Mattel Films

Mattel Films
FormerlyMattel Playground Productions (2013–2016)
Company typeDivision
IndustryFilm production
PredecessorsRadnitz-Mattel Productions
HIT Movies
FoundedOctober 16, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-10-16) (as Mattel Playground Productions)
September 6, 2018; 6 years ago (2018-09-06) (as Mattel Films)
DefunctOctober 20, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-10-20) (as Mattel Playground Productions)
FateAbsorbed into Mattel Creations (as Mattel Playground Productions)
SuccessorMattel Television (television production)
Headquarters
El Segundo, California
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U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Robbie Brenner (Executive Producer)
  • Ivan Sanchez (Executive Producer, Creativity)
  • Kevin McKeon (Vice President)
ParentMattel

Mattel Films is the film production division of Mattel originally formed on October 16, 2013, as Mattel Playground Productions as part of Mattel Global Brands, a unified media structural and strategy unit.[1]

On March 31, 2016, Mattel placed the division within a newly created division at the time, Mattel Creations, absorbed its operations into it and, seven months later, made it defunct due to poor box office reception of the live-action film release of Max Steel.[2] On September 6, 2018, the division was revived and reformed as Mattel Films.[3]

  1. ^ Goldman Getzler, Wendy (October 16, 2013). "With profits up, Mattel launches in-house studio Playground Productions". Kidscreen. Archived from the original on September 8, 2018. Retrieved September 7, 2018.
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