse feature films.

Especially the HU:ECS theatrical films (co-distributed with Twentieth Century Fox) and the cinematic OVA series (alongside Eleven Arts and Aniplex of America).

However, their co-distribution deal with MGM ended in 2020 as they dropped out of the Humanoidverse film distribution, leaving MGM being the sole distributor, until its announcement in January 1. 2021 that Montalvo Releasing (formerly HolCom Films) will co-distribute the Humanoidverse films alongside MGM and their joint venture, United Artists Releasing.