Troublemaker Studios is an American production company founded and owned by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and producer Elizabeth Avellán. The company is based in Austin, Texas and is at the former site of the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. It shares space with Austin Studios, which is managed by the Austin Film Society, and houses production offices, sound stages and the largest green screen in Texas.
The company's visual effects division, Troublemaker Digital Studios, is also located at the site, and uses six-core AMD Opteron processors and FirePro graphics accelerators on many of its productions. A second facility, Troublemaker Sound, is located in the hill country outside Austin. It provides post-production sound and editing facilities, including a mixing and dubbing sound stage powered by a large Pro Tools installation, and a full Avid Unity-based editing system.
In the 1990s and 2000s, it had an alliance with Dimension Films to produce projects for the studio, with most of them becoming hit films and their box office successes. The company made its breakthrough with its first franchise being that of Spy Kids. On August 12, 2021, the company had signed a deal with HBO and HBO Max.
Los Hooligans Productions
The company was founded in 1991 as Los Hooligans Productions, taking its name from Rodriguez's own comic strip, Los Hooligans, which he wrote and illustrated for three years while attending the University of Texas at Austin. Rodriguez chose the name so fans of the strip would recognize it when they saw his films. The company was reincorporated as Troublemaker Studios in 2000.
Los Hooligans Productions filmography (1991-2000): Bedhead (1991; short film) El Mariachi (February 26, 1993) (distributed by Columbia Pictures) Roadracers (July 22, 1994) (distributed by Showtime Network) Desperado (August 25, 1995) (distributed by Columbia Pictures) Four Rooms (December 25, 1995) (co-production with A Band Apart; distributed by Miramax Films) From Dusk Till Dawn (January 19, 1996) (co-production with A Band Apart; distributed by Dimension Films) The Faculty (December 25, 1998) (distributed by Dimension Films) From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (March 16, 1999) (direct-to-video) (co-production with A Band Apart; distributed by Dimension Films and Buena Vista Home Entertainment) From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (January 18, 2000) (direct-to-video) (co-production with A Band Apart; distributed by Dimension Films and Buena Vista Home Entertainment)