Cruel & Unusual Films

Cruel & Unusual Films, Inc. was an American feature film production company founded in 2004 by director Zack Snyder, his wife and producing partner Deborah Snyder, and Wesley Coller, headquartered on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California. The company held a long-term production deal with Warner Bros. Pictures and produced some of the most commercially prominent genre films of its era, including 300, Watchmen, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Wonder Woman, and Justice League. In January 2019, Zack Snyder announced that the company was being rebranded and relaunched as The Stone Quarry, retiring the Cruel & Unusual Films banner after 14+ years of operation.