Plan B Entertainment, Inc., more commonly known as Plan B, is an American
production company
A production company, production house, production studio, or a production team is a studio that creates works in the fields of performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, comics, interactive arts, video games, websites, music, and v ...
founded in November in 2001 by
Brad Grey,
Brad Pitt
William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. He is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Awar ...
,
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American actress and film producer. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Since her career ...
and
Kristin Hahn. In 2005, after Pitt and Aniston divorced, Grey became the CEO of
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldes ...
and Pitt became the sole owner of the company. The president of the company was for many years
Dede Gardner, but she and Pitt named
Jeremy Kleiner co-president with Gardner in 2013. Three of the production company's movies, ''
The Departed
''The Departed'' is a 2006 American epic crime thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan. It is both a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film '' Infernal Affairs'' and also loosely based on the real-life Boston Win ...
'', ''
12 Years a Slave'' and ''
Moonlight
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Illumination
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'', have won the
Academy Award for Best Picture
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.
Pitt, Gardner and Kleiner received the
Producers Guild of America
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's
David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures in 2020.
This name was previously used for an unrelated production company that was headed by
Bruce Berman from 1996 to 1997.
On October 30, 2022, it was reported that
Mediawan was in talks to acquiring in a significant stake of the studio.
Production deals
Active
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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(since 2020)
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Warner Bros. Pictures
Warner Bros. Pictures is an American film production and distribution company of the Warner Bros. Pictures Group division of Warner Bros. Entertainment (both ultimately owned by Warner Bros. Discovery). The studio is the flagship producer of li ...
(2002–2005) (since 2020)
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Amazon Studios
Amazon Studios is an American television and film producer and distributor that is a subsidiary of Amazon. It specializes in developing television series and distributing and producing films. It was started in late 2010. Content is distributed th ...
(since 2020)
Former
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Annapurna Pictures
Annapurna Pictures is an independent American media company founded by Megan Ellison in 2011, that specializes in film production, live theatre production, television through its Annapurna Television division, and video game publishing through i ...
(2017–2020)
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New Regency (2014–2017)
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RatPac Entertainment
RatPac Entertainment (also known as RatPac-Dune Entertainment, a co-financing agreement it was part of) was an American motion picture production company owned by producer-director Brett Ratner. RatPac was founded by Ratner and billionaire James ...
(2014–2017)
[
*]Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldes ...
(2005–2013)
Films
2000s
2010s
2020s
Upcoming
*'' Landscape with Invisible Hand'' (2023)
*'' Mickey 17'' (2024)
*''Animal'' (TBA)
*''Black Hole
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'' (TBA)
*''The Husbands'' (TBA)
*Untitled ''Beetlejuice
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'' sequel (TBA)
*Untitled Lee Isaac Chung film (TBA)
*Untitled Chris Cornell
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documentary (TBA)
*Untitled Joseph Kosinski film (TBA)
*Untitled Jon Watts
Jonathan Watts (born June 28, 1981) is an American filmmaker. His credits include directing the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) superhero films '' Spider-Man: Homecoming'', '' Spider-Man: Far From Home'', and '' Spider-Man: No Way Home''. He was ...
film (TBA)
*''Once Upon a Time in Shaolin'' (TBA)
*''The Water Dancer'' (TBA)
Television
2000s
2010s
2020s
Upcoming
*'' The Three-Body Problem'' (TBA)
References
Further reading
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External links
Brad Pitt as a Producer
on Box Office Mojo
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History
Brandon Gray be ...
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Entertainment companies based in California
Film production companies of the United States
Companies based in Beverly Hills, California
American companies established in 2001
Mass media companies established in 2001
2001 establishments in California
Television production companies of the United States
American film studios
Jennifer Aniston
Brad Pitt