Heyday Films

Heyday Films Limited
	Logo used since 2008
Type	Private
Industry	Film • Television
Founded	1997; 29 years ago
Founder	David Heyman
Headquarters	United Kingdom
Products	Harry Potter film series
Services	Film production; Television production
Owner	David Heyman
Divisions	Heyday Television (joint venture with Universal International Studios)

Heyday Films Limited is a British film and television production company founded in 1997 by producer David Heyman.^[1] The company made its feature film debut with Ravenous (1999), and is most successful for producing the Harry Potter film series, based on the series of popular fantasy novels of the same name by J. K. Rowling.^[2] In 2025, Amazon MGM Studios announced that Heyman and Amy Pascal would oversee the franchise moving forward and produce future installments in the James Bond film series through their Pascal Pictures and Heyday Films banners, respectively.^[3]

TypePrivate

IndustryFilm • Television

Founded1997; 29 years ago

FounderDavid Heyman

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Year	Title	Director	Distributor(s)	Budget	Gross	Notes
1999	Ravenous	Antonia Bird	20th Century Fox	$12 million	$2 million
2001	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	Chris Columbus	Warner Bros. Pictures	$125 million	$1.024 billion	Nominated - BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film
2002	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Chris Columbus		$100 million	$879 million
2004	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Alfonso Cuarón		$130 million	$796.7 million
2005	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Mike Newell		$150 million	$897 million	Nominated - BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film
2007	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	David Yates		$150 million	$942 million
2007	I Am Legend	Francis Lawrence	Warner Bros. Pictures / Roadshow Entertainment	$150 million	$585.3 million
2008	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	Mark Herman	Miramax	$12.5 million	$44 million
	Is Anybody There?	John Crowley	Optimum Releasing	N/a	$3 million
	Yes Man	Peyton Reed	Warner Bros. Pictures	$70 million	$223.2 million
2009	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	David Yates		$250 million	$934.4 million
2010	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1			$250 million	$976.3 million
2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2			$250 million	$1.342 billion
2013	We're the Millers	Rawson Marshall Thurber	Warner Bros. Pictures / New Line Cinema	$37 million	$270 million
2013	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón	Warner Bros. Pictures	$100 million	$723.2 million	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Picture Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Film
2014	Testament of Youth	James Kent	Lionsgate	$10 million	$5.3 million
2014	Paddington	Paul King	StudioCanal / TWC-Dimension	$55 million	$268 million	Nominated - BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film
2016	The Light Between Oceans	Derek Cianfrance	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$20 million	$23.5 million
2016	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	David Yates	Warner Bros. Pictures	$180 million	$814 million	Nominated - BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film
2017	Paddington 2	Paul King	StudioCanal / Warner Bros. Pictures	$40 million	$227 million
2018	Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald	David Yates	Warner Bros. Pictures	$200 million	$654 million
2019	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino	Sony Pictures Releasing	$100 million^[5]	$366 million	Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Nominated - Academy Award for Best Picture Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Film
2019	Marriage Story	Noah Baumbach	Netflix	$18 million	$2.3 million	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Picture Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
2020	The Secret Garden	Marc Munden	StudioCanal	$20 million^[6]	$8.7 million^[7]
2022	Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore	David Yates	Warner Bros. Pictures	$200 million	$407.2 million
2022	White Noise	Noah Baumbach	Netflix	$100 million	$79,040
2023	Barbie	Greta Gerwig	Warner Bros. Pictures	$145 million	$1.446 billion	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Picture Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
2023	Wonka	Paul King	Warner Bros. Pictures	$125 million	$634.4 million
2025	Jay Kelly^[8]	Noah Baumbach	Netflix
2026	The Rivals of Amziah King	Andrew Patterson	Black Bear Pictures
	Klara and the Sun	Taika Waititi	Sony Pictures Releasing
	The Adventures of Cliff Booth	David Fincher	Netflix
2027	F.A.S.T.	Ben Richardson	Warner Bros. Pictures
TBA	Artificial	Luca Guadagnino	Neon	$40 million

Year	Title	Credit
2010	Awkward Situations for Men	Executive producer
2011	Page Eight
2013	The Thirteenth Tale
2014	Turks & Caicos	Executive producer
2014	Salting the Battlefield	Executive producer

Year	Title	Co-production(s)	Network	Ref.
2005-2006	Threshold	Paramount Network Television Phantom Four Films Braga Productions	CBS
2018	The Long Song		BBC One
2019	The InBetween	Universal Television Look at My New Bag	NBC
2019-2022	The Capture	NBCUniversal International Studios	BBC One
2019-2025	The Adventures of Paddington	StudioCanal Blue Zoo Animation Studio Superprod Studio	Nickelodeon
2021	Clickbait	NBCUniversal International Studios Matchbox Pictures Tony Ayres Productions	Netflix
2024	Apples Never Fall	Universal Content Productions Universal International Studios Matchbox Pictures Call Me Mel Productions Inc.	Peacock
2026-present	Harry Potter	Warner Bros. Television Brontë Film and Television	HBO	^[2]^[10]^[11]

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