Gracie Films

Gracie Films is an American film and television production company founded by James L. Brooks on January 4, 1986. The company is primarily known for producing its long-running flagship animated series The Simpsons.

Gracie Films

Logo used since 1987
Company type	Private
Industry	Film and television animation production
Predecessor	John Charles Walters Company
Founded	January 4, 1986; 39 years ago (1986-01-04)
Founder	James L. Brooks
Headquarters	FOX Studios lot, 10201 West Pico Boulevard Bldg 41/42, Los Angeles CA 90064[1] , United States
Key people	Richard Sakai (President)[2]
Products	The Simpsons
Website	graciefilms.com

The company's headquarters is located on the Fox Studios lot at 10201 West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Overview

James L. Brooks, who had previously founded John Charles Walters Company, founded Gracie Films at 20th Century Fox in January 4, 1986, with Polly Platt as executive vice president. Named for comedian Gracie Allen, the company was established to "provide real writers with a vehicle to get their movies made".^[3] Its primary distributor is currently Sony Pictures Entertainment, though it continues to produce The Simpsons at Fox's studio in Century City, Los Angeles.

According to Simpsons Confidential, Brooks gave The Simpsons' writing staff free rein, as he firmly believed they were the most important part of the process,^[4] and "in the legal battles over The Simpsons, it was Fox that was being sued, not Gracie Films".^[5] The company also coordinates international distribution and dubbing for The Simpsons,^[6] "[finding] voices for dubbing that would match those of the original American actors as closely as possible."^[7] Gracie Films’ main production office is at the Sidney Poitier building on the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California. In 1989, Gracie Films had struck a deal with ABC.^[8]

Logo

Gracie Films' production logo depicts noisy patrons in a movie theatre being shushed by a woman in the back row. This is occasionally changed or parodied in episodes of The Simpsons,^[9] particularly in the annual Treehouse of Horror Halloween episodes.^{[10][better source needed]}

Filmography

Television series

Years active	Title	Creator(s)	Co-production company(s)	Network(s)
1987–1990	The Tracey Ullman Show	James L. Brooks Jerry Belson Ken Estin Heide Perlman	Klasky Csupo (animation production) 20th Television	Fox
1989–present	The Simpsons	Matt Groening	20th Television (1989–2021) 20th Television Animation (2021–present)[11]
1991–1992	Sibs	Heide Perlman	Columbia Pictures Television	ABC
1993–1994	Phenom	Sam Simon Dick Blasucci Marc Flanagan	Columbia Pictures Television ELP Communications
1994–1995 2000–2001 (revival)	The Critic	Al Jean Mike Reiss	Columbia Pictures Television	ABC (1994) Fox (1995) AtomFilms/Shockwave.com (revival)
2001	What About Joan?	Ed. Weinberger	Columbia TriStar Television	ABC
2014	"The Simpsons Guy"	Seth MacFarlane	Fuzzy Door Productions	Fox

Feature films

Year	Title	Director	Co-production company(s)	Distributor(s)	Box office	Ref.
1987	Broadcast News	James L. Brooks	20th Century Fox		$67.3 million	[12]
1988	Big	Penny Marshall			$151.7 million	[13]
1989	Say Anything...	Cameron Crowe			$20.7 million	[14]
	The War of the Roses	Danny DeVito			$160.2 million	[15]
1994	I'll Do Anything	James L. Brooks	Columbia Pictures	Sony Pictures Releasing	$10 million	[16]
1996	Bottle Rocket	Wes Anderson			$560,069	[17]
	Jerry Maguire	Cameron Crowe	TriStar Pictures Vinyl Films		$273.6 million	[18]
1997	As Good as It Gets	James L. Brooks	TriStar Pictures		$314.1 million	[19]
2001	Riding in Cars with Boys	Penny Marshall	Columbia Pictures		$35.7 million	[20]
2004	Spanglish	James L. Brooks			$55 million	[21]
2007	The Simpsons Movie	David Silverman	20th Century Fox Animation	20th Century Fox	$536.4 million	[22]
2010	How Do You Know	James L. Brooks	Columbia Pictures	Sony Pictures Releasing	$48.7 million	[23]
2016	The Edge of Seventeen	Kelly Fremon Craig	H. Brothers Tang Media Productions Virgin Produced	STX Entertainment	$19.4 million	[24]
2018	Icebox	Daniel Sawka	Endeavor Content HBO Films	HBO	TBA	[25]
2023	Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.	Kelly Fremon Craig	Lionsgate		$21.5 million	[26]
2025	Ella McCay	James L. Brooks	20th Century Studios		TBA	[27]

Theme parks

Year	Title	Director	Co-production company(s)	Distributor(s)	Notes
2008	The Simpsons Ride	Mike B. Anderson and John Rice	Blur Studio Film Roman Reel FX Creative Studios	Universal Creative	Located in Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood.

Shorts

Year	Title	Director	Co-production company(s)	Distributor(s)	Notes
2012	The Longest Daycare	David Silverman	20th Century Fox Animation AKOM Film Roman	20th Century Fox	Shown with Ice Age: Continental Drift.
2020	Playdate with Destiny		20th Century Animation AKOM	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	Shown with Onward.
2021	The Force Awakens from Its Nap		20th Television	Disney+	Exclusive Disney+ short film.
	The Good, the Bart, and the Loki		20th Television Animation AKOM
	Plusaversary
2022	When Billie Met Lisa		20th Television Animation
	Welcome to the Club
	The Simpsons Meet the Bocellis in "Feliz Navidad"
2023	Rogue Not Quite One		Walt Disney Pictures (logo only) / 20th Television Animation
2024	May the 12th Be with You		20th Television Animation
	The Most Wonderful Time of the Year