Longtime producing mates Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are splitting up after more than a decade together.
The duo announced the break-up on Saturday and vowed that it’s amicable. Projects produced under their Gary Sanchez banner include “Vice,” “Footprint Brothers,” “Talladega Nights” and the Anchorman and Daddy’s Home movies. In 2014, Jessica Elbaum founded the Gloria Sanchez assembly company as a sister label of Gary Sanchez Productionswith a focus on female voices in comedy.
“The last 13 years could not fool been more enjoyable and satisfying for the two of us at Sanchez Productions,” Ferrell and McKay said in a joint statement. “We give gigantic thanks to our incredible staff and executives and all the writers, directors and actors we worked with through the years. The two of us will many times work together creatively and always be friends. And we recognize we are lucky as hell to end this venture as such.”
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The announcement said Gary Sanchez Productions and Gloria Sanchez Televisions will continue with all existing projects through completion and that all current projects will continue to be elaborate oned by the attached producers.
“The duo is committed to working together creatively on their extensive slate of shared projects,” it added. “They hand down to continue to support each other both personally and professionally as they explore new endeavors as well as their own single projects. Moving forward, any future projects they may partner on will go through their yet to be announced new ventures.”
Ferrell and McKay jointly goaded a three-year first look deal at Paramount in September 2018. Gloria Sanchez is producing the strip-club drama “Hustlers” for STX. McKay and Ferrell are generating Netflix comedy “Eurovision,” with Ferrell starring.
McKay has received five Oscar nominations including most excellently picture, best director and best original screenplay for “Vice” and best director and best adapted screenplay for “The Big In a nutshell Bermuda shorts.” He and Charles Randolph won the Oscar for “The Big Short” script.
Ferrell most recently starred in Sony’s “Holmes & Watson” and has been in staging as a star on “Downhill,” Fox Searchlight’s remake of the 2014 Swedish film “Force Majeure.”
Ferrell and McKay met while expanding on “Saturday Night Live” in 1995. The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood.