Plan B Entertainment

Plan B Entertainment, Inc.,^[1] more commonly known as Plan B, is an American production company founded in November 2001 by Brad Pitt, Brad Grey, Kristin Hahn and Jennifer Aniston.^[2] The company first signed with Warner Bros. as a replacement for Brad Grey Pictures, a company operated by Brad Grey.^[3] In 2005, after Pitt and Aniston divorced, Grey became the CEO of Paramount Pictures 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.^[4] Three of the company's movies, The Departed, 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight, have won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Plan B Entertainment, Inc.

Logo used since 2001
Company type	Division
Industry	Motion pictures, Entertainment
Predecessor	Brad Grey Pictures
Founded	November 2, 2001; 23 years ago (2001-11-02)
Founders	Brad Pitt Brad Grey Kristin Hahn Jennifer Aniston
Headquarters	9150 Wilshire Boulevard Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Key people	Brad Pitt (Chairman & CEO) Dede Gardner (co-president) Jeremy Kleiner (co-president)
Products	Films Television films Television shows
Parent	Mediawan (60%)

Pitt, Gardner and Kleiner received the Producers Guild of America's David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures in 2020.^[5]

This name was previously used for an unrelated production company that was headed by Bruce Berman from 1996 to 1997.^[6]

In December 2022, it was reported that Mediawan has acquired 60% of the studio, while Plan B has also taken a stake in Mediawan.^[7][8]

Production deals

Active

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (2020–present)^[9]
• Warner Bros. Pictures (2002–2005; 2020–present)^[10][11]
• Amazon MGM Studios (2020–present)^[12]

Former

• Annapurna Pictures (2017–2020)^[13]
• New Regency (2014–2017)^[14][15]
• RatPac Entertainment (2014–2017)^[14][15]
• Paramount Pictures (2005–2013)^[16]

Films

2000s

Year	Title	Director	Oscar Best Picture
2004	Troy	Wolfgang Petersen
2005	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Tim Burton
2006	The Departed	Martin Scorsese	Won
	Running with Scissors	Ryan Murphy
2007	Year of the Dog	Mike White
	A Mighty Heart	Michael Winterbottom
	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Andrew Dominik
2009	The Private Lives of Pippa Lee	Rebecca Miller
	The Time Traveler's Wife	Robert Schwentke

2010s

Year	Title	Director	Oscar Best Picture
2010	Kick-Ass	Matthew Vaughn
	Eat, Pray, Love	Ryan Murphy
2011	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick	Nominated
	Moneyball	Bennett Miller	Nominated
2012	Killing Them Softly	Andrew Dominik
2013	Kick Ass 2	Jeff Wadlow
	World War Z	Marc Forster
	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen	Won
2014	Selma	Ava DuVernay	Nominated
2015	True Story	Rupert Goold
	The Big Short	Adam McKay	Nominated
2016	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins	Won
	The Lost City of Z	James Gray
	Voyage of Time	Terrence Malick
2017	War Machine	David Michod
	Okja	Bong Joon-ho
	Brad's Status	Mike White
2018	Beautiful Boy	Felix Van Groeningen
	If Beale Street Could Talk	Barry Jenkins
	Vice	Adam McKay	Nominated
2019	The Last Black Man in San Francisco	Joe Talbot
	Ad Astra	James Gray
	The King	David Michôd

2020s

Year	Title	Director	Oscar Best Picture
2020	Irresistible	Jon Stewart
	Kajillionaire	Miranda July
	Minari	Lee Isaac Chung	Nominated
2022	Father of the Bride	Gary Alazraki
	Blonde	Andrew Dominik
	She Said	Maria Schrader
	Women Talking	Sarah Polley	Nominated
2023	Landscape with Invisible Hand	Cory Finley
	The Killer	David Fincher
2024	Bob Marley: One Love	Reinaldo Marcus Green
	Beetlejuice Beetlejuice	Tim Burton
	Apocalypse in the Tropics	Petra Costa
	One to One: John & Yoko	Kevin Macdonald
	Nickel Boys	RaMell Ross	Nominated
	Wolfs	Jon Watts
2025	Mickey 17	Bong Joon-ho
	Olmo	Fernando Eimbcke
	Bono: Stories of Surrender	Andrew Dominik
	F1	Joseph Kosinski
	It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley	Amy Berg

Upcoming

• Preparation for the Next Life (2025)^[17]
• Hedda (2025)^[18]
• Anemone (2025)^[19]
• The Adventures of Cliff Booth (TBA)
• Animal (TBA)^[20]
• The Greatest Race on Earth (TBA)^[21]
• H Is for Hawk (TBA)^[22]
• Heart of the Beast (TBA)^[23]
• The Husbands (TBA)^[24]
• Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (TBA)^[25]
• Weekend Warriors (TBA)^[26]

TV

2000s

Year	Title	Network	Notes
2008	Pretty/Handsome	FX	Pilot not picked up for series.

2010s

Year	Title	Network	Notes
2014–2015	Resurrection	ABC	Cancelled after two seasons.
2014–2016	Deadbeat	Hulu	Cancelled after three seasons.
2014	Nightingale	HBO	Television film
	The Normal Heart
2016–2019	The OA	Netflix	Cancelled after two seasons.
2017–present	Feud	FX	Series ongoing
2018–2019	Sweetbitter	Starz	Cancelled after two seasons.

2020s

Year	Title	Network	Notes
2020–present	Lego Masters	Fox	Series ongoing
2020	The Third Day	Sky Atlantic, HBO	Miniseries
2021	The Underground Railroad	Amazon Prime Video
2022–2024	Outer Range		Canceled after two seasons
2022	Paper Girls		Cancelled after one season
	High School	Amazon Freevee
2023	Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity	Amazon Prime Video	Docuseries
2024–present	3 Body Problem	Netflix	Renewed for seasons 2 and 3
2025	Adolescence		Miniseries

Upcoming

• Wytches (TBA) for Amazon Prime Video^[27]
• Naked By The Window (TBA) for Amazon Prime Video^[28]