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, a ...
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 Award. ...
,
Jennifer Aniston 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'', ''
12 Years a Slave
''Twelve Years a Slave'' is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., ...
'' and ''
Moonlight
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Illumination
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'', have won the
Academy Award for Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only categor ...
.
Pitt, Gardner and Kleiner received the
Producers Guild of America'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
Bruce Berman (born April 25, 1952) is an American film industry executive and executive producer. He is the chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures, a position he has held from 1997 to 2021. His credits as an executive producer include ''A ...
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
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 ...
(since 2020)
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Warner Bros. Pictures (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 t ...
(since 2020)
Former
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Annapurna Pictures (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
''Mickey 17'' is an upcoming American science fiction film written, directed, and co-produced by Bong Joon-ho, based on the 2022 novel ''Mickey7'' by Edward Ashton. It stars Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ru ...
'' (2024)
*''Animal'' (TBA)
*'' Black Hole'' (TBA)
*''The Husbands'' (TBA)
*Untitled '' Beetlejuice'' sequel (TBA)
*Untitled Lee Isaac Chung film (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 ...
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Entertainment companies based in California
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Mass media companies established in 2001
2001 establishments in California
Television production companies of the United States
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Jennifer Aniston
Brad Pitt