Neon (company)

NEON Rated, LLC, doing business as Neon (stylized in all caps), is an American independent film production and distribution company founded in 2017 by CEO Tom Quinn and Tim League, who also was the co-founder of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain. As of 2019, League is no longer involved with daily operations for the company.

Its first film, ''Colossal'', was released on April 7, 2017. The company is best known for distributing such notable films as ''I, Tonya'' (2017), ''Three Identical Strangers'' (2018), ''Apollo 11'' (2019), ''Parasite'' (2019), ''Portrait of a Lady on Fire'' (2019), ''Palm Springs'' (2020), ''Possessor'' (2020), ''She Dies Tomorrow'' (2020), ''Flee'' (2021), ''Spencer'' (2021), ''The Worst Person in the World'' (2021), ''All the Beauty and the Bloodshed'' (2022), ''Fire of Love'' (2022), ''Triangle of Sadness'' (2022), ''Anatomy of a Fall'' (2023), ''Ferrari'' (2023), ''How to Blow Up a Pipeline'' (2023), ''Anora'' (2024), ''Longlegs'' (2024), and ''The Seed of the Sacred Fig'' (2024).

''Parasite'' went on to become Neon's highest-grossing film at the worldwide box office with $262 million and the first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture in February 2020. In 2024, ''Longlegs'' surpassed ''Parasite''s domestic box office gross ($53.3 million), with a cume of $58.6 million in its third weekend, becoming the indie distributor's highest-grossing film ever in North America.

Additionally, Neon has worked with several high-profile filmmakers, which includes the following: Ali Abbasi, Sean Baker, Bong Joon-ho, Brandon Cronenberg, David Cronenberg, Nia DaCosta, Sara Dosa, Julia Ducournau, Craig Gillespie, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Harmony Korine, Pablo Larraín, Sam Levinson, Michael Mann, Todd Douglas Miller, Brett Morgen, Ruben Östlund, Laura Poitras, Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Mohammad Rasoulof, Michael Sarnoski, Céline Sciamma, Joachim Trier, Justine Triet, and Nacho Vigalondo. Provided by Wikipedia