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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Film |
Founded | 2007Los Angeles, California, United States | in
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Headquarters | Hollywood, California , United States |
Services | Film and television studio |
Website | epic-pictures |
Epic Pictures Group is an American independent film and television studio engaged in the development, financing, production and distribution of film and television. Epic Pictures produces, finances, and distributes approximately twenty-thirty independent genre films a year.
Since 2008, Epic Pictures Group has been financing and producing feature films with the goal of empowering visionary filmmakers, helping to shape their stories from script to release. Epic Pictures Group productions are filmed around the globe and vary widely in budget and genre.
In 2013, the company established Epic Pictures Releasing, which is its distribution division. In 2017, Epic Pictures acquired the horror website Dread Central and created a AVOD channel, DreadTV. In 2019, Epic Pictures started the horror gaming site DreadXP, with a focus on editorial, reviews, podcasts, and original streaming content. In 2020, DreadXP began a video game publishing division with the launch of the Dread X Collection, an anthology of horror games in collaboration with some developers in the independent gaming space.