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American film production company

Mr. Mudd is a film production company founded in 1998 by Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, and Russell Smith. The company is known for producing the films Ghost World (2001), Juno (2007) and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), all three of which received critical acclaim.

Formation of the company

The company is named for a Thai man (and convicted murderer) named Mr. Mudd who acted as Malkovich's driver while he was making The Killing Fields in 1984.^[2]

Malkovich met Russell Smith in high school, where Smith was a star basketball player for the Lanphier High School Lions in Springfield, Illinois.

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The two later became freshman roommates at Eastern Illinois University. Malkovich later co-founded the Steppenwolf Theater Company, and invited Smith to become a writer for the troupe. Smith later produced a number of Steppenwolf plays, then moved into film production.

Malkovich and Smith formed the Smith-Malkovich film