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.
Malkovich and Halfon were both bidding for the film rights to author Don DeLillo's 1988 novel about Lee Harvey Oswald, Libra.
Although the film never coalesced, Malkovich asked Halfon to help produce a version of the novel as a play for the Steppenwolf Theater.
[1] Malkovich describes his involvement in the company as minimal, limited to finding novels and plays which might be worth producing.
When the UA deal ended, Mr. Mudd began raising money for its projects through private equity financing.